Concerns that Telford was the centre of an organised child-sex ring first emerged in May 2013, when seven men were jailed for a string of offences relating to four teenage girls who in the words of one of them was ‘passed around like a piece of meat’.
Ahdel Ali, then 25, was convicted of 18 offences, including the rape of a 13-year-old girl, six offences of under-age sex with the same girl, three charges of controlling a child prostitute and sexual activity with a second victim, two offences of sexual activity with a child involving a third girl and offences of grooming and inciting child prostitution and sexual activity with a fourth victim. The paedophile was handed a 26-year extended sentence, with an order that he should serve 18 years in prison as well as an additional eight years on licence. Mean while his brother….