Man who dragged schoolgirl into dark alley and raped her jailed 21 years later

A antheral who raped a 14-year-old miss successful a Rotherham alleyway 21 years agone has been jailed.

Waleed Ali was successful his aboriginal 20s erstwhile helium spotted the unfortunate sitting unsocial astatine a h2o fountain successful the municipality centre sometime betwixt March 2003 and March 2004, according to the National Crime Agency.

He and a radical of men approached the miss and helium asked her to spell into a adjacent alleyway with him, the NCA said, adding that erstwhile she refused Ali grabbed her by the limb and tried to unit her to her feet.

The miss was ‘intimidated’ by the men and went into the alleyway where Ali raped her ‘away from nationalist sight’.

Before his latest conviction, Ali had been convicted of raping and indecently assaulting different girl, 13, successful the aforesaid alleyway successful aboriginal 2003 pursuing an probe by South Yorkshire Police, the NCA added.

The caller apprehension was a effect of the NCA’s Operation Stovewood probe into historical allegations of maltreatment successful Rotherham, Yorkshire, betwixt 1997 and 2013 – the UK’s largest kid intersexual exploitation inquiry.

Ali, who is present 42, was arrested and interviewed successful September 2021 aft a pistillate told Operation Stovewood officers that she had been attacked erstwhile she was 14 years aged and had not reported it before.

During his interrogation helium told constabulary helium felt ‘sick’ astatine their questions and denied the crime.

Ali, from Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, was sentenced to 5 years successful situation instantly aft jurors recovered him blameworthy of raping a miss nether 16 years aged astatine Sheffield Crown Court connected Friday.

Senior investigating officer, Stuart Cobb, said: ‘After speaking with the victim, National Crime Agency officers meticulously identified corroborating evidence.

‘For 21 years the unfortunate suffered successful soundlessness but her brave grounds combined with our investigative enactment has ensured her attacker faced justice.

‘I impulse anyone who is simply a unfortunate of kid intersexual abuse, nary substance however agelong agone the maltreatment occurred, to question enactment and, if they consciousness ready, study it to the police, who person officers specially trained to analyse specified cases.’

On Thursday and Friday, 7 men were jailed for committing kid enactment maltreatment offences against 2 young girls successful Rotherham during the 2000s arsenic portion of Operation Stovewood, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) reported.

The maltreatment started erstwhile 1 of the girls was arsenic young arsenic 11 and Sheffield Crown Court heard however the defendants regularly picked up the victims successful their cars and gave them cigarettes, alcohol, cannabis and money, the CPS said.

The girls would past beryllium assaulted, forced to execute intersexual acts oregon raped.

Operation Stovewood was acceptable up successful the aftermath of the landmark Jay Report which recovered successful 2014 that astatine slightest 1,400 girls were abused by gangs of men of chiefly Pakistani practice successful Rotherham betwixt 1997 and 2013.

Dozens of radical person been convicted arsenic a effect of the operation, which the NCA says is the azygous largest instrumentality enforcement cognition of its benignant ever undertaken successful the UK.

Last year, the NCA announced that caller allegations would beryllium handled by South Yorkshire Police alternatively than Operation Stovewood, saying it had identified much than 1,100 children progressive successful the exploitation betwixt 1997 and 2013 – astir each girls.

The bureau said it remains committed to seeing its existent investigations done to the extremity of the transgression justness process, which is anticipated to proceed into 2027.

Previous estimates person enactment the outgo of Operation Stovewood astatine astir £90 million.

The NCA said anyone who has been sexually abused arsenic a kid tin study to constabulary by calling 101 oregon visiting a constabulary station.

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