Twelve men sentenced for sexual exploitation of Keighley teenager

• Top Row – The sexual predator Khalid Raja Mahmood, Dalton Lane Rape Zain Ali, Underground Carpark Rape Yasser Kabir, Underground Carpark Rape Bilal Ziarab The Feral Brothers
• 2nd row – Underground Carpark Rape Sufyan Ziarab The Feral Brothers, Dalton Lane Rape Faisal Khan,
• Centre – Bangladeshi Ringleader Child Rapist Ahamed Chowdhury
• 3rd Row – Underground Carpark Rape Tauqeer Hussain, Dalton Lane Rape Hussain Sardar
• 4th Row – The Taxi Driver Mohammed Akram, Dalton Lane Rape Nasir Khan, Dalton Lane Rape Saqib Younis, Burgess Fields Park Rape Israr Ali
• Were all jailed at Bradford Crown Court in 2016 apart from Chowdhury who absconded to Bangladesh

“She was only 13 or 14 when the 12 of you took such terrible and heartless sexual advantage of her.”

Judge Roger Thomas QC, sentencing, told the Asians:

In 2016 TWELVE mostly Pakistani and Bangladeshi men with Keighley Heritage where convicted of abusing the same little underaged white girl over different time events. The ringleader Ahamed Chowdhury escaped for now.

Below reads like a horror story with chapters like The sexual predator, The Underground Carpark, Dalton Lane, The Taxi Driver, but it is a real horror story that was lived by a little white girl abused by all the Asian sex gang members below….

At trial the jury heard her meetings with all the Asian men had been arranged by Bangladeshi drug dealer Ahamed Al Arif Chowdhury who was not on trial because after being arrested in 2015/16 the police didn’t think it would be a good idea to remove the passport of the ring leader of Keighley’s 1st arrested Asian sex gang so with out further ado he did a runner back to his country of heritage Bangladesh.

One defendant, 25-year-old Yasser Kabir, told the girl in front of her grandmother that she could “suck me off”. Kabir was jailed for 20 years for the rape of that girl, and the rape of two others, one aged between six and seven, and the other seven to nine, when he was 13 to 15.

Diversity is Our Strength

What sex offenders don’t know is that in the UK there is no time limits on historical sex crimes so maybe we’ll see if this little Bangladeshi turd floats back later.

• The Ringleader
• Ahamed Al Arif Chowdhury 26, of Victoria Avenue, Lawkholme, Keighley, BD21 3, West Yorkshire, disappeared to Bangladesh before he was due to face trial for exploiting a vulnerable 13-year-old girl in 2011. He was aged 15 when he 1st raped the girl in the grounds of a church.
• The Sexual Predator
• Khalid Raja Mahmood, 34, of no fixed address, was given a 17-year extended sentence for rape and sexual activity with a child
• The Underground carpark Rapists
• Tauqeer Hussain, 23, of Belgrave Road, Highfield, Keighley, BD21 2, was jailed for 18 years for rape
• Yasser Kabir, 25, also of Belgrave Road, Highfield, Keighley, BD21 2, was jailed for 20 years for rape, sexual assault and causing a child to engage in sexual activity
• Sufyan Ziarab, 23, of Kendal Mellor Court, Airedale Shopping Centre, Keighley, BD21 2 was sentenced to 15 years for rape
• Bilal Ziarab, 21, of Sedgwick Close, Manningham, Bradford, BD8 7 was jailed for 12 years for rape
• The Dalton Lane Rapists
• Khan Brothers
• Faisal Khan, 27, also of Buxton Street, Eastwood, Keighley, BD21 4 was jailed for 13 years for rape
• Nasir Khan, 24, of Buxton Street, Eastwood, Keighley, BD21 4 was jailed for 13 years for rape
• Saqib Younis, 29, of Bradford Street, Lawkholme, Keighley, BD21 3 was also jailed for 13 years for rape
• Hussain Sardar, 19, also of Bradford Street, Lawkholme, Keighley, BD21 3 was sentenced to six years in a young offenders’ institution for rape
• Zain Ali, 20, also of Buxton Street, Eastwood, Keighley, BD21 4 was sentenced to eight years in a young offenders’ institution for rape
• Burgess Fields Park Rapist
• Israr Ali, 19, of Devonshire Street W, New Town, Keighley, BD21 2 was sentenced to three-and-half years in a young offenders’ institution for rape
• The Taxi Driving Rapist
• Mohammed Akram, 63, of Holker Street, Showfield, Keighley, BD21 3 was jailed for five years for sexual activity with a child
• Rohail Iqbal, 22, of Skipton Road, Beechcliffe, Keighley,
• Rohail Hussain, 18, of Hawk Street, Lawkholme, Keighley
• and a 17-year-old youth, were all cleared of rape by the jury.

Asian Groomers Arrested Address Map

Tauqeer Hussain was also found guilty of raping a second girl in 2009.

The court also heard Khalid Raja Mahmood, who pleaded guilty to several charges at an earlier hearing, is currently serving an eight-year jail sentence for raping a woman in a park in Keighley and trying to abduct a 10-year-old girl that should stand out on his CV when he’s unfortunately released back into civilisation.

Yasser Kabir, who received the greatest jail term of 20 years was also sentenced for 12 sexual offences against two other young girls after being found guilty at a separate trial. Although Chowdhury was the ring leader Kabir is with out doubt the worst sex offender of this Asian bunch.

“”We must work together to rid ourselves of this cancer and we all have a part to play.”

Kris Hopkins, Conservative MP for Keighley and Ilkley

Twelve men have been sentenced to up to 20 years each after being found guilty of sexually exploiting a vulnerable girl in West Yorkshire when she was in her early teens.

The men, who include three sets of brothers, were mostly young, low-level criminals living in Keighley. But one was a taxi driver 46 years older than the girl, who had sex with her in his cab when he picked her up as a fare, and another a paedophile with a long history of sexual offending, whose nephew was in her class at school.

Ranging in age from 19 to 63, the men abused the girl at different places around the former mill town near Bradford. She was raped on the library steps, in an underground car park at an abandoned police station and in the rugby club changing rooms at Burgess Fields park. One afternoon in 2012 five of them lined up to rape her in daylight on Dalton Lane, near the town centre.

My Life the Victim

Many of the men behaved so badly in the dock that the judge admonished them regularly throughout the trial at Bradford crown court.

told them: “The attitudes that the majority of you have so clearly demonstrated to these proceedings have been contemptuous, disrespectful and arrogant on a scale that I have hardly seen before in many years of practice in criminal law. Exactly the same as your attitude to the 13- to 14-year-old girl who you all sexually abused and exploited for your own selfish gratification.”

Passing sentence on Monday, Mr Justice Thomas QC

Some of the men treated the case as a joke from start to finish. They grinned in the police mugshots taken after their arrests, messed around in the dock, and laughed and waved as they were sent to prison to begin their sentences.

They lied about knowing the girl, despite a number having sent her explicit Facebook messages demanding oral sex. The court heard how Asian men would shout at the white girl in the street, calling her “Randi”, the Urdu word for “slag”.

Bunch of Asian Child Raping Randi’s

After being arrested, Sufyan Ziarab, 23, who was one of four men to rape the girl in the underground car park, told detectives the girl was “a prostitute you don’t have to pay for”.

Chowdhury was not in court, having skipped bail and fled the country shortly after his arrest. The judge said he was “now beyond the jurisdiction of the court, living somewhere in the Asian subcontinent”. His friends, facing long prison sentences, complained to reporters outside court during the trial that he was “the bad one” and had run away to Bangladesh, leaving them to face the music.

In a victim impact statement read to the court, the girl said the rapes had left her paranoid and suffering from clinical depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Resentful that the abuse led to her being taken into care a long way from Keighley, she said she had no friends and saw herself as “a possession or inconvenience to everyone around me”.

The Victim

“My impression of what a normal relationship would entail is mixed up and warped.” Her life had been ruined, she said: “I always thought I would grow up and do my exams and go into nursing. This has become more of a fairy tale than the reality for me, which hurts.”

The Asian sex gang members were sentenced as follows:

The underground carpark defendants

1. Sufyan “Sufi” Ziarab, 23, from Keighley, was found guilty of two counts of rape at trial last year and sentenced to 15 years in jail. He has convictions for possession and intent to supply cannabis. His barrister said he had an “extremely low” IQ, lower than 98% of the population and “did not fully understand the consequences of his actions”. His limited intelligence was given as an excuse for him not giving evidence.

2. His brother Bilal “Brownie” Ziarab, 21, from Bradford, was also found guilty of two counts of rape, committed when he was 16. He was sentenced to 12 years. The victim said he was her most reluctant rapist, and may have been pressured into it. He has a previous conviction for sexual activity with a child after he received oral sex outside St Andrew’s Church in Keighley from a girl he knew was 14, when he was 16. He was given a rehabilitation order for that offence in 2010. His barrister said he was “effectively feral” and had been taking drugs since a young age, having left school at 14.

3. Tauqeer “Toki” Hussain, 23, from Keighley, was found guilty of two counts of rape with regard to the main victim and one count of rape in relation to a second underage victim. He was given a total sentence of 18 years. He raped both girls in the underground carpark. He has no previous convictions and was one of the few defendants to have had a job.

4. Yasser Kabir, 25, is Hussain’s half brother. He was found guilty of three counts of raping the main victim during last year’s trial. The jury was not told that he had been convicted last summer of 12 rapes and sexual offences against the two young girls when he was 13 to 15. He wrote to the judge after being convicted, expressing regret for what he had done to the main victim, but not the two young girls. He was given a total sentence of 20 years.

The Dalton Lane gang rape

5. Nasir “Khani” Khan, 24, from Keighley, was found guilty of one count of oral rape and given a 13-year sentence. He has 11 previous convictions for 21 offences, including two for indecent exposure. He also served a prison term for drug offences and assault. He laughed in the dock as his previous convictions were outlined. His barrister said he grew up without a father figure.

6. His brother Faisal Khan, 27, was found guilty of one count of rape and given a 13-year sentence. He received a four-year jail sentence in 2007 for robbery and in 2010 was convicted on drugs charges. In 2012 he was convicted for public disorder.

7. Saqib Younis, 29, is the Khans’ cousin. He was found guilty of one count of rape and also got 13 years’ jail. He has previous convictions for possession of firearms and public disorder.

8. Hussain Sardar, 19, from Keighley, was 14 when he took part in the Dalton Lane rape. He has been in trouble with the law for six years. In 2009 and 2010 he received referral orders for assault and handling stolen goods. He was convicted of one count of rape and sentenced to six years’ at 19 sent to a childs detention in a young offenders institution. Further charges for intent to supply class A drugs were ordered to lie on file.

9. Zain “Droopy” Ali, 20, from Keighley, was 16 or 17 when he raped the girl. He has previous convictions for shoplifting and public disorder. On Friday he pleaded not guilty to a further charge of witness intimidation, relating to a witness in the recent multi-rape trial. He was sentenced to eight years’ detention in a young offenders institution.

Burgess Fields park, Keighley

10. Israr “Sari” Ali, 19, from Keighley, raped the main victim in the changing rooms at the rugby club in Burgess Fields. He has a learning disability and an IQ of 50. His victim told police she thought he was her friend. He was given three and a half years in a young offender institution on account of his age and the fact he had not taken part in a gang rape.

The taxi driver

11.Mohammed Akram, 63, was found guilty of sexual activity with a child under the age of 16. The court heard his wife had died a few years before he had sex with the main victim in his cab when she was 14. His defence was that he thought she was over the age of consent. The judge sentenced him to five years in prison.

The sexual predator

12.Khalid Mahmood, 34, pleaded guilty on the day the trial was due to start to five counts of raping the main victim in the woods at Cliffe Castle Park in Keighley and various other public places. She was 13 or 14 at the time and he was around 30. He knew her age because she was in the same class as his nephew and he had seen her in her school uniform.

He would ply the girl with alcohol, cigarettes and marajuana before abusing her, the court heard on Friday. By the time the trial started last year, Mahmood was already serving an eight-year sentence for the rape of a 43-year-old woman in Cliffe Castle Park, as well as the attempted false imprisonment of a child he had tried to snatch off the street.

The father of three has a long history of sexual offending, having been first convicted of indecent assault in 1998, when he was 16, and spending time in a young offender institute the following year for a similar crime. He also has convictions for kerb crawling. Ruling him to be “dangerous” within the meaning of the Criminal Justice Act 2003, the judge gave Mahmood an extended sentence comprising a custodial term of 13 and a half years and an extended licence period of three and a half years and ordered to serve two-thirds of the custodial term in custody.

And lastly remember that little Bangladeshi turd? well he floated back to Britain and for once border force and the police actually pull their finger out because Chowdhury, now 28, was arrested after he arrived in the UK on a flight from Bangladesh in June 2022.

The ringleader of a Asian child sex abuse gang who fled the country as a teenager has been jailed after a decade on the run.

Ahamed Al Arif Chowdhury, 26, of Victoria Avenue, Lawkholme, Keighley, BD21 3 in West Yorkshire, disappeared before he was due to face trial for exploiting a vulnerable 13-year-old girl in 2011. He was aged 15 when he raped the girl in the grounds of a church so knew it was wrong but he still raped a 13 year old little white girl then made her have sex with nine other Asian men.

For being a ring leader of an Asian sex gang and skipping the country for 8 years this little turd has been jailed for a mere 8 years! lets hope every single second of that time is spent dropping the soap!

Twelve members of the Asian sex gang had already been given prison sentences totalling 140 years for being child rapists and other sexual offences after a trial in 2015.

Det Ch Sup Int Nicola Bryar, of West Yorkshire Police, said: “This has been a painstaking investigation, culminating in years of work and we are so pleased to see Chowdhury sentenced for these terrible crimes against a vulnerable young girl.

“I would like to praise the victim for her outstanding courage in coming forward and staying with this prosecution after so many years.”

She added that the victim “had to endure one trial a number of years ago and due to Chowdhury fleeing the country before he was charged, she has now had to endure another”.

Keighley abuse: Twelve men jailed for sexually exploiting girl – BBC News

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Chowdhury appeared at Bradford & Keighley Magistrates Court on Wednesday

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