Details finally been released by Kirklees District Police on the sexual exploitation of young girls.

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Twenty people have been jailed for a total of 277 years in a major investigation into sexual abuse committed against young girls in Kirklees.

The offences were committed largely in Dewsbury and Batley against three girls, one of whom was just 12 at the time offending against her began, and took place between 1995 and 2003.

Proceedings began at Leeds Crown Court in July 2023, with six separate trials taking place. The last of those concluded in September 2024 with sentencing of the final suspect taking place in 2025.

To safeguard the fairness and integrity of the court process, reporting restrictions were imposed on the cases, and it has not been possible, until now, to name and release details of those sentenced.

Those convicted have received sentences as high as 28 years, with one man alone convicted of committing ten rape offences.

They are:

Ansar Mahmood Qayum, age 49, from Dewsbury, sentenced to 10 years for three offences of rape and two offences of indecent assault. This sentence was added to an existing 20 sentence imposed on Qayum at court in a separate trial in another case in 2022, making a total sentence of 30 years

Sajid Majid, aged 53, from Mirfield , sentenced to 28 years for five offences of rape and three offences of indecent assault.

Manaf Hussain, aged 51, from Heckmondwike, sentenced to 25 years for six offences of rape and an offence of supplying Class A drugs.

Tariq Azam, aged 57, from Dewsbury, sentenced to 24 years for five offences of rape and four offences of indecent assault.

Zulfiqar Ali, aged 47, from Dewsbury, sentenced to 22 years, six months for four offences of rape.

Aurrangzeb Azam, aged 56 , from Dewsbury, sentenced to 20 years for ten offences of rape and an offence of indecent assault.

Shakeel Haq, aged 58, from Birmingham, sentenced to 19 years for three offences of rape and an offence of false imprisonment.

Rafiq Patel , aged 73, from Batley was sentenced to 18 years for two offences of rape.

Zaheed Ali Novsarka, aged 58, from Batley, sentenced to 18 years for two offences of rape.

Mohammed Sheikh, aged 53, from Batley, sentenced to 14 years for two offences of rape and two offences of indecent assault

Mohammed Yasin, aged 52, from Batley, sentenced to 14 years for an offence of rape and two indecent assaults.

Liaquat Hussain Hanif, aged 49, from Batley, sentenced to 12 years, six months for two offences of rape and an offence of supplying Class A drugs.

Ebrahim Mananiat, aged 56, from Batley, sentenced to 12 years for two offences of rape.

Ibrahim Khalifa, aged 87, from Bradford, sentenced to 11 years for two offences of rape.

Shafiq Siddique, aged 56, from Dewsbury, sentenced to 11 years for an offence of rape.

Mohammed Munir Shaffi, aged 48 from Dewsbury, sentenced to nine years for two offences of rape.

Mohammed Ishtiaq Hussain, aged 51, from Dewsbury, sentenced to eight years for an offence of rape.

Abbas Kaji, aged 57, from Batley, sentenced to seven years for an offence of rape.

Donna Lynn, aged 45, from Cleckheaton, sentenced to three years for an offence of controlling prostitution.

Tasawar Hussain, aged 46, from Dewsbury, sentenced to three years for an offence of rape.

Two other men were found by a court to have committed the acts they were charged with but were judged as unfit to enter pleas.

DCI Rob Stevens of Kirklees District Police said: “This has been a major investigation into truly appalling sexual abuse of vulnerable girls in Kirklees by a large number of sexual predators.

“Over an almost two year period, juries have heard some shocking revelations about the dreadful way victims were abused by those involved.

“They were repeatedly sexually assaulted, in some cases given Class A drugs, and very much treated as commodities for the gratification of heartless predators.

“The very significant jailed terms given to some of these men, such as the 28-year sentence for Sajid Majid or the 20 year sentence handed to Aurrangzeb Azam who was found guilty of 10 separate rapes, speak volumes about their depravity and the abuse meted out to victims in this case.

He added: “Again, it cannot be stressed more highly that the reason this dreadful offending came to light was the courage of victims who have come forward and reported the offending they were subjected to. Every possible effort is made at West Yorkshire Police to support victims of sexual abuse, but we realise how difficult making reports and then supporting prosecutions can be.

“These women showed enormous bravery in giving evidence in lengthy trials and I hope they can feel a sense of pride in the determination they have displayed to see justice done, and in seeing people who have no place in society being put behind bars.”

@EvangelicalAboutButteredToast , thank you for sharing. It is good that some are facing the consequences of their crimes. I sincerely hope that those who appear to have attempted to brush those crimes under the carpet also one day meet their justice.

Those poor women. The list of rapists just kept going. I cannot comprehend how these depraved people find one another and why nobody ever tried to help.

Good, now take action against all the people who enabled them.

Is there a link to a document with the above information? I would like to share it if so. TIA.

Thank you for the thread. It's horrific that the torture of British children has been enabled for decades for the sake of diversity. Unforgivable by all of the authorities involved.

Let me have a look.

www.westyorkshire.police.uk/news-appeals/twenty-people-jailed-sexual-abuse-committed-decades-ago-kirklees

It’s easier to do nothing, particularly when the girls were vulnerable and considered worthless by the authorities already.

Vulnerable children are being targeted by criminals every day. My children understand about County lines for example, but I would imagine they are in the minority.

Lots of those children disappear completely in the end and their own desperate families are not able to access any information on their whereabouts from the people paid to keep them safe.

Thank you.

Everybody knew what was going on. Many were afraid to speak out due to silencing, threats, fear.
Women in particular lost their jobs, were threatened and fearful. They were up against the police, local and national government, employers. Nothing changes.

Absolutely appalling.

It was (is?) a monstrous place to be a girl or woman. I have a friend that grew up in Batley. She was regularly approached by men in cars from the second she was in a secondary school uniform (pre-puberty). Her Mum reported it the first couple of times and was told there was nothing they could do because no crime had been committed. She was 'told off' by the police for making reference to the men being of Asian descent. It got worse when my friend hit puberty and could no longer go out alone. The police were fully aware of the atmosphere.

I've lived in several multicultural British cities and have never once had similar hassle from anyone but white men. There was something particular (and deeply rotten) about the culture in Dewsbury/Batley

@DoYouSellBuckets this used to happen to me growing up in Bradford.

These men are scum.

Those who enabled them are scum.

Rape and paedophilia is a huge problem. Among men of all colours and creeds.

So, forgive me if this is obvious- this is part of organised crime? There’s mention of drugs.
Are police waiting for evidence on bigger fish, meanwhile girls are raped? Or did they just not care? Why is a gang of this many men left to control the environment, making people afraid to report them and acting with impunity?

I think that's giving too much credence to the police in the areas this behaviour was allowed to continue. I haven't seen anything to suggest they cared about anyone but themselves.

I do remember cars driving around harrassing women and girls in the part of London I lived in about 15-20 years ago. It all stopped quite quickly after a lot of complaints from the public to the police, so some police did act, in some places, but not others, with devastating consequnces.

Yes, organised crime that has gone on for decades in plain sight. When local people, particularly women, raised concerns they were accused of being racist or prejudiced. The victims were blamed because most, but not all, were vulnerable white girls who were either in care or otherwise disadvantaged. Heroin is very much part of it. You must have read or heard about the grooming gangs?

Absolutely,
But I hadn’t wondered before about the drugs element, and I’m asking whether they were organised crime gangs who abused these girls as a sideline- perk, if you like, or whether the grooming ‘is’ the only organised crime they were involved in.

Basically, is this a gang of criminals who also abuse girls, or is it a gang of shitty men networking to abuse girls?

Because if the former, I can see the police considering the abuse of girls to be less important than the drug running (for example).

Are these
Organised Crime gangs laundering money, running drugs, brothels, protection rackets and abusing girls,
Men networking to abuse girls
or
Men pimping out girls they’ve groomed.

I’d always assumed the second, but am starting to wonder.

I think organised crime is being used to describe it was large scale and endemic as opposed to cartel led.

Cartel was the word I needed! Thank you, that’s what I was wondering.

It doesn’t make a difference to the families, but might have partially explained police attitudes.

This.

The subject of this thread goes way beyond rape and peadophilia. This is racism in its truest form, the British girls were targeted specifically due to their colour and religion, or lack of religion. The crimes committed against them are usually only evidenced during war, when enemies are deemed undeserving of any compassion. The girls were sexually tortured because they are British and white, and therefore considered by their rapists to be of lower value than insects.