In September 2024, Sheffield CC sentenced seven men for abusing two girls in care in Rotherham between 2003 - 2008. At just 11 yrs old she was assaulted by Mohammed Amar and Yaser Ajaib. A man called Mohammed Siyab, would later traffic her, and Abid Saddiq, indecently assaulted her at 12 and raped her at 14. The other girl was 15 when Tahir Yasin began raping her, 26 times over five months, ending with two trips to a hotel where she was to have sex with other men. The judge took two years off his sentence for ‘good character’. Abid Saddiq had been jailed for 20 years in 2019 for similar offences from 1998 to 2002, and in this case was convicted of raping the second girl twice. transcripts.openjusticeuk.or…

At Nottingham CC in March 2021, two men were sentenced for sexually abusing girls of 14 and 15 between 2017 and 2018 Waqas Akhtar was 23 when he picked up a 14 yr old, gave her alcohol and drugs and raped her, possibly impregnating her. Weeks later, police gave him a child abduction warning notice and showed him her photograph. He told the jury he did not recognise her and had thrown the notice in the bin. Over the next three months he messaged her sexually, and on NYE he tried to persuade her to meet her in his mother’s garden at night. His friend, Mohammed Saeed Ahmed, was 18 when he messaged a 15 yr old on Snapchat, told her he was 16, and led her to a secluded spot where he forced her to perform oral sex. He was given 3 years and no sexual harm prevention order, because of his age at the time. transcripts.openjusticeuk.or…

At Manchester CC in September 2016 four men were sentenced for abusing two girls, aged 14 and 16, between 2004 - 2008. One had been placed in a Rochdale care home, where she was groomed by a number of older Asian men. The other, a 16-year-old, was on the streets in the rain when Mohammed Ishaque offered her a bed on condition that she obey his “house rules”, then forced her to “prostitute” herself on the streets for him, being raped by several men, and to have sex with him whenever he wanted. transcripts.openjusticeuk.or…

In July 2021, Leeds CC sentenced three men for abusing a girl in Huddersfield in the 90s, starting when she was 12. Banaras Hussain, who was married at the time, first raped the girl on a mattress in a rented house, he told the court that they had sex up to four times a week. His friend Mohammed Akram, who supplied her with drugs, raped her in her parents’ house while they were asleep in the next room. On the first night he met the girl, a third man, Talish Ahmed, raped her in a car at a reservoir while a taxi driver watched. He then left her at the roadside with her trousers and underwear round her ankles, unable to walk, she was later found there by her parents. transcripts.openjusticeuk.or…

Leeds CC in November 2018 sentenced four men from the same gang for for abusing three girls. They were given drink and drugs, then driven around and passed between older Asian men, often whilst wearing school uniform. One girl was taken to a hotel in Bradford by Mohammed Akram, given drink until she was unconscious and then raped. Another was taken by Akram to a house and woke to find a stranger raping her, she was called a slut by others present. One mother said she rang the police and social services several a week when her daughter went missing, no help came. Another family found a funeral wreath left on their doorstep. One of the girls told police that the men rang her family to say they would kill them or set fire to their house. transcripts.openjusticeuk.or…

In June 2018 Leeds CC sentenced eight men from Huddersfield for abusing girls between 2004 - 2011. It was the first trial in a wider case involving 28 defendants who abused 13 girls, two of whom had learning disabilities. The girls were plied with drink and drugs, driven to the moors or a reservoir, and on occasion beaten if they refused. One returned to school with semen on her jumper after performing oral sex on Mohammed Kammer. One 12-year-old was abducted from the care home she had been placed. After she was moved to foster care in another city, the men quickly found her, and when she was moved again to a second carer in another city, they found her there too. transcripts.openjusticeuk.or…

In June 2017, Reading CC sentenced four men for abusing a girl in High Wycombe between 1998 and 2002, starting when she was 13. She was in care and truanting when she was first taken to a café, where she was given heroin and passed between men in exchange for drugs. Later, a taxi driver, Berkley John, would collect her from school, telling staff he was taking her to a medical appointment, and drive her to his firm’s office, where she was raped by his boss, Mohammed Aslam. She went to the police in 2001 and 2002. They decided, without investigating, that she could not be relied upon, and told her there would be no prosecution unless she could produce a witness or forensic evidence. Her teacher, who attended the meeting, felt that she was being advised to be sexually assaulted again to obtain evidence. The police only returned to the case in 2013, after a cold case review. transcripts.openjusticeuk.or…

At Manchester CC in February 2017, eight men from Rochdale were sentenced for abusing three girls between 2004 - 2008 and, separately, for a kidnapping and beating in 2016. One of the girls was 14 when she was dragged into a secluded part of a park and raped by Ashafaq Yousaf. Months later, he attacked her again, whilst a friend of his filmed. Another girl was kidnapped and taken to a beach in Wales at 16 and told she would be left there with no way home unless she had sex with the man who had brought her, Mohammed Miah. One of the defendants, Mohammed Sadeer, took part in the 2016 kidnapping while on bail awaiting trial for the initial abuse. transcripts.openjusticeuk.or…