GB News host Martin Daubney was left in tears after a horrific attack by a migrant who arrived in Britain on a small boat

Martin Daubney broke down in tears (Image: GB News)

GB News star Martin Daubney broke down in tears live on-air after reporter Charlie Peters read out a victim impact statement from a teenager who was attacked by a migrant in Oxford. The 15-year-old victim shared her statement after she was raped by Amin Abedi Mofrad, who arrived in Britain on a small boat, and who has been jailed for 12 years and six months.

The statement read: “I struggle to find the words to start this. I’ve gone over in my head what I could say and how to explain something like this. Before I start, I want to say that putting embarrassment to the side and showing vulnerability for strangers to hear has been really difficult, along with trying to capture the darkness I have been living within for the last 16 months since this happened.

“There’s a kind of loneliness that goes beyond being alone in a room. It’s the kind when you’re surrounded by people but you’re stuck in a bubble. It’s where the world around you is moving, but you can’t follow it. It’s where no one else can sit in your body and feel what it’s like to be you.

“I never thought that one night could change so much. It changed everything I knew about myself. My body became something I no longer wanted to associate with, and my voice became something I no longer wanted, because in the moment I needed it most, it failed to protect me.

“It’s like looking in the mirror and not recognising the person, staring back, feeling like your body isn’t yours anymore, like it belongs to the memory of what happened instead.

“Not even wanting to be associated with yourself because you feel so violated and disgusted to be you. […] I was forced in a moment that didn’t end for me. When he was finished, it followed me. When he was done, he got to walk away, but I was left to deal with the battle.

“I have been left to carry a trauma that invades every part of my life, and he was able to leave and return to his life without consequence. Mine feels like it’s fallen apart.”

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GB News aired the emotional statement (Image: GB News)

Breaking down in tears, Martin said: “No child should have to say that.”

He told Charlie: “There’s no parent who should have to know that’s happened to their child, and there’s no court in the land that should deny a victim the right to say that and to have their moment of closure. And that’s what happened in this case.

“I know you put a huge amount of work into helping this family and to making sure that we heard that. I think the nation deserves to hear that. And it’s an astonishing Charlie.

“We speak so often of just the astonishing, mind blowing bravery of these children who can somehow put that down in a way to get their feelings. I’m completely blown away by the wonderful personality that you just hope survives and makes it through this.”