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.”

But you'll get the naysayers from the South of England. All wokism etc.
Don't talk about what you don't know.

Surely you’re aware that this has been going on all over the country for decades and that men of all races are involved? In the 80s and 90s, men used to wait outside foster homes and children’s homes on the south coast and the girls would just walk out to them and get driven away. It’s a difficult problem to manage, which is by no means saying that it should not be managed.

Wrong quote, HoppityBun? (I said it's been going on for decades, then you asked if I'm aware it's been going on for decades).

I don't believe it is difficult to manage, because the whole situation was enabled by the very system that was supposed to protect them. All the people within the system had to do was follow procedure, but they chose not to, because the perpetrators were Pakistani muslims. In no other situation would a health care professional remove broken glass from a 12 year old's vagina and not file a report. Children with a damaged anus, kept in cages, injected with heroine - not reported. The NHS staff, the police, social services and teachers all have safeguarding training as part of their job, yet everybody looked the other way, or in some cases even helped their rapists to continue the torture. Every single person that was aware, yet did nothing, should be held responsible for what happened to those children.

So the only white person involved was a woman?

Yes but the sheer scale, reach and huge numbers of these particular Pakistani men, from one particular area of Pakistan, one clan, in massive disproportion to their population level, is completely unprecidented compared to other groups.
It is very organised and kept tightly controlled by first cousin marriages. Men from the home villages (often close relatives) are married to girls born here and are brought over. This keeps the culture embedded and controlled.
Incidentally, serious genetic, inherited disabilities are increased and perpetuated by the repeated first cousin marriages down the generations. They might as well be sibling marriages. There is a special unit in Bradford devoted to researching and managing these awful conditions. The children need a lot of medical and social care. Imagine being a little boy watching your older brothers losing their sight, their ability to speak and walk, knowing that the same is going to happen to you.
However, the government thinks this is perfectly ok because it is cultural.