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Huddersfield grooming gang jailed for
abusing vulnerable girls

Reporting restrictions lifted on ‘vile and wicked’ crimes with ringleader imprisoned for life

Josh Halliday

Jurors in three trials heard how the men, mostly from Huddersfield (above), abused the girls in car parks, hotels, takeaways, snooker halls, on moors and by reservoirs across the region. Photograph: Alamy

Twenty members of a “vile and wicked” grooming gang have been convicted of trafficking, drugging and raping vulnerable girls in a harrowing campaign of abuse across West Yorkshire.

It can now be reported that the ringleader of the group, 35-year-old Amere Singh Dhaliwal, was jailed for life to serve a minimum of 18 years after being found guilty of 54 offences, including countless rapes of children.

Judge Geoffrey Marson QC said the crimes against 15 girls far exceeded anything he had previously seen. The gang’s “persistent and prolonged” offending, he said, was “at the top of the scale” of severity.

Details of the case, believed to be Britain’s single biggest grooming prosecution, can be disclosed after a judge agreed to lift reporting restrictions on Friday, following a legal challenge by media groups including the Guardian. One of the trials had previously almost collapsed when the anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson filmed defendants in a live Facebook video outside Leeds crown court.

Facebook Twitter Pinterest  Top row left to right: Amere Singh Dhaliwal (Pretos), Irfan Ahmed (Finny), Zahid Hassan (Little Manny), Mohammed Kammer (Kammy), Raj Singh Barsran (Raj). Bottom row left to right: Mohammed Rizwan Aslam (Big Riz), Abdul Rehman (Beastie), Nahman Mohammed (Dracula), Mansoor Akhtar, (Boy) and Mohammed Irfraz, (Faj). Photograph: West Yorkshire police/PA

Jurors in the three trials heard how the men, mostly from Huddersfield, plied girls as young as 11 with alcohol and drugs before sexually abusing them in car parks, hotels, takeaways, snooker halls, on moors and by reservoirs across the region.

Fifteen severely vulnerable girls fell victim to the gang between 2004 and 2011. One girl, aged 11 or 12 at the time, was abducted from a care home and supplied ecstasy before being made to perform sex acts, Leeds crown court heard.

Many of the victims described how they were plied with drink and drugs at house parties then raped “one by one” by the men, who used plastic bags as condoms.

Dhaliwal was at the heart of the group, who referred to each other using nicknames including “Dracula,” “Beastie” and “Chiller” in monikers that were used in the three trials.

The court heard the married father-of-two committed countless rapes, incited child prostitution, trafficked girls across the region and filmed their abuse on his mobile phone.

Facebook Twitter Pinterest  Top row left to right: Nasarat Hussain (Nurse), Sajid Hussain (Fish), Faisal Nadeem (Chiller), Mohammed Azeem (Mosabella), Wiqas Mahmud (Vic). Bottom row left to right: Manzoor Hassan (Big Manny), Niaz Ahmed (Shaq), Mohammed Imran Ibrar (Bully), Asif Bashir (Junior) and Mohammed Akram (Kid). Photograph: West Yorkshire police/PA

His treatment of the girls was “inhuman,” the judge said, including one occasion when he sexually abused a girl with a drinks bottle during a truth or dare game. At another time, an intoxicated 15-year-old girl was raped by a man in a “dare” by Dhaliwal, while others watched. It was “degrading and wicked,” the judge said.

The girls were deliberately targeted for their vulnerabilities. All had troubled home lives, including one whose mother was unable to care for her due to drink and drug addictions.

Two of the girls had mild learning disabilities. At least one girl attempted suicide and another had an abortion, jurors heard. One of the girls was thrown out of a moving car outside her home. She had bruises all over her face and was under the influence of alcohol and drugs.

They were made to feel special by flattery, going to parties, having rides in cars and given presents, the judge said. Many thought the men were showing them genuine affection.

“What in fact was happening was that a relationship of trust was created,” the judge said, albeit that it was “entirely false and had been deliberately created to enable predatory men to perpetrate gross sexual abuse for your own perverted gratification”.

In sentencing, Marson said the victims and their families remained “profoundly affected” by their ordeal and that it was “likely that many, if not all, of these girls will never recover from the abuse they suffered”.

“I have read the victims’ personal statements; they make harrowing reading. The way you treated these girls defies understanding; this abuse was vile and wicked,” the judge said.

“As cases of sexual abuse with which the courts have to deal, this case comes at the top of the scale. None of you has expressed any remorse for what you did.”

He added: “Amongst the aggravating factors are that these girls were young when the abuse started, they were targeted because of their extreme vulnerability. They were threatened and intimidated and plied with drink and drugs often to insensibility and often in order to facilitate sexual abuse. These were planned offences by a large group of Asian men.”

Reporting restrictions, which were imposed in November 2017, were partially lifted on Friday to allow the media to report some details from the three trials.

Robinson’s Facebook video, which was viewed hundreds of thousands of times, led to the EDL founder being jailed for contempt of court in a ruling that was later quashed. He will be retried by a judge at the Old Bailey in a fresh hearing on Tuesday.

DCI Ian Mottershaw, from West Yorkshire police, paid tribute to the victims for their courage and tenacity. Speaking outside court, he said the “depraved individuals” had subjected young children to “unthinkable sexual and physical abuse” and he urged other victims of child sexual exploitation to come forward.

The 20 men convicted were:

• Amere Singh Dhaliwal, 35, of Holly Road, Huddersfield - jailed for life, minimum of 18 years 

• Irfan Ahmed, 34, of Yews Hill Road, Huddersfield - jailed for eight years 

• Zahid Hassan, 29, of Bland Street, Huddersfield - jailed for 18 years 

• Mohammed Kammer, 34, of West View, Huddersfield - jailed for 16 years 

• Mohammed Rizwan Aslam, 31, of Huddersfield Road, Dewsbury - jailed for 15 years 

• Abdul Rehman, 31, of Darnley Drive, Sheffield - jailed for 16 years 

• Raj Singh Barsran, 34, of Caldercliffe Road, Huddersfield - jailed for 17 years 

• Nahman Mohammed, 32, of West View, Huddersfield - jailed for 15 years 

• Mansoor Akhtar, 27, of Blackmoorfoot Road, Huddersfield - jailed for eight years 

• Wiqas Mahmud, 38, of Banks Crescent, Huddersfield - jailed for 15 years 

• Nasarat Hussain, 30, of Upper Mount Street, Huddersfield - jailed for 17 years 

• Sajid Hussain, 33, of Grasmere Road, Huddersfield - jailed for 17 years 

• Mohammed Irfraz, 30, of North Road, Huddersfield - jailed for six years 

• Faisal Nadeem, 32, of Carr Green Lane, Huddersfield - jailed for 12 years 

• Mohammed Azeem, 33, of Wrose Road, Bradford - jailed for 18 years 

• Manzoor Hassan, 38, of Bland Street, Huddersfield - jailed for five years 

• Niaz Ahmed, 54, of Woodthorpe Terrace, Huddersfield - to be sentenced on 1 November

• Mohammed Imran Ibrar, 34, of Manchester Road, Huddersfield - to be sentenced on 1 November

• Asif Bashir, 33, of Thornton Lodge Road, Huddersfield - to be sentenced on 1 November

• Mohammed Akram, 33, of Springdale Street, Huddersfield - to be sentenced on 1 November

Sajid Javid lambasted for 'Asian paedophiles' tweet

by far-left deniers of reality

Home secretary criticised for noting the ethnicity of the grooming gang in Huddersfield

Aamna Mohdin, The Guardian

The home secretary, Sajid Javid, has been rebuked by MPs and human rights campaigners for tweeting about “Asian paedophiles”.

Javid highlighted the case of a grooming gang in Huddersfield that raped and abused girls as young as 11. The group of men were found guilty on Friday of more than 120 offences against 15 girls.

Javid tweeted:

Sajid Javid✔

@sajidjavid

 These sick Asian paedophiles are finally facing justice. I want to commend the bravery of the victims. For too long, they were ignored. Not on my watch. There will be no no-go areas https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-45918845 …

The tweet was quickly condemned for noting the perpetrators’ ethnicity. The Labour MP David Lammy said: “Sajid Javid has brought a great office of state into disrepute. By singling out ‘Asians’ he not only panders to the far right but increases the risk of violence and abuse against minorities across the country.

“Whatever the underlying motives of the offenders involved, paedophilia is an abhorrent crime that affects all communities. It does no service to the victims of this evil to pin the blame on any one group.”

Nor does it do an service to hide the reality of the problem. You are trying to hide the enormous issue of Asian, read Pakistani, read Muslim men grooming little girls for horrific abuse, among the general field of child sex abuse. 

The culture of grooming little British girls

is almost exclusively Pakistani and Muslim

Ignoring this fact will do nothing to address the problem. Why is it you do not want to address this problem? Is it because you know that they believe they have the right to sexually abuse any girl, of any age, who is in their power, their control? They believe it, even now. Mohammed gave them the authority in the Quran. 

Javid was being gentle by using the term 'Asian', which is exactly the term the judge used. He used it because the leader of the gang, Dhaliwal, is of Indian origin. Whether he is Hindu or Muslim is unknown and no-one in mainstream media has any desire to find out.

Indian model found killed and dumped in travel bag in Mumbai after ‘refusing to have sex’

© Facebook/ Mansii Dixit

A 20-year-old model whose body was found bundled up in a bag near a bush in the Indian city of Mumbai was allegedly killed after refusing to have sex, police say.

Mansi Dixit had returned from her native town in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan on Sunday before her life was brought to a violent end.

A few days earlier, her alleged killer, Muzzammil Syed, 19, arrived in India’s financial capital from his hometown of Hyderabad in India’s southern state of Telangana.

The two are suspected of having met on a dating app, and saw each other for the first time the following day, local news site the Hindustan Times reports.

However, things took a drastic turn when Dixit went to the man’s house and refused to have sex with him.

What followed was a series of harrowing events.

Syed “got enraged and hit her on the head with a stool,” a police source said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The suspect said in his police confession that he got scared after Dixit lost consciousness, and that he had tried to resuscitate her by sprinkling water on her.

The woman reportedly seemed to be regaining consciousness but then Syed entered a state of paranoia as he feared his mother was returning home.

That sounds a little suspicious. Panic is not paranoia. 

Indian men appear to think that women do not have the right to refuse to have sex with them. So far, in 5 years of blogging, I have seen nothing in India that appears to be addressing this issue.

He therefore allegedly strangled her with a rope and called a cab to dispose of her body, the paper reports.

The body was found thanks to the cab driver, who grew suspicious when he helped Syed put the bag containing the young girl’s body in the trunk of the car.

He waited to see what Syed’s next move would be and, when he saw him dumping the bag, he called the police.

Using CCTV footage, the police tracked down the man within four hours, finding him at his flat, where he was trying to “destroy evidence,” according to the Times of India.

London man charged with historic child sex abuse
takes the stand

A MAN accused of a string of historic child sex abuse charges told jurors he never carried out any sex assault and was out of the country for much of the time.

  

Rachid El-Barhdadi, of Bagley Close, Kennington denies six counts alleging indecent and sexual assault against one child – who is now a woman, and who cannot be named for legal reasons.

Prosecutors at Oxford Crown Court allege that the 53-year old abused the child, performing sex acts on her numerous times in the early 2000s.

As his trial continued yesterday he took to the witness box to deny the incidents ever took place.

He told jurors: “Absolutely not. What can I say, I never once went into [the room the alleged victim was in]. I never bought that stuff [lubricant he is alleged to have used], I get embarrassed even to buy a condom.”

El-Barhdadi also said that he was out of the country frequently around the period of the allegations. He said: “At the time I remember I have seen [the alleged victim] maybe two or three times but for the rest […] I went to Morocco that time because we had things to do.”

He explained that his parents, who were at the time elderly and living in Morocco where he grew up, were in poor health and in need of support.

Asked how the allegations coming to light made him feel he said: “It’s not an allegation you could ever want to hear, that is a serious matter. I felt bad, very upset.”

The trial continues.

Repeat N.Z. child sex offender with ADHD

gets chance for treatment

A repeat child sex offender has avoided an open-ended jail term for indecently touching an 8-year-old girl.

Dominic Jabez Lochore, 29, was instead sentenced to two years and six months' jail. 

The Crown had asked for him to be sentenced to preventive detention, an open-ended prison sentence, for reasons including that three of Lochore's former partners said he had talked of having sexual fantasies involving young children.

But at the High Court in Wellington on Wednesday Justice Jill Mallon said the pattern of Lochore's offending did not point strongly in favour of preventive detention.

In 2007, when Lochore was in his late teens, his mother had caught him sexually abusing a boy, police were told, and Lochore was sentenced to one year and nine months' jail.

In August 2016, in Wellington, Lochore knew a man with an 8-year-old daughter. Twice on the same day he indecently touched the girl while she was staying with her father.

Lochore pleaded guilty to doing an indecent act on a child and on Wednesday he was sentenced to two years and six months' jail. He has to serve at least one year and eight months before he can be considered for parole. The sentence is on top of an eight-month term imposed recently on unrelated charges.

The judge recommended the Department of Corrections ask for an extended supervision order to oversee Lochore after his release. His name will also go on a register of child sex offenders.

Lochore denied the extent of his fantasies of abusing children, but the judge said it was a dispute she did not have to resolve since it seemed his denial was about how often he had the fantasies and that he had said he wanted a daughter to sexually abuse.

That evidence was alarming but in the end it would not have tipped the balance in favour of preventive detention, the judge said.

Crown prosecutor Grant Burston said Lochore was considered a risk for future offending because it seemed he had no difficulty forming relationships with females and that could include women with children.

But the judge said Lochore's offending was limited. He had attention deficit hyperactivity disorder but was not being treated for it, in part because he abused drugs of the same general type that would be prescribed for ADHD. Speaking from the dock, Lochore told the judge that he would try other treatment options.

Preventive detention would have been premature and disproportionate at this stage given the potential for reducing Lochore's risk of reoffending, the judge said.

He had previously been treated for sexual offending, and counselled, but treating his ADHD could also improve his response to treatment, a doctor had suggested.

Mexican police arrest kindergarten employee

accused of child sex abuse

Brinkwire

MEXICO CITY, (Xinhua) — Police arrested an employee of a public kindergarten in Mexico City after accusations from some 20 parents that he sexually abused their children, the Office of the Attorney General said Friday.

The employee, who authorities said worked in educational support at the school, was detained in Ecatepec, a suburban municipality in the State of Mexico.

He was arrested after a judge issued an order of apprehension for pedophilia.

Parents of children attending the Marcelino de Champagnat school went public on Tuesday, blocking several streets in protest in the western part of the city to get the attention of the authorities.

During the protest, the parents said they had information that the employee had committed acts against 37 boys and girls. Authorities, however, have not confirmed that number.

The employee was suspended from his job as soon as the first complaint was made by a parent on Oct. 8, according to authorities.

Welsh paedophile handed community order

over child sex abuse images

By Iwan Gabe Davies

Paul Wilcox, 44, of Tempest Drive, Chepstow, had five category A movies, classed as featuring the most serious examples of child sexual abuse.

Prosecutor Gareth James told Newport Crown Court the defendant also had five category B films and 283 category C images which included movies and pictures.

Wilcox admitted three counts of possessing indecent images of children, the offences being committed on June 4 this year.

I don't think he downloaded almost 300 videos and pictures on one day!

Hashim Salmman said in mitigation that his client had admitted his guilt.

After he was caught! How do you deny it?

Judge Daniel Williams sentenced Wilcox to a two-year community order.

There is no word on what the requirements of the community order are.