TWENTY PEOPLE JAILED FOR SEXUAL ABUSE COMMITTED DECADES AGO
A total of twenty individuals have been sentenced to a cumulative 277 years in prison following a significant investigation into sexual abuse allegations involving young girls in Kirklees.
During the sentencing phase, it was revealed that most of the offenses occurred in Dewsbury and Batley, involving three girls.
One of these victims was only 12 years old when the abuse first started, with the crimes spanning from 1995 to 2003.
The legal proceedings commenced at Leeds Crown Court in July 2023, featuring six separate trials.
The final trial concluded in September 2024, with the sentencing of the last defendant scheduled for 2025.
Shafiq Siddique, aged 56, from Dewsbury, sentenced to 11 years for an offence of rape.
This is a probabilistic continent or country-group signal from public name datasets. It is not proof of nationality, ethnicity or personal background.
Likely region signal
Asia
Continent
from Saudi Arabia
- based on first and surname
42.6%
confidence
First-name region
Asia
Saudi Arabia
42.1%
Surname region
Asia
Saudi Arabia
43.0%
Court Outcome
Conviction and Sentencing Details
Verified Charge
Detected legal outcome
non-recent child sexual exploitation (CSE) in West Yorkshire. The 39 men and three women, most from Kirklees, have been charged with a variety of offences. The alleged offences are said to have been committed against six girls between 19...
