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The Independent
6 minutes ago
- The Independent
Rotherham abuse prisoner found guilty of raping another teenager
A man who was jailed for 19 years in 2016 for subjecting a girl to a 'campaign of violent rape' in Rotherham has been found guilty of raping another vulnerable teenager in the town. Sageer Hussain, 39, was one of three men found guilty of rape at Sheffield Crown Court on Wednesday following a trial which heard how he targeted his victim 25 years ago, the National Crime Agency (NCA) confirmed. Hussain is already serving a lengthy sentence after he was jailed for 19 years in 2016 for raping a 13-year-old girl in the South Yorkshire town. He will be sentenced again in November after was found guilty on Wednesday of raping a girl alongside two other men – Kessur Ajaib and Mohammed Makhmood – who were convicted of raping a second teenager. The convictions are the latest to arise out of the NCA's Operation Stovewood, which is the huge investigation into child sexual exploitation in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013. A jury heard how the girl Hussain raped was about 14 at the time and is now in her 30s. Hussain, who was about the same age, led her down an alleyway in Rotherham town centre and said he would not let her back out unless she had sex with him. Prosecutors told the jury how Hussain raped her with two other people present, one female and one male. They said she cried throughout the ordeal as her exit was blocked. The second girl was also about 14 when Ajaib and Makhmood raped her, the court heard. Prosecutor Andrew Bailey told the jury how Ajaib was about 18 when he raped her in an alleyway. Mr Bailey said Makhmood, who was about 18 or 19 at the time, raped the same girl in an old graveyard in Rotherham as she fought against him. He said that he called her a 'slag' and a 'dirty b****' before spitting at her and laughing. Mr Bailey said she 'did not dare tell anyone'. The offending took place between 1999 and 2002, the court heard. Hussain is due to be sentenced again on November 7, the NCA confirmed. Ajaib and Makhmood are due to be sentenced on November 21. All three were remanded in custody by Judge Charles Thomas. NCA senior investigating officer Alan Hastings said: 'Ajaib, Hussain and Makhmood subjected two young girls to devastating acts of sexual abuse, the consequences of which the victims have lived with for almost 25 years. 'Those victims have now, at last, had their voices heard and their accounts believed. 'While this could never eradicate the suffering caused by their attackers, I hope it will pave the way for the women to move forward with their lives.' Liz Fell, specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service 's organised child sexual abuse unit, said: 'These men deliberately exploited the victims' youth and vulnerability to manipulate and control them. 'They sexually abused the victims, who were children, in the most horrendous way. 'The treatment these young girls endured was appalling – they were attacked in isolated locations and subjected to humiliation and verbal abuse.' The NCA says Operation Stovewood is the single largest law enforcement operation of its kind in the UK and has identified more than 1,100 children involved in the exploitation. The agency said 46 people have now been convicted. Ajaib, 43, of Walter Street, Rotherham, was found guilty of one count of rape and one of indecent assault. He was found not guilty of a further count of rape. Makhmood, 43, of Falding Street, Rotherham, was found guilty of one count of rape. Hussain, 39, formerly of Rotherham and currently a serving prisoner, was found guilty of one count of rape. He was acquitted of two counts of raping the girl who was raped by the other two defendants. Hussain was jailed in 2016 alongside seven other men by the same judge who had previously sentenced his brothers Arshid, Basharat and Bannaras to 35, 25, and 19 years in prison respectively. The judge in 2016 heard how Hussain's victim, who was abused by all eight of the co-defendants, had complained to police in 2003 but the inquiry was dropped, partly because she was so terrified of her abusers. Judge Sarah Wright told the eight men: 'She was targeted, sexualised and subjected to acts of a degrading and violent nature.'
BBC News
7 minutes ago
- BBC News
Bryan Kohberger gets four life sentences for murdering Idaho college students
Bryan Kohberger has been sentenced to four consecutive terms of life in prison after pleading guilty to the murders of four Idaho students in November 2022. The 30-year-old former criminology student appeared expressionless in his orange jumpsuit as he sat through hours of emotional statements from relatives of the victims he killed at a hearing on Wednesday. The case rocked the small college town of Moscow and captivated a national audience as almost two months passed before Kohberger was arrested."I'm unable to find anything redeemable about Mr Kohberger," Judge Steven Hippler said while handing down his sentence. "His actions have made him the worst of the worst." In the early morning hours of 13 November, Kohberger stabbed to death roommates Kaylee Goncalves, Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle and Madison Mogen in their off-campus home. Two other roommates were unharmed. Authorities worked for more than six weeks to catch him, using a DNA sample from a knife sheath he left at the scene of the crime as well as phone records and surveillance footage of his white car. Eventually, Kohberger - who officials say visited the students' Moscow residence several times before the murders - was arrested at his family home in Pennsylvania on 30 December. He also received a sentence of 10 years for burglary. On Wednesday, when asked by the judge if he wished to speak, he replied: "I respectfully decline." He had pleaded guilty in deal to avoid the death penalty. Relatives of the four university students spoke for over two hours at the hearing, sharing the trauma Kohberger had inflicted on their lives. The family members offered memories of their lost loved ones, describing the four students as bright and empathetic. Their descriptions left many in the court in tears, including the judge. Madison Mogen was someone who listened carefully to others, her step-father, Scott Laramie, told the court. "Karen and I are ordinary people, but we lived extraordinary lives because we had Maddy," he said of him and his Goncalves, the mother of Kaylee, told Kohberger he had stolen her peace. "You've altered my every waking moment," she said. Some took the chance to express their fury with Kohberger, including Kaylee Goncalves' sister, Alivea, who told the defendant to "sit up straight" while she talked to him. "You're a textbook case of insecurity. You are not profound, you're pathetic," she said. "You're going to go to hell," said Xana Kernodle's step father, Randy Davis. But one woman, an aunt of Kernodle, told Kohberger she forgave him, and that she wanted answers. "Any time you want to talk, I'm here for you," she said. The court also heard statements from two of the students' roommates who were sleeping in the house the night of the of the roommates, Dylan Mortensen, saw the assailant in a ski mask in the hallway as he was leaving. Sobbing as she spoke, Ms Mortensen told the court she had not been able to sleep since the murders, too afraid to close her eyes."People call me strong, they call me a survivor but don't see what my new reality looks like."He didn't just take their lives, he took the light they carried into every room," she said of her four friends. With Kohberger declining to speak, the three-hour long sentencing hearing did not provide the answers that some relatives and members of the public had long been hoping for. Many questions remain surrounding the case - including why Kohberger, a criminology doctorate student at Washington State University, would drive to another campus a state over to brutally stab four the sentence, investigators told the media despite using "every resource possible", they did not discover a single connection between Kohberger and his victims, or surviving roommates. There was no indication he followed them on social media, they Steven Hippler told the court on Wednesday he had those same questions himself, but they would likely never be answered. "There is no reason for these crimes that could approach anything resembling rationality," the judge said. He said it no longer made sense to be "dependent on the defendant" to give them a reason for his crimes."By continuing to focus on why, we continue to give Mr Kohberger relevance," he said. "It is time to end Mr Kohberger's 15 minutes of fame."
The Independent
36 minutes ago
- The Independent
Trump claims he could have made Bryan Kohberger admit to why he killed 4 students
The White House extended condolences to the families of the four University of Idaho students brutally murdered in November 2022. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stated that President Donald Trump would have compelled Bryan Kohberger to publicly explain his motive for the killings. Bryan Kohberger received four consecutive life sentences, plus an additional 10 years for burglary, without the possibility of parole. During his sentencing hearing, Kohberger declined the opportunity to address the court or provide a reason for the horrific murders. He had previously accepted a plea deal, admitting guilt to all four counts of first-degree murder and burglary, which removed the death penalty option and did not obligate him to disclose a motive.
