Just to make sure you understand it hasn't stopped... and you won't find this in the major news streams.
Quote:More charges in long-running Operation Tendersea investigation into Huddersfield grooming gang.Examiner Live:
Operation Tendersea continues after 35 men have been jailed.
'New charges have been made in a long-running police investigation into child sexual exploitation in
Huddersfield after further women came forward with allegations. A number of men were charged and
appeared in court this summer in relation to fresh disclosures and are expected to go on trial at Leeds
Crown Court next year.
The investigation, called Operation Tendersea, was set up after a young woman told police in 2013
she had been sexually abused as a child.
It uncovered groups of men in Huddersfield - many of whom were known to each other - who exploited
vulnerable young women and girls as far back as 1995.
The first arrests were made in 2016, which was first reported by YorkshireLive.
Some of those arrested also lived in the likes of Slaithwaite, Dewsbury, Greater Manchester, Sheffield,
Birmingham, Shipley and Camden. This eventually led to separate trials, the first of which commenced
in January 2018 and the seventh of which concluded in March this year.
An eighth trial was due to begin in April this year, but has been postponed to September next year due
to the coronavirus pandemic.
(Left) Manzoor Akhtar, aka Manny, 31, was jailed for four-and-a-half years on April 22 after being found
guilty of raping a teenage girl.
(Right) Shaqeel Hussain, aka Shaq, 36, of Spen Valley Road, Dewsbury, was convicted of raping a girl,
14, and jailed for eight years in February 2020. He could not be named at the time.
He then pleaded guilty to an indecent assault on a girl, 16, and jailed for a further year in April 2020.
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In April this year, Manzoor Akhtar, of Blackmoorfoot Road, Crosland Moor, became the thirty-fifth member
of the gang to be convicted and jailed as a result of the investigation. The same day, Shaqeel Hussain,
of Spen Valley Road, Dewsbury, was handed a further one-year prison sentence after pleading guilty
to indecently assaulting a 16-year-old girl between 2004 and 2005.
The 36-year-old had been convicted of raping a 14-year-old girl after a trial in February and jailed for
eight years, but could not be named at the time. He was told he must serve the one-year prison sentence
consecutively to the eight-year term he was already serving.
Their sentences brought the total jail sentences resulting from the seven Operation Tendersea trials at
that point to an excess of 380 years.
It is thought that it is the largest group of men convicted as part of a grooming gang in the UK.
Speaking in April this year, Detective Chief Inspector Richard McNamara, of Kirklees District CID, said:
"A repeated feature of these cases has been the stunning bravery of the now young women who have
come forward to tell us about the abuse they suffered and then doing everything they can to support
the police and CPS in taking action against those who abused them.
"The courage of victims is helping us take dangerous predators such as Manzoor Akhtar and Shaqeel
Hussain off our streets, show them for what they are, and put them behind bars where they belong."
A spokesperson for West Yorkshire Police confirmed: "A third, smaller phase of Operation Tendersea
had been under investigation as a result of further victims having the confidence to come forward and
speak with police, which we anticipate will come to trial at some point next year."
The investigation is ongoing...'
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