A jury found former Welsh Labour councillor Abdul-Majid Rahman guilty of assaulting two underage girls
19 FEB 2025
Abdul Rahman, 36, from Newport assaulted the complainants when he was aged between 12 and 20, and they were aged between four and six.
A former Labour city councillor has been found guilty of yet more child sex offences. Abdul-Majid Rahman denied assaulting a girl under 13 by touching and indecent assault on a girl under 14 but was found guilty by a jury at Cardiff Crown Court on Tuesday, February 18.
The jury could not come to a decision on a further count of causing/inciting a girl under 13 to engage in sexual activity without penetration, which was also denied by the defendant, and this count was discharged. Rahman, 36, of Bryn Road, Cefn Fforest, Blackwood, NP12 3, was remanded in custody and is due to be sentenced on March 18, 2025.
Rahman was a former Welsh Labour councillor at Newport City Council and represented the Victoria ward from 2012 until he resigned on October 13, 2021, for “personal reasons.”
In June 2022 Rahman, then 34, was jailed for three years and eight months after pleading guilty to possessing and sharing indecent images of children at an address on Corporation Road, Newport.
Responding to this week’s guilty verdicts a Newport City Council spokesperson said that the council “condemns” any such behaviour. They said: “Mr Rahman resigned from the council in October 2021. We understand that the charges he faced this year, and in 2022, were unconnected to his previous public role. However, the council condemns such behaviour by any individual and works with the police in tackling exploitation and abuse in all its forms.” The Welsh Labour have been contacted for a comment.