Rotherham
Police ignored Rotherham sex abuse victim when rapist told them: ‘She’s just sucking my c*** mate’
The court heard how cops left the victim in a car park next to a police station after they were fobbed off by her abuser
The unnamed victim was abused in a car park next to Rotherham Police Station. Prosecuting, Michelle Colborne QC told the court: “(The girl) performed oral sex on Bannaras Hussain. “When, shortly afterwards, a police car pulled up alongside them and asked what was going on, Bannaras Hussain shouted ‘she’s just sucking my c, mate.’
“The police car drove off.”
Today, three brothers were jailed for the systematic abuse of young girls in the Yorkshire town after they groomed, raped and abused 15 teenagers.
Arshid Hussain – the ringleader of the group – was jailed for 35 years.
His brothers Basharat Hussain, 39, and Bannaras Hussein, 36, got 25 years and 19 years respectively.
Bannaras Hussain has been jailed for 19 years
Their uncle, Qurban Ali, 53, was jailed for 10 years. Female accomplice Karen MacGregor, 58, was jailed for 13 years while Shelley Davis, 40, was given an 18 month suspended sentence.
Ms Colborne said Bannaras met one victim when she was 12 or 13 and she performed sex acts on him.
She told Sheffield Crown Court: “He was indifferent to whether she consented or not.
“When her brothers found out, they were furious with her and would physically assault her because she was involved sexually with an Asian man.”
Many of the victims of the brothers sat in the public gallery overlooking the packed courtroom as the sentencing hearing got under way.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/police-ignored-rotherham-sex-abuse-7448415
Has been released after serving a paltry 9 years!
Labour Council Rotherham 2016
Child sex abuse trial: Rotherham Labour councillor “arranged deal to help abuser escape arrest”
FORMER Rotherham Labour Council deputy leader Jahangir Akhtar was involved in a “no prosecution handover deal” for child sex abuse suspect Arshid Hussain, a court has been told.
FORMER Rotherham Labour Council deputy leader Jahangir Akhtar was involved in a “no prosecution handover deal” for child sex abuse suspect Arshid Hussain, a court has been told.
A complainant in the ongoing child sex abuse trial in Rotherham alleges the “deal” took place when she had gone missing from home with defendant Arshid Hussain when she was a teenager.
The girl, now a woman aged 30, was made pregnant by Hussain when she was 15.
Defending Arshid Hussain, Mr Stephen Uttley, asked the woman to talk more about the incident she had told police about in an interview involving “PC Ali and Jahangir Akhtar at a petrol station”.
Mr Uttley said: “In your first interview you were saying Mr Hussain was on the phone to PC Ali and dropped you off at petrol station, and there was quite a lot of people there including Mr Akhtar, do you stand by that.”
The woman answered: “Yes.”
Mr Uttley said this was a date in time when the girl was missing from home.
The woman said: “I remember a lot of police officers being there and Akhtar, and Ash got told to fetch me back and he wouldn’t get done.”
The woman said she could not remember if PC Ali had been at the petrol station as there had been a lot of officers in uniform, but remembers Hussain being in a phone box talking to him prior to it.
Mr Uttley said: “You say Mr Akhtar was there and you were taken home.
“The police have checked the pocket books of PC Ali and his colleagues, there does not appear to be any mention of that day.”
The woman answered: “I never said PC Ali were on shift, we just used to deal with him all the time.”
The woman said she always used to see PC Ali out and about.
She added: “He was always really nice, there were not many officers that were nice to me but he always were.”
Mr Uttley asked if she was “aware PC Ali was tragically killed earlier last year” and she replied: “Yes”.
Mr Uttley said this meant the court couldn’t hear from him on the matter, to which the woman replied: “I did my statements before that happened, so they could have had the chance to question him.”
The woman admitted she had never met Mr Akhtar before the alleged petrol station handover and only knew it was him “because Ash told me”.
The woman said the only other contact she had after that with Mr Akhtar was around 2006 or 2007 during a phone call when she was trying to find out where Ash was.
She said: “Akhtar asked how I were and said: ‘Do you know about Ash’s accident?’
“He said: ‘I will pass your message on, but I only see him at weddings and funerals’.
Hussain denies 29 offences, including rape and false imprisonment.
Rotherham 2019
One victim said: “The first thing to say is it’s not her fault what her dad did but she was fetched in after the scandal and I don’t get how the council and the charity didn’t recognise it posed a potential conflict of interest. We agree too
The daughter of ex-Rotherham Labour Council deputy leader Jahangir Akhtar who was implicated in the Rotherham child sex grooming scandal is helping to run a support service for victims, it has been revealed.
Norsheen Akhtar, aged 32, is head of child sexual exploitation at Rotherham Rise, with specific responsibility for supporting survivors of child sexual exploitation, the Times revealed yesterday.
Her father Jahangir Akhtar quit as Rotherham Borough Council deputy leader in 2013 after claims he facilitated the ‘handover’ of a child abuse victim to police from abuser Arshid Hussain in 2000.
His resignation followed claims he helped broker a deal with police involving a relative – gang ringleader Arshid ‘Mad Ash’ Hussain. – who was said to have agreed to hand a missing 14-year-old girl to officers at a petrol station after receiving an assurance that he would not be prosecuted.
wanted over handbag theft from house
Mr Akhtar was also later stripped of his taxi-driver licence after a ‘fit and proper person’ test was introduced by the council.
The 58-year-old then lost his seat on the council at elections in 2014.
Miss Akhtar joined Rise after his resignation, The Times reported.
She is now a member of its senior management team and responsible for its counselling service for survivors of child sexual exploitation (CSE).
In her role, she has full access confidential information on the charity’s database, including names and addresses of victims, the newspaper reported.
An independent inquiry led by Professor Alexis Jay found an estimated 1,400 Rotherham girls were targeted for sexual abuse by organised gangs of mostly British Pakistani men over 16 years.
One of Rotherham’s worst Pakistani rape gangs are related to the Akhtars.
Four brothers who were jailed for a total of 98 years in 2016 after being convicted of 53 child sex offences against 16 girls – Arshid, Basharat, Bannaras and Sageer Hussain – are related to the Akhtars.
Abuse victims helped by Rise voiced concern about the appointment.
“I’ve had to go somewhere completely different for my therapy and how are we supposed to have any faith in the authorities?”
There has been no suggestion that Ms Akhtar has in any way behaved inappropriately or unprofessionally.
Rotherham Rise chief executive Sue Wynne said: “All of our staff are bound by professional conduct codes to declare any personal connection to, or interest in any individual case. oh thats ok then now one has ever lied!
“They are also bound by a professional duty of confidentiality not to discuss cases or client details outside of work.”
Jon Stonehouse, director for children’s services at Rotherham Borough Council, said the ‘appointment, employment and management of individual members of staff within the contract is a matter for Rotherham Rise’.
9th Apr 2020 CHILDREN’S services boss Jon Stonehouse has retired from Rotherham Council because of ill health.
But he added: ‘However, in these circumstances we will be looking at the due diligence undertaken.’
Miss Akhtar nor her father could be reached for comment.
Rotherham Rise is now known as https: //hopian.org.uk