🔴 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.
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.
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.
Ali, who arrived in the UK from Pakistan in 1996, quickly became involved, hosting gatherings at his addresses where intoxicated girls were expected to provide sexual services.
The case emerged after one victim came forward, prompting police to contact the others.
Reading her statement from behind screens, one survivor recounted enduring three years of abuse from the age of 13, branding the perpetrators paedophiles, rapists and the lowest of the low, while asserting that any who ignored the crimes shared complicity.
Judge Bernadette Baxter told the defendants they had displayed no remorse or insight, characterising their conduct as sustained grooming, exploitation and a calculated campaign of rape.
Both men must serve two-thirds of their sentences before release considerations and will remain on the Sex Offenders Register for life.
Defence counsel for Hussain noted his clean record over the past two decades, his family role and poor health; Ali’s barrister urged the shortest possible term.
Following sentencing, Chief Inspector Ian Partington of Greater Manchester Police commended the victims’ testimony, describing the pair as sexual predators who deliberately targeted vulnerable girls and long believed they had evaded justice.
Claire Brinton of the Crown Prosecution Service stated the terms reflected the gravity of the offences, committed without a trace of contrition.
The convictions, secured after a four-week trial, demonstrate that historic child sexual abuse cases can still reach court and secure substantial punishment decades later.
