NCA Hunts Two Pakistani-Origin Rapists After They Fled Bail Before Sentencing
Two men found guilty of raping a Rotherham girl ran away while on bail, and police believe one is hiding in Pakistan.
LONDON – (Special Corrspondent/Web Desk) – NCA hunts two Pakistani men who ran away from Britain before a court could sentence them for raping a young girl in Rotherham. The National Crime Agency has now asked the public for help to find them.
Kamir Ifzal Khan and Mudasar Hussain, both 37, were sentenced on Friday at Sheffield Crown Court. They were not there. Both had fled while on bail, before their trial began.
Khan was given 25 years in prison. Hussain was given 23 years. A third man, Ghazanfar Hussain, 42, is Mudasar’s brother. He was in court and received 10 years. In total, the three men were sentenced to 58 years.
Investigators say Khan flew to Qatar on September 22. They believe he then travelled on to Pakistan. Nobody knows where Mudasar is. He had handed in his passport while on bail, so police think he may have left the country illegally.
The crimes took place between 2008 and 2010. The victim was only 13 to 15 years old at the time. The court heard she was groomed, controlled and abused by the men, who took advantage of her weakness.
Judge Sarah Wright said the girl was cleverly and cruelly groomed and then faced a long campaign of rape. She praised the victim for her great courage in speaking about what happened. She said the two men who ran away showed the opposite.
The judge also noted that Khan has other convictions for sexual crimes against an 11-year-old girl.
The case was part of Operation Stovewood, a large NCA investigation that began in 2014. It looks into child sexual abuse in Rotherham. So far, the team has found about 1,150 possible victims and won 60 convictions against 55 people.
NCA is asking anyone with news about the two fugitives to come forward and help bring them to justice.
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