ROCHDALE GROOMING KINGPIN ABDUL AZIZ FACES DEPORTATION & 9 YEARS JAIL
Taxi driver Abdul Aziz, of Armstrong Hurst Close, Rochdale, was cleared of two counts of rape but was convicted of trafficking and conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with a child.Like some of his co-defendants, he opted to ‘affirm’ that he would tell the truth – rather than swear on the Koran in court.
He ferried the girls as far as Leeds and Bradford and was paid by the stream of men who used the girls for sex, getting £40 for each introduction.
Known as Master Aziz or Tariq, the married father-of-three, 41, kept a stash of condoms in his taxi.
He struck up a business relationship with the young girl that the crown said was part of the plot – she would find him new girls and he would take them to the sex parties.
He was jailed for nine years after he was convicted of trafficking and conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with a child.
He not only committed rape but ‘shared’ one of the victims with other men at sex parties across the north.
He was convicted of two counts of rape, one sex assault, trafficking, and conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with a child.
He led the early part of the grooming plot and raped the prosecution’s main witness as she sobbed.
Ahmed, who encouraged his victim to call him Daddy, told her: “Please don’t cry – I love you.” He bought her alcohol and ferried her to sex parties for other men in return for cash, telling her girls could have sex from the age of 11 ‘in my country’.
He admitted a year-long sexual relationship with another young girl.
He tried to dismiss the prosecution as ‘white lies’, even launching foul-mouthed tirades against the ‘racist’ judge and jury.
He even left one of the jurors in tears after appearing to leer at her.
In court, he dramatically removed his shirt and pulled out a handful of his own chest hair in a bizarre attempt to show the jury that he sheds so much hair he would have left some at the scene of his crime.
He is appealing against a decision to strip him of UK citizenship.
