ABERDEEN MAN SENTENCED FOR CHILD SEXUAL ASSAULT AND EXPOSURE
An Aberdeen man was behind bars last night after being convicted of sexually assaulting a little girl and exposing himself to two other schoolgirls in the city.Allahbaksh Nadaf had been on trial at Aberdeen Sheriff Court facing three child sex charges.The 30-year-old had strenuously denied the allegations and claimed he had been mistaken for someone else.But yesterday, a jury of 10 women and five men took just one hour to find him guilty of all three charges.During the trial, the court heard Nadaf had handed himself into the police station after the media released CCTV footage of him at the Castlegate, following one of the attacks.But he claimed he had only been in the area by coincidence and just happened to match the description of the flasher.During evidence, he told the jury he had walked along Flourmill Lane on November 24 last year, shortly before a man had exposed himself to an eight-year-old girl.But he denied he was the culprit and said he had not seen the girl.He also denied inappropriately touching a 12-year-old girl on November 25, 2014, and exposing himself to a 10-year-old girl on January 15 this year – when he would have been on bail.It emerged Nadaf had been picked out of a police parade by the three children as someone they thought looked like the man who had attacked them.Nadaf’s wife, Ruma, also gave evidence during the trial and said she would have left her husband if she believed he was guilty.The former social worker and child protection officer said she supported her husband and did not believe he was guilty of “any crimes”.Under cross-examination from fiscal depute David Bernard, she admitted she would be devastated if she thought her husband was guilty.
