In 2018, twenty paedophile males, predominantly of Pakistani descent, were convicted as members of a Huddersfield grooming gang that sexually assaulted and exploited girls, some as young as 11 years old.
The abuse campaign lasted seven years, from 2004 to 2011, during which the perpetrators intoxicated 15 victims with alcohol and drugs prior to the assaults.
On October 19, 2018, the males were found guilty of over 120 crimes involving 15 girls.
The males exerted such a formidable grasp on certain girls that one sustained a brain injury after choosing to leap from a first-floor balcony upon being commanded to meet them.
She later told police: ‘Every time I went out something bad happened. I risked my life every time. I was a mess.’
Another one of the girl’s was only able to escape the abuse when her family’s home burnt down and they were forced to move.
‘It was the best thing I ever did, and that’s bad saying that burning your house down is the best thing you ever did,’ she later said.
The ringleader, Amere Singh Dhaliwal, 35, was jailed for life with a minimum of 18 years, while the other Huddersfield Grooming Gang members were handed sentences between five and 18 years.
The other Huddersfield Grooming Gang members names were: Irfan Ahmed, Zahid Hassan, Mohammed Kammer, Mohammed Rizwan Aslam, Abdul Rehman, Raj Singh Barsran, Nahman Mohammed, Mansoor Akhtar, Wiqas Mahmud, Nasarat Hussain, Sajid Hussain, Mohammed Irfraz, Faisal Nadeem, Mohammed Azeem, Manzoor Hassan, Mohammed Akram, Niaz Ahmed, Asif Bashir and Mohammed Imran Ibrar.
They were all given various different charges. Some included rape, trafficking for sexual exploitation, supplying Class A drugs and inciting child prostituion.
Three years later, on July 16 2021, a trio of sex offenders Banaras Hussain, Talish Ahmed, and Mohammed Akram were finally brought to justice after abusing a girl when she was just 12-years-old between 1995 and 1998.
Throughout the campaign of abuse, the girl, who was targeted while wearing her school uniform, was raped in her at a playground and in her own bedroom.
Hussain, who was 19 and married when he groomed the girl, was sentenced to 18 years for two offences of rape against a female aged under 16.
Ahmed was handed 10 years for the rape of a female aged under 16 and Akram, also 19 and in a relationship at the time, was handed a 13-year sentence for two offences of rape and one offence of indecent assault.
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