As the grooming-gangs continue their terrible organisation around the UK, those that avoided the Police
during the early days of 'assimilation', and worked their way up the social ladder are being investigated
retrospectively.
during the early days of 'assimilation', and worked their way up the social ladder are being investigated
retrospectively.
Quote:Lord Ahmed: Former peer guilty of child sex offencesBBC:
'A former Labour peer has been found guilty of sexual offences against two children in the 1970s.
Lord Ahmed of Rotherham was convicted of a serious sexual assault against a boy and the attempted
rape of a young girl.
Lord Ahmed.
Sheffield Crown Court heard the repeated sexual abuse happened in Rotherham when he was a teenager.
The 64-year-old, who appeared under his real name of Nazir Ahmed, had denied the charges.
During trial, prosecutor Tom Little QC told the court Lord Ahmed had attempted to rape the girl in the early
1970s, when the defendant was aged 16 or 17 but she was much younger.
The attack on the boy, who was aged under 11 at the time, also happened during the same period.
Mr Little said Lord Ahmed claimed the allegations were a "malicious fiction" but a phone recording of a 2016
conversation between the two victims showed they were not "made-up or concocted". The woman's call was
prompted by an email from the male victim saying: "I have evidence against that paedophile," the jury previously
heard.
Lord Ahmed was charged along with his two older brothers, Mohammed Farouq, 71, and Mohammed Tariq, 65,
but both were deemed unfit to stand trial. Both had faced charges of indecent assault against the same boy abused
by Lord Ahmed.
Though the men did not face a criminal trial, jurors concluded that they did commit the alleged acts after hearing
evidence in the case. Lord Ahmed, who was convicted following a retrial, resigned from the House of Lords in
November 2020 after a conduct committee report concluded he had sexually and emotionally exploited a vulnerable
woman who sought his help.
The inquiry into his behaviour followed a BBC Newsnight investigation.
The report made him the first peer to be recommended for expulsion but he resigned before this could be implemented.
Rosemary Ainslie, head of the Crown Prosecution Service's special crime division, said: "By these verdicts the jury has
clearly decided that no matter the delay between the offences and the trial, and the defences raised, they could be sure
that the accounts of the victims were credible and true.
"One of these defendants held a position of power, influence and responsibility for some time in the House of Lords but
this case clearly illustrates that where there is sufficient evidence, even in challenging cases, the CPS will bring a
prosecution, put evidence before a jury and see rightful convictions."
The judge, Mr Justice Lavender, bailed Lord Ahmed to appear at the same court for sentencing on 4 February...'
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