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GB News presenter Michelle Dewberry was left “shaking” with rage as she launched into a fierce rant moments after halting the afternoon show for an urgent breaking news alert. On Wednesday (April 8), the 46-year-old broadcaster interrupted her usual afternoon show to announce that two 17-year-old Afghan asylum seekers have been jailed for the rape of a 15-year-old girl in a Leamington Spa park. Jan Jahanzeb and Israr Niazal, who both arrived in the UK via small boats last year, abducted and raped the Brit in a “den-type” area last May before pushing her to the ground and attacking her.

The court sentenced Jahanzeb to a youth detention term of 10 years and eight months, days after he was served deportation papers following his guilty plea. Meanwhile, Niazal was sentenced to nine years and 10 months, with the judge also inviting the government to recommend deportation.

After sharing the news with listeners, the presenter shared her fury at the worrying update with fans online. Struggling to hold back her frustration, she admitted: “I’m trying not to rant because, honestly, viewers, I’m almost shaking internally because we cover these stories all the time now and tonight, my blood is absolutely boiling.

“So I do just want to say first and foremost, my thoughts are with this girl who was with her friends, doing what teenage girls do, and I must confess, I also did similar things, like just hanging out with my friends.

“You should be safe doing those things in this country; you should be able to do that in this country, but no. I’m so angry. Increasingly, as a woman in this country, we are starting to feel more and more unsafe.

“As parents in this country, we are starting to feel our children are at more and more and more risk. When you start complaining about things like this, you are labelled in a nanosecond as far-right.

“People locally who know the stories, who know the details, who know what has gone on, they know who these perpetrators are, when they take to the streets and say, ‘no. We don’t want these men in our communities’. Then these pillocks with their counter signs are standing there chanting, ‘Refugees welcome’, it’s just not good enough.

“In this case, we saw two 17-year-old boys from Lemington who have been charged with this. The viewers, you know, these people are not from Lemington. I’m so angry, Zia Yusuf.

“When you read the story of this family, this is a family absolutely destroyed, it’s not just about this girl who has had her virginity stolen from her in the most repulsive way, her whole family have been affected by this.

“This girl now suffers from anxiety so badly that she is physically sick on a regular basis.” It didn’t take long before viewers flocked to X – formerly known as Twitter – to share their concerns online.

One user congratulated the TV star for voicing her frustration, writing: “Dewberry highlighted how anyone daring to speak out about these dangers to women and girls is immediately attacked, smeared, and labelled far-right in a desperate attempt to silence concerned citizens.

“She spoke for millions of frustrated Brits who have had enough of feeling unsafe in their own country.” Another agreed: “We have got to speak out. It is our right as concerned and responsible citizens.

“To stay silent is to be complicit. Young girls don’t have the agency to speak out for themselves and others yet, but we do and we will.” A third echoed: “I’m with Michelle, BUT parents MUST instil into their children not to engage with men they don’t know. Remember ‘don’t talk to strangers’ or ‘don’t take sweets from strangers’ back in the day. This is even more true today! Stranger danger.”