Below is a Press Release from West Yorkshire Police. It concerns the end of a recent series of trials involving Islamic Rape Gang members. The sentences that have been handed down by the Crown Court are ones that are welcomed by me but that satisfaction at the sentences are tempered by the knowledge that these savages will not serve the entirety of their terms. It’s likely that they will serve at best only two thirds of their sentences before they will be considered for early release.

From West Yorkshire Police – Wednesday 6 November 2024 

Twenty men have been jailed for more than 219 years combined after being found guilty of raping and abusing young girls. Through a series of individual investigations and trials, the men were found to have sexually abused and exploited four girls between the ages of 12 and 16 in Calderdale.

Since the first report in 2016, detectives in Calderdale have conducted multiple extremely complex and sensitive investigations into a number of separate allegations of sexual abuse of children in the Calderdale area between 2001 and 2010.  

Due to court restrictions being put in place at an early stage to safeguard legal proceedings, we have so far been unable to share the outcomes of these investigations. The restrictions have now been lifted, allowing us to share details of three investigations where proceedings are no longer active.  

In 2016 an investigation was launched into allegations of child sexual abuse and exploitation of two girls in the Calderdale area between 2006 and 2009 when the girls were aged between 13 and 16.  

Trial One – commenced October 2021 at Bradford Crown Court  

• Shahzad Nowaz, 45, of Halifax, found guilty of rape and making threats to kill, sentenced to a total of 11 years.  
• Nadeem Nassir, 44, of Halifax, found guilty of rape and making threats to kill, sentenced to a total of 11 years. 
• Sajid Adalat, 48, of Halifax, found guilty of rape, sentenced to a total of seven years.  
• Sohail Zaffer, 41, of Halifax, pled guilty to rape and supply of a class C drug, sentenced to a total of 42 months.  
• Shazad Nazir, 49, of Halifax, found guilty of rape, sentenced to a total of 11 years.  

Trial Two – commenced January 2022 Bradford Crown Court  

• Nadeem Adalat, 39, of Halifax, found guilty of rape, sentenced to 14 years. He appealed the sentence, increased to a total of 16 years.  
• Asad Mahmood, 38, of Halifax, found guilty of rape, sentenced to a total of 13 years.  
• Mohammed Rizwan Iqbal, 39, of Halifax, found guilty of rape, sentenced to a total of nine years.  
• Vaseem Adalat, 38, of Halifax, found guilty of rape, sentenced to 12 years, following an appeal was increased to a total of 14 years and 6 months.  

In 2016 an investigation was launched following reports of repeated sexual abuse of a vulnerable young girl between 2002 and 2006, starting when she was 13 years old.  

Trial One – commenced August 2022 Bradford Crown Court  

• Amir Shaban, 48, of Halifax, was found guilty of rape, sentenced to 10 years.  

Trial Two – commenced October 2022 at Bradford Crown Court  

• Malik Quadeer, 67, of Halifax, found guilty of five counts of rape, sentenced to 22 years.  
• Mohammed Ziarab, 55, of Halifax, found guilty of rape, sentenced to 10 years.    
• Imran Raja Yasin, 45, of Halifax, found guilty of rape, sentenced to 10 years.
• Kamran Amin, 48, of Halifax, found guilty of rape, sentenced to 10 years.    
• Mohammed Akhtar, 54, of Halifax, found guilty of rape, sentenced to 11 years. Mr Akhtar died while serving his sentence.  
• Saquab Hussain, 46, of Halifax, found guilty of rape, sentenced to seven years and 6 months.  

Trial Three – commenced January 2024 at Bradford Crown Court  

• Haroon Sadiq, 40, of Halifax, found guilty of two counts of rape, sentenced to 10 years.  
• Shafiq Ali Rafiq, 44, of Dewsbury, found guilty of two counts of rape, sentenced to 12 years.  
• Sarfraz Rabnawaz, 39, of Bradford, found guilty of two counts of rape, sentenced to 9 years.  

In 2018 an investigation was launched into the sexual abuse of a girl in the Calderdale area between 2001 and 2002. She was aged between 12 and 13 at the time of offending.  

Trial December 2023 at Bradford Crown Court  

• Craig Mitchell, 55 of Halifax, found guilty of rape, sentenced to 12 years.  

Senior Investigating Officer, Detective Chief Inspector Claire Smith of Calderdale District Police, said:  

“Firstly, I want to acknowledge the sheer courage of the victims and survivors in each of these investigations; not only for having the bravery to come forward initially but also for enduring the criminal justice system and the weight of criminal trials and reporting restrictions in place.

“Due to legal restrictions, it has not been possible to publicise these outcomes until now. I welcome the sentences handed to these offenders for the abhorrent abuse these young girls were subjected to, which was heard by the jurors in each trial over the last few years.  

“Tackling child sexual exploitation and abuse is a top priority for West Yorkshire Police and our partners. This is an abhorrent crime which has a lifelong impact on victims and survivors. I hope highlighting the prosecution of these offenders will serve as a reminder that we will continue to do all we can to put perpetrators behind bars and protect victims and survivors.    

“It’s never too late to report child sexual abuse. I encourage anyone who was abused as a child to speak to someone and seek support. Reports of non-recent abuse are handled by officers who are specially trained in supporting victims and survivors and dealing with such sensitive cases.”  

This case has been under investigation for approximately eight years since 2016 and is likely to have been an extremely complex investigation for the police officers and traumatic for the victims of these savages who have had to relive their experiences at the hands of these monsters in court. This is but one case amongst many of this type of crime and although these sentences and convictions are welcome this case is but the tip of a very large and nasty iceberg. Islamic Rape and Grooming Gangs are still operating and although some forces have got better at dealing with them this is not a problem that has ended and police are still having to deal with Islamic Rape Gangs that are either currently operating or cases regarding those that are based on allegations of historical abuse. The backlog of historical cases that the police have to deal with must be absolutely enormous as in many cases police are only now working on cases that should have been tackled decades ago but were ignored or downplayed for reasons of ‘community cohesion’ and political correctness.

I’m pleased to see that West Yorkshire Police have acted on this most recent case to complete its journey through the courts but maybe the problems that Britain has with Islamic Rape Gangs might not have been as horrifically bad as they are had the police intervened years ago when complaints about these rapey savages were first lodged with the police but ignored by all too many forces for too long.