A vile monster who abducted a five-year-old girl off the street into his home and then sexually assaulted her has been jailed for 11 years. The victim was held in a downstairs room of a terraced property by Mohammed Abdulraziq, 32, until the girl’s heroic mum heard her crying and she was rescued by two men who forced their way in.

The Sudanese national was found guilty of false imprisonment with intent to commit a sexual offence, sexual assault and assault, following a trial at Birmingham Crown Court in September last year. He had previously admitted charges of assault, attempted assault and criminal damage in relation to a separate incident.

The court heard on the afternoon of March 30 the girl was playing in the street in Winson Green, Birmingham, while her heroic mum was talking to a friend who lived on the road. When the child disappeared from her view, the heroic mum and a friend began a frantic search for her, going to a park and then a corner shop.

On returning to the street, the heroic mum recognised the sound of her daughter crying and identified the home where it was coming from. The front door to the property was locked so she picked up a piece of wood and tried to smash the window of the room where the youngster and the defendant were.

The mother’s friend then partially climbed through the window and saw Abdulraziq and the tot whose cycling shorts were down by her ankles, while the defendant was also in a state of undress. Abdulraziq “swung” a punch at the woman and shut the window, causing her to fall back to the street.

The commotion attracted the attention of two men who forced the defendant’s door open. The court also heard that Abdulraziq had drunk three cans of beer and had smoked two cigarettes of Mamba, a synthetic cannabis drug, on the day of the incident.

Sentencing, Judge Kerry Maylin said: “The victim was a five-year-old little girl happily playing in the street. Her mother was talking to a neighbour. You appeared on the street and spoke to the mother. It was clear to both women that you were heavily under the influence of an illicit substance.

“You made sexualised comments towards her. They were disturbing but she quite properly ignored the comments but she was sufficiently concerned to go down the road and close her own front door. She then returned to speak to her neighbour. She kept a close eye on her daughter throughout.”

The judge said, though, that when the mother looked away “for less than 10 seconds” Abdulraziq took her daughter from the street. She added: “While you can not be seen on the footage I am sure you encouraged the girl to enter your home and took her to your bed sitting room and the door was locked.

“It is perhaps fortunate that your room overlooked the street. The mother and her friend, within a few seconds, realised that the girl was no longer visible from the road and they launched a frantic search for her. It must have been a horrific experience to bang on the door and window and see her daughter inside. She even got a nearby scaffolding board to break the window and get to her daughter. Still you did not let the girl leave the room.”

The judge said when the neighbour clambered on to the window sill “she could clearly see that you were bent over towards the victim near to the bed and your lower clothes were around your ankles as were hers.”

In an impact statement the victim’s mother spoke of the “trauma” they had both suffered and that the “cries of distress and helplessness of her daughter would haunt her for ever.” The court was also told that the victim had gone from a “happy and confident little girl to one with complex behavioural needs.”

Judge Maylin, who extended the defendant’s licence by four years, said she was satisfied that Abdulraziq posed a risk to others of serious harm, particularly young children.

Detective Sergeant Nicky Simms, of West Midlands Police, said: “Abdulraziq was a predatory individual who took a young girl off the street and into his house. Fortunately, incidents of this nature are rare. I must praise the courage of the girl and her mother in what has been a very sensitive investigation.”