20 June 2014
Two sex attackers from Peterborough who targeted teenage girls via Facebook have been jailed.
BBC Look East’s Louise Hubball said Judge Mark Lucraft told Ali he was “dangerous”, with Ashraf laughing as his sentence was passed.
- Daaim Ashraf, 19, of Almoners Lane, West Town, Peterborough, PE3 9, was found guilty of nine charges including five trafficking offences, a sexual assault, sexual activity with a child, sexual activity in the presence of a child and a further count of intimidation. Sentenced to 12 years in a young offender’s institution.
- 2014 Peterborough Grooming Gang
The offences relate to eight teenage girls, the youngest of whom was 13.
The men’s victims were collected from their homes and taken to secluded spots or to a hotel and plied with alcohol, the men’s trial was told.
The offences took place between 2008 and 2013 and involved girls from Peterborough, Lincolnshire and Rutland. The pair were convicted in May after a two-month trial.
A teenager raped by Yasir Ali says she fell in love with him, Prosecutor Patricia Lynch said the girls had been used as “sex objects”.
Police said six of the victims were abused at a hotel in Peterborough in January and February last year 2013. One victim was filmed on a mobile phone.
Two victims were raped in cars at Ferry Meadows in 2008 and 2010 and another girl was raped in an alleyway in Stamford, police said.