Telford sex abuse ringleader release hearing should be halted says Justice Secretary

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmoud wants the merchandise of Mohammed Ali Sultan reconsidered aft 1 of his victims was not informed of an earlier parole committee meting

Releasing a Telford enactment abuse ringleader aft a bungled Parole Board hearing should beryllium halted, the Justice Secretary has contiguous insisted.

Shabana Mahmood, besides Lord Chancellor, wants Mohammed Ali Sultan’s merchandise reconsidered. One of his victims was not warned astir past month’s hearing, and the Board was not fixed a victim’s idiosyncratic connection astir Sultan.

A Ministry of Justice spokesperson said: “Our thoughts stay with each the victims successful this despicable case. Public extortion is our archetypal priority. After cautious consideration, the Lord Chancellor has asked the Parole Board to reconsider its ­decision to merchandise Mohammed Ali Sultan from prison.”

In 2012, Sultan admitted sexually abusing 2 girls, 1 aged 13, and was jailed for 7 years. In 2015, helium was convicted of raping Kate, not her existent name, and got six years. In 2019, helium was jailed a 3rd time, with 3 others, for sexually abusing a susceptible miss who was “passed astir similar a portion of meat”, forced to execute enactment acts successful a churchyard and raped supra a shop.

He received an eight-year condemnation astatine Birmingham crown tribunal and a justice told him: “You’ve shown nary remorse. You remain, clearly, a precise unsafe man.”

The proceedings was the effect of a constabulary cognition aft the Sunday Mirror revealed up to 1,000 girls had been abused successful Telford, Shropshire, implicit 40 years. Kate said she initially considered not appealing implicit Sultan’s merchandise for fearfulness of angering him. In the past helium threatened to “kick her caput in”.

But she said: “I’m not going to fto intimidation oregon fearfulness of retaliation halt maine exercising my quality right.”

The Parole Board said approving Sultan, 38, for merchandise had been “undertaken thoroughly and with utmost care”. But an authoritative apologised to Kate for not having her victim’s idiosyncratic statement.

The authoritative said: “Your [statement] explains precise poignantly the affectional and intelligence interaction that Sultan’s crimes has had connected you, and it is profoundly unfortunate this mistake has occurred.”