For up to a year they would groom their victims, give them alcohol and drugs and buy them presents to “make them feel special”. But once they had gained their trust, the abuse would start.
They took the girls out in cars and to hotels, guesthouses, empty houses, parks and woods where they raped them and charged other men to do the same. Men would even be invited from Bradford, Leeds, Slough and other parts of the country to come to Oxford – and charged to take their turn to rape the girls. Ringleaders of the Oxford grooming gang the Dogar brothers Akhtar and Anjum and their depraved followers Mohammed and Bassam Karrarr were convicted and jailed for
Akhtar Dogar, of Tawney Street, Oxford, was found guilty of five counts of rape, three counts of conspiracy to rape, two counts of child prostitution and one count of trafficking – will serve a minimum of 20.
SENTENCING REMARKS OF HIS HONOUR JUDGE PETER ROOK QC
- (24) #CD#: AKHTAR DOGAR, ANJUM DOGAR, KAMAR JAMIL You have all been convicted of one count of conspiracy to rape (Count 12) which relates to providing #CD# for penetrative sex with others.
- You Akhtar Dogar and Anjum Dogar have each been convicted of separate counts involving oral rapes by each of you upon #CD# (Count 12).
- You Kamar Jamil apart from conspiracy to rape and two counts of rape relating to same episode when you with others took #CD# by car to near a lake (Counts 11A, 11B).
- (25) #CD# was a very shy young girl looked her young age. She was emotionally very immature. She was extremely vulnerable. She was introduced to you by #AB#, and you immediately exploited her. All three of you would take #CD# to various places. Sometimes you would invite other men to come and have sex with her. You would get her drunk before the men had sex with her. True the offending was shorter than in other cases and lasted less than seven weeks over the late summer of 2006. Nevertheless, I regard this sexual exploitation as very grave.
- (25) You, Akhtar, on one occasion forced her to have sex with you (Count 14). You Anjum pressurized her into giving you oral sex pulling her head down (Count 15). You, Akhtar, changed from presenting as “nice “to becoming “threatening”, grabbing, pulling her, and threatening her with a gun. You, Anjum, also changed from presenting as “nice” to becoming threatening saying he had a “gun.” You Kamar Jamil with another man took #CD# in a car to a quiet place near a lake where you raped her first orally and then vaginally. You grabbed her ponytail and forced her head onto your penis. You then raped her vaginally. She felt she had no choice with two men in a car in a remote place. You fully participated in these offences. However, I accept from what #CD# said about you, your offences against her were not accompanied by same brutality as in the case of your co-defendants.
- (26) #EF#: Akhtar Dogar, Anjum Dogar: You have been convicted of one count of conspiracy to rape, one of trafficking and one of arranging child prostitution (Counts 16, 18, 19).
- Akhtar Dogar: on three occasions, you both took #EF# to the Nanford Guest House, Iffley Road, Oxford to provide sex to men who were strangers to her. You both groomed her for the task by plying her with drugs. No doubt theses strangers were your customers who were paying you for providing #EF#.
- Anjum Dogar, you were acting with your brother on two occasions. On a fourth occasion, acting together, you both rang #EF# at night summoning her into your car where you forced her to give oral sex to one of, your customers by pulling her head down onto his penis. You Anjum Dogar subjected her to degrading and humiliating verbal abuse at the same time.
- (27) Akhtar Dogar, you are now aged 29. I accept that you have no previous convictions for sexual offences. I have read references from those who speak well of you. Anjum Dogar, you are now aged 31. Again, I accept that you have no previous convictions for sexual offences. First, I have to consider on the information before me whether each of you are dangerous. In particular I have to decide whether there is a significant risk to members of the public of serious harm by the commission by you of further specified offences.S.225(1) (b) CJA 2003.
- (28) I have considered cumulatively
- (i) the young age of your three victims and their vulnerability;
- (ii) the manner in which they were targeted, groomed and abused; (iii) the number of strangers who you arranged to come and have sex with them and the depraved sex that occurred on occasions;
- (iv) the repeated abuse and the length of time during which it occurred , particularly in the case of #AB#;
- (v) the serious psychological harm your actions have caused. I have read the pre-sentence reports. The authors are of the clear view that you do represent such a risk. I have made an allowance for the fact that the authors have not heard the evidence. However, I have no doubt given this catalogue of offending over a protracted period as well as evidence of your continued preoccupation with young girls after the time of these offences, that you do represent such a risk, and that risk will continue for many years. It is impossible at this stage to say how long you will remain dangerous. I do not consider that a determinate sentence or an extended sentence combined with a SOPO would eliminate or sufficiently reduce the risk, or sufficiently mark the exceptional gravity of this case.
- (29) Second, I MUST impose a sentence for imprisonment for life if I consider that the seriousness of the offence, or of the offence and one of more offences associated with it, is such as to justify the imposition of a sentence of imprisonment for life. S. 225(2)(b) CJA 2003.
- (30) I have come to that conclusion without hesitation in both your cases. The three conspiracies to rape against separate victims
- Counts 3, 12 and 16 were exceptionally grave crimes.
- Count 10 (Shotover Woods) was an offence involving extreme depravity.
- (31) In any event, I have concluded your offending is particularly grave and your culpability is particularly high. It follows that, in my judgement, in any event, the seriousness is such that a life sentence would have a denunciatory value reflecting of public abhorrence for the crime.
- (32) The sentences are Akhtar Dogar:
- Counts 3, 12, and 16 the conspiracies to rape: Life imprisonment with a minimum sentence of 17 years. (From this will be deducted the time you have already spent in custody. 460 days)
- Count 10: 20 years’ imprisonment (concurrent)
- Counts 2, 7, 8, 14 : 10 years’ imprisonment (concurrent).
- Counts 6, 18, 19: 8 years imprisonment (concurrent).
- (33) The totality of your offending is reflected in the minimum sentences that I have passed. To avoid any misunderstanding, let me make it clear that the minimum sentence of 17 years is the equivalent of determinate sentences of 34 years. Even after serving the minimum sentence, you will only be released if the Parole Board considers that it is safe to do so.
- (34) Looking at the overall position as to your culpability and the seriousness of the offences, I see no reason to distinguish between Akhtar Dogar and his older brother Anjum Dogar.