Sick cousins jailed for 58yrs over 1990s grooming gang rapes

Paedophile cousins who groomed and raped vulnerable teens in brutal 1990s campaign finally caged for 58 years – victims brand predators ‘scum of the earth’ in explosive court showdown.

Two paedophile cousins have been jailed for a combined 58 years after a court convicted them of orchestrating a campaign of rape against five vulnerable teenage girls in the late 1990s.

At Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court, Manzorr Hussain, 54, of Manchester Road, Bury, was sentenced to 30 years’ imprisonment for seven counts of rape and seven counts of indecent assault.

His cousin, Imtiaz Ali, 53, of Ainsworth Road, Radcliffe, received 28 years for five counts of rape, five counts of indecent assault and one count of attempted indecent assault.

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The two men, who ran market stalls in Bury, systematically targeted girls aged 13 to 16, luring them with alcohol, drugs, lifts and places to stay before subjecting them to repeated sexual violations across houses, cars, vans, a hotel, a car dealership and locations in Greater Manchester and Wales.

Prosecutor Anna Pope described how the defendants exploited the girls’ troubled backgrounds, fostering a false sense of indebtedness that paved the way for non-consensual acts.

In one incident, both men confined a girl in the back of a car, forcing her to perform sexual acts on each in turn.

On another occasion, Hussain drove a 14 or 15-year-old victim to a Bury flat containing only a dirty mattress, where he had arranged for six strangers to enter the room one by one to rape and assault her.

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Another girl faced threats of being abandoned naked on the moors above Bury if she refused to comply.

The court heard that Hussain’s older brother, Ghulam Hussain, 64, formerly of Manchester Road, Bury, acted as the central figure, abusing girls before passing them to his brother and cousin.

Charged with multiple sexual offences, Ghulam Hussain fled the country before trial and is believed to be in Pakistan.