https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/31/five-men-jailed-sexually-abusing-two-girls-rochdale
Five men from Rochdale have been sentenced to between eight and 20 years in prison after being found guilty of grooming and abusing two girls between 2004 and 2006.
The longest sentence was given to the oldest defendant, Jahn Shahid Ghani, a 50-year-old care worker. He was at least 30 when he took advantage of the girls when they were 14 or 15. He would pick them up from school while they were still in uniform and ply them with drink and drugs before exploiting them.
He forced one of them, Girl A, to have group sex when she was 14 – once with a male colleague from work and also with his adult girlfriends, Minshull Street crown court in Manchester heard.
Girl A said she had thought she was “in love” with Ghani, and that he was “one of her best friends”. He in turn told the jury he believed she and her friend, the second complainant, Girl B, were 16. They were in separate consensual “friends with benefits”-type sexual relationships with him, he claimed.
It was at Ghani’s flat, above a butcher’s shop in Rochdale, that Girl A was passed around “like a piece of meat” between Ghani younger half-brother, Mohammed Faisal Ghani, and his friends. She said she was “trapped like a prisoner” in the flat and forced to have sex with numerous men on a stained single mattress with no sheets. The jury heard that Mohammed Ghani, a “sweet talker”, told her he would “love her even more” if she had sex with his friends.
Five men from Rochdale have been sentenced to between eight and 20 years in prison after being found guilty of grooming and abusing two girls between 2004 and 2006.
The longest sentence was given to the oldest defendant, Jahn Shahid Ghani, a 50-year-old care worker. He was at least 30 when he took advantage of the girls when they were 14 or 15. He would pick them up from school while they were still in uniform and ply them with drink and drugs before exploiting them.
He forced one of them, Girl A, to have group sex when she was 14 – once with a male colleague from work and also with his adult girlfriends, Minshull Street crown court in Manchester heard.
Girl A said she had thought she was “in love” with Ghani, and that he was “one of her best friends”. He in turn told the jury he believed she and her friend, the second complainant, Girl B, were 16. They were in separate consensual “friends with benefits”-type sexual relationships with him, he claimed.
It was at Ghani’s flat, above a butcher’s shop in Rochdale, that Girl A was passed around “like a piece of meat” between Ghani younger half-brother, Mohammed Faisal Ghani, and his friends. She said she was “trapped like a prisoner” in the flat and forced to have sex with numerous men on a stained single mattress with no sheets. The jury heard that Mohammed Ghani, a “sweet talker”, told her he would “love her even more” if she had sex with his friends.
