Teacher raped by 15-year-old pupil

Serving life: A court drawing of Dwayne Best

A teacher who was brutally assaulted by a 15-year-old pupil accused the school where the attack took place of ‘putting her in the way of a rapist’.

The 32-year-old, who cannot be identified, said Westminster City School should have warned her that it was unsafe for her to be in her classroom alone after lessons.

The woman was attacked by powerfully-built Dwayne Best as she marked books after school – within a week of starting her job in September, 2004.

Best is serving a life sentence after being convicted at the Old Bailey.

Miss X sued the governing body of the school over her ‘truly horrifying’ ordeal. She has reached a secret settlement in the damages action.

Her counsel, Neil Block QC, told Mr Justice Foskett at London’s High Court that her allegations of negligence against the school were on the basis that there had been a previous less serious sexual assault on a cleaner.

Best also had the ‘most appalling’ documented history in and out of school, displaying a belligerent and aggressive attitude.

Speaking after the case, Miss X said she had decided to bring a civil case because she thought the school should be held to account for their failings.

‘They really failed. They let me down and I do hold them responsible for putting me in the way of a rapist.’

She said that the school had a duty of care to its employees under health and safety law which had not been followed.

The school should have carried out a risk assessment after the cleaner had been attacked, Miss X said.

‘Nobody warned me. On a basic level that’s what it comes down to, if they had warned me, I wouldn’t have been there in the classroom.

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Couple beaten in road rage attack

A 65-year-old man was beaten and his elderly wife suffered two black eyes in what police have described as a violent road rage attack in Bradford.

Christopher Bell and his wife Beryl, 66, were beaten by four men after they clipped the wing mirror of a black Audi A3 on Pollard Lane on 9 June.

Mrs Bell was punched in the face after she got out to help her husband.

Speaking about the ordeal, Mr Bell said: “I saw her on the floor and blood was gushing out of a cut on her nose.”

Police said the couple had been out shopping when they clipped the Audi’s wing mirror.

This is one of those acts that nothing can ever justify what’s happened
Det Insp Sean Duggan

Fearing the reaction of the driver and his passengers, they carried on but were followed by the car.

They stopped on Pollard Lane and Mr Bell got out to speak to the driver.

All four men then got out of the car and started hitting Mr Bell before setting on his wife.

Mrs Bell said: “I was scared but I just saw them all hitting him so I got out and tried to stop it but I just got knocked unconscious.”

She added: “I think about it, I’m scared in case they look us up, but you’ve just got to try and get on with things.”

Det Insp Sean Duggan appealed for any witnesses to the attack, which happened at about 1510 BST, to come forward.

“This is one of those acts that nothing can ever justify what’s happened.

“It was a particularly violent attack on two people going about their daily business not harming anyone and this is the time the public need to pull together as a community to help find those responsible.”

All four men are Asian. The driver is described as aged 25, 5ft 8in tall, a stocky build with short, black hair.

The other three men are aged in their 20s, police said.

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Paedophile jailed for sex with girl, 13

A 35-year-old man who had sex with a 13-year-old girl after his marriage broke down has been jailed for 12 months.

Mohammed Khan, of Walden Drive, Heaton, Bradford, told police he picked up the teenager in Manningham Lane because she was scantily dressed and looked cold.

He was convicted by a jury last month of sexual activity with a child in January 2008.

During the trial, the court heard the girl was reported missing and revealed what had happened to her when questioned by police officers.

Today the sentencing judge Recorder David Hatton QC said Khan, of previous good character, fell for the temptation that came his way.

“She, to a significant degree, made advances to you. She is undoubtedly a young girl who is strong minded and has more knowledge of the world than one would normally expect for a young girl of that age,” the judge said.

Recorder Hatton said the girl was a disturbed young woman with a number of issues.

Khan, now divorced, was separated from his wife at the time and vulnerable to “fall foul of the temptation presented to him”.

He must sign on the Sex Offenders’ Register for ten years and the judge made a Sexual Offences Prevention Order for the same period, stopping Khan working with youngsters under 16 unless supervised.

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White boy being enriched

THREE teenage thugs have been caged after subjecting a man to a brutal beating in broad daylight – tackling him to the ground before repeatedly jumping on his head and kicking him. Sheffield Crown Court was shown shocking CCTV footage of the vicious attack on Craig Rocket, who tried twice to stagger away before stumbling, dazed, to the ground. Judge John Swanson called the footage “quite horrifying” – and said he had presided over murder cases in which far less violence had been used. Mr Rocket was on his way home from an afternoon out with friends when trouble erupted outside the bus station in Rotherham town centre as he finished off a cigarette. A gang of around five or six Asian youths started following him and threatening comments were made. Mr Rocket became so worried he took out his mobile phone to pretend he was talking to a friend, and eventually ran off from the group in fear. But Easem Rariq, aged 19, and Moseeb Zabear, 17, chased after him, along with another teenager, Howis Iqbal, also 17. Rariq rugby-tackled Mr Rocket to ground before Zabear jumped on his head. Iqbal then joined in, repeatedly kicking Mr Rocket to his body. Judge Swanson said the level of violence Mr Rocket endured was “almost unbelievable”. “I have seen a video of what happened which is quite horrifying,” he told the court. “I have known murder cases where there was considerably less violence used than in this case.” In fact, miraculously, Mr Rocket escaped with only superficial injuries from the attack on September 20 last year. Rariq, of Boswell Street, Rotherham; Zabear, of Clough Green, Masbrough; and Iqbal, of Shawsfield Road, Broom, Rotherham, all pleaded guilty to attempting to cause grievous bodily harm with intent. They claimed Mr Rocket had been making racist remarks towards them but no evidence was put before the court. They were each sentenced to two years in a young offenders institution. Sam Andrews, defending Zabear, said he was remorseful about what he had done and added personal and professional references showed evidence of a man “in stark contrast” to the thug seen on the CCTV footage. Dapinder Singh, for Rariq, and Nawaz Hussain, for Iqbal, both said their clients were also remorseful for their actions

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16 year old rape ordeal

A 16-YEAR-OLD Crosby girl and another teenager claim to have been raped by the same man within hours of each other.

The Crosby girl and a 15-year-old did not know each other but independently reported being raped by 20-year-old Adnan Saad on August 2.

Saad, of Enid Street in Toxteth, has denied the charges.

A jury at Liverpool Crown Court yesterday, heard the 16-year-old’s recorded interview, in which she described how she had gone out to a party in Waterloo and then into Liverpool city centre.

She said they met up with some men her friend knew and went to Saad’s flat. The girl said her friend went upstairs with one of the men, while she was downstairs with Saad and another man.

She claims she was raped and then managed to leave the flat. She told her friend what had happened and the police were notified.

Cross-examined by Michael Bagley, defending, she denied that she had been drunk at the time of the incident, at about 5am, but had earlier been ‘tipsy’.

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Restauranteur’s sex attack on child customer

A SUCCESSFUL Dudley restaurateur has been spared time behind bars after he carried out a sex attack on a customer’s nine-year-old son.

“This was a dirty little act,” Judge Michael Mott told 26-year-old Rafiqul Islam, who runs the Balti Palace at Merry Hill.

“When families take their children out to a restaurant they do not expect them to be assaulted by a member of staff.”

Islam admitted sexual assault and was given a nine month prison sentence suspended for a year and also made the subject of a 12 month supervision order.

He was further ordered to pay £1,600 costs at Wolverhampton Crown Court and was barred from working with children under 18 years of age.

Gerald Bermingham prosecuting said the boy had gone to the restaurant with his father who was on a staff Christmas outing.

The child broke the zip on his trousers on a visit to the toilets and, when he returned, he sat with another boy on a sofa.

Islam then sat on the other side of the child and slipped his finger into the open zip, said Mr Bermingham.

Rashad Mohammed defending stressed the incident only lasted a second or two and he said Islam was extremely embarrassed by his actions which were deeply regretted.

He said Islam, a married man with a baby daughter, who lives in Great Arthur Street, Smethwick was a successful businessman and he also owned restaurants in Hereford and Wolverhampton.

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Teenage paedophile

A MAN has been charged with sexually assaulting a girl in Oldham.

Abdul Rahman, aged 19 of Clarkwell Close, Oldham was charged with two counts of sexual assault by penetration.

He is due to appear at Oldham Magistrates’ Court today (Friday 13 March 2009).

On Wednesday 23 April 2008, police received reports that a 12-year-old girl had been sexually assaulted at a house in Chadderton.

Greater Manchester Police works in partnership with Oldham Council and Oldham Primary Care Trust to combat the issue of child exploitation in the borough.

A team, known as Messenger, has been set up to work in partnership with children’s charity Barnardo’s to identify children who are potentially at risk from abuse and formulate a strategy aimed at helping these individuals.

Anyone with any concerns about children being exploited in their area should contact their local police station on 0161 872 5050 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

 

Pervert sentenced for assaulting teen

A 27-year-old man has been jailed for sexually assaulting a teenage girl.

Mahmood Nawaz, of Newbury Road, Heald Green, Stockport, pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing before Manchester Crown Court Crown Square to inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and sexual assault.

He was sentenced yesterday to 18 months imprisonment and ordered to sign the Sex Offenders’ Register for five years.

The offences occurred in September 2007, when Nawaz befriended his then 14-year-old victim at Chelford Market in Cheshire.

He swapped numbers with the victim, knowing her age and asked to meet her.

Nawaz called her later that day when she was with two of her friends, aged 14 and 15 and arranged to meet her near Macclesfield. Her friends would not let her go alone and went with her.

Nawaz suggested they go to a hotel. After failing to get a room at a hotel in Macclesfield, they all travelled to a hotel in Heald Green, where he paid for a room.

After a short while the victim went with Nawaz to a shop near to the hotel where he bought alcohol. As they left the shop he went back in and bought a packet of condoms.

They all drank in the hotel room and Nawaz left for around 40 minutes. When he came back he had changed his clothes.

As they all sat on the bed watching TV Nawaz removed a condom from the packet he had earlier bought and asked the girl if she wanted to have sex with him.

He tried to climb on top of her and kiss her. He also tried to put his hands down her jeans but she pushed him away.

The victim became scared of Nawaz and asked her friends not to leave her alone with him.

Nawaz became angry claiming he had spent a lot of money on the victim and her friends.

The victim’s friend became very concerned about what was happening and went down to the front desk and called someone to come and collect them. He also spoke to the hotel staff about what was happening.

Two members of staff went up to the room and asked them all to leave.

Nawaz drove off in his van while the victim and her two friends waited for someone to pick them up.

When they got home later that night, their parents contacted Cheshire Police to report them missing.

It was when the missing reports were finished off the girl and her friends told police what had happened.

Cheshire Police informed officers at Greater Manchester Police and Nawaz was arrested a few days later.

Detective Constable April Hopwood of West Didsbury Volume Crime Team said: “Despite knowing how old his victim was he made arrangements to meet her, plying her and her friends with alcohol in an attempt to get what he really wanted.

“Luckily, the children realised what was happening was wrong and managed to put an end to the situation.”

Anyone who has been a victim of rape or sexual assault can contact Greater Manchester Police on 0161 872 5050 or 999 in an emergency. GMP has specially trained officers in place to provide a first class response to victims and help support them through the criminal justice process.

St Mary’s Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Manchester, can also be contacted on 0161 276 6515. This provides a comprehensive and coordinated forensic, counselling and medical aftercare service to anyone in Greater Manchester who has experienced rape or sexual assault. Services are available on a 24-hour basis and people can access them either as a self-referral or via Greater Manchester Police.

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Youth worker’s rape shame

A FORMER youth worker has been put behind bars after being found guilty of raping an 11-year-old girl.

Dilal Uddin, 36, from Mossley, was charged with rape and seven other counts of sexual abuse, starting just weeks after the victim’s 11th birthday.

The abuse only came to light when she told a family member.

The father-of-three had always denied the offences, leading to a trial in which the youngster and her family were forced to give evidence, but was convicted by a jury in October last year.

He appeared before Manchester Crown Court last Monday and was sentenced to 11 years in jail.

He was also banned from working or volunteering with children under 16 and from having any unsupervised contact with them indefinitely.

The court heard how Uddin – a former youth worker in Manchester – had befriended the girl and showered her with money and gifts in order to ‘purchase her trust and also her silence’.

A letter from the victim was handed to the court in which she said she felt scared but was glad that she had been able to tell someone.

Passing sentence, Judge Jeffrey Lewis told Uddin he had ‘preyed’ on the girl for his own sexual gratification.

He said: “Yours was a classic case of grooming a young child so that, as and when you chose, you could exploit her sexually.

“Your sexual misconduct was a betrayal of her dignity, of her innocence, of the innocence of her childhood.

“Apart from the physical indignities of your conduct there is a risk of psychological harm having been caused as a result of your abuse of her.

“You have never admitted your misconduct, you showed no remorse for it, nor have you offered any apology.”

Speaking after the court case, the victim’s mother thanked police, social workers, the witness service and everyone who had supported the family through the court case.

“It has been horrendous, a nightmare,” she added.

“It makes you look at people in a different way – you can’t trust them, it makes you paranoid.

“No sentence will ever be long enough but I am pleased with the result.”

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Romanian immigrant raped woman

A ROMANIAN criminal cynically raped a young woman in Yorkshire so he would end up in jail and have somewhere to eat, sleep and learn English.
Ali Majlat, 35, was in Wakefield to visit his brother who was already in the local prison, and targeted the 21-year-old as she was waiting for a train at Kirkgate railway station.

Released only weeks earlier from prison in his home country, Majlat viciously attacked the woman on October 12 last year, robbing her of her phone, purse and a bracelet.

He was arrested in London after an appeal by British Transport Police who described how the girl was initially punched, kicked and dragged to the ground before escaping and being caught again in an underpass at the deserted station.

Yesterday Majlat pleaded guilty to rape and robbery. Sentence on him was adjourned to seek further information about his criminal record in Romania.

Judge Alistair McCallum warned Majlat he was considering a possible life sentence after reading a psychiatric report which concluded he posed a serious risk to the public for the “foreseeable future”.

He asked Mark McKone defending the Romanian: “Is it right he said: ‘When I was on the railway station I thought I should rape this lady in order to get a place to eat and sleep and learn the English language’?”

He commented: “That’s bizarre” when Mr McKone confirmed what Majlat had said.

The judge requested the Crown Prosecution Service find out, if it can, about the defendant’s criminal record in Romania, particularly sexual offences.

“It appears he was released from prison in Romania in June, 2008 then immediately came across here and presumably enters on a passport which allows him to do so under EU regulations.”

The judge said there must be some system in place which would allow authorities to find out a prisoner’s record abroad.

“This is going to be something we will have to be looking at more regularly.”

Mr McKone said the psychiatrist had assessed Majlat fit to plead and not suffering from mental illness. But the defendant had also told the psychiatrist he had been assessed in a prison hospital in Romania when he was described as crazy.

Mr McKone told the judge on Majlat’s account he had served two prison sentences in Romania, one a street robbery, the other an attempted robbery. He had been homeless and sleeping on the streets for some time before the offence in Wakefield.

After the case Det Supt Dave Shipperlee, the senior investigating officer, said: “This was a violent and sustained attack on a young woman who must have been absolutely terrified.”

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