For up to a year they would groom their victims, give them alcohol and drugs and buy them presents to “make them feel special”. But once they had gained their trust, the abuse would start.
They took the girls out in cars and to hotels, guesthouses, empty houses, parks and woods where they raped them and charged other men to do the same. Men would even be invited from Bradford, Leeds, Slough and other parts of the country to come to Oxford – and charged to take their turn to rape the girls. Ringleaders of the Oxford grooming gang the Dogar brothers Akhtar and Anjum and their depraved followers Mohammed and Bassam Karrarr were convicted and jailed for
Bassam Karrar, 39, brother of Mohammed of Hundred Acres Close, Headington, Oxford, OX3 7, was found guilty of two counts of rape, one count of rape of a child, two counts of conspiracy to rape a child, two counts of child prostitution, one count of trafficking and one count of conspiracy to rape –will serve a minimum of 10 years