Mark Langan, Crown Prosecution Service lawyer, said the girls were subjected to “appalling abuse” and targeted because they were “naïve and vulnerable”.
He said: “These men have been found guilty of a catalogue of vile sex offences against two young girls [who] were given alcohol and cannabis and intimidated into performing sexual acts.
Matloob Hussain, Mohammed Sadiq and brothers Basharat, Nasser and Tayab Dad, were convicted at Sheffield Crown Court.
The offences date back to the late 1990s and early 2000s, when the girls were given alcohol and cannabis and intimidated into performing sex acts.
Basharat Dad, 32, of Eldon Road, Rotherham – jailed for 20 years for six counts of rape, five counts of indecent assault, and one count of false imprisonment
The sentences are:
- Basharat Dad, 32, of Eldon Road, Eastwood, Rotherham, S65 1 – jailed for 20 years for six counts of rape, five counts of indecent assault, and one count of false imprisonment
- Nasser Dad, 36, of Cranworth Road, Eastwood, Rotherham, S65 1 – sentenced to 14 years and six months for one count of false imprisonment, one count of rape and one count of inciting gross indecency with a child. He was acquitted of one charge of rape and one charge of sexual intercourse with a girl under 13
- Tayab Dad, 34, of Saint Lawrence Road, Tinsley, Sheffield, S9 1 – jailed for 10 years for one count of rape
- Mohammed Sadiq, 41, of Oxley Grove, Broom, Rotherham, S60 2 – sentenced to 13 years for one count of sexual intercourse with a girl under 13
- Matloob Hussain, 42, of Doncaster Road, Thrybergh, Rotherham, S65 3 – sentenced to 13 years for one count of sexual intercourse with a girl under 13
- Amjad Ali, 36, of Broad Lane, Hodthorpe, Worksop, S80 3 – jailed for 11 years after pleading guilty to sexual intercourse with a girl under 13.
Wonder if the Pakistani child rapist was grinning when he learned another one of his victims has shown up
Three men charged with raping two teenage girls
20 January 2025
Three men have appeared in court charged with rape and other offences following an investigation into the abuse of two teenage girls in Rotherham.
Basharat Dad, 40, Nasser Dad, 44, and Reza Tavakoli, 54, were arrested as part of the National Crime Agency’s (NCA) Operation Stovewood, which is investigating child sexual exploitation in the South Yorkshire town between 1997 and 2013.
The alleged offences are said to have taken place between March 2004 and December 2009 and involved two female victims who were aged between 13 and 16 at the time.
All three men appeared at Sheffield Magistrates’ Court on Monday.
Basharat Dad, formerly of Rotherham, is charged with 13 counts of rape, four offences of trafficking within the UK for sexual exploitation, and one offence of false imprisonment.
Nasser Dad, also formerly of Rotherham, is charged with two counts of rape.
Reza Tavakoli, of Upperthorpe, Sheffield, is charged with one offence of rape and one of false imprisonment.
Basharat Dad and Nasser Dad were remanded in custody and Tavakoli was bailed, the NCA said.
They will appear at Sheffield Crown Court on 17 February.
Operation Stovewood was set up in the wake of the Jay Report, which found that at least 1,400 girls were abused by gangs of men of mainly Pakistani heritage in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013.
The NCA says Stovewood is the single largest law enforcement operation of its kind ever undertaken in the UK and has identified more than 1,100 children involved in the exploitation between 1997 and 2013 – almost all girls.