Huddersfield gang jailed for ‘inhuman’ campaign of rape and grooming

The penultimate group of defendants of the mass trials of Muslim rape and abuse gangs in Huddersfield were sentenced at Crown Court Leeds earlier today. Tommy Robinson’s trial for Contempt of Court is set for next week, Tuesday 23rd, at the Central Criminal Court London; presumably what he was talking about can now be discussed openly. 

This is from various newspapers and sites, ITV News, the Daily Mail, the Yorkshire Post

SIXTEEN members of a child grooming gang have been given jail sentences totalling more than 200 years over the sexual exploitation of school girls in Yorkshire. Four others are awaiting sentence after being convicted of offences in a trial which ended earlier this month.

…for their part in an “inhuman” campaign of rape and sexual abuse against vulnerable teenagers in Huddersfield.

More than a dozen vulnerable girls, some as young as 11, were groomed and then raped in the West Yorkshire town between 2004 and 2011. Ringleader Amere Singh Dhaliwal, 35, was jailed for life earlier this year and ordered to spend a minimum of 18 years in prison. Unusually he has a Sikh name; I don’t know whether he was a convert to Islam or just an evil man who sought out other evil men. 

This, along with details from a total of three trials at Leeds Crown Court, could not be previously reported because of a blanket ban imposed a year ago. This order was lifted on Friday following representations from the media.

Judge Geoffrey Marson QC said: ‘These were planned offences by a large group of Asian men. Having been plied with alcohol and drugs, girls were raped, they were trafficked to isolated areas or to houses for the purpose of sexual abuse by those who took them or by others. When taken to isolated places such as the moors or a reservoir, if they didn’t comply they were, on occasions, beaten; they were told they would be left to make their own way back, children on their own, children late at night in isolated areas.

The judge added: ‘They were taken to so-called parties at houses where there would be older Asian men. Again, they were plied with alcohol and drugs, on occasion drinks were spiked and many times these girls were rendered senseless. They would then be taken to a room where, one by one, men would go and abuse these girls sexually.

‘Sometimes no contraception was used, sometimes plastic bags were used as condoms; it was disgusting and degrading.’

The extent of the abuse can finally be reported after a judge today lifted reporting restrictions. The first trial, which began in January and concluded in June, saw eight men jailed for a total of 123 years after being convicted of a total of 85 offences. In a second trial, which ended in June, eight defendants were sentenced to a total of 98 years after a jury returned 26 guilty verdicts against them.

Temporary reporting restrictions, made under the Contempt of Court Act, had been in place throughout the trials. The restrictions were lifted after a judge heard an application by members of the media to lift them.

During the trials prosecutor Richard Wright, QC, told jurors how gang members would deliberately target vulnerable children . . . 

The prosecutor said none of the girls would have consented had they truly had free choice and not been groomed. He said: “Once the child is broken in that way and sexual activity with older men becomes a norm, they are passed about to other men who also use them sexually without any regard for whether or not they are consenting. This case is concerned with just that sort of grooming. These men did not only control these girls by grooming. “They were also quite capable of employing threats and violence if the need arose.”

Mr Wright added: “There is here regrettably, a sense that those in authority who handled the concerns of parents and friends expressed at the time of these offences did not do enough to try to engage with these girls and find out what was happening to them.

THE NAMES

Trial One:
– Amere Singh Dhaliwal, 35, of Holly Road, Huddersfield – jailed for life, minimum of 18 years (nickname – “Pretos”)
– Irfan Ahmed, 34, of Yews Hill Road, Huddersfield – jailed for eight years (“Finny”)
– Zahid Hassan, 29, of Bland Street, Huddersfield – jailed for 18 years (“Little Manny”)
– Mohammed Kammer, 34, of West View, Huddersfield – jailed for 16 years (“Kammy”)
– Mohammed Rizwan Aslam, 31, of Huddersfield Road, Dewsbury – jailed for 15 years (“Big Riz”)
– Abdul Rehman, 31, of Darnley Drive, Sheffield – jailed for 16 years (“Beastie”)
– Raj Singh Barsran, 34, of Caldercliffe Road, Huddersfield – jailed for 17 years (“Raj”)
– Nahman Mohammed, 32, of West View, Huddersfield – jailed for 15 years (“Dracula”)

Trial Two: – Mansoor Akhtar, 27, of Blackmoorfoot Road, Huddersfield – jailed for eight years (“Boy”)
– Wiqas Mahmud, 38, of Banks Crescent, Huddersfield – jailed for 15 years (“Vic”)
– Nasarat Hussain, 30, of Upper Mount Street, Huddersfield – jailed for 17 years (“Nurse”)
– Sajid Hussain, 33, of Grasmere Road, Huddersfield – jailed for 17 years (“Fish”)
– Mohammed Irfraz, 30, of North Road, Huddersfield – jailed for six years (“Faj”)
– Faisal Nadeem, 32, of Carr Green Lane, Huddersfield – jailed for 12 years (“Chiller”)
– Mohammed Azeem, 33, of Wrose Road, Bradford – jailed for 18 years (“Mosabella”)
– Manzoor Hassan, 38, of Bland Street, Huddersfield – jailed for five years (“Big Manny”)

Trial Three: – Niaz Ahmed, 54, of Woodthorpe Terrace, Huddersfield – to be sentenced on November 1 (“Shaq”)
– Mohammed Imran Ibrar, 34, of Manchester Road, Huddersfield – to be sentenced on November 1 (“Bully”)
– Asif Bashir, 33, of Thornton Lodge Road, Huddersfield – to be sentenced on November 1 (“Junior”)
– Mohammed Akram, 33, of Springdale Street, Huddersfield – to be sentenced on November 1 (“Kid”)