Rochdale gang members jailed for up to 35 years for rape and abuse of teenage girls | UK news

In Rochdale, the seven men, who groomed two vulnerable young girls and saw them as a “sex slave”, were imprisoned for 12 to 35 years.

The gang members raped the girls from the age of 13 between 2001 and 2006 and sexually abused girls. Two girls had “deeply uncomfortable home lives” and found drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, places to stay and people.

Girls were expected to have sex, where and whenever they are ”, heard the court in dirty apartments, cars and near Moors.

Girls who do not know each other were defined as girls A and Girl B for a long legal process

In a statement, A Girl said that this week a three -day penalty hearing “destroyed”. “Abuse affected every part of my life,” he said. “Apparently, from relationships, health, mental health.”

The girl B said: “I cope with what these guys do to me, because I believe that every man I contact is waiting for sex. I don’t know differently.”

He urged the other victims to come to the police. “It doesn’t matter how much time passes, it is still possible to get justice,” he said.

The court heard that the abuse was “under the nose .. The Rochdale Council and the Great Manchester Police (GMP) apologized for failures.

After a four -month hearing, seven men were found guilty of 50 crimes and judge was sentenced to prison on Wednesday by Jonathan Seely.

Ringleader Mohammed Zahid, a 65 -year -old Crumpsall, was sentenced to 35 years of imprisonment. He was convicted of rape Girl A and Girl B on more than one occasion. He was also found guilty of an immorality with a child and allowed a child to have sex.

67 -year -old Mushtaq Ahmed from Oldham was imprisoned for 27 years and Oldham, 50 -year -old Kasir Beşir was imprisoned for 29 years. They were convicted of rape and immorality in relation to a child, B. Girl B.

44 -year -old Muhammad Shahzad from Rochdale was sentenced to 26 years in prison; 49 -year -old Naheem Akram from Rochdale for 26 years; And 41 -year -old Nisar Hussain from Rochdale for 19 years. Men, all taxi drivers were convicted of a large number of rape against A.

Rochdale’s 39 -year -old Rohez Khan was found guilty of a single rape against A Girl A and was sentenced to 12 years in prison.

The court later heard that Zahid, a Rochdale closed market merchant with the nickname “Boss Man ,, gave free underwear from underwear stops to girls, money, alcohol and food. In contrast, he was waiting for them to have regular sex with them and friends.

He was so sure that he had never been kept, he would personally leave Bri Girl B in his child care house.

Prosecutor Rossano Samardella KC told Manchester Minshul Street Crown Court: “At the end of the abuse he said he felt almost untouchable.

“It is not as if there is no one to return. He returned to the care house. He turned to social services.

“He felt them to tell them at some stages, or did not do other people and nothing was done. People knew, the authorities knew. And nothing was done.”

In 2016, Zahid was imprisoned for five years in the previous Gangi Gang. Lawyer Lisa Wilding KC said that his client was refusing to reject his crime.

The girl said that she could be targeted by more than 200 criminals because she was on the phone number, but she said, “There was a lot of hard to keep counting,” he said.

Girl B, social workers, after tagging him “prostitute” to the police regularly receiving him, he assumed what the agencies know what happened, he said.

Following unanimously guilty decisions in June, Sharon Hubber, Children’s Services Director of the Rochdale District Council, said: iz We know that more than the people working here should be done and we are really sorry for that. ”

Cithherow, who received DET Supt from GMP, said that the way the victims are handled was “cannot be defended and forgiven”.

“We did not apologize for this. We are not perfect, but now we are developing a lot about how we manage these researches.”

Since 2015, all perpetrators have been prosecuted by GMP as part of the Lytton operation, an investigation in Rochdale, an investigation of sexual exploitation.

So far, a total of 37 people have been accused and five trials have been planned to be held as of September.