Another white youth attacked by ‘Asians’

A mother fears her teenage son could have been beaten to death in broad daylight if two men had not come to his rescue.

Jordan Coates, 19, of Hill Top Lane, Allerton, was walking along Westgate, in Bradford city centre when he was surrounded by a group of Asian men.

He was brought to the ground and was being kicked when two men, who had come out of a pub for a cigarette, saw what was happening and intervened, causing the attackers to flee.

An ambulance was called and the injured teenager, who remembers nothing of the attack, was taken to Accident & Emergency at Bradford Royal Infirmary with concussion and bruises to his face, back and legs.

His mother, Margaret Coates, said: “He goes to watch Bradford City every week and had left his dad to come home for his tea because he was working on the Sunday at the Co-op in Allerton.

“He had walked up to the bus stop on Westgate when a gang of Asian lads surrounded him, knocked him to the floor and attacked him.

“He was left with heavy concussion and he went for nine hours afterwards without knowing anything. He had a brain scan and was quite disorientated for four days. Thank goodness for the smoking ban because two lads walked out of the Star for a cigarette, looked up and saw a lad on the floor with 12 or 13 lads kicking him.

“They ran up to help, which was very brave of them considering they were so outnumbered, and the other lads then jumped into three cars and drove off laughing. If those lads hadn’t helped out, I truly believe I would have had a dead son or a disabled one because they were just stamping on him.”

Mr Coates said: “The last thing I remember was walking up the road on my way home. I feel pretty lucky with the way it has turned out because it could have been much worse. I just hope they get caught.”

Mrs Coates claimed the police had not taken it seriously and had only released an appeal with CCTV images more than a fortnight after the incident, which happened at about 6pm on Saturday, September 26.

Mrs Coates said: “I get the impression that the police, if they could, would just like to forget about it because it’s a headache for them.”

But a spokesman for West Yorkshire Police said: “We are taking it very seriously, as we do any assault. Our investigation is ongoing and, as part of that, we have released the pictures of a group of men we would like to speak to in connection with the incident.”

The police spokesman would not comment on whether or not the attack was being treated as racially-motivated.

Witnesses should call PC Leanne O’Connor at Bradford South Police on 0845 6060606, or call Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555

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Taxi driver jailed for 10 years for raping 12 year old

A taxi driver from the Black Country has been jailed for 10 years after raping a 12-year-old schoolgirl.

Mohammed Yunis was told he had “ruined” the victim and must register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.

The 52-year-old of Farringdon Street, Birchills, Walsall, denied raping the girl but was found guilty after a trial at Wolverhampton Crown Court.

Sentencing him yesterday Judge Michael Challinor told Yunis: “This was a spontaneous and opportunistic attack.”

He added: “You were a responsible and hard-working man, so your fall from grace is very considerable.”

The judge said the harm caused to the schoolgirl was “immense” and she now felt “shame, guilt and rejection”.

Mr Henry Spooner, defending the father of five, insisted there had been no grooming of the victim. He added the conviction had been a “devastating” blow to Yunis and his family.

He told the court: “This was a disastrous 10 minutes that has ruined his life.”

The conviction will now be reported to the taxi licensing authorities in Walsall.

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Blackburn man admits raping boy

A 21-year-old man has admitted raping a boy in a ‘brutal sex attack’.

Raisuddin Patel, of Buncer Lane, Blackburn, attacked the boy, 12, after approaching him in a takeaway in Whalley Range.

Today Patel appeared before Preston Crown Court where he pleaded guilty to rape.

He was remanded in custody and will be sentenced on October 2 once a background report is completed by the Probation Service.

After the case, police said Patel had befriended the victim in a takeaway in Whalley Range at around 6pm on April 9 this year.

Patel persuaded the boy to go with him to a nearby shop to help him move some boxes, officers said.

According to police, the boy was then coerced into a garage at the back of the shop where he was subjected to a ‘brutal sex attack’.

The boy managed to escape when Patel was disturbed when he heard people outside. He raised the alarm and Patel was arrested very soon after by police.

Detective Inspector Neil Ashton said: ”This has been a particularly traumatic and distressing ordeal for the victim and his family with which they are still coming to terms.

“I would like to thank members of the community who helped the police identify Patel at the earliest opportunity and enable his prompt arrest.

“This meant that the police were able to preserve and recover crucial forensic evidence that proved instrumental in forcing a guilty plea from Patel. Because of this, the victim did not have to suffer the trauma of giving evidence in court.

“Patel, who was previously unknown to the police, is clearly a very dangerous and devious man. He has been in custody since his arrest and I am confident he will receive a lengthy custodial sentence given the severity of the offence.”

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Sadistic pair jailed for horrific rape of young mum

Steffan Reed

Two knife-wielding burglars who gang-raped a young mother in her home as her young son begged them to stop have been locked up.

The drink and drug-fuelled pair took turns to rape the woman after horrifically killing the child’s pet in front of him.

Mansoor Shah, 18, of Glenlee Road, Great Horton, Bradford, was locked up indefinitely for taking the leading role.

Judge Jonathan Rose said Shah had taken “revolting pleasure” in the sadistic abuse of a terrified young woman.

Stefan Reed, 17, of Lister Avenue, West Bowling, Bradford, was sent to detention for nine years. Both pleaded guilty to aggravated burglary on November 10 last year and raping the woman twice.

Judge Rose said the break-in while the 22-year-old mother and her son slept was motivated by revenge and lust.

He told the teenagers, both handcuffed in the dock at Bradford Crown Court: “You took part in criminality so wicked, so cruel and so brutal that it will stagger and revolt all right-thinking people.”

Shah and Reed broke into the woman’s bedroom armed with kitchen knives.

Peter Moulson, prosecuting, said Shah put the mother through a six-hour ordeal after a row over a party. He threatened to “slice her up”.

Shah tried to force her to drink bleach and made her down vodka, then beat the child’s pet against a wall and stabbed it.

He shattered tubes from a sunbed and threatened to smash one over the woman’s head as her son screamed and begged, Mr Moulson said.

He tied them together with flex and struck her with a claw hammer, pulling out her hair.

He stabbed her after Reed, who laughed during her ordeal, insulted him. The pair ransacked the house, daubing it in paint.

They each raped the woman twice while the other stayed with the boy. She did not scream because she did not want her son to hear, the court was told.

The pair lit a gas ring and tried to set the kitchen on fire. While they were distracted, the woman fled the house with her son.

Reed had rings stolen from the woman on him when the pair were arrested the same day.

Abdul Iqbal, Shah’s barrister, said his family had disowned him. His guilty plea had spared the woman from having to give evidence.

Jayne Beckett, for Reed, said: “He accepts everything and he accepts just how awful that is.”

Judge Rose branded Shah a public danger. He cannot be considered for release for six years.

“There is a well of violence, brutality and sadism that runs deep within you,” the judge said.

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Child rapist jailed for 15 years

A waiter working in Ballater has been jailed for 15 years after subjecting a young girl to years of sexual abuse.

Shakeel Ahmed, 26, was working at a restaurant on Royal Deeside when officers arrested him.

A court heard Ahmed bolted to the North-east “out of shame or fear after abusing the child”.

A jury found him guilty of raping the girl twice when she was aged between nine and 12 and eight counts of sexually assaulting her in Yorkshire.

The judge told him: “You are guilty of the persistent and sordid abuse and assault of a young girl you groomed until the point when you forcefully and brutally raped her.”

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Man Jailed For Raping Two Teenage Girls

A 22-year-old man who raped two 13-year-old girls in his car after plying them with alcohol has been jailed for 14 years.

Ali offered the two girls a lift before giving them vodka and raping them in his car

Munshur Ali, from Hyde in Greater Manchester, asked his victims for directions and began chatting with them before offering the young girls a lift.

Ali drove the girls to an off licence in Stockport and bought them a bottle of vodka to drink.

He then took them to a church and raped the pair twice in the back of his car.

While passing sentence, Judge Peter Larkin said: “You subjected these two vulnerable, naive 13-year-olds to a terrifying ordeal.”

The judge described Munshur Ali as “devious and manipulative”.

He said: “Not only have you made serious and deeply unpleasant allegations against the two girls, you also concocted a defence to fit the prosecution evidence against you.”

The girls mothers, who can’t be named for legal reasons, said their children were naïve and too trusting: “We are absolutely devastated.

“To any other young girls, I just want to say if you are going out – stay with a group… And never get into anyone’s car.”

The second victim’s mother said: “It’s easy to say don’t drink, but it’s part of growing up. And it’s so easy to get hold of alcohol now – I think the Government needs to crack down on that.

“They are not the same children now. He didn’t show any remorse at court, joking with his friends. It’s disgusting.”

Speaking outside court, Detective Constable Lindsey Morgan said: “Both the girls have basically lost their innocent childhood, and they are traumatised by what’s happened to them.”

When asked about Munshur Ali she commented: “I think he was a sly, evil person…and he went out on this evening knowing that his intention was to get vulnerable girls into his car and rape them.”

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Braford belongs to the Moslems

A teenager who stabbed and slashed a passer-by in a racially motivated attack has been locked up for five years.

Amir Rehman, 18, shouted racial abuse as 51-year-old Ronald O’Connor walked to a shop for a loaf of bread, near the gates of Lister Park, Manning-ham, last December.

Leeds Crown Court was told Rehman shouted out: “Manningham belongs to Muslims. We don’t want whites. We rule Bradford. We are going to get you out.”

His frightened victim, Ronald O’Connor, tried to get in the shop, but Rehman ran up and stabbed him twice in the upper arm with a four to five-inch bladed knife.

The court heard that Rehman, of Lumb Lane, Manningham, was describ-ed as in a frenzy, “like a crazy man, out of control,” as he tried to slash Mr O’Connor’s face. The palms of Mr O’Connor’s hands were slashed as he tried to defend himself.

Prosecutor Richard Gioserano said: “Rehman was swinging at him over and over again with the knife. Mr O’Connor was in great pain and in fear, literally, of his life.”

Mr O’Connor ran into the shop. Police were called and Rehman was arrested outside.

Mr O’Connor had surgery at Bradford Royal Infirmary for a deep laceration to his palm. He also suffered lacerations to his fingers and two incisions to his upper arm with apparent nerve damage.

Mr Gioserano said Rehman attended Bradford Crown Court for a preliminary hearing of the case in March, but went straight from court to Pudsey, with two other men, Amar Farooq and Tanveer Hussain, where, later in the day, they committed a series of robberies on children on their way home from school.

During the street muggings some of the youngsters were threatened with being stabbed, though no knife was seen. The court heard that the defendants were clearly drunk.

Jonathan Devlin, for Rehman, said there were no explanations or excuses for the offences other than drink.

All three pleaded guilty to three robberies. Rehman pleaded guilty to wounding with intent in connection with the Manningham incident.

Hussain, 23, of Lumb Lane, Manning-ham, and Farooq, 25, of Agar Street, Girlington, were jailed for 30 months.

Rehman was sent to youth custody for a total of five years.

The judge, Recorder David Bradshaw, told Rehman he had committed an unprovoked attack on an innocent man causing “horrendous” injuries.

He said: “I am satisfied it was accompanied by racial abuse and seemed to have a racial motive.”

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Man convicted of raping teenagers

A MAN has been convicted of raping two 13-year-old girls in the back of his car.

Munshar Ali, 22, of Bennett Street, Hyde, attacked the girls after picking them up on Old Road in the town, Manchester Crown Court heard

Ali denied raping one girl twice and the other once. But it was the girls’ version of events the jury accepted.

Nicola Gatto, prosecuting, said Ali, who works for a Stockport debt recovery agency, stopped the girls in his brother’s Ford Fiesta on 8 November and asked if they knew the way to Birmingham.

He offered them a lift and later stopped at a garage on Stockport Road, Guide Bridge, to withdraw £10 from a cashpoint and bought a bottle of vodka — which the girls sipped — and two cans of Fanta from a nearby shop. Afterwards Ali asked if they wanted to come back to his ‘nice big bed’, before dropping them near home. He had the car valeted the next day. Both girls were medically examined but a doctor could not determine if a bruise and abrasion had been due to rape.

But Ali tried to convince the jury he had been the victim of a sexual assault. He said he had to perform an emergency stop after they ‘leapt’ in front of the car and asked for a lift to Denton as they were lost. On the way he said they kissed and hugged in the back seat, and, when he stopped the car, that they attempted to have sex with him.

But prosecutor Ms Gatto dubbed his account a ‘complete tissue of lies.’

Ali told the court the case had put his life on ‘standstill’ and jeopardised his arranged marriage. And the chairman of Hyde’s Jamia Mosque, in a reference read out by defence lawyer Mike Leeming, said Ali — of Bangladeshi descent — had done voluntary work with children, describing him as ‘honest, reliable and conscientious.’

Mr Leeming suggested the girls — who he said had drunk almost two bottles of wine between them shortly before the incident — fabricated the story to get the attention of a boyfriend one had recently split from. “He was the second person she texted that night to say she had been raped.”

His Honour, Judge Peter Lakin, remanded Ali — who has a conviction for threatening behaviour from 2007 — in custody until sentencing on 28 August.

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Fury over jobs going to call centre in India

UP TO 200 staff at Ventura have been told their jobs are going to a call centre in India.

Call handlers employed on behalf of National Rail Enquiries were called in to a series of meetings on Wednesday and told the news.

Staff have reacted angrily saying it is a disgrace. One woman who has worked on the NRE account for five years said: “”As it is a deprived area and NRE is a government-backed scheme, we expected them to keep calls in this country. People are just fed up. The atmosphere is shocking.” A Ventura statement said: “This is a business decision made by NRE based on financial reasons and bears no reflection on the quality of work or results that have been achieved by Ventura.

“Unfortunately, this decision has forced Ventura to enter into a 90-day consultation period with over 100 employees.

“Ventura is currently in talks with other clients about additional work to help the company maintain work volume and therefore minimise the loss of staff.”

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Manhunt for sex killer after third rape

Detectives hunting for a killer and serial rapist have found DNA evidence linking the suspect to another rape.

The body of Michelle Samaraweera, 35, was discovered in a small park off Queens Road, Walthamstow, east London, on May 30. She had been raped and strangled.

Police have launched a massive inquiry to trace the culprit who may be behind a string of other sex attacks in the Walthamstow area.
The latest linked rape took place on April 29 at 1.30am in the grounds of St Saviour’s Church, Markhouse Road.

A 32-year-old woman was attacked from behind as she walked to a branch of the supermarket Somerfield.

Officers were alerted by a neighbour who heard screams and found the victim semi-clothed and extremely distressed in the churchyard.

The first rape linked to the attacker took place on March 24 when a 59-year-old woman was forced into her home near Queens Road.

The second took place on April 22 when a 46-year-old woman was forced into an alleyway near St James Street railway station.

Police have also appealed for information about two further assaults on women in the South Grove and Markhouse Road areas in March.

They have not been linked by DNA but appear similar to the other incidents.

On Thursday March 19, a man armed with a knife grabbed a 16-year-old girl in South Grove opposite the Alpha Business Centre, E17.

A group of men driving a silver-coloured car witnessed the attack and rushed to help her, enabling her to escape.

On Thursday March 26, a 46-year-old woman was walking close to St Saviour’s Church when a man grabbed and assaulted her. Three men stopped to help.

Investigators have launched a mass voluntary DNA sweep in a bid to identify the attacker and rule out other suspects.

Anyone found to match the suspect’s description during hundreds of house-to-house and street inquiries has been asked to provide a DNA sample.

A black and white image depicting the clean-shaven Asian suspect aged between 30 and 45 has been seen by millions of people after it was broadcast on television.

Detective Superintendent Vic Rae (Homicide and Serious Crime Command) said he wants to speak to the victims in all the attacks and those who helped them.

He said: “We have now managed to officially link a third sexual assault to the murder of Michelle Samaraweera.

“It is essential that we work with the community to trace the man responsible as soon as possible.

“We need to hear from anyone who has any suspicions. Any information, however small, could make a real difference to us.”

:: Anyone with information should call the incident room on 0208 345 3715 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

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