Judge criticises police and social services as sex offenders jailed

The latest tranche of Muslim rape gang merchants go down. Except 2 of them have absconded. From the Bradford newspaper the Telegraph and Argus and BBC Yorkshire

A judge has strongly criticised social services and the police for failing vulnerable young girls who fell victim to sexual exploitation by Asian grooming gangs in Keighley in the 1990s.

Speaking at Bradford Crown Court, His Honour Judge Ahmed Nadim said social services and the police were “ill-equipped” to understand that underage girls were being groomed at street level or were “disinterested” in addressing their needs.

He said: “To different degrees the social services and the policing responses to the situation that the [victims] found themselves in was that they were the authoresses of their misfortune.”

He described how the girls were plied with drugs and alcohol as they were passed between numerous men, “virtually all of whom were of Asian heritage”, (He can say that, he also has a Pakistani/Bangladeshi name) in the town in the 1990s, when they were in their early teens.

Judge Nadim also related how a relative of the victim went to Keighley police station on a number of occasions to report her and another girl missing “but the police did not do anything about it”.

His excoriating comments came following the conclusion of a trial at which Ibrar Hussain and brothers Imtiaz and Fayaz Ahmed, all from Keighley, were convicted of raping the vulnerable young girl when she was in her early teens.

Ibrar Hussain, 47, of Mornington Street, received six-and-a-half years for each of two rapes, to be served concurrently.

Imtiaz Ahmed, 62, of Glen Ghyll, Dawson Road, was given nine years for a single offence of rape.

Fayaz Ahmed, 45, of Devonshire Street, got seven-and-a-half years for each of two rapes, to be served concurrently.

Hussain, who sat in the dock wearing a blue sweatshirt and grey joggers, was the only defendant present in person as both Ahmed brothers are known to have absconded abroad. Their location is unknown.

Five other men were jailed last year for their involvement. Reporting restrictions on the case have now been lifted, meaning details can be published.

October 20, 2023 … five other men received the following sentences:

• Amreaz Asghar 47 of Keighley was jailed for 4 and a half years for rape
• Perwaz Asghar 50 of Nottingham was jailed for 6 and a half years for two indecent assaults
• Mohammed Din 47 of Keighley was jailed for 14 years for 11 counts of rape
• Sajid Mahmood Khan 45 of Keighley was jailed for 3 years for rape.
• Zehroon Razak 47 of Keighley was jailed for 6 and a half years for rape