A grinning Rochdale café proprietor who groomed and raped underage ladies, together with a 13-year-old who was sexually assaulted by a bunch of males, has been jailed.
Shameless Ajaz Ahmed, 56, used his café and residential as bases to inflict ‘horrific’ abuse towards underaged ladies in his hometown.
The ‘callous and prolific’ baby intercourse beast would ply his victims with alcohol and used gives of jobs and lodging in a twisted bid to exert management over them.
One among his victims was simply 13 when Ahmed focused her – earlier than she was gang raped by a bunch of paedophiles at a celebration at his flat in Drake Avenue.
One other of his victims was solely 15 when Ahmed raped her in entrance of a gang of males, who sickeningly laughed in the course of the schoolgirl’s nightmare ordeal.
They had been two of 5 individuals abused by the 56-year-old – who has now been jailed for 28 years after being convicted of 23 offences, together with rape and sexual assault.
Ahmed was uncovered following a probe by Larger Manchester Police (GMP) into historic sexual abuse in Rochdale.
Throughout his arrest, the bearded predator appeared to smirk as his custody image was taken by officers.
Ajaz Ahmed, 56, used his café and residential as bases to inflict ‘horrific’ abuse towards underaged ladies in his dwelling city.
GMP stated it was the approaching ahead of a courageous survivor which ‘opened up your entire case’ and helped detectives uncover the complete extent Ahmed’s abhorrent crimes.
The lady instructed officers within the mid-2010s she had been raped by a number of males at a celebration at a flat within the city. She was beneath 16 on the time. She was pushed round by officers and pinpointed a home in Drake Avenue as the situation of the assault.
Ahmed was recognized because the proprietor of the constructing. Following that revelation, one other lady stated she had been crushed, raped and sexually assaulted on ‘a number of events’ throughout a ‘coercive and controlling relationship’.
Ahmed is alleged to have lied about his age, and claimed to be 27. The abuse spanned a number of years, GMP stated.
A pal of the primary sufferer stated she was sexually assaulted the primary time she met him, simply earlier than her sixteenth birthday
A 3rd lady got here ahead, telling police she met Ahmed at his café. He provided someplace to stay in alternate for work.
After a number of weeks, he sexually assaulted her within the kitchen. Ahmed took her to nightclubs and, one event, raped her within the basement of the Drake Avenue property.
He additionally threatened to kick her out and make her homeless if she tried to cease him, a courtroom heard.
One other sufferer, who was 15, was provided a room on the Drake Avenue home by Ahmed, who she knew as ‘AJ’. One evening he let himself in and raped her in entrance of a bunch of laughing males. He then started to repeatedly rape her.
The assaults befell as Ahmed’s cafe and in his flat in Drake Avenue (pictured)
A fifth sufferer who was 17 stated she was provided a spot to remain by Ahmed in return for sexual favours. When she declined, he sexually assaulted her.
Ahmed was discovered responsible of 10 counts of rape; seven counts of penetrative sexual exercise with a toddler; assaulting inflicting precise bodily-harm; non-penetrative sexual exercise with a toddler; two counts of assault by penetration; indecent picture of a kid; and possession of maximum pornography following a trial at Manchester’s Minshull Avenue Crown Courtroom in December.
He was yesterday sentenced on the similar courtroom the place a choose imposed a 28-year jail sentence.
In a press release issued following the listening to, Detective Constable Ann Cooper Poole, from GMP, stated: ‘It took only one courageous survivor to come back ahead, converse to our officers and element her abuse, and it opened up a whole case which resulted in us acquiring proof that Ahmed was a callous and prolific intercourse offender.
‘These ladies had their childhoods and teenage years tainted in probably the most abhorrent method, and so they skilled what nobody ought to ever expertise.
‘I wish to commend their bravery for coming ahead and chatting with us. They performed a significant function in reaching at this time’s final result; guaranteeing justice is reached and that this man is put behind bars, unable to trigger any additional hurt to the neighborhood.
‘Whatever the time handed because you had been affected by crimes of this nature, please come ahead and report it to us.
‘We’re right here to hearken to victims and provides them a voice when they’re prepared, and you’ll be supported by specialist companion companies all through the investigation and past, to provide the help it’s worthwhile to rebuild your lives.
‘I hope this case will give different survivors of sexual abuse the boldness to come back ahead. It’s by no means too late to hunt justice.’
