A Pakistani national was found guilty of raping a teenage girl, with controversy surrounding judicial efforts to conceal his asylum seeker status from the public during the trial.

Pakistani national Sheraz Malik, 28, was convicted of two counts of rape by a Birmingham Crown Court jury on Monday after attacking an 18-year-old girl in Sutton-in-Ashfield park, with Judge Nirmal Shant imposing a reporting restriction to hide his asylum seeker status until after the trial.