Grooming gang GUILTY of sexually assaulting two teens in Rochdale after plying them with booze in 5yr reign of terror
Girls were preyed on from age of 13 and made 'sex slaves'
SICK FIENDS Grooming gang GUILTY of sexually assaulting two teens in Rochdale after plying them with booze in 5yr reign of terror
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A GROOMING gang have been found guilty of sexually assaulting two teen girls in Rochdale in a five-year reign of terror.
The seven men "passed" the victims around for sex and preyed on them in squalid flats and car parks in the town.
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Mohammed Zahid has been convicted of sexual abuse in Rochdale
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They groomed the girls from the age of 13 and made them their "sex slaves" by plying them with gifts, including alcohol and drugs.
The victims both had "deeply troubled home lives", which meant they were easy prey for the fiends.
During a five year horror ordeal, the girls were expected to have sex "whenever and wherever" the defendants and other men wanted.
As well as flats and car parks, the predators abused the teens on rancid mattresses, in cars, alleyways and disused warehouses.
Mohammed Zahid, 64, Kasir Bashir, 50, Mushtaq Ahmed, 66, Roheez Khan, 39, Mohammed Shahzad, 43, Nisar Hussain, 43, and Naheem Akram, 48, were today convicted.
Three of the abusers, Zahid, Ahmed and Bashir were born in Pakistan and worked as stallholders on Rochdale's indoor market.
Father-of-three Zahid - known as Boss Man - gave free underwear from his lingerie stall to both victims.
He was previously jailed for five years after he engaged in sexual activity in 2006 with a 15-year-old girl who he met when she visited his stall to buy tights for school.
Bashir did not attend the current trial after he absconded while on bail before the trial got under way.
It can also be reported that Shahzad, Akram and Hussain were remanded in custody with their bail revoked in January before the jury was sworn in.
Police received intelligence that the three Rochdale-born taxi drivers were planning to leave the UK and had already paid a deposit for their transport.
While Pakistani-born Khan was one of five men convicted of sexually exploiting a "profoundly vulnerable" 15-year-old girl in 2008 and 2009.
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Kasir Bashir was among the men convicted today
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Mushtaq Ahmed worked on a market stall
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