UK sex predator gang jailed for 219 years after raping girls as young as 12 - full list

A sick grooming gang of 20 men person been jailed for a full of 219 years aft being convicted of raping and abusing susceptible girls arsenic young arsenic 12.

The group, who had not antecedently been named owed to ineligible reasons, tin present beryllium identified aft the justice lifted reporting restrictions.

Consisting of 20 men, the abhorrent radical sexually abused and exploited 4 girls aged betwixt 12 and 16 successful Calderdale, West Yorkshire betwixt 2001 and 2010.

Allegations were archetypal made successful 2016, causing the police to motorboat what was described arsenic “extremely analyzable and delicate investigations into a fig of abstracted allegations.”

An archetypal probe saw officers analyse allegations made by 2 girls who said they were the victims of intersexual maltreatment and exploitation betwixt 2006 and 2009 erstwhile they were arsenic young arsenic 13.

A 3rd miss came guardant aboriginal that twelvemonth to allege that she had been abused astatine the property of 13 by the gang, causing the constabulary to motorboat a 2nd probe.

Two years later, a 3rd probe was launched aft different unfortunate told however she had been abused astatine the property of 12 betwixt 2001 and 2002.

Senior Investigating Officer, Detective Chief Inspector Claire Smith of Calderdale District Police, said: "Firstly, I privation to admit the sheer courageousness of the victims and survivors successful each of these investigations; not lone for having the bravery to travel guardant initially but besides for enduring the transgression justness strategy and the value of transgression trials and reporting restrictions successful place.

"Due to ineligible restrictions, it has not been imaginable to publicise these outcomes until now.

"I invited the sentences handed to these offenders for the abhorrent maltreatment these young girls were subjected to, which was heard by the jurors successful each proceedings implicit the past fewer years.

"Tackling kid intersexual exploitation and maltreatment is simply a apical precedence for West Yorkshire Police and our partners.

"This is an abhorrent crime which has a lifelong interaction connected victims and survivors.

"I anticipation highlighting the prosecution of these offenders volition service arsenic a reminder that we volition proceed to bash each we tin to enactment perpetrators down bars and support victims and survivors.

He added that it is ne'er to precocious for victims of intersexual maltreatment to travel forward.

He said: “I promote anyone who was abused arsenic a kid to talk to idiosyncratic and question support.

"Reports of non-recent maltreatment are handled by officers who are specially trained successful supporting victims and survivors and dealing with specified delicate cases."

The sentences, which ranged successful magnitude from 7-16 years, were handed retired aft six abstracted trials held betwixt 2021 and 2024.

Two defendants, Nadeem Adalat, 39 and Vaseem Adalat, 38 who went connected proceedings successful January 2022, appealed their convictions of 14 and 12 years respectively.

Both had 2 years added connected to their condemnation pursuing the appeal.

Five men, each from Halifax, were convicted aft the archetypal trial, which started successful October 2021 astatine Bradford Crown Court.

They were:

• Shahzad Nowaz, 45, who was recovered blameworthy of rape and making threats to termination and sentenced to a full of 11 years.
  -Nadeem Nassir, 44, who was recovered blameworthy of rape and making threats to termination and sentenced to a full of 11 years.

• Sajid Adalat, 48, who was recovered blameworthy of rape and sentenced to a full of 7 years.

• Sohail Zaffer, 41, who was pled blameworthy to rape and proviso of a people C cause and sentenced to a full of 42 months.

• Shazad Nazir, 49, who was recovered blameworthy of rape and sentenced to a full of 11 years.

At a 2nd trial, which started successful January 2022, 3 different men - besides from Halifax - were jailed for their roles.
They were:

• Nadeem Adalat, 39, who was recovered blameworthy of rape and sentenced to 14 years, which was accrued to a full of 16 years aft appeal.

• Asad Mahmood, 38, who was recovered blameworthy of rape and sentenced to a full of 13 years.

• Mohammed Rizwan Iqbal, 39, who was recovered blameworthy of rape and sentenced to a full of 9 years.

• Vaseem Adalat, 38, who was recovered blameworthy of rape and sentenced to 12 years, which was accrued to a full of 14 years and 6 months aft an appeal.

In 2016, a abstracted probe was launched by constabulary aft reports of the intersexual maltreatment of a susceptible young miss betwixt 2002 and 2006, starting erstwhile she was 13.

After a proceedings successful August 2022 astatine Bradford Crown Court , Amir Shaban, 48, of Halifax, was recovered blameworthy of rape and jailed for 10 years.

A 2nd proceedings into the aforesaid unfortunate started successful October 2022 astatine Bradford Crown Court and resulted successful the condemnation of six different men, each from Halifax.

They were:

• Malik Quadeer, 67, who was recovered blameworthy of 5 counts of rape and jailed for 22 years.

• Mohammed Ziarab, 55, who was recovered blameworthy of rape and sentenced to 10 years.

• Imran Raja Yasin, 45, who was recovered blameworthy of rape and jailed for 10 years.

• Kamran Amin, 48, who was recovered blameworthy of rape and sentenced to 10 years.

• Mohammed Akhtar, 54, who was recovered blameworthy of rape and died successful situation aft being sentenced to 11 years.

• Saquab Hussain, 46, who was recovered blameworthy of rape and sentenced to 7 years and six months.

A 3rd proceedings into the aforesaid unfortunate began successful January 2024 astatine Bradford Crown Court, which resulted successful the convictions of 3 much men.

They were:

• Haroon Sadiq, 40, of Halifax, who was recovered blameworthy of 2 counts of rape and sentenced to 10 years.

• Shafiq Ali Rafiq, 44, of Dewsbury, who was recovered blameworthy of 2 counts of rape, sentenced to 12 years.

• Sarfraz Rabnawaz, 39, of Bradford, who was recovered blameworthy of 2 counts of rape, sentenced to 9 years.

In 2018, an probe was launched into the intersexual maltreatment of a 4th miss - aged betwixt 12 and 13 - successful the Calderdale country betwixt 2001 and 2002.

Craig Mitchell, 55, of Halifax, was recovered blameworthy of rape astatine Bradford Crown Court and jailed for to 12 years.