Fury as Rochdale child rapist on the loose and police still baffled | UK | News
The child rapist Kasir Bashir admits the great Manchester police that they still do not know where they are. And one of his victims admitted that his absence felt his “last control” on him. The 50 -year -old was part of a seven powerful gang of grooming gangs who were sentenced to 174 years in prison on Wednesday after a series of historical crimes against vulnerable young white girls.
Bashir was previously sentenced to two numbers of rape and two immorality to grooming and abuse two 13-year-old daughter in Rochdale and Oldham between 2001-2006 on Friday, June 13.
Oldham, Napier Street East Bashir, followed the bail conditions, including delivering his passport until Thursday before the hearing started in January.
He then disappeared, triggered a counter order, and forced the five -month hearing to move without him. The police believe that he might have escaped illegally from England, but comprehensive searches, raids and interpol warnings did not give any clues. It was last seen in the beginning of January 2025.
“We don’t know where he’s, but he doesn’t matter where he can hide, we’re determined to find him.”
Bashir, GMP’s’ Force Critical Searched List since January, the power of power in Rochdale’s historical child’s sexual exploitation of the long -standing investigation under the operation of Lytton.
The convictions were caused by the GMP investigation into historical child sexual exploitation.
Gang – Market traders and taxi drivers – victims known as girls A and Girl B covered with alcohol and drugs in the stalls and houses before they repeatedly raped in basement, taxis and derelict areas.
They attacked for blackmail, they acted as “sex slaves” to the girls, Girl B said: “I would just close my eyes and pray for it to end. I just slept there.” Bashir, including the week before the hearing, has been accused of bail weekly since he was accused in 2023.
Bashir and the six other defendants were imprisoned on Wednesday: 65 -year -old Station Road, Crumpsall’s Muhammad Zahid – for 35 years for rape, attempted four independence with a child, five supply and a purchase; Mushtaq Ahmed, 66, Corona Avenue, Oldham – for 27 years four rape, four independence and a supply; Athole Street, 39 -year -old Rohez Khan from Rochdale – 12 years for a rape; 43 -year -old Muhammad Shahzad of Beswicke Royds Street, Rochdale – 26 years for five rape and an attack with a penetration; Newfield Close, 43 -year -old Nisar Hussain from Rochdale – 19 years for two rape and an attack with a penetration; Rochdale, 48 -year -old Naheem Akram from Manley Road – 26 years for six rape and an attack with penetration.
The girl called B, Bashir’s flight “coward”, the absence of “Lice of the final control”.
Det Chf Insp Insp Laycock added: “These terrible abuse of men were now found guilty of disgusting crimes. A defendant, Kasir Bashir avoided all the trial and thought that he could escape justice.
He continued: “Time was not an obstacle to bringing these grooms to justice, and Bashir, who escaped from the hearing, will not stop facing the full consequences of their actions.”
Prosecutor Liz praised the “very important” evidence of the victims, supporting the Rochdale Council’s Sharon Hubber survivors and prevention efforts.
The case emphasizes past failures in Rochdale grooming scandals, 32 Criminals have now been imprisoned for 474 years; 20 more men are tried from 6 October.
