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Google Translate is used in court to inform defendant
Leatherhead and Dorking Advertiser
|October 16, 2025
A COURT has used Google Translate to tell a defendant convicted of three charges of sexual assault that his case had been adjourned.
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Qais Al-Aswad, 26, who previously lived at a hotel in Horley which has seen protests about asylum-seekers being housed there, appeared at Guildford Magistrates' Court where he was set to be sentenced for the charges against three women.
This story is from the October 16, 2025 edition of Leatherhead and Dorking Advertiser.
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