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An official government pamphlet telling asylum seekers rape is illegal has been blasted as ‘pointless’ by the mother of a teenage victim.

The mum said it was ‘pie in the sky’ that ingrained sexism and abusive behaviour could be remedied by the Home Office publication.

The disturbing document setting out the ‘rules and expectations’ of living in Britain was published on Wednesday in the wake of a series of horrific rapes and sex attacks by asylum seekers.

The seven-page booklet, handed out as part of an education campaign, warns: ‘If you have sex with someone without their consent, this is called rape.

‘Rape is a serious crime in the UK.’

And ministers have also been forced to set out in clear terms that it is unacceptable to beat women.

The victim’s mother, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said: ‘You can produce all the leaflets in the world and they aren’t going to make diddly-squat difference.

‘What is terrifying is that the Home Office recognises there is enough of a problem, and that it is therefore necessary to produce this leaflet.

‘It’s clearly a recognition that there are case after case of these men behaving in this way.

‘But no leaflet explaining cultural expectations in the UK is going to be able to change such an ingrained mindset.'

Her 17-year-old daughter was raped by Afghan asylum seeker Parmeet Khurana in 2021.

He was jailed for a total of nine years in 2022 for rape and perverting the course of justice.

He is due to be freed next year after serving two-thirds of his sentence and it remains unclear whether he will be deported.

The victim’s mother said sex crimes committed by asylum seekers were driving public concerns over housing small boat migrants, and other asylum seekers, on ex-military bases.

‘This is what everyone is concerned about when they have large ex-Army camps near their homes turned into asylum seeker accommodation,’ she said.

‘There are 1,500 men hanging around with nothing to do, so it’s inevitable there will be problems.

‘Giving them a leaflet telling them to stop this is just pie in the sky.

‘It’s pointless and it's not going to work.’

It came as Prime Minister Andy Burnham defended the pamphlet and said it was right to make Britain’s laws and societal norms ‘explicitly clear’.

‘As a Government, we have a very clear principle: if you break UK law, you will be removed from the country and we have seen that in relation to immigration, where removals are significantly up,’ he said.

‘I’m currently working to ensure that foreign national offenders who can be removed from the prison system are removed from that system.

‘So it follows that if we’re taking this approach, it’s made explicitly clear what the UK law is and what the societal norms of the UK are, and that’s why this approach is being taken.’

But a Green Party peer said the pamphlet 'feeds into Right-wing tropes' and called on Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood to apologise.

Baroness Jones said: 'This is a dangerous and unnecessary move by the Home Office which feeds into Right-wing tropes, and fuels the misinformation around migrants and people seeking asylum which has resulted in violent protests outside places where migrants are being housed, and attacks on migrants themselves.

'Shabana Mahmood needs to apologise for this grave error of judgement and take responsibility for any future consequences.

“We support consent education, but it needs to be universal. There is no evidence violence against women and girls is higher amongst migrants and people seeking asylum than among the general population.'

The Home Office pamphlet tells asylum seekers never to ‘make sexual comments to someone, even if you think it is a compliment’ or ‘whistle or make kissing noises at someone’.

They should never ‘follow someone or block their path’, or ‘make rude or offensive gestures’.

The document also sets out that it is illegal to have sex with someone under the age of 16, adding: ‘There are no exceptions to this rule. Even if they say yes, it is still illegal.’

A separate publication, also aimed at asylum seekers, tells them it is unacceptable to leave a baby alone or to ‘use violence to discipline a child’.

The material has also been reproduced as a series of posters featuring comic-style illustrations, presumably to be displayed in asylum hotels and other types of migrant accommodation.

Last year there were 41,472 arrivals by small boat – most of whom went on to claim asylum – and of those 34,201 were male.

The largest nationalities among Channel migrant arrivals last year were Eritreans with just over 7,600, Afghans (4,800), Iranians (4,400), Sudanese (4,400) and Somalis (3,800).

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said yesterday that some migrants came from countries where ‘attitudes towards women are completely incompatible with Western society’.

‘Too many are failing to integrate, leaving frankly backwards standards to prevail,’ he warned.

Reform UK’s home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf said the leaflet was ‘one of the most insane things I have ever seen’.

The pamphlet, entitled ‘Understanding behaviours and expectations in the UK: A guide for asylum seekers’, is expected to be made available in a range of foreign languages.

A Home Office spokesman said: ‘We expect everyone who comes to the UK to abide by our laws.

‘If they do not, they will face consequences, including the refusal of their asylum claim and removal from the UK.’