Thursday, March 7, 2013
Two men have been jailed for drugging and raping vulnerable under-age girls they found walking the streets.
Shazad Rehman, 30, was jailed for 18-and-half years and Bilal Hussain, 23, was jailed for 17-and-a-half years at Bradford Crown Court.
Judge Jonathan Rose said the men “engaged in a course of conduct which has become increasingly and depressingly familiar in this country”.
Hussain, of Leeds and Rehman, of no fixed address, raped three girls.
Thursday, March 7, 2013
A self-confessed “monstrous and disgusting” man who raped a teaching assistant was yesterday jailed for 11 years and three months.
Bed shop owner Fiazul Islam, 31, picked up the woman as she walked home after a night out with colleagues in Keighley before raping her twice in the back of his car.
Bradford Crown Court heard he was caught by police after her mobile phone – lost during the attack – was found in his bedroom when a 15-year-old girl accused him of a separate sexual offence more than a year later. Sentencing him for two counts of rape and one of sexual activity with a child, Judge John Potter told him: “You are prepared to violate and humiliate your victims to satisfy your own wicked sexual desires.”
Saturday, March 2, 2013
A taxi driver who got an underage teenage girl to perform a sex act on him, after driving her to an empty home in Peterborough, has lost an appeal to revoke his licence.
Mohammed Umar Anwar (31) of Sallows Road, Peterborough, appeared before Peterborough Magistrates’ Court yesterday (Wednesday) to appeal against Peterborough City Council’s decision to revoke his Hackney driver’s licence.
The council refused to renew Anwar’s licence in September last year, in the interests of public safety, after an incident where Anwar was flagged down by a 15-year-old girl stating she wanted to go to Orton but had no money.
Saturday, March 2, 2013
Three men accused of abducting a 13-year-old girl and forcing her to become their sex slave have been convicted of sex and drug offences.
The girl was subjected to a string of assaults after being taken from London to Ipswich, Norwich Crown Court heard.
During the trial, jurors were told the men “set her up as a sex slave” and “used her for their pleasure”.
Surin Uddin, Mohammed Sheikh and Hamza Ali, all from east London, will be sentenced at a later date.
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Two brothers who fleeced taxpayers out of £315,000 in a house-swapping scam involving their wives walked free after a judge said the ‘greatest punishment’ was the loss of their good names.
Mohammed Amin, 40, and his wife, Kauser Aktar, 38, switched homes with Aftab Ahmed, 39, and his wife Sobia Shaheen, 32, so the women could pretend to be tenants and claim housing benefits.
The Pakistani couples – who have 11 children between them – submitted bogus tenancy agreements for 16 years, raking in £314,452.25, Snaresbrook Crown Court in east London heard on Friday.
Saturday, February 9, 2013
A TEEN was given drugs and booze by a child sex exploitation gang while heavily pregnant, the Old Bailey heard.
The witness, known as Girl 3, also told the jury yesterday that while she was underage, the gang told her it was normal to have sex and perform sex acts on men.
Now 20, she claims she was abused by brothers Akhtar and Anjum Dogar, brothers Mohammed and Bassam Karrar, and Assad Hussain between the ages of 12 and 15.
Thursday, February 7, 2013
One of four men accused of using a 13-year-old girl as a sex slave told police he encouraged her to resist the other men’s advances, a court heard.
Surin Uddin, 28, of Bethnal Green, east London, is accused of conspiracy to traffic and various sex offences.
The trial jury at Norwich Crown Court heard the girl was subjected to a string of attacks over four days.
She was taken from her home in London to a rented house in Ipswich, Suffolk, the court was told.
Uddin, Mohamed Sheikh, 31, of Hackney, east London, and Abdul Hammed, 46, of Wellington Street in Ipswich all deny two counts of rape.
Sheikh also denies causing a child to engage in sexual activity.
Monday, February 4, 2013
Talhat Rehman, 54, broke from a crowd of tourists in the middle of the Changing of the Guard ceremony yesterday morning, holding one blade to his chest and another to his throat.
As an officer tried to intervene, he lunged at him waving both knives and was shot with the stun gun before being arrested and taken away in a police van.
Mr Rehman, of Harrow, North West London, was later charged with two counts of possessing a bladed weapon in public and one of affray. He will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court later today.
Sunday, February 3, 2013
Midwives could be asked routinely to raise the issue of female genital mutilation with pregnant women from communities where the practice is prevalent.
The Department of Health is looking at gathering data on the numbers who have been illegally mutilated in an attempt to safeguard children and potentially increase the number of prosecutions.
Campaigners applaud the move, pointing out that often women are not examined during pregnancy and so the first time NHS professionals are aware that a woman has been cut is during childbirth, when it may be too late to give her the help she needs.
It is also hoped that collecting the data will help to identify the baby girls at birth who may be at risk in the future.
[SWN – Note the image the Guardian use to illustrate the story, we’ve reproduced it here. Is FGM a prevalent problem in the white/lighter skinned side of the community then?
“UK communities that are most at risk of FGM include Kenyans, Somalis, Sudanese, Sierra Leoneans, Egyptians, Nigerians and Eritreans. However women from non-African communities that are at risk of FGM include Yemeni, Kurdish, Indonesian and Pakistani women” <<that’s from the Equalities Office Fact Sheet on FGM.
Very pale skinned communities! Could it be a case of the media misleading us again, same as when all those knife, gun crime, and honour violence stories always show whitey in their illustrative images?]
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Britain is ‘self-segregating’ as white families flee urban areas for the countryside and outer suburbs.
The trend is causing an ‘ethnic cliff’, in which the proportion of households from minority backgrounds is vastly different in areas just a few miles apart.
Some outer London boroughs – including Enfield, Waltham Forest and Redbridge – have seen their white British population drop by as much as a quarter over the past decade.
The same applies to urban areas around the capital such as Luton, Reading and Bedfordshire.
The UK Enrichment News 