MOST PROMINENT ROCHDALE GROOMING GANG MEMBER JAILED
Kabeer Hassan, 25, of Lacrosse Avenue, Oldham, was convicted of rape and conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with a child.He was the youngest member of the gang and worked at the Balti House in Heywood – where he raped a girl.
The girl was handed to him as a ‘treat’, according to the prosecution.
In court, Hassan tried to paint himself as a shocked onlooker trying to cope with streams of abusive and drunken teenagers.
Some of them, he said, were ‘aggressive and racist’.
Some of the girls who visited the shop offered him sex for money, he told the court.
He claimed to have been shocked at the pornographic DVDs other staff put on the upstairs TV for the stream of visiting girls.
He also raped another girl, creeping into bed while she was sleeping.
He was jailed for 12 years after he was convicted of conspiracy, sexual activity with a child, rape, and trafficking.
Earlier in the trial the jury was ordered to find him not guilty of one rape charge.
Ahmed, who encouraged his victim to call him Daddy, told her: “Please don’t cry – I love you.” Ahmed, a former taxi driver, was described as the ‘ringleader’ of the nine-strong group found guilty of exploiting girls as young as 13 at Tasty Bites and another takeaway in Heywood from 2007.
Ahmed is serving a 22-year jail term.
