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Seven men charged in Bristol grooming gang case

🔴 Seven men face more than 40 charges of child sexual exploitation following a Crown Prosecution Service authorisation in a major Bristol investigation. The defendants, aged 19 to 26, appeared at Bristol Magistrates’ Court this morning after re-arrests in a targeted operation on Tuesday. Charges...

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Bénédict Tarot Freeman

13 November 2025 at 10:00Updated 1 April 2026 at 01:203 min read

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🔴 Seven men face more than 40 charges of child sexual exploitation following a Crown Prosecution Service authorisation in a major Bristol investigation.

The defendants, aged 19 to 26, appeared at Bristol Magistrates’ Court this morning after re-arrests in a targeted operation on Tuesday.

Charges span alleged offences between 2022 and 2025 against 11 victims aged in their mid to late teens.

🔴 Mohamed Arafe, 19,

of Speedwell, Bristol, Syrian, self-defined ethnicity Arab, faces five counts of arranging or facilitating the sexual exploitation of a child, one count of causing or inciting the sexual exploitation of a child, one count of sexual assault, one count of being concerned in the supply of cocaine and one count of being concerned in the supply of ecstasy.

🔴 Sina Omari, 20,

of Fishponds, Bristol, Iranian, self-defined ethnicity Arab, is charged with two counts of rape, four counts of arranging or facilitating the sexual exploitation of a child, one count of causing or inciting the sexual exploitation of a child, two counts of making an indecent photograph of a child, one count of being concerned in the supply of cocaine and one count of being concerned in the supply of ecstasy.

🔴 Wadie Sharaf, 21,

Of Redland, Bristol, Syrian, self-defined ethnicity Arab, faces one count of rape, one count of attempted rape, three counts of sexual assault and one count of sexual activity with a child.

🔴 Hussain Bashar, 19,

Of Southmead, Bristol, British, self-defined ethnicity ‘Any other’, is charged with one count of rape.

🔴 Mohammed Kurdi, 21,

Of Henbury, Bristol, British, self-defined ethnicity Arab, faces two counts of rape, two counts of arranging or facilitating the sexual exploitation of a child, one count of supplying a class A drug (ecstasy) and one count of supplying a class B drug (cannabis).