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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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.

“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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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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