September 2014
A man who had sex with an underage girl has been jailed for 12 years.
Mohammed Abbas, 30, groomed the girl when she was 12 years old and took her to a park where he tried to have sex with her.
He would drive her around in his black BMW and take her to houses for sex. She would often not return home for several days.
The offences came to light as part of Operation Erle, a joint inquiry by Cambridgeshire Constabulary and Peterborough City Council into child sexual exploitation. The victim was identified during another investigation.
Abbas, previously of Gladstone Street, Peterborough, initially went on trial in June, however a jury at Peterborough Crown Court failed to reach a verdict.
A retrial started and he was convicted of two counts of sexual assault on a girl under 13 by penetration and two specimen charges of sexual activity with a child.
He was sentenced to 12 years for the sexual assault charges and eight years for the sexual activity, to run concurrently.
He will be deported after serving his sentence.
https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/update/2014-09-26/man-jailed-for-sex-with-underage-girl