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Rotherham's favourite son and one of Nawaz's London besties is back in the news.

An upcoming episode of BBC Newsnight will show Lord Nazir Ahmed of the House of Lords has been accused of exploiting his position to pursue sex with vulnerable women who asked him for help, Newsnight reveals.

This is the same guy who was jailed for dangerous driving. In the 2007 accident Ahmed hit and killed a man while behind the Wheel of his Jaguar and admitted to be texting while driving. He later blamed the jail term on a Jewish conspiracy and was then kicked out of the Labour party. After this he has been blamed for discreetly supporting the Tories during regional elections (Baroness Warsi).

His other achievements include:

- Backing Nestle during the baby milk poisoning scandal in Pakistan, after negotiating a paid advisory role with the company.

- Offering a bounty for Bush and Blair

- Claiming Malala Yousafzai bus attack was a conspiracy to discredit the Taliban etc... etc

In the most recent case, one woman said Lord Nazir Ahmed of Rotherham "took advantage" and began a sexual relationship with her after she approached him for assistance. Her case has raised questions about the adequacy of the House of Lords Code of Conduct. Lord Ahmed, 61, denies acting inappropriately.

In a second case, a woman who wishes to remain anonymous told Newsnight she had also asked Lord Ahmed for help and claims he suggested she should spend the night at his London home.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47245797
 
Did you read the link you posted?

''But in a statement to Newsnight, Ms Scott-Moncrieff, said: "Though credible and substantial, the complaint provided insufficient evidence that contact with the member was in relation to his parliamentary duties... To conclude otherwise, as Lord Carlile has done, is to misunderstand the code."

''But after reviewing her complaint twice, the commissioner said she was unable to investigate.

Ms Scott-Moncrieff concluded the code could not have been broken because when Lord Ahmed offered to help her and write to the police, it was not part of his parliamentary work.

She wrote to Ms Zaman: "The behaviour you describe in your email could amount to a breach of personal honour. However, the code only applies in relation to a peer's parliamentary work, and, from your email, it looks as if your initial contact with him was not to do with his parliamentary work."

She asked him for a favor, that wasn't a part of his job description. He did that favor and THEN asked her out, she went out with him and slept with him, which she admits was consensual.

Women making mockery out of claiming harassment everytime when things go sour.
 
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Times paper reporting that Lord Ahmed (61) is charged with attempted rape x 2 and indecent assault x1 on a girl and a boy under 13. The alleged offences are said to have taken place in Rotherham during the 1970s when Lord Ahmed was aged between 14 and 17.</p>— Mark Williams-Thomas (@mwilliamsthomas) <a href="https://twitter.com/mwilliamsthomas/status/1101366924523524097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 1, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
This guy is either innocent with lots of enemies or a predator. Going by the no smoke theory, I’ll go with the latter.
 
This will give fuel to the far right with their Islamophobia unfortunately but wouldn't be surprised if it was true given the reputation of the number of such cases uncovered in his hometown of Rotherham.

Truth be told Mirpuris here have given Brit Pakistanis a bad name. I'm glad most of them are in Birmingham and Bradford and distant from where I'm based.
 
This will give fuel to the far right with their Islamophobia unfortunately but wouldn't be surprised if it was true given the reputation of the number of such cases uncovered in his hometown of Rotherham.

Truth be told Mirpuris here have given Brit Pakistanis a bad name. I'm glad most of them are in Birmingham and Bradford and distant from where I'm based.

What an ignorant comment. My ancestral roots are from the Mirpur region and my family are not involved in such scandals.

Rather than generalising the term Mirpuri (many Punjabi’s have also been involved in grooming), how about simply condemn the allegation and incidents?

As much as you have an apparent dislike of Mirpuris, some of the most successful British based Pakistanis are from that region including MPs, judges, acpo ranked police officers, chief executives of huge charities, entrepreneurs etc etc. I’m privileged to know or be related to many of them. Our very own PCB Managing director Wasim Khan is from the Mirpur region and raised in the bad and dark streets of Small Heath, Birmingham!

This is a small town problem yes but not a Mirpuri problem exclusively as you have negated to mention that 95% are decent hard working individuals.
 
What an ignorant comment. My ancestral roots are from the Mirpur region and my family are not involved in such scandals.

Rather than generalising the term Mirpuri (many Punjabi’s have also been involved in grooming), how about simply condemn the allegation and incidents?

As much as you have an apparent dislike of Mirpuris, some of the most successful British based Pakistanis are from that region including MPs, judges, acpo ranked police officers, chief executives of huge charities, entrepreneurs etc etc. I’m privileged to know or be related to many of them. Our very own PCB Managing director Wasim Khan is from the Mirpur region and raised in the bad and dark streets of Small Heath, Birmingham!

This is a small town problem yes but not a Mirpuri problem exclusively as you have negated to mention that 95% are decent hard working individuals.

The truth hurts but anyway did I claim most Mirpuris are bad?

You claim "many" Punjabis have been involved in grooming however nearly all of these incidents have happened in the Midlands and up North where you find Pakistanis who are vastly of Mirpuri origin, so the only ignorance I see is from you.

I would suggest rather than living in denial, actually acknowledge the problems with Mirpuri Pakistanis in the UK, so we can stop all the grooming and other crimes going on from this particular Pakistani community in the UK once and for all.

My roots are from Gujranwala and from my experience I have found those from Punjab to be a lot more successful, better educated and overall more civilised. I have plenty of Mirpuri friends who themselves acknowledge the problems that lie within their community, which says it all really.
 
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Words fail me. Pakistan has just had an incredible win all in all in a battle and Pakistanis are tarnished beyond measure in UK. This is remarkable
 
The truth hurts but anyway did I claim most Mirpuris are bad?

You claim "many" Punjabis have been involved in grooming however nearly all of these incidents have happened in the Midlands and up North where you find Pakistanis who are vastly of Mirpuri origin, so the only ignorance I see is from you.

I would suggest rather than living in denial, actually acknowledge the problems with Mirpuri Pakistanis in the UK, so we can stop all the grooming and other crimes going on from this particular Pakistani community in the UK once and for all.

My roots are from Gujranwala and from my experience I have found those from Punjab to be a lot more successful, better educated and overall more civilised. I have plenty of Mirpuri friends who themselves acknowledge the problems that lie within their community, which says it all really.

This is not about denial but about respect of a community that you have been derogatory towards by blaming them and being glad they live in northern towns. This is no different to white people calling all Muslims terrorists due to a small minority - offence will be taken.

I acknowledge the problem just like I acknowledge that child paedophilia is rife amongst white elderly celebrities.

As for ‘we stopping the problem’, please go ahead as it isn’t me and nor can I fix the sickos.

Finally I appreciate that you’re from gujranwala and I am pleased that you are from a successful community too. I don’t believe in marginalising. I even like bengalis.
 
This will give fuel to the far right with their Islamophobia unfortunately but wouldn't be surprised if it was true given the reputation of the number of such cases uncovered in his hometown of Rotherham.

Truth be told Mirpuris here have given Brit Pakistanis a bad name. I'm glad most of them are in Birmingham and Bradford and distant from where I'm based.

Where you're based Pakistani's are the biggest scroungers and make the underclass of England

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As for grooming there's been plenty of cases in London, Oxford, Aylesbury

Huddersfield most Pakistani's there claim there from Lyal's City

As for giving a bad name don't even get me started on Terrorist's or Honour killings they are a Punjabi speciality along with asylum seeking.
 
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This case is from the 70's which seems to be the era when quite a few celebrities have been accused of abusing minors, although apparently Ali was 16 and the girl involved was 14. This sort of thing wasn't that unusual back then however shocking it might seem now. Although to be honest it's not that unusual even in recent history in the more deprived areas. It's Lord Ali's position and Pakistani heritage which makes this case more disturbing.
 
This case is from the 70's which seems to be the era when quite a few celebrities have been accused of abusing minors, although apparently Ali was 16 and the girl involved was 14. This sort of thing wasn't that unusual back then however shocking it might seem now. Although to be honest it's not that unusual even in recent history in the more deprived areas. It's Lord Ali's position and Pakistani heritage which makes this case more disturbing.

I don't the full facts about the allegations but if all 16yr old were charged with sex with u16, we would literally have 100,000's of people in jail.
 
Where you're based Pakistani's are the biggest scroungers and make the underclass of England

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As for grooming there's been plenty of cases in London, Oxford, Aylesbury

Huddersfield most Pakistani's there claim there from Lyal's City

As for giving a bad name don't even get me started on Terrorist's or Honour killings they are a Punjabi speciality along with asylum seeking.

Struggling to analyse a simple bar chart I see - because on a intellectual and academical level your inferences here are just woeful in all honesty. The fact that you have generalised Pakistanis in London with an accumulated stat of Pakistanis and Bangladeshis is comical. In my field if you came up with this level of insight and were working for me, I promise you would be shown the door there and then without a reference.

The vasty majority of Pakistanis working in the city I'm acquainted with (and including myself) are merely thriving as a matter of fact, so much for your "biggest scroungers" comments which really applies to those who left school in the 90s (and more distant past) with little to no qualifications and those exploited immigrants.

There are grooming cases down South but note areas like Oxford, Aylesbury and Luton are Mirpuri majority. We can live in denial but no matter how much we deflect the vast proportion of these cases are further up North.

The last sentence are just words from the triggered poster you are, so I won't go any further...
 
The poster topspin clearly has disparaging views of the entire Mirpuri community. He or she is still failing to acknowledge that whilst there maybe infamous Mirpuri origin sexual offenders (just like there are Punjabi ones from Jhelum, Gujjar Khan etc), there are also many famous Mirpuris that I referred to in my first post who contribute massively to British society.

Topspin also feels his Gujranwala community are a successful community and those in southern cities (I presume London) are thriving. I do not dispute this and all people I have interacted from Gujranwala have been throughly nice people except for this rude poster.

I also know many guys (and girls in fact) who are successful bankers and other professionals in London and guess what? They are of Mirpuri origin and some are from northern towns such as Bradford.

My message to topspin is that you clearly do not lack intellect but perhaps consider learning some humility and stop posting hatred towards a whole community for the actions of a select few. By all means condemn the sexual offenders but I’m sure you’re intelligent to realise that comments such as ‘you’re glad they are far away in northern towns’ will cause offence.

For the record, I am a Home Counties grammar educated graduate who owns / operates an audit size turnover organisation, recruiting just shy of 500 staff. I am also of Mirpuri origin and I am not a sexual offender or consider myself jahil. I also will not judge all Gujranwala people on being rude based on interacting with you.
 
The poster topspin clearly has disparaging views of the entire Mirpuri community. He or she is still failing to acknowledge that whilst there maybe infamous Mirpuri origin sexual offenders (just like there are Punjabi ones from Jhelum, Gujjar Khan etc), there are also many famous Mirpuris that I referred to in my first post who contribute massively to British society.

Topspin also feels his Gujranwala community are a successful community and those in southern cities (I presume London) are thriving. I do not dispute this and all people I have interacted from Gujranwala have been throughly nice people except for this rude poster.

I also know many guys (and girls in fact) who are successful bankers and other professionals in London and guess what? They are of Mirpuri origin and some are from northern towns such as Bradford.

My message to topspin is that you clearly do not lack intellect but perhaps consider learning some humility and stop posting hatred towards a whole community for the actions of a select few. By all means condemn the sexual offenders but I’m sure you’re intelligent to realise that comments such as ‘you’re glad they are far away in northern towns’ will cause offence.

For the record, I am a Home Counties grammar educated graduate who owns / operates an audit size turnover organisation, recruiting just shy of 500 staff. I am also of Mirpuri origin and I am not a sexual offender or consider myself jahil. I also will not judge all Gujranwala people on being rude based on interacting with you.

Agree with you mate. There are good and bad in every community. Keep up the good work 👍🏼
 
Struggling to analyse a simple bar chart I see - because on a intellectual and academical level your inferences here are just woeful in all honesty. The fact that you have generalised Pakistanis in London with an accumulated stat of Pakistanis and Bangladeshis is comical. In my field if you came up with this level of insight and were working for me, I promise you would be shown the door there and then without a reference.

The vasty majority of Pakistanis working in the city I'm acquainted with (and including myself) are merely thriving as a matter of fact, so much for your "biggest scroungers" comments which really applies to those who left school in the 90s (and more distant past) with little to no qualifications and those exploited immigrants.

There are grooming cases down South but note areas like Oxford, Aylesbury and Luton are Mirpuri majority. We can live in denial but no matter how much we deflect the vast proportion of these cases are further up North.

The last sentence are just words from the triggered poster you are, so I won't go any further...

First of all those stats are from the The UK's largest independent producer of official statistics and the recognised national statistical institute of the UK.


Low pay rates vary substantially among ethnic groups. The low pay rate for Bangladeshi and Pakistani employees, at 46%, is more than double the rate for White British employees at 19%. Those from Other ethnic groups and Black/African/ Caribbean/Black British have the next highest rates of low pay, at 37% and 35% respectively.

Those of Pakistani or Bangladeshi ethnicity had the highest unemployment rate in 2016 at 46%

Punjabi's make not only the underclass of England also Scotland

Look at Southall according to Sikhs it's been ruined by Lahories and Afghan Sikh asylum seekers.

Since your so educated why don't you enlighten me if 46% of mostly Punjabi's don't work and 46% earn less then the living wage then how many mostly Punjabi's actually earn more than the living wage?

https://www.trustforlondon.org.uk/data/worklessness-ethnicity/

In Luton most are from Kotli and Poonch I've been there many a time.
Aylesbury groomers were Punjabi Sikh and Pakistani and also Pathan based on translators

Oxford ones had same family names as Sikh Dogar

As for London

Police believe they have exposed a new grooming gang in London as officers warn widespread abuse is taking place across the country.

Four girls between the age of 13 and 15 have reported being raped by a group based around a McDonald’s in Stratford, triggering a crackdown that has so far identified at least 30 potential victims.

Detectives believe the number will grow as they appeal for others to come forward, after arresting three boys and three men in Stratford.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...abuse-girls-uk-newham-stratford-a8099346.html


Five men groomed and raped young girls while running a child prostitution ring, a court heard today.

They are accused of preying on “vulnerable” girls, befriending them and offering them alcohol and drugs, before carrying out sexual assaults on them. Some were repeatedly raped while others were either bought or sold for sex while underage, jurors were told.

The men, all Asian, are facing a total of 17 charges relating to offences carried out on six teenagers over a 12-month period in Ilford and Barking.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...abuse-girls-uk-newham-stratford-a8099346.html

Just because there are reporting restrictions in place in the Poverty capital of England doesn't mean it is not occurring there.
 
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Since your so educated why don't you enlighten me if 46% of mostly Punjabi's don't work and 46% earn less then the living wage then how many mostly Punjabi's actually earn more than the living wage?

Housing benefits are obviously not included as income
 
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The poster topspin clearly has disparaging views of the entire Mirpuri community. He or she is still failing to acknowledge that whilst there maybe infamous Mirpuri origin sexual offenders (just like there are Punjabi ones from Jhelum, Gujjar Khan etc), there are also many famous Mirpuris that I referred to in my first post who contribute massively to British society.

Topspin also feels his Gujranwala community are a successful community and those in southern cities (I presume London) are thriving. I do not dispute this and all people I have interacted from Gujranwala have been throughly nice people except for this rude poster.

I also know many guys (and girls in fact) who are successful bankers and other professionals in London and guess what? They are of Mirpuri origin and some are from northern towns such as Bradford.

My message to topspin is that you clearly do not lack intellect but perhaps consider learning some humility and stop posting hatred towards a whole community for the actions of a select few. By all means condemn the sexual offenders but I’m sure you’re intelligent to realise that comments such as ‘you’re glad they are far away in northern towns’ will cause offence.

For the record, I am a Home Counties grammar educated graduate who owns / operates an audit size turnover organisation, recruiting just shy of 500 staff. I am also of Mirpuri origin and I am not a sexual offender or consider myself jahil. I also will not judge all Gujranwala people on being rude based on interacting with you.

Well said.
 
This case is from the 70's which seems to be the era when quite a few celebrities have been accused of abusing minors, although apparently Ali was 16 and the girl involved was 14. This sort of thing wasn't that unusual back then however shocking it might seem now. Although to be honest it's not that unusual even in recent history in the more deprived areas. It's Lord Ali's position and Pakistani heritage which makes this case more disturbing.

That a boy is involved is even more disturbing. But we have habif of slandering our own but being objective,,
This is a witch-hunt. Anybody who ever had sexual relations - Muslim morals being magnified to nth degree,we are angels ? - is being sourced from woodwork.
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Lord Ahmed of Rotherham to face trial on child sex charges <a href="https://t.co/1Vq7Qs5bG3">https://t.co/1Vq7Qs5bG3</a></p>— BBC Yorkshire (@BBCLookNorth) <a href="https://twitter.com/BBCLookNorth/status/1118622050149642240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 17, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
lol just the name sounds funny to me Lord Ahmed. Ruining such a beautiful name. Hope if this is true he should spend some good time in the prison showers.
 
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The whole thing could also be a set up by the women who may be were trying to blackmail him for money.

Innocent until proven guilty!
 
The whole thing could also be a set up by the women who may be were trying to blackmail him for money.

Innocent until proven guilty!

Looking at the dates, and the fact that his brothers are in the dock too it sounds like this is a case of intra-familial child sexual abuse.

But of course you’re right he’s still innocent until proven otherwise - however there must be a certain level of evidence for the CPS to take it to trial.
 
He’s left the House of Lords now too - he jumped before he was pushed as he was likely to be expelled.


<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Lord Nazir announces retirement from UK's House of Lords <a href="https://t.co/4QAM3aqtP0">https://t.co/4QAM3aqtP0</a></p>— Lord Nazir Ahmed (@nazir_lord) <a href="https://twitter.com/nazir_lord/status/1328394386250608652?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 16, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>


<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Resignation of Lord Ahmed from House of Lords masks the fact that House of Lords were going to expel him for gross misconduct <br>I can reveal that I was a witness in these proceedings and that the outcome was absolutely right<br>Accountability starts at the top <a href="https://t.co/R8tCezxo5w">https://t.co/R8tCezxo5w</a></p>— nazir afzal (@nazirafzal) <a href="https://twitter.com/nazirafzal/status/1328666516854890498?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 17, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
LONDON: A day after British Pakistani Lord Nazir Ahmed tweeted that he has stepped down from his role in the UK House of Lords after 20 years of service, a report published by the Upper House revealed that a conduct committee recommended he be expelled after an inquiry into sexual misconduct.

The decision marks the first time a peer has ever been recommended for expulsion.

“Lord Ahmed breached the Code of Conduct by failing to act on his personal honour in the discharge of his parliamentary activities by agreeing to use his position as a member of the House to help a member of the public but then; sexually assaulting the complainant, lying to the complainant about his intentions to help her with a complaint to the Metropolitan Police regarding exploitation by a faith healer, exploiting the complainant emotionally and sexually despite knowing she was vulnerable,” read the preamble to the report published on Tuesday.

House of Lords inquiry recommends his expulsion for misconduct and dishonesty

The report added: “...the Commissioner found that Lord Ahmed knew that he was dealing with a vulnerable person, who was undergoing treatment for anxiety and depression and who had already made clear that she did not want a sexual relationship. He nonetheless misleadingly induced her to visit him at his house under the pretext of offering to assist her as a member of the House of Lords…”

UK media reports suggest 43-year-old Tahira Zaman approached Lord Nazir three years ago in the hope that he would help her in getting the police to investigate a Muslim healer who she thought was a danger to women.

Ms Zaman told BBC that Lord Nazir repeatedly asked her for dinner and she finally agreed.

Weeks after she contacted him about the case, he asked her to come to his east London home. The two had a consensual sexual relationship. However, she said: “I was looking for help and he took advantage of me. He abused his power.”

Lord Nazir hails from Azad Kashmir and was made a life peer on the recommendation of Prime Minister Tony Blair in 1998. Currently living in Rotherham, he sat in the House until he retired this week.

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Many of his political activities relate to advocating for the Muslim community both in the UK and abroad. In his Twitter bio, he describes himself as “a campaigner for Kashmiris” and the “first Muslim member appointed to the House for life”. He resigned from the Labour party in 2013.

He came to Pakistan to meet Prime Minister Imran Khan after his victory in the 2018 general elections. The two discussed how to improve Pakistan’s relations globally.

In the inquiry report, the head of the committee found “that, while Lord Ahmed was taking no steps to help Ms Zaman for the majority of their interactions, he allowed and encouraged her to believe that he was”.

The commissioner added: “[On] important issues Lord Ahmed persistently gave deliberately inaccurate and misleading accounts to conceal his behaviour towards Ms Zaman … I consider that in conducting himself in this manner he has failed genuinely to cooperate with my investigation. He has failed to act on his personal honour, as evidenced.”

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Although Lord Nazir admitted to having a brief relationship with the complainant, “he did not accept that any of the potential breaches of the Code of Conduct had taken place”, the report said.

In a statement last year, he told BBC: “I completely deny the allegation that I have exploited my position to pursue an inappropriate relationship with any member of the public (vulnerable or otherwise) or that I have acted inappropriately in the presence of women either in my personal or professional capacity.”

Child abuse trial pending

In a separate case, the former Labour peer Lord Nazir and two of his brothers in 2019 were charged with historical sexual offences against minors. He has pleaded not guilty to all counts.

Lord Nazir was charged with serious sexual assault against a boy under the age of 11 and the indecent assault of the same boy; two counts of attempting to rape a girl who was under the age of 16. All charges relate to dates between 1971 and 1974.

His brother Mohamed Farouq was charged with four counts of indecent assault against a boy. One of these counts relates to when the boy was under eight, in the late 1960s. His other brother Mohammed Tariq was charged with two counts of indecent assault against a boy under 11.

The trial was set to commence in January this year but has been postponed to resume in January 2021 because of Covid-19 restrictions on jury trials.

Published in Dawn, November 18th, 2020
 
Ex-Labour peer Lord Ahmed, 63, 'raped boy who was also abused by his brothers' and 'tried to rape girl' while a teenager in Rotherham in the 1970s, court hears
Lord Nazir Ahmed is accused of two counts of attempting to rape girl under 16
He is also accused of indecent assault against a boy and rape of a boy under 16
He is on trial with brothers, Mohammed Tariq, 65, and Mohamed Farouq, 70
Farouq accused of four indecent assaults against boy, Tariq is charged with two
Charges against three siblings relate to two alleged victims in 1960s and 1970s

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...rs-sexually-abused-boy-1970s-trial-hears.html
 
Messed up if true, should be sent to the gallows if guilty. That said I'm always skeptical of the the UK's conservative dominated media, they ran a smear campaign against Corbyn so I'm not a fan of them.
 
Messed up if true, should be sent to the gallows if guilty. That said I'm always skeptical of the the UK's conservative dominated media, they ran a smear campaign against Corbyn so I'm not a fan of them.

It could very well be that. This sounds eerily similar to the "rape" cases against Julian Assange. He may have ****** someone off higher ups. But they need to be investigated to the fullest and jail for him if found guilty.
While the british police is investigating him, they should also look into Prince Andrew and his escapades with under age girls courtesy Epstein.
 
It could very well be that. This sounds eerily similar to the "rape" cases against Julian Assange. He may have ****** someone off higher ups. But they need to be investigated to the fullest and jail for him if found guilty.
While the british police is investigating him, they should also look into Prince Andrew and his escapades with under age girls courtesy Epstein.

Exactly Prince Andrew, Murdoch, John major, jimmy savile all get a pass cause I guess they're "sons of the soil"; The British government doesn't even do anything about the large numbers of middle aged white British men who travel to Asia to exploit underage girls, like it's literally one of the most stereotype of that demographic traveling to Asia.
 
A former Labour peer has been found guilty of sexual offences against two children in the 1970s.

Lord Ahmed of Rotherham was convicted of a serious sexual assault against a boy and the attempted rape of a young girl.

Sheffield Crown Court heard the repeated sexual abuse happened in Rotherham when he was a teenager.

The 64-year-old, who appeared under his real name of Nazir Ahmed, had denied the charges.

During trial, prosecutor Tom Little QC told the court Lord Ahmed had attempted to rape the girl in the early 1970s, when the defendant was aged 16 or 17 but she was much younger.

The attack on the boy, who was aged under 11 at the time, also happened during the same period.

Mr Little said Lord Ahmed claimed the allegations were a "malicious fiction" but a phone recording of a 2016 conversation between the two victims showed they were not "made-up or concocted".

The woman's call was prompted by an email from the male victim saying: "I have evidence against that paedophile," the jury previously heard.

Lord Ahmed was charged along with his two older brothers, Mohammed Farouq, 71, and Mohammed Tariq, 65, but both were deemed unfit to stand trial.

Both had faced charges of indecent assault against the same boy abused by Lord Ahmed.

Though the men did not face a criminal trial, jurors concluded that they did commit the alleged acts after hearing evidence in the case.

Lord Ahmed, who was convicted following a retrial, resigned from the House of Lords in November 2020 after a conduct committee report concluded he had sexually and emotionally exploited a vulnerable woman who sought his help.

The inquiry into his behaviour followed a BBC Newsnight investigation.

The report made him the first peer to be recommended for expulsion but he resigned before this could be implemented.

Rosemary Ainslie, head of the Crown Prosecution Service's special crime division, said: "By these verdicts the jury has clearly decided that no matter the delay between the offences and the trial, and the defences raised, they could be sure that the accounts of the victims were credible and true.

"One of these defendants held a position of power, influence and responsibility for some time in the House of Lords but this case clearly illustrates that where there is sufficient evidence, even in challenging cases, the CPS will bring a prosecution, put evidence before a jury and see rightful convictions."

The judge, Mr Justice Lavender, bailed Lord Ahmed to appear at the same court for sentencing on 4 February.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-59607283
 
The former Labour peer Nazir Ahmed has been jailed for five years and six months after being convicted of sexual offences against two children in the 1970s.

The 64-year-old, who quit the House of Lords but retains the title Lord Ahmed of Rotherham, was found guilty at Sheffield crown court in January of serious sexual assault against a boy aged 11 at the time, and twice attempting to rape a girl, when he was a teenager.

On Friday, Mr Justice Lavender told Ahmed: “Your actions have had profound and lifelong effects on the girl and the boy, who have lived with what you did to them for between 46 and 53 years.

“Their statements express more eloquently than I ever could how your actions have affected their lives in so many different and damaging ways.”

The survivor of the attempted rapes read her own victim personal statement in court, saying: “An overwhelming feeling of shame remained with me throughout my childhood and early adult years.

“It was a burden I was made to carry, and it silenced me for many years. It is now time for me to pass that burden to him – the paedophile who I know feels no personal shame.”

Ahmed’s two older brothers, Mohammed Farouq, 71, and Mohammed Tariq, 66, were also charged with indecent assault in relation to the same boy abused by Ahmed. Both men were deemed unfit to stand trial, but a jury found that they carried out the acts alleged.

Farouq and Tariq were both given absolute discharges after the judge said the only other two options – a hospital order or a supervision order – would not be appropriate in this case.

A victim personal statement from the male complainant read in court said being sexually abused by the three men had “affected me on a daily basis” and left him unable to show affection to his own children.

He said: “I buried the abuse and carried it with me on my own for years and years. I feel shame because of what these men did to me. This is not about revenge, this is about justice.”

In mitigation, Imran Khan QC said Ahmed had devoted his life to public service and that his “fall from grace” had been “in the full glare of publicity” including a campaign for him to be stripped of his title.

The judge said that according to legal guidelines, the sentence must be in line with what would have been imposed at the time the offence was committed.

He jailed Ahmed for three-and-a-half years for the offence of buggery, and imposed two concurrent sentences of two years for each of the attempted rapes. Buggery was the legal term for the specific sexual assault at the time of the offences.

Lavender also adjourned the case for six weeks to determine whether Ahmed could pay prosecution costs.

During the trial, the prosecutor Tom Little QC said Ahmed claimed the allegations were a “malicious fiction” but a recording of a 2016 phone conversation between the two victims showed they were not “made up or concocted”.

Appointed a life peer by Tony Blair, Ahmed resigned from the Labour party in 2013.

He then resigned from the House of Lords in November 2020 after a conduct committee report found he sexually assaulted a vulnerable woman who sought his help.

The report made him the first peer to be recommended for expulsion, but he resigned before this could be implemented.

The male victim, known as Mr B to protect his anonymity, told BBC Newsnight on Thursday that Ahmed should be stripped of his title, which can be done only by an act of parliament.

“That title is bestowed upon people that have got some honour, some dignity, and he’s got none of that,” he said. “I’m demanding the government take that peerage away from him.”

The House of Lords confirmed that, as the title is created by letters patent from the Queen, it has no power to remove it and legislation would therefore be needed to strip Ahmed of it.

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