Asghar Bostan was convicted of rape in 2018 and jailed for nine years but was granted parole in August 2022 after spending a portion of his sentence in an open prison.
He was recalled in 2024 after breaching his licensing conditions when he was seen in Rotherham.
The taxi driver rapist was spotted barely a mile from his victim’s home, which she described at the time as a “horrendous” ordeal.
Elizabeth, not her real name, told GB News that she was terrified of his release, fearing that he would simply breach his restrictions all over again.
But at the parole hearing tomorrow, Elizabeth will have to face Bostan and his solicitor in a video link and deliver her victim impact statement directly to him.
Asghar Bostan was convicted of rape in 2018 and jailed for nine years before being granted parole in August 2022.
He was recalled to prison for breaking his licence conditions in January, but his victim was told it could be 18 months before his next parole hearing.
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A taxi driver who raped a teenage grooming victim has been jailed for nine years.
Ashgar Bostan, 47, raped the girl twice at a flat in Wagon Road, Munsbrough, Greasbrough, Rotherham, S61 4, when she was about 14 or 15-years-old.
Sheffield Crown Court heard the girl had been groomed by a woman who lived at the flat and was given alcohol and drugs before she was assaulted.
Ashgar Bostan, 47, of East Bawtry Road, Whiston, Rotherham, S60 3, was convicted by a jury of two counts of rape by a majority of 11 to one.
The court heard the victim had been “groomed and manipulated” by a woman called Shafina Ali who was living at the flat in Wagon Road.
The girl said both times she was raped by Bostan she had been given alcohol and drugs and that afterwards he had gone to talk to Ali – who died in 2009 – before leaving.
In statement read to the court on behalf of the victim she said her childhood and teenage years had been “destroyed” by Bostan.
She said: “I often wonder what my life would have been like if I had finished my education, gone on to college and become the teacher I had always dreamed of being.
“I might have had a loving family, husband and children and not have to stay awake every night unable to sleep because of the damage done to me.”
Jailing Bostan, Judge Graham Reeds QC said: “Although you are not to be sentenced as the person who groomed her and offered her to men for sexual exploitation you played your part and contributed to the severe adverse effects these events had on her life.”
The trial is the second to come out of the National Crime Agency’s Operation Stovewood inquiry into historical sexual abuse in Rotherham.
Senior investigating Officer Paul Williamson said: “Our investigations are complex and challenging, but I am sure today’s conviction will give other victims the confidence to know they will be listened to, and the individuals who exploited them in the worst imaginable way will be brought to justice.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-43007655
Rotherham grooming survivor awarded £425k after suing rapist
27 March 2023
A rapist convicted as part of the Rotherham grooming scandal has been ordered to pay £425,000 in damages to his victim by the High Court.
The grooming survivor, who is known as Liz, started civil proceedings against Asghar Bostan in 2020.
Bostan was jailed for nine years in 2018 following a trial at Sheffield Crown Court.
Liz said she was “proud” to have brought the case and hoped it would show survivors could get justice.
She said she was approached to take the action as a test case.
“I decided to go with it, not having my hopes up, but we managed to get a result,” she said.
Her solicitor Robin Tilbrook described it as an “ice-breaker” of a case, which would allow “others to follow”.
During Bostan’s trial in 2018, Liz recounted being raped twice by him at a flat in Rotherham after being given alcohol and drugs.
His prosecution followed the National Crime Agency’s Operation Stovewood inquiry into historical sexual abuse in Rotherham.
Liz said despite his conviction she did not believe the judicial process worked for abuse survivors.
“We’ve been walking around for years and years full of trauma and psychological damage,” she said.
She said they had faced a constant battle, but hoped her legal action would show that survivors could come forward and get justice.
“I wanted to give something back not only to myself, but to other survivors and do something not only for Rotherham but for all the UK,” she said.
Referring to the damages of £425,934.09 she was awarded, she said it had not “sunk in” yet.
‘Never heal the past’
“I am really, really pleased for the outcome and really, really pleased this might open the floodgates for other survivors.
“It will never heal the past, we will always walk in these shoes, but it is about closing a chapter.”
Mr Tilbrook said the key question for bringing action was that the defendant had been convicted, in this case of two counts of rape.
“The damage is endured for the life of the victim therefore the amount of damages are always likely to be very large.”
He said his client had been “very brave” and was a “great example to all the other victims”.
Liz said: “I am proud this is what I have done and this could help so many people.”
Bostan was released from prison in 2022, and the Probation Service said sex offenders faced some of the “strictest licence conditions”, adding: “If an offender breaches their conditions we will not hesitate to return them to prison to protect the public.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-65090793