Teen tells how she was raped by three men she met at Exeter kebab shop

December 10, 2014, 8:21 am

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A teenaged girl has told a jury she feared she was going to be held prisoner in a house where she alleges she was raped by three men.

The woman told Exeter Crown Court she was left sore and bruised after being attacked by the three men in turn after being plied with drink and drugs.

She says she met the men at a kebab shop in the centre of Exeter and eventually taken to a house in Bonhay Road where she was held down and raped.

The men, Tomasz Lipinski, Zulkodar Ali and Gulum Choudhury, are all on trial for rape and the prosecution say they gave the 18-year-old girl vodka, skunk cannabis and lines of amphetamine during a series of parties.

The jury have been told the girl was with two friends when she was picked up at the Golden Horn in Fore Street, Exeter, at around 11 pm and went on to party at the two houses before ending up in Bonhay Road.

They say the girl was held down and raped first by Lipinski, then Ali in a spare room and was then taken to bed in another room by Choudhury, who put his hands around her neck and forced her to have sex.

Lipinski, aged 24, of North Lawn Court, Zulkodar Ali, aged 41, of Salters Road, and Gulum Choudhury, aged 39, all Exeter, all deny raping the girl in August 2012. They all say the girl agreed to sex.

The complainant, now aged 20, said the men seemed friendly when they met in the Golden Horn, where they said they had just come from working out at the gym.

She got into a black BMW with two female friends and was driven to a garage where the men bought vodka and Stella Artois and went on to obtain cannabis at amphetamines.

They all went back to one of the other girl’s room and partied until she fell asleep before moving on to her bedsit where they had more drink and drugs and the second girl passed out.

The girl said she then went back to Choudhury’s home in Bonhay Road in the car and was attacked by the men.

She said Lipinski and Ali left after raping her and she was left with Choudhury, who took her to his bedroom and forced her to have sex.

She said:”I told him to stop. I was crying. I ended up completely covered in bruises. He was putting things in my mind. He was being nice and saying he would take me out to lunch but then said ‘you work for us now’.

“They must have known I was not agreeing to it. The fact I was crying would have given it away enough. I was saying it was hurting and asking what was going on. They must have known I was in a complete state. They knew exactly what they were doing.

“They were being smart about, hoping I would just think it was because I was drunk but what sort of person in their right mind would have sex with three different men, whether they were drunk or not.

“They knew exactly what they were doing but they were trying it on but they were saying things like that I worked for them and that was not right.

“At the end I was sat on the bed waiting for the last one to go to sleep. I could see it was starting to get light. I thought if I did not get out I could be there for days. I just wanted to get out.

“I grabbed my phone from the table downstairs and took everything that was mine and left. I was in such a panic. I was scared. I had to get out. I thought I did not want to go through this again.

“I remember creeping downstairs because I did not want him to wake up. I was worried he may come after me.”

The girl said she texted a friend as she was leaving the house at around 7 am in the morning and later went to police who photographed bruising on her legs.

In the video recorded interview with police she told officers:”I have got some major bruises. My whole body is aching. My private parts, thighs and inside of my legs are all throbbing with pain.”

The trial continues

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Rochdale grooming gang jail term appeals dismissed

December 10, 2014, 8:24 am

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(From left to right) Freddy Kendakumana, Chola Chansa, Roheez Khan, Abdul Huk were all jailed in 2013

Four men from Rochdale have lost appeals against their sentences for sex offences against a 15-year-old girl.

Lord Chief Justice Lord Thomas dismissed applications to reduce the jail terms of Freddy Kendakumana, Roheez Khan and Chola Chansa.

Abdul Huk had his appeal against both conviction and a four-year sentence for sexual activity with a child dismissed.

The girl, who had been in care, was given vodka and drugs in exchange for sex.

Kendakumana, 27, Chansa, 33, Khan, 27, and Huk, 37 were jailed in December last year at Manchester Crown Court.

A fifth man, Mohammed Rafiq Abubaker, was also found guilty of sexual activity with a child and did not lodge an appeal against his two-and-a-half-year sentence.

The offences took place in 2008 and 2009.

'Vulnerable girls'

The four men appealed against their sentences, ranging from between four and eight-and-a-half years, on the grounds they were overly harsh.

But Lord Thomas, at the Court of Appeal sitting at Manchester Crown Court, said the judge during the trial had given them the correct sentences.

He told them: "It is a serious aggravating factor that she was exploited as a vulnerable person.

"And the judge was right to make clear that the courts must take every step open to them to protect vulnerable young girls from exploitation of this kind in whatever part of the country they live."

In a separate trial, nine men who ran a child sexual exploitation ring in the Heywood area of Rochdale were jailed in 2012.

On the same day the five men were jailed, a report was publishedhighlighting a "shocking" inability to protect seven vulnerable girls from sexual exploitation in the town.

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Britanistan: Terror plot to kidnap and kill police push officers not to travel to work in uniforms

December 10, 2014, 8:26 am

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West Midlands Police have implemented additional security measures
Move comes after force received anonymous threat to officers and staff
Sky News report the tip involved a plot to kidnap and kill a policeman
Force refuse to comment on specifics of the threat and say it still being assessed

West Midlands Police out on patrol today after a threat to kidnap and murder an officer sparked a major security alert

Police have been told not to travel to work in their uniform after a threat to kidnap and murder an officer sparked a major security alert.

Counter terrorism detectives are probing the anonymous threat that was made to West Midlands Police.

The force called officers and staff in to special briefings overnight and security measures stepped up after they received the tip-off.

Bosses issued them with advice on travelling to and from work in partial uniform as well as being extra vigilant on patrol

The investigation, being lead by West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit, was described as ‘fast-moving and dynamic.’

Police would not confirm the specific details, but did not deny reports that there had been a threat to kidnap and kill a police officer.

A spokesman said: ‘We are still accessing the information and cannot go into specifics.’

In October the threat level to police officers across Britain was raised to substantial, while the national security level remains at severe meaning a terrorist attack is highly likely.

Assistant Chief Constable Garry Forsyth said there is nothing at this stage to suggest an increased risk to members of the public.

‘West Midlands Police treat all information relating to matters of security extremely seriously, he said.

‘In this particular case we have received information relating to the safety of West Midlands Police officers and police staff.

A spokesman for the force described it as ‘business as usual,’ but confirmed security measures had been stepped up

‘There is nothing at this time to suggest there is an increased risk to members of the public.

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THE THREAT TO POLICE AND MILITARY PERSONNEL

The threat posed by fanatics has seen the terror level rise to ‘severe’ in the UK – the second highest state.

The level, which means an attack is highly likely, is set by the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre and the Security Service (MI5).

Both the police and the British Army have raised the threat against their personnel from ‘substantial’ to ‘severe.’

The decision came as a result of increased ‘terrorist chatter’ about attacks similar to that on Fusilier Lee Rigby, who was killed last year by two fanatics as he walked near his Woolwich barracks.

Drummer Rigby was not wearing his uniform when he was attacked, but a Help for Heroes hooded jumper.

Police chiefs have reportedly warned officers to keep a low profile outside of work, issuing advice on what to wear when travelling to work and urging them to keep social media clean of all personal information.

Military personnel have also been warned not to wear their uniform off barracks or tell strangers that they serve with the British Armed forces.

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‘We have taken the opportunity to remind all employees of the need to be vigilant. Our priority remains serving our communities and protecting them from harm. Officers remain on patrol and our staff continue to respond to calls for service as usual.’

The force refused to reveal how they received the information about the threat yesterday/ on Monday.

They said that officers continued to patrol the streets and described it as ‘business as usual.’

Steve White, Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) chairman, said officers faced a daily threat and it was only right that counter terror measures were regularly reviewed.

‘The nature of policing is that day-in, day-out, officers face life-threatening risks,’ said Mr White.

‘When I started my career in policing 26 years ago, the risk was the Provisional IRA and while the new threat is not the same thing it is still about a dynamic risk assessment process.

‘We need to be regularly assessing what we do and the changing issues officers have to face on a day-to-day basis.

‘In recent months the national threat level has remained severe and the threat to police officers substantial. This has not changed.

‘It is important that forces deal with these issues quickly and effectively, increasing awareness for officers so that when they are dealing with a job they are thinking about it more closely, and considering whether it feels right.

‘At the moment we have 16,000 fewer officers but the safety of their troops on the frontline needs to remain a priority.

‘PFEW urges police officers and staff to follow existing policies and good practice to counter terrorism and ensure their own safety.

‘It has always been good practice, regardless of threat level, to avoid wearing uniform and take sensible precautions when travelling to and from work.’

Former West Midlands Police officer Ray Egan, 75, who served on the force from 1967 to 1993, said: ‘I heard a few weeks back that officers had been warned not to travel in partial uniform which was ridiculous as we used to do it all the time.

‘It’s a sign of the times at the minute. We never had anything like this in our day – I can’t believe we have come to this.

‘Its really worrying that our front line officers might not be safe. Its frightening when you think what they did to that solider. It’s terrifying really.’

Reports of the threat comes after five men were charged in October with plotting to kill police officers or soldiers on the streets of London.

Members of the gang allegedly swore allegiance to extremist group Islamic State and scouted out Shepherd’s Bush police station and White City Territorial Army Barracks on a ‘hostile reconnaissance’ mission on Google Street View.

They allegedly kept Instagram images of two Scotland Yard police officers and two Metropolitan Police community support officers, as well as a trove of jihadist material including videos of beheadings.

Former Scotland Yard detective Peter Blecksley said:’I am sure West Midlands Police will be very keen to speak to [the tipster].

‘They will want to really nail down the details of this allegation. I am sure they would love to know the identification of those involved, who they are where they may be from.

‘West Midlands Police is one of the largest around, so they will have all the resources available to a large metropolitan style force to tackle this.

‘There won’t be an officer alone on the streets today, they will operate in pairs and they will want to reassure the people on the street as well as their own officers that they are safe.’

Liberal democrat MP for Birmingham Yardley John Hemming said it was ‘sad’ people wanted to ‘undo the good work of the police.’

‘It is important that every body work with the authorities to ensure that people who wish to cause such harm in their wisdom are prevented from doing so.

‘I have found West Midlands Police work well with all people in the community and it is sad that any one would wish to cause divisions and undermine all the effort they have put in.’

There has also been an outpouring of support on social media for West Midlands Police.

Stella Coppard tweeted: ‘Stay safe and your dedication to protecting everyone is selfless and beyond heroic. You deserve the very best and the public know.’

West Midlands Police has a dedicated Counter Terrorism Unit, based in Birmingham.

It is one of five regional units based across the country that form the counter terrorism policing network.

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe said further guidance has not been given to Met officers following the incident.

‘I believe it to be an anonymous call that’s been made,’ he said.

‘One of my colleagues has talked to the Chief Constable of West Midlands this morning to find out exactly what the state of that threat is.

‘And once we’ve assessed it, we’ll decide whether or not to give any further advice.’

The Commissioner added that the force tries not to ‘overreact’ in situations like this.

Meanwhile, London Mayor Boris Johnson said it is not thought there is any particular threat to police officers in the capital.

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"No Woman is Safe in a Cab"

December 10, 2014, 8:29 am

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Taxi rapes are rarely reported; apparently because the politically incorrect crimes are not deemed to be newsworthy. BBC radio host Sam Mason, a single mother, was fired after she called a taxi company and requested a "non-Asian" driver to take her 14-year-old daughter to her grandparents' home; preferably a female driver. The operator refused, and said, "We would class that as being racist." Mason responded, "It's not your 14-year-old girl." A BBC spokesman said, "[Mason's] comments were completely unacceptable…she will no longer be working for the BBC."

Great Britain is in the throes of a rape and pedophilia epidemic unlike anything the country has experienced in living memory.

Many of the sex crimes are being perpetrated by Muslim child grooming gangs responsible for drugging, raping and torturing hundreds and possibly thousands of British girls.

But another wave of sex crimes involves predatory Muslim taxi drivers who are raping female passengers. The number of so-called taxi rapes is snowballing to such an extent that a British judge has issued a warning that no woman can expect to be safe while traveling in a cab.

Reliable statistics on taxi rapes nationwide are difficult to obtain, and Freedom of Information requests seeking accurate data on cab-related sexual assaults are routinely denied (here andhere).

A British minicab. (Source: WikiMedia Commons)

However, a much acclaimed report produced by the London Metropolitan Police Serviceestimates that on average there are a total of 1,125 sexual assaults, including rapes, each year involving taxi drivers in just London; this works out to approximately 22 sexual assaults against women by taxi drivers each week in England's capital city alone.

Moreover, according to a report entitled, "Ending Violence against Women and Girls in the UK," published by the Home Office in March 2013, only around one in ten women who experience serious sexual assault report it to the police. As a result, one can infer that the actual number of taxi rapes across Britain as a whole is far greater than many are willing to admit.

Apart from a few high-profile cases, taxi rapes are rarely reported by national newspapers in Britain, apparently because the politically incorrect crimes are not deemed to be newsworthy.

But a survey of stories buried deep inside local newspapers shows that taxi rapes are occurring in all parts of England, Wales and Scotland on an almost daily basis.

In a recent case in London that was reported by national newspapers, Mohamed Hacene-Chaouch, 46, was sentenced to seven years in prison for raping a 24-year-old female passenger in his unlicensed taxi. Hacene-Chaouch -- an Algerian married father of five -- assaulted the woman after she got lost in Soho, central London.

The woman, who had been celebrating a friend's birthday and had become inebriated, told the jury that the last thing she remembered was being in the back of a car and being taken to an ATM machine. She said she drifted in and out of consciousness but woke up inside the car in front of her east London home to find Hacene-Chaouch raping her. Although Hacene-Chaouch denied the allegations, the crime was filmed by CCTV cameras.

Judge Wendy Joseph at the Old Bailey accused Hacene-Chaouch of being a sexual predator and said: "It must have been clear to you that she was helplessly and hopelessly drunk. She trusted you to take her safely home. She was clearly vulnerable, she was obviously helpless and in your power, and I regard this as a significant feature." Joseph added: "I haven't heard a single word of remorse in any way, shape or form."

Hacene-Chaouch -- who was acquitted of an almost identical attack in London in 2004 -- showed no emotion and stared straight ahead as the judge read the sentence. But as he was told he would be banned from working or seeking work as a taxi driver for 10 years, he gestured to his wife, who was watching the proceedings in the public gallery, and shouted: "Allah is great! I am innocent!"

In nearby Windsor, Anshul Sharma, 23, was charged with raping a 19-year-old woman who mistook his car for a legitimate taxi. She had been searching for a cab in the early hours of the morning when she was approached by Sharma, who claimed he was driving a licensed taxi. After she was in the car, he drove her to a remote location where he raped her.

In Blackburn on July 9, Talib Hussain, 62, was charged with sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl, a passenger in his taxi. In Blackpool on July 8, Turkish-born Fatih Top, 38, was charged with raping an 18-year-old woman who was a passenger in his cab.

In Shrewsbury on July 6, Ahmet Baser, 34, was sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison for raping an underage girl in his taxi. The victim and her friend were picked up by Baser's taxi outside a downtown night spot. After dropping off her friend, Baser went on to drive his victim into the remote countryside, where he raped her before taking her home.

In Nottingham on June 12, police said they were looking for an "Asian" taxi driver who sexually assaulted a 19-year-old passenger in his cab.

In Berkshire on May 21, Arshad Arif, 28, appeared at the Reading Crown Court on charges of driving a 17-year-old passenger in his cab to a remote park some 25 miles from her home and raping her twice. Arif was identified after it emerged he had earlier allowed the schoolgirl to use his phone, with her father noting down the number.

In Oldham on May 16, Tamur Yaqub, 32, was sentenced to eight years in prison after being convicted of attempting to rape a 15-year-old girl in the back of his car. The jury heard that Yaqub -- a married father of six -- had dragged the girl into his private-hire taxi after spotting her walking home. Judge Jeffrey Lewis of the Manchester Crown Court said: "You used considerable force against a girl who was no match for you. You subjected her to degradation and you have shown not the slightest remorse."

In Hemel Hempstead on May 7, Mashain Pitchei, 45, was sentenced to four years in prison for raping a 20-year-old female passenger. Pitchei, who pretended to be a taxi driver, was parked in the downtown Marlowes district when he offered a lift to the victim, who had been on a night out with friends. Believing it was a licensed taxi, she got into the vehicle and he drove off. Pitchei then pulled over in a suburb where he raped her.

In Heaton on April 11, Mohammed Akram, 35, pled guilty to sexually assaulting a woman in his taxi. After the woman entered the vehicle, Akram -- a married father of four -- drove to a remote location, where he attacked her.

In Peterborough on February 20, Mohammed Umar Anwar, 31, lost an appeal against the City Council's decision to revoke his taxi license after he admitted to police that he got a 15-year-old female passenger to perform a sex act on him when she had no money to pay the fare.

In Manchester on February 18, Elhadi Sakhri, 42, was sentenced to seven years and ten months for two counts of raping men who were passengers in his taxi. Sakhri -- who was granted asylum in Britain after complaining he faced persecution in Algeria because he was bisexual -- forced once of his victims up against a wall and raped him. He dragged the other victim by his arms down an alleyway where he raped him.

In London on February 6, police said they were looking for an "Asian" man accused of sexually assaulting three women in the Canning Town district.

In Leeds on January 9, Mohammed Shahin, 28, was sentenced to seven years in prison for raping a 20-year-old passenger who fell asleep in his taxi as he drove her home. A jury at the Nottingham Crown Court heard that from the moment the woman got in, Shahin switched off the GPS tracking system that monitored his vehicle's movements, suggesting he had a sinister motive from the outset. When she woke up, she found that Shahin had parked in a remote street in an unknown location. He then climbed into the back of the car and raped her before dropping her off near her home. The judge ordered that Shahin, after serving his sentence, be deported to his home country of Bangladesh.

In Accrington, Mohammed Ishaq, 38, was accused of raping a 35-year-old female passenger after taking her home. Also in Accrington, Mohammed Baig, 45, was accused of sexually assaulting an 18-year-old passenger. After dropping her off at her home, Baig left the victim with the words, "I'll look for you. I'll come and find you."

In Billingham, Khalile Maqsood, 31, was sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in prison for abducting and raping a 20-year-old female passenger at knifepoint. Maqsood -- a married father of four -- offered the victim a lift. But when she got into the taxi he took a series of wrong turns, then stopped in a deserted parking garage and turned off the engine.

Maqsood told jurors that the victim had led him on and had been "really up for it." He added: "I'm only human at the end of the day. She'd come on to me. I made a mistake. I just gave in to temptation. She led me on. She consented to it. That's what she wanted."

The cab driver -- whose wife was pregnant with their fourth child when he committed the offense -- was expressionless as he was led from the dock. Judge Rodney Jameson of the Newcastle Crown Court said Maqsood had shown little understanding of, and no remorse for, what he had done.

In East Sussex, Abul Malik, 29, was jailed for seven years after being found guilty of raping a 19-year-old female passenger when she could not pay for her £6.80 ($10) fare home.

In Edinburgh, Ibrahim Selman fled Scotland after raping a woman and assaulting several others while working as a taxi driver. Selman, who was in the UK as an illegal immigrant, went on the run to the Sudan days after holding a female passenger hostage, repeatedly raping her and leaving her for dead in the street.

In Hull, Masoud Rahimi, 37, was convicted of sexually assaulting a 20-year-old female passenger. The Iranian-born Rahimi denied it was him until the CCTV footage was shown to him, with the girl fleeing from his car as he was filling up the tank with gasoline.

In London, Salam Rahman, 27, and Mohammed Elahi, 26, were jailed for nine years for gang-raping two female passengers, one of whom was a 26-year-old newlywed. In Clapham, south London, Atiq Rehman, 20, tricked a 22-year-old woman into thinking he was a legitimate taxi driver. Rehman, an illegal immigrant from Pakistan who was twice refused asylum in Britain, raped the woman for 45 minutes while asking her how many children she wanted to have.

Also in London, Assadullah Razaq, 31, was sentenced to eight years in jail for raping a 28-year-old female passenger. The defense attorney said that Razaq, an Afghan refugee and a married father of three, admitted to having sex with the woman, but maintained it was not rape. His attorney said Razaq came to Britain after being tortured by the Taliban, and that something had affected his mental state.

At King's Cross in central London, police said they were looking for a Turkish cab driver who raped an 18-year-old passenger after driving her to a remote location. After the attack, he took her to Gloucester Place in Westminster where he pushed her from his vehicle and left her lying in a gutter.

In Manchester, Shahjahan Islam was sentenced to nine years in prison for sexually assaulting a 27-year-old female passenger. The victim had been out with friends when she decided to go home and got into a taxi driven by Islam. She gave Islam her address, he programmed it into his GPS and departed. After several minutes the woman realized they were going the wrong way. Eventually he stopped the car, climbed into the passenger seat and tried to rape her. DNA recovered from the woman led officers to identify Islam as the suspect.

In Newport, South Wales, Asif Iqbal, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for raping two female passengers on late-night rides home. Iqbal's wife was also jailed for six months after admitting to perverting the course of justice by offering money to one of the victims to withdraw her complaint. Police fear many more women may have been attacked by Iqbal, who targeted women outside pubs and nightclubs in the hope they would be drunk.

In Portsmouth, Muhammed Hasan, 35, was accused of locking a 19-year-old woman with learning disabilities into his cab and sexually assaulting her. In St. Helens, Mazish Muzaffar, 43, was charged with assaulting a female passenger in his taxi.

In Sheffield, Zahoor Mahmood, 40, was jailed for eight years for sexually assaulting two female passengers. Instead of taking his first victim to her home, he locked her in his cab for more than two hours, got into the back with her and tried to get her to snort cocaine to get her "in the mood." Three weeks later, Mahmood -- a married father of four -- spotted a 17-year-old girl walking home after a night out. He offered to take her home for free when she said she had no money for the fare, but then locked her in his cab for an hour, tried to get her to snort cocaine and then molested her. Before the attacks, Mahmood, who has been driving taxis in Sheffield for more than 15 years, had twice been stripped of his license after being convicted of drug offenses, but twice won appeals that allowed him to continue working.

In Teesside, Pakistani-born Liaqat Ali, 42, was sentenced to seven years in prison for raping a 16-year-old passenger as she dozed off drunk in his taxi. Ali -- a married father of four -- stopped for the girl in Middlesbrough and drove her to a secluded spot, where he attacked her. Ali admitted to picking the victim up but denied anything had happened. Once results of DNA evidence were obtained, he admitted to having lied.

The list goes on and on. Not surprisingly, more and more women-only taxi cab firms are springing up around the UK to cater to women who prefer to see another female at the wheel. Women-only taxi firms now include London Lady Chauffeurs, Pink Ladies in Warrington andLadies Only Travel in Bradford.

A women-only taxi service has yet to arrive in Bristol, where BBC Radio host Sam Mason was fired after she called a taxi company and requested a "non-Asian" driver to take her 14-year-old daughter to her grandparents' home. Mason, a single mother, told the operator that "a guy with a turban on would freak her daughter out," and insisted they send an English driver -- preferably a female English driver -- instead.

The operator refused to book a car and said: "We would class that as being racist. We can't just penalize the Asian drivers and just send an English one." Mason responded: "It's not your 14-year-old girl, is it?" To which the operator answered: "Yes, but that's racist to say you don't want an Asian driver."

The BBC was alerted to the conversation after it was recorded and sent to The Sun newspaper.

Mason was subsequently suspended and fired 24 hours later. A BBC spokesman said: "Although Sam Mason's remarks were not made on-air, her comments were completely unacceptable and, for that reason, she has been informed that she will no longer be working for the BBC with immediate effect."

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Trial for sex ring accused from Peterborough

December 10, 2014, 11:51 am

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Mohammed Khubaib.

Three men who were allegedly part of a child sex ring will stand trial accused of forcing young girls into prostitution.

Mohammed Khubaib, (43), Qadir Ahmed, (27), and Manase Motaung, (31), are accused of raping and molesting the girls between 2007 and 2013.

The court heard 23 alleged victims, all who were aged between 13 and 17, are due to claim they were raped, sexually abused and forced into prostitution by the men.

The three men all appeared at The Old Bailey in London on Friday (5 December), where they faced a total of 17 counts child trafficking, forced prostitution, rape, and sexual activity with a child.

All the men pleaded not guilty to all the charges they face, and Judge Peter Rook QC set a trial date for 16 February 2015.

Khubaib, a restaurateur and lettings agent from Norfolk Street, Peterborough, faces 11 trafficking allegations between 2011 and 2013.

He also faces claims he raped a teenage girl in August 2007 and paid for sex with another child.

Motaung, of Gladstone Street, Peterborough is accused of trafficking seven girls around the UK for sexual exploitation, as well as a claim he raped a teenage girl on 18 October, 2012.

Ahmed, of Cromwell Road, Peterborough the youngest of the three, is accused of forcing a girl into sexual activity in August 2008, controlling a child for prostitution between April 2011 and April 2013, and having sex with another teenage girl on 27 February, 2012.

The case will be heard again on February 6 for pre-trial discussions.

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Muslim mother-of-six who posted pictures of her young children posing as jihadists on Facebook and advised an undercover policeman how to travel to Syria is jailed for more than five years

December 11, 2014, 1:43 pm

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A Muslim mother-of-six who posted pictures of her young children posing as jihadists on Facebook and advised an undercover policeman how to travel to Syria has been jailed for five years and three months.

Runa Khan, 35, from Luton, took pictures of her young son wearing a turban and holding a toy assault rifle and took another picture of him with a copy of a book by Abdullah Azzam, Osama bin Laden's mentor.

She also had photographs of her older, nine-year-old son and her teenage son holding a sword and posed with the same weapons herself, wearing a niqab.

Jailed: Runa Khan, pictured leaving an earlier hearing at Kingston Crown Court, posted pictures of her young children posing as jihadists on Facebook and advised an undercover policeman how to travel to Syria

Khan appeared for sentencing today wearing a full face veil and sunglasses at Kingston Crown Court, south west London, after she admitted four counts of distributing terrorist material.

Despite the length of her jail term, Metropolitan Police officers have refused to release her photo - and the force's press office would not say why, simply citing 'mitigating factors'.

Judge Peter Birts told her today: 'You appear to have no interest in the effect of radicalisation on your children having selfishly placed your own ideology and beliefs above their welfare in your priorities.

'You have shown no remorse for your actions and you are determined to follow your ideology whatever the cost to your liberty, and your family, including your children.'

She also had photographs of her older, nine-year-old son and her teenage son holding a sword and posed with the same weapons herself, wearing a niqab.

Khan appeared for sentencing today wearing a full face veil and sunglasses at Kingston Crown Court, south west London, after she admitted four counts of distributing terrorist material.

Despite the length of her jail term, Metropolitan Police officers have refused to release her photo - and the force's press office would not say why, simply citing 'mitigating factors'.

'You have shown no remorse for your actions and you are determined to follow your ideology whatever the cost to your liberty, and your family, including your children.'

Judge Birts said Khan was not only deeply radical herself, but a 'major radicaliser of others on Facebook, Whatsapp and other social media' and that the 'promotion of terrorism through the internet is a major potential concern'.

'Your purpose was to promote your own personal brand of violent Islam on the internet and to radicalise others, including very young children,' he added.

In interviews with probation officers she had been 'happy' to voice her support for suicide bombing, beheadings, stonings and amputations, the court heard.

The judge told Khan she was an 'avowed fundamental Islamist, holding radical and extreme beliefs' and that she had a 'violent ideology that espoused jihad as an essential part of the Islamist obligations'.

He said that her postings were designed to 'further your own deeply entrenched violent ideology and persuade others to violent action, including suicide, martyrdom and other violence'.

Sentence: Khan was jailed for five years and three moths at Kingston Crown Court (pictured). The judge told Khan she was an 'avowed fundamental Islamist, holding radical and extreme beliefs'

The instructions to mothers, accompanied by a picture of her youngest son, the judge said, was a 'highly detailed educational programme on how a mother could raise a child mentally and emotionally dedicated to armed jihad, raise mujahid children and encourage loved ones to participate in jihad.'

The court heard Khan had pledged to join another fighter called Nahin Ahmed, 22, in Syria as soon as she paid off her debts and he promised to find her a 'real man' in Syria.

An undercover police officer using the name 'Abdur Rahman' began communicating with her over Facebook and when he told her he wanted to go to Syria, Khan replied: 'When you are ready to go, let me know, I have the route,' which she then sent him.

The officer said his father would not let him go, but she told him: 'We don't need our parents' permission brother,' later adding he would need £2000 and saying: 'Just go.'

She told him she was £10,000 in debt and added: 'Well I'm gonna clear my debts and do one from here.'

You appear to have no interest in the effect of radicalisation on your children, having selfishly placed your own ideology and beliefs above their welfare in your priorities

Judge Peter Birts

Using the name 'Khawla Khattab' she had posted a picture of a suicide vest emblazoned with the words: 'Ishtishadee: sacrificing your life to benefit Islam.'

When she discovered that Abdur Rahman was an undercover officer, Khan told interviewing officers he was a 'two faced p****' and that she thought he held the same views as her, which she described as 'Going to Syria, helping the Syrian people fighting for Islam.'

She also posted a Youtube link to a BBC documentary called: 'Suicide Bomber is a Childhood Dream' and when a user from London called 'Joseph' queried the permissibility of suicide bombing, she wrote: 'But it's the most feared war tactic and most groups do it.'

On September 24 last year, Khan posted a picture of her son captioned: 'Zipping up my eight-year-old boy's jacket as he wants to play outside of a bit. I pictured the furture while I was zipping up his jacket. Inshallah [god willing] I'll be tying the shahada [martyrdom] bandana round his forehead and hand him his rifle and send him out to play the big boys game. AllahuAkbar [god is great].'

She had posted an article on Facebook called 'Raising Mujahid Children' which said mothers should show their children military books, CDs and videos to children 'as young as a couple of years or even younger.'

It said they should buy children a 'makeshift enemy, (could be a punchbag for instance) if you have to, and encourage children (especially boys) to use it and build their strength as well as to control and direct their anger.'

'If young children can learn the names of all the Pokemon characters, surely they can learn some basic terminology related to jihad,' it added.

DEFENCE LAWYER: ONLINE POSTS WERE 'EXTREMELY UNSOPHISTICATED'

Jo Sidhu QC, defending, said the mother-of-six was 'unrepentant' and had a 'deep, strong, unwavering and inflexible' way of thinking, but her crime was 'extremely unsophisticated'.

Since her arrest, she has been cautioned for assault after attacking her mother and sister at her mother’s house where she was on bail.

The court heard that a police officer was called and she 'seemed to be very erratic, behaving strangely and referring to blowing things up.'

A pre-sentence probation report found that she was an 'active advocate of suicide bomb attacks and intended to persuade others of that view,' adding: 'Her attitude is that anyone who thinks otherwise is wrong.'

But Judge Peter Birts said: 'The problem is that she is so radicalised and believes her own version of fundamentalism.'

Khan’s second marriage had fallen apart and her five older children were living with her mother, the court heard. She was said to have had a 'chaotic personal life' and to have had two 'deeply unhappy' relationships, the second of which involved domestic violence.

Khan suffers from pancreatitis, has been into hospital on five or six occasions in the last two years and recently had an operation on her bowel.

A defence psychologist said the children face 'major difficulties in the future whether or not their mother is jailed.'

The article said 'military training is a right of the children upon their parents' and added that 'sisters themselves also need to get military – firstly so that they can participate in jihad themselves and secondly so that they can train their sons and daughters for it.'

It added: 'Don’t underestimate the lasting effects of what those little ears take in during the first few years of life! No child is ever too young to be started off on jihad training in one form or another.

'Emphasise while disciplining young children that they are not to hit a Muslim but rather forgive and are only to take their anger out on the enemies of Allah who fight against Muslims.'

On May 23 last year, the day after the killing of Fusilier Lee Rigby, she changed her profile to a picture of a soldier carrying an injured comrade, labelling it: 'Hell for Heroes,' and posted a link to footage of the attack.

Sentence: Judge Peter Birts (file photo) said Khan showed no remorse and tried to radicalise others

Police, who had become aware of Khan's online activities, searched her home in October 2013, seizing her iPhone.

On it they discovered records of WhatsApp chats she had been having with Ahmed since April in which Ahmed, an unemployed postal worker from Handsworth, Birmingham, used three different numbers, the latest in Syria.

He had left the country in May with a former schoolfriend, Yusuf Sarwar, who left behind a note for his mother, who then alerted police.

The pair stayed in Syria for eight months fighting with a group linked to al-Qaeda before they were persuaded to return by their families. Last week they were jailed for 12 years and eight months each.

At various points in the conversations Khan expressed a wish to travel to Syria herself and Ahmed told her to fly to Istanbul, catch a coach to Hatay and then get a taxi to Reyhanli, close to the border, adding: 'From der u gta stay low nd get ready to cross da borders. Allahu alam hw da situation will be.'

He advised her to join a group called Kateeb al-Muhajireen saying they were the 'ideal group' because they had the 'right aqeedah [faith]' and 'also a lot speak English.'

Although parts of the conversation had been deleted, screen shots setting out the entirety of the suggested route into Syria from Turkey were recovered by police from iPhone messages.

Khan talked about supplying Ahmed with a mobile phone and he asked if her husband approved but she said she had not told him.

Ahmed mentioned a 'Swedish bro,' apparently as a potential husband for Khan along with a link to a YouTube video entitled 'Shaheed Abu Kamal - English Version'

The video featured a Swedish jihadist who was killed in the fighting in Syria and included an image of a man called Khaled Shahadeh alongside Kamal, both armed and dressed in fatigues.

Sometime later that day, Ahmed messaged Khan telling her: 'Ill find u a husband I'll save one for u u wont get real man outside jihad I can tell whose fake n whose not.'

Two days before he left for Syria, Ahmed messaged Khan telling her: 'Make duaaaa [prayers] for me am packin up'. She replied: 'Keep in touch ok. You just relax now. Miss you loads xxx Soldier Nahin.'

The judge said he had jailed Khan for the maximum possible period under the Terrorism Act 2006. Normally seven years, it was discounted because of Khan’s guilty plea.

'I'M GONNA COME WITH MY LITTLE BOY': MESSAGES BETWEEN MOTHER-OF-SIX RUNA KHAN AND JIHADI NAHIN AHMED WHILE HE FOUGHT IN SYRIA

The court was read several messages between the pair, including on the free messaging service WhatsApp. They included:

June 24, 2013: From Ahmed to Khan: 'Lookin at syria Lol Haha'

June 25: 'Alot of egyption here'

June 27: 'Jus waitin for nxt stage. Food is less Buh Alhamdulilah (praise be to Allah) Haha I finishd trainun.'

Several photographs of Ahmed were recovered from Khan's phone as WhatsApp attachments and after receiving one she replied: 'You have lost weight dude.'

August 13: From Khan to Ahmed: 'Do you know how worried I was…I thought you were martyr'. He replied: 'Buh i weren't :( i hav like 10 days guardin ... n 7 day rest guardin 80-20m frm kuffar [non-believers].'

Khan asked for further pictures and Ahmed sent her a photograph of himself, sitting on a chair next to a pile of sandbags and flanked by guns on either side, asking her: 'u like my boots'?

She wanted to post the picture on Facebook, but Ahmed replied: 'shows my face too dangerous' then agreed she could do it 'privately' adding: 'lol [laughs out loud] crop my face or blacken it.'

Then he sent a caption to go with it: 'Make dua the mujahideens are defendin kuffar from getting into halab,' referring to the ancient name for Aleppo.

September 11: Ahmed recorded the death of one of one of his fellow fighters in Syria, telling Khan in a lengthy message about 'my brother Abu Dujana' who he prays Allah will accept as 'shaheed'– a martyr.

'A very brave bruda, always takin me wid hhim to shoot the kuffar, two days ago he took two other brudas insted of me nd I was put in guardin the door. While shootin like a brave mujahid a bullet hit his stomach nd he was onda ground nd we ran to him nd I saw his last words wer O Allah accept me as shaheed.'

September 13: Khan wrote: 'Trying to clear debt n join u…I'm gonna come with my little boy,' to which Ahmed replied: 'alottttt of brudas wwant marriage.'

Ahmed wanted to know if people were talking about him on Facebook and when Khan told him they weren't he replied, unconvincingly: 'Good I wanna remain unknown.'

September 18: Khan posted a message stating: 'Sisters, if you love your sons, husbands and brothers, prove it by sending them to fight for Allah. Don't you want them to enter Jannah [paradise]? Don't you want them to prepare for you a palace in Jannah?'

The next day she re-posted an article from another user called 'Sisters' role in jihad off the battlefield' about 'raising mujahid children' adding: 'Sisters this is excellent, read it inshallah.'

After a visit from police on an unrelated matter, Khan wrote that it was 'hard to trust anyone' and added: 'From now on please don't inbox me regarding jihad in Syria. I'm a peaceful Muslim who doesn't believe in killing people. My hobby is eating. If you want food recipes, you may ask me. As for jihad, do your own research.'

October 1: Ahmed advised Khan 'for knowin someone in Syria hmmm u shud b careful.'

October 6: Last message between the pair, when Ahmed told her: 'Ryt nw m on my way to Homs in shaa Allah' and Khan replied: 'I would love to come.'

When she asked how he was, he replied''things r fine Alhamdulilah [thanks to god]. Jihad is best.'

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'Callous' Somalian drug dealer who turned woman into a human fireball after she 'turned him down for sex' is jailed for 16 years

December 12, 2014, 10:18 am

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Mohammed Kosar set fire to Dovile Krivickaite after she 'rejected advances'
Kosar took her down alley, pouring petrol over her before setting her alight
Somalian then left 23-year-old woman to burn in Forest Gate, east London
She suffered burns to 24 per cent of her body and now has horrific scars
Judge said attack was premeditated and Kosar, 28, had 'intended to kill'
He was jailed for life with a minimum of 16 years for attempted murder
Police branded Kosar 'dangerous' for carrying out the 'callous' attack

Mohammed Kosar, 28, was jailed for 16 years after he 'callously' poured petrol over a woman and set her alight in an alley after she turned him down

A Somalian man who doused a woman in petrol after she rejected his advances and left her to burn in a fireball has been jailed for 16 years.

Mohammed Kosar, 28, led Lithuanian Dovile Krivickaite down an alley in Forest Gate, East London, saying he want to speak to her before he threw petrol over her and set her alight.

Kosar then walked away leaving the then 23-year-old to turn into a human fireball and burn, the Old Bailey heard.

She was helped by rescuers who heard her screams and took a nearby house where they poured water over her before calling an ambulance.

Rebecca Poulet QC jailed Kosar for 32 years and said he had shown no remorse.

She said: 'This appalling attack was premeditated and in my opinion you intended to kill.'

Ms Krivickaite suffered burns to 24 per cent of her body in the attack and said her injuries had 'changed her life forever.'

The Old Bailey previously heard Ms Krivickaite came to the UK in September 2012 and knew Kosar as 'Rocky.'

She saw him regularly but turned him down when he asked her for sex, it was suggested.

On October 19 last year she was picked up by Kosar and a friend on Rosedale Road, Forest Gate and taken to an alley off the road.

But once she got there without warning Kosar doused her in petrol with a five-litre can and set her on fire.

She was so badly burnt the skin was falling off her body and she has had to undergo several graft operations.

She spent six weeks in hospital and had to be intubated because her burns affected her ability to breathe.

Ms Krivickaite suffered severe burns to the face, neck and left side of her body, and is still badly scarred after the attack.

The Lithuanian said she constantly receives sympathy because of her appalling injuries.

Kosar was arrested in February 2014 in connection with attempted murder and was convicted earlier this year.

Judge Poulet QC said: 'You had very regular contact with Ms Krivickaite, seeing her almost daily and sometimes several times a day.

'Ms Krivickaite has said she has no idea why you attacked her - she suggested it was maybe because she rejected your sexual advances.

'I have reason to believe you certainly had some attachment to her, asking her repeatedly before she got into the car why she had not telephoned you all day.

'In my view it was not just chance that the car you were in had stopped in front of the alley - this was your chosen spot for the attack.

'You showed no regrets or change of heart when faced with the horrific consequences of your actions.'

'This appalling attack was premeditated and in my opinion you intended to kill.

'You have shown no remorse, although on the day of your sentencing before me you have said this should not have happened to her. Indeed it should not.'

Speaking after the case a Met Police spokeswoman said that Kosar was a drug dealer and the woman had been a customer of his. The pair are believed to have argued before the vicious attack.

Kosar was arrested as he left his home address in West Ham in east London and police found heroin and crack cocaine at his house.

On arrival at the police station Kosar admitted he had a cocked 9mm PAK blank pistol stuffed down his pants.

He has a series previous convictions - including armed robbery - since he was 15.

Kosar was sentenced to 16 years in prison for the attempted murder.

He was also convicted of one count of possession of a firearm and sentenced to five years, one of intent to endanger life and sentenced to a further 10 years in prison.

He was given three years in prison for four charges of possessing ammunition, and seven years for three charges of possession of class A drugs.

The judge said all the sentences were to run concurrently with each other and the life sentence.

Detective Inspector John Reynolds of Newham Police who led the investigation said: 'Kosar is a dangerous individual who callously poured petrol over the female and set her on fire.

'She has suffered terribly as a result and I must pay tribute to her bravery in giving evidence against her attacker. I hope that his conviction will give her some closure.'

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Brothers jailed for drug dealing after police find £20,000 hidden in their oven and microwave

December 12, 2014, 10:35 am

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Tanveer and Naseeb Riasat stashed their drug money in kitchen appliances

Heroin dealers caught when police saw Tanveer acting suspiciously in car

Searched vehicle and found £1,000 hidden and set of keys to a drugs den

Officers searched bed-sit and found £20,000 hidden in microwave and oven

Brothers jailed for a total of 13 years at Birmingham Crown Court

A pair of drug dealing brothers have been jailed for more than 13 years after police found £20,000 in cash hidden inside their oven and microwave.

Tanveer Riasat, 32, and Naseeb Riasat, 29, hid thousands of pounds inside electrical appliances at their rented bed-sit in Moseley, Birmingham.

The heroin dealing pair were caught by police after officers spotted Tanveer, who is known as Silver, acting suspiciously in his car on July 1 this year.

Brothers Naseeb Riasat (pictured left) and Tanveer (right) hid £20,000 in cash inside their oven and microwave

During a search of the vehicle police found £1,000 hidden in the glove-box, as well as a set of house keys to the drugs den in the Kings Heath area of the city.

Tanveer was arrested on suspicion of money laundering, but when officers entered the bed-sit they found 100 wraps of cocaine under the sofa and £20,000 in cash hidden in the kitchen appliances.

A court heard Tanveer tried pinning the blame on a drug user he claimed to have given a lift to and said the user 'must have dropped his keys'.

He pointed officers to an address in Moseley, Birmingham, where he said the man who owned them lived.

Some of the cash officers found while searching the drug dealing brother's bed-sit was stashed in a microwave

Officers found even more money hidden in the oven - they also found drugs including cocaine and heroin

Police descrobed the bed-sit as a 'drugs hideout' where they found bags of cocaine, heroin and cash

But his lie backfired when police found his brother Naseeb at the addict's property - and when they searched his car, officers discovered keys to the same drugs den.

At Birmingham Crown Court on Wednesday Tanveer was jailed for eight years after being found guilty of money laundering and possessing heroin and crack cocaine with intent to supply.

Naseeb admitted the same offences and was sentenced to five years and four months in prison.

Speaking after the case PC Mark Bates, from West Midlands Police, said: 'Tanveer has previous convictions for drug dealing and when officers found £1,000 in cash hidden in his car they suspected it could be linked to drugs.

'Their suspicions were proved right when the keys opened up a drugs hideout with bags of cocaine and heroin plus around 100 wraps prepared for street dealing.

When officers searched the bed-sit they found 100 drug wraps for street dealing under the sofa (pictured)

'He pointed police to an address in Anderton Park Road, Moseley, and a man he suggested owned the flat keys - but his plan backfired when police found his brother Naseeb at the house and another set of keys to the drugs flat.

'Naseeb admitted his involvement but Tanveer maintained his innocence even though we found his fingerprints in the bedsit.'

Tanveer was previously jailed for five years in 2007 for supplying Class A drugs, whilst Naseeb has also spent time in prison for drug dealing.

PC Bates, who is part of East Birmingham Police's Organised Crime Team, added: 'People continually tell us how tackling drug dealing in their community is their number one priority - it attracts an undesirable element and associated crime - and no-one should put up with it in their streets.

'If anyone has any concerns around drug dealing then please call us on the 101 number and we'll take action.'

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Former British champion boxer 'tried to smuggle jihadists out of the UK and into Islamic State war zone in back of lorry'

December 12, 2014, 10:47 am

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Muslim convert Anthony Small, 33, was arrested in a dramatic dawn swoop
Detectives believe he is linked to a failed plot to sneak two men through Dover so they could travel to Syria and fight for Islamic State
Small held British and Commonwealth light middleweight titles

Muslim convert Anthony Small, 33, was arrested in a dramatic dawn swoop yesterday by counter-terrorism detectives

A former British boxing champion is suspected of trying to smuggle jihadists bound for Syria out of Britain in the back of a lorry.

Muslim convert Anthony Small, 33, was arrested in a dramatic dawn swoop yesterday by counter-terrorism detectives.

They believe he is linked to a failed plot to sneak two men through Dover so they could travel to Syria and fight for Islamic State.

Small, who calls himself Abdul Haqq, is an outspoken supporter of Anjem Choudary and has posted provocative videos online.

Choudary and nine others were arrested in September during a crackdown on the notorious hate preacher’s inner circle.

Their passports were confiscated in a bid to stop them leaving the country.

But some of them are now suspected of attempting to flee through the same underworld channels used by illegal immigrants.

The two men found hidden in the lorry were sitting alongside more than a dozen migrants and an Eastern European accused of acting as a fixer.

They were arrested at gunpoint following the discovery of the vehicle on Sunday.

Small and a second man, aged 40, were arrested at their homes in South East London yesterday.

The former boxer was held on suspicion of preparing acts of terrorism while the second man was held on suspicion of conspiracy to possess and supply fraudulent documents.

Three other men were arrested in separate operations in East London and at the port of Dover.

The investigation raises questions about the decision of police and the security service to confiscate passports from potential jihadists who want to travel to Syria.

They have already uncovered evidence of frustrated extremists turning their sights on domestic targets after being stopped from leaving the country.

Choudary has repeatedly said he would like to join Islamic State on the lawless border between Syria and Iraq.

Last month one of his henchmen, Siddhartha Dhar, 31, fled with his family after being asked to give up his passport.

He has since taunted the authorities by posting a photo of himself online holding an AK-47 rifle and his newborn baby.

Small, who held British and Commonwealth light middleweight titles, turned professional in his early 20s under the alias Sugar Ray Clay Jones Jr.

He converted to Islam aged 24 but it was not until around 2010 that he began attending marches protesting against the war in Afghanistan.

Small later announced he was giving up his sport to ‘take on the fight for Muslims’.

In recent months he has posted a series of inflammatory videos online, including one referring to the ‘United Snakes of America’.

He said recently: ‘I cannot be a Muslim and a boxer who makes money from a sport that promotes the evils of alcohol, gambling and free mixing of men and women.’

Last night, a Met spokesman said: ‘All seven men remain in custody.’

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'Islamic doll' for children launched in Britain with no FACE in line with strict Sharia rules on depiction of prophet and his contemporaries

December 15, 2014, 9:23 am

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Featureless doll with no eyes, nose or lips produced for Muslim children
It complies with Muslim teachings that living things should not be created
Doll took 4 years to design and is aimed at children in strict Muslim homes
Has been designed by Ridhwana B, a former Lancashire school teacher
'Deeni doll' is being sold for £25 and is marketed as 'Shariah compliant'
But academic said it was 'foolish' as Muslims are not 'frozen' in history

A doll with no facial features has been launched for Muslim children in line with Islamic rules about avoiding the depiction of faces.

The featureless toy comes dressed in a hijab and red dress but has no eyes, nose or mouth.

It has been designed to comply with strict Muslim teachings which rule against the representation of humans and animals in other forms, and specifically Muslim gods and their companions.

An 'Islamic doll' with no facial features at all is being sold for £25 in line with Muslim rules which teach that items which represent features of living things, humans or animals, should not be produced and owned

However critics have dismissed the doll as 'foolish' and say it represents antiquated views of Islam teachings and fails to acknowledge that Muslim's are part of modern culture.

The doll, which comes in just one design, is called Romeisa and named after the female companion of the Prophet Muhammad.

It is aimed at children living in strict Muslim families.

'There is an Islamic ruling which forbids the depiction of facial features of any kind and that includes pictures, sculptures and, in this case, dolls,' the designer, who is known as Ridhwana B, told the Lancashire Telegraph.

'I spoke to a religious scholar in Leicester who guided me through what was and what was not permissible when producing the product.

'The Deeni Doll has no face on it whatsoever and is Shariah compliant.'

The former teacher, who used to work at a Muslim school in Lancashire, said she came up with the idea to design the doll after speaking to parents who were concerned about toys with facial features.

She said it took four years to design and added: 'The Islamic range in kids toys is quite limited at the moment with few choices. Although this project took a while, I am looking at researching other ideas in the future.

'I am looking at compiling a book for the Islamic upbringing of children in the future too.'

However Professor Fawaz Gerges, a specialist in Muslim societies and politics at London School of Economics, said: 'This is silliness and foolishness.

'Muslims are now part of a global community .

'In early Islamic history imagery was not preferred for a variety of reasons. But the debate is, how far do you go now?

BANNING GODS AND ANIMALS: HOW 'ANICONISM' CREATED FACELESS DOLLS

Islam teaches aniconism - the practice of avoiding creating images of living things.

The most absolute prohibition is images of God, followed by Islamic prophets and then relatives of Muhammad.

However this teaching is extended to humans in the hadith, which is open to interprettion.

This has led to Islamic art being represented in geometric patterns and calligraphy.

The Quran doesn't specifically prohibit depictions of humans, but it does rule against idolatry - the worship of an idol or physical object as a symbol of God.

Sunni authorities interpret the hadith as prohibiting any representations of living things while others have a less strict approach that takes into account the variety of images available and used today.

'The overwhelming majority of Muslims are living 21st century lifestyles, things have not been frozen from the 6th century.

'There are some people who would like us to think Muslim history is frozen in time and space but it has evolved. Young Muslims are now globalised.

'The doll is a gimmick, an ultra-conservative interpretation. It is a very isolated phenomenon and with all due respect I imagine it would only appeal to a very tiny group.

'It's a cultural luxury and I don't think it will have much of an audience or many clients. '

Aniconism is taught in Islam, which rules against the creation of living beings.

However interpretations of the teachings have evolved over time as more imagery is used in modern society, for example on television and in adverts.

Today the avoidance of idolatry is the main concern for devout Muslims.

It is hoped the doll will be able to be used by Muslim children who often face having to have their toys removed at night because teachings forbid anything with eyes being left in the room.

The doll is being sold for £25 and although it is not the first of its kind in the world, it is thought to be the only one produced to such a high quality.

Only a limited number have been made but Ridhwana said she has already had orders.

It has been named after one of the female companions of Muhammad, who are known by the collective name Sahabiyat.

The prophet had hundreds of companions who knew Muhammad and recited hadith, which were the basis of developing the Islamic tradition.

Companions are loosely defined as anyone who saw the prophet Muhammad and died a Muslim.

The idea of creating dolls for children to play with and learn from is based on stories that Prophet Muhammad's wife, Aisha, also played with the featureless items.

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Army cadets told not to wear uniform in public amid fears of jihad attacks

December 15, 2014, 12:13 pm

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Instead of standing up to defend itself, Britain cowers in submission, and curtails its activities in the face of jihad threats. Instead of saying, “Be aware, be resolute, be proud of who you are and ready to defend yourself,” the British authorities tell cadets: “No uniform when travelling to and from cadet activities.”

As Britain gallops toward ruin, that is as suitable an epitaph as any. “No uniform when travelling to and from cadet activities.” I.e., don’t stand up for who you are, but scuttle around in fear and hope you don’t catch the eye of one of the protected class who hates the British military.

That is the Subjugated Isle, December 2014.

But these are just children, you will say — not full-fledged military personnel. They can’t be expected to defend themselves against jihad attacks. Very well. Then the British military should protect them. Instead of “No uniform when travelling to and from cadet activities,” why not make arrangements to protect those traveling to and from cadet activities, and thereby send the strong signal that these random jihad attacks will not be tolerated? Not feasible, you say? Maybe take a bit of the funding from “outreach to the Muslim community” activities to finance studies to determine how this could be done.

“Army cadets told to avoid wearing military uniform in public amid fears of terror attacks,” by David Collins, Mirror, December 13, 2014

Children in school cadet forces have been warned not to wear their army uniform in public amid fears of a terror attack.
Pupils were also told to carry out searches of training areas and accommodation before setting up camp.
A notice published on a Facebook group told individual units to ensure with “immediate effect” that “appropriate security measures” were put into place in all detachments.
The warnings come just days after serving soldiers were told not to wear their uniform outside barracks.
It comes amid fears of a copycat attack following last year’s murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby in south-east London.
They were also told not to let strangers know that they are serving in the British Army.
Earlier this week, police were also warned not to wear their uniforms off-duty following an ‘anonymous but credible’ telephone threat.
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Warning: Young army cadets have been told not to wear their military garb in public
A source said: “It is such a terrible shame that children are being told not to wear their uniforms. It is sad they can’t proudly walk the streets.”
The threat level for the armed forces was raised from “substantial” to “severe” last week, meaning a terrorist attack on military personnel is highly likely.
An MoD spokesman said the same security measures that applied to serving personnel also applied to cadet forces across the country.
In light of the revised terror threat level, a spokesman for the Middlesex and North West London Army Cadet Force issued a six-point list for managing security for children across the region.
The directives issued to more than 1,000 cadets included: “No uniform when travelling to and from cadet activities.”
Another rule told members to maintain “vigilance when travelling including at motorway service stations… hence civilian clothes when travelling”.
Others warned them to “ensure vehicles are guarded or parked in a secure area” and “carry out searches of training areas, ranges and accommodation before occupation”.
They were also told to ensure all accommodation was secure when not in use and to report any suspicious activity.
Military officials took to Twitter to warn cadets not to wear their uniform.
A spokesman for the 235 Westminster Cadet Detachment wrote: “Reminder not to travel into the unit in uniform. Bring it in a bag and change in the unit.”
Whitehall officials are understood to have noticed increased “chatter” among jihadists wanting to carry out a beheading or other high-profile attack on a serving soldier…

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Hunt for serial sex attacker who could be as young as 12 after five women and girls are indecently assaulted

December 16, 2014, 7:59 am

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Three girls and two women indecently assaulted in the space of two weeks

All the attacks happened in the same area of south Manchester

Police have identified a boy aged 12 to 16 as the prime suspect
Locals say the age of attacker adds to the 'distressing' nature of crimes

Police are hunting a serial sex attacker who they believe may be as young as 12 after a spate of assaults in Manchester.

Three girls and two women have been indecently assaulted in less than two weeks in the Whalley Range area in the south of the city.

The victims, aged between their teens and early 20s, were targeted as they walked alone in College Road and between December 3 and December 12.

Three girls and two women have were indecently assaulted in and around College Road and Park Drive, south Manchester in the space of two weeks. Police are hunting a teenage boy they believe is behind the attacks

The boy is said to be Asian, around 5ft 2in tall, of medium build and it is believed he is aged between 12 and 16.

On each occasion they were either grabbed or groped by the offender. Police say they believe the incidents are linked and working hard to bring the attacker to justice.

The attacks came after the rape of a 22 year-old student in the nearby Fallowfield area of the city just over a week ago. Police are not linking the rape and the recent spate of attacks

Det Sgt Scott Halsall said: 'On each occasion, the victims have been walking alone when they have been approached.

'Each time, the five victims have been either grabbed or inappropriately touched causing them distress.

'Due to the nature of the incidents and the similar description of the offender, we believe they are linked.'

Locals in College Road (pictured) say the attacks have been made all the more disturbing by the apparent young age of the alleged attacker

Local councillor Mary Watson said locals have been left 'very worried' at the series of incidents.

She said: 'The ages of the offender which have been given to police do differ slightly, but it seems he is a young boy and the age of the victims are also young - which makes it particularly distressing, especially for parents.

'The police have been carrying out extra patrols.

'It is getting dark a lot earlier now so seeing a uniformed officer around in the early evening should hopefully put people a little more at ease.

'Local youth groups have also been advising members to make sure they do not go home alone after evening activities.

'It is good to know the police are taking it very seriously and we can only hope that they find the person responsible very soon.'

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Anaesthetist known as 'the octopus' for his groping hands facing jail for grabbing nurses and trying to pass it off as banter

December 16, 2014, 8:30 am

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Dr Niad Ahmed sexually assaulted 2 nurses at South Tyneside Hospital
Anaesthetist was branded an 'octopus' by staff because of lewd behaviour
'Sex pest' convicted of assaults which took place more than a decade ago
Ahmed claimed his behaviour was innocent and dismissed it as banter
Judge told Ahmed, 55, he could be jailed for the crimes against the nurses

Dr Niaz Ahmed has been convicted of sexually assaulting two of his colleagues at South Tyneside Hospital and has been told he may be jailed

An anaesthetist who was branded 'the octopus' for his wandering hands and lewd comments could be jailed for groping nurses at the hospital where he worked.

Dr Niaz Ahmed passed off his behaviour as innocent banter and was referred to as a 'sex pest' by prosecutors at Newcastle Crown Court.

The skilled doctor, who had received numerous warnings from hospital bosses to tone down his behaviour, was convicted of sexually assaulting two of his colleagues more than a decade ago and must now sign the sex offenders register.

Ahmed, who was suspended from medical practice at a tribunal earlier this year for groping a nurse who was treating him after an accident in 2010, was cleared of three similar charges.

Michael Hodson, prosecuting, said: 'Imagine what it was like going to work with a sex pest, always the octopus, hands all over the place, underlined by innuendo.'

Mr Hodson said one nurse victim was targeted in the scrub room at the hospital, where Ahmed squeezed her bottom and asked her 'do you fancy it'.

Another had her breasts prodded by the medic while she was at work and said he had told her 'put them away'.

The 55-year-old doctor had previously told bosses at South Tyneside Hospital that his behaviour was in keeping with 'the culture' at the hospital.

The court heard during a meeting with hospital bosses in 2000 Ahmed accepted it was inappropriate to touch nurses and said any offence caused by him was entirely innocent and accidental.

During a later meeting with management he said his behaviour continued to be innocent.

Ahmed, of Cleadon, had claimed he was the victim of a 'witch hunt' in 2012 after he was cleared of sexually assaulting two teenage girls at a fireworks display in South Shields in 2011.

The youngsters claimed Ahmed had groped them after boasting about the size of his manhood and complaining about his sex life with his wife.

Bradford Crown Court heard Ahmed was branded 'the octopus' because of his lewd behaviour and comments

He had reportedly said he was 'looking for women the day after he got married.'

He will be sentenced next month and Judge Simon Hickey warned him that 'all options remained open', including a jail sentence.

Ahmed was bailed until the sentencing hearing.

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Five arrests in Wales over leaflets recruiting to jihad and two in London after armed anti-terror police stopped vehicle at Dover on its way out of Britain

December 4, 2014, 8:31 am

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Five men arrested in Barry and Cardiff, south Wales this morning
They are being held in relation to alleged support of banned organisations
They are accused of handing out leaflets outside mosques and schools
Two arrested by anti-terror police in separate raids in south-east London
They are being held while police search five homes in London and Stoke
Two sets of arrests not linked - London raids linked to arrests in Dover

Anti-terror police carried out a wave of raids this morning and arrested five men in south Wales and two men in south-east London.

Five men - aged 19 to 32 - were detained in Barry and Cardiff over the alleged handing out of extremist literature on the streets of the Welsh capital.

In a separate probe, the Metropolitan Police arrested two men - aged 33 and 44 - in an ongoing investigation sparked when a vehicle was stopped in Dover at the weekend.

Police outside a house in Barry, south Wales today. Five men have been arrested in the area over the alleged handing out of extremist literature in Cardiff

Detectives were seen entering and leaving the property in Barry - and two other homes in Cardiff - after a wave of raids across the UK today

Police have been searching homes in Colcot Road, Barry and Paget Street and Kent Street in Cardiff after early-morning raids today.

The men, who have not been named by police, are accused of handing out leaflets outside schools and mosques in a bid to recruit teenagers to the cause of Islamic State (ISIS), the jihadist group terrorising Syria and Iraq.

A neighbour of the three-bedroom home in Paget Street being searched said: 'Officers have been coming in and out all morning carrying stuff.

'There's an Asian family that live there but we've never had any trouble whatsoever.'[lol dont they always say that]

Assistant Chief Constable Nikki Holland, head of counter terrorism in Wales, said: 'We have made these arrests because we want to prevent people from going to Syria.'

She insisted there is no more Islamic extremism in the Welsh capital than anywhere else in the UK, adding: 'The scale of counter terrorism in Wales is minimal compared to the entire UK.

'Cardiff is not a hotbed of terrorism and we have a good relationship with our Muslim community.'

In the south-east London raids, a 33-year-old was arrested on suspicion of being concerning in preparing acts of terrorism.

A 40-year-old man was also arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to possess and supply fraudulent documents.

Searches are taking place at five residential addresses; four in south-east London and one in Stoke, as part of investigation which has so far seen eight people detained.

On Sunday, two men were arrested at the Kent port on suspicion of preparing acts of terrorism, a 43-year-old and 33-year-old.

Another man, aged 37, was also arrested on suspicion on people trafficking offences and has since been charged.

The following day, Monday, police from the same Counter Terrorism Command unit arrested two men, aged 24 and 40, in east London and another man, aged 28, in Dover.

All three were held on suspicion of preparing acts of terrorism.

Following those arrests, searches were carried out at four addresses in east London, one in south London and two in North Wales as part of the investigation.

These searches have now been completed. It is understood that operation is in connection to extremism in Syria.

Cardiff has previous links with extremism after two jihadists from the city - Nasser Muthana (right) and Reyaad Khan (left) - appeared in an ISIS video urging other British Muslims to join them in Syria

The arrests come a day after a teenager from Cardiff was charged with assisting in the preparation of an act of terrorism.

Kaleem Brekke, 18, from Grangetown in Cardiff has appeared in court, along with Forhad Rahman, 20, from Cirencester, Gloucester.

Both appeared in separate hearing at Westminster Magistrates' Court charged with assisting in the preparation of an act of terrorism.

Rahman is accused of assisting Aseel Muthana in travelling to Syria in February. He also faces two counts of possessing data on his phone that could assist terrorism.

Aseel Muthana, also from Cardiff, is believed to have travelled to Syria to join his brother, Nasser.

Brekke is also charged with assisting Aseel Muthana travel to Syria. Both he and Rahman were remanded in custody to appear separately at the Old Bailey on December 19.

Cardiff's links to extremism were exposed when Reyaad Khan, 21, and Aseel Muthana's brother, Nasser, 20, appeared in an ISIS recruitment video believed to have been filmed in Syria earlier this year.

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Khan Line drug gang 'thought they were untouchable'

December 17, 2014, 12:22 pm

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Police knew there was major drugs supply chain in West Watford called the Khan Line years before slapping handcuffs on its ringleaders.

Yet it was only through a dangerous undercover operation that police finally pieced together who was behind the crack cocaine and heroin network blighting the town.

In an interview with the Watford Observer, Detective Inspector Tannis Perks, who led the team which smashed the gang, described the police operation which snared one of the town’s most prolific drug supply rings.

She said it was a series of arrests of low-level dealers in 2010 that gave officers their first real sniff of the operation in practice.

It was clear that the vulnerable and often young drug couriers picked up by police in West Watford were not organising themselves.

From that point the officers decided to launch an operation to uncover and take out those controlling the Khan Line.

“We knew whoever was running the Khan Line was causing a lot of misery for a lot of people,” said DI Perks.

From September 2010 undercover officers worked to build up a picture of how the operation was run.

They discovered that all calls came through to a single pay-as-you-go number, which was receiving in excess of 100 a day.

When calls came through drug users would order using slang such as “brandy” for heroin of “whisky” for crack.A member of the Khan gang was allocated responsibility for the phone at the beginning of the day and line was open for business as soon as it was switched on.

DI Perks said once an order had been placed the caller was given a location for the pick-up.

The Khans would then contact a street dealer and direct them to the location with packages.

Both the locations and dealers chosen were at random to keep police from establishing a pattern and keep the Khans at arm’s length from the transactions.

The gang would also frequently change the house from which they operated to avoid police.

DI Perks said: “They picked on vulnerable individuals and took over their houses. They would turn up with the drugs phone and commandeer the house to run the line from.”

The service was only open to buyers the Khans knew or those whom had been vouched for by people they trusted.

The undercover work needed to get officers close enough to buy from the line was exhaustive and treacherous.

“It is a very stressful environment to work in for undercover officers, being on the ground and at risk of being compromised,” added DI Perks.

However undercover police managed to buy drugs from using the line numerous times - to the point where some of the Khans themselves sold directly to the officers.

During the operation police amassed other evidence linking the Khans to the drug dealing, including records of them topping up the Khan Line phone with credit and finger prints on drug packaging.

DI Perks said when she and her team felt they had enough to evidence they consulted with the Crime Prosecution Service.

The result was that in June last year 150 police raided 11 addresses across West Watford including in Whippendell Road, Euston Avenue and Durban Road West.

DI Perks said officer found drugs and cash and the gang members offered little resistance to the police.

Following the sentencing of the gang’s leaders, DI Perks added: “It is an absolutely cracking result for us, we are really, really pleased.

“I am sure many people in the community thought they were untouchable and they thought they were untouchable, but they were not as clever as they thought.”

On Monday ten members of the Khan Line gang were sentenced at St Albans Crown Court :

Arfan Khan, 27, of Durban Road West – sentenced to 9 years

Ahsan Khan, 25, of Durban Road West – sentenced to 7 years

Umar Khan, 31, of Trinity Hall Close – sentenced to 9 years

Simon Alcott, 41 of Wiggenhall Road– sentenced to 4 years

Lloyd Clarke, 22, of Euston Avenue – sentenced to 4 years

Jabraan Azlam, 25, of Charlock Way – sentenced to 4 years

Kazim Khan, 21 of Rose Gardens – sentenced to 5 years. (Plus 2 years for offences committed while on bail)

A 16 year old boy from Watford – sentenced to a 2 year youth rehabilitation order

Hussayn Naqvi, 18 of Longspring – sentenced to 2 years. (Plus 2 years concurrent for other offences committed while on bail)

Scott Messenger, aged 21 and from Broadfield Road in Hemel Hempstead – sentenced to 12 months suspended for 2 years

Four others were sentenced in connection with the Khan Line at an earlier hearing:

Attar Khan, 29, of Trinity Hall Close was fined £65, court costs of £85 and £15 victim surcharge

Lukan Briggs, 37, of Whippendell Road, received a community order of 18 months

Daniel Frame, 31, of Upper Lattimore Road, received a community order of 1 year with 80 hours unpaid work

Susan Armstrong, 44, of Whippendell Road, received a community order of 18 months

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Two men held on suspicion of supporting a banned organisation 'after pro-Islamic State flyers handed out in London's Oxford Street'

December 17, 2014, 12:25 pm

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Metropolitan Police arrested men aged 37 and 61 in Luton, Bedfordshire
They are accused of supporting one of 63 banned terrorist organisations
UK's banned groups include ISIS, Al Qaeda, Al Shabaab and Boko Haram
According to one report, arrests follow storm over leaflets in August

Two men have been arrested by counter-terror police today on suspicion of supporting a banned organisation.

According to one report, the arrests followed a storm earlier this year over extremists handing out leaflets in London’s Oxford Street which urged Britons to join a new 'Islamic State'.

Officers from the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command arrested the men, aged 37 and 61, this morning in Luton, Bedfordshire.

They were taken to a nearby police station where they were due to be questioned under Schedule 5 of the Terrorism Act 2000, a Scotland Yard spokesman said.

There are 63 international terrorist organisations proscribed under the Terrorism Act 2000 including Islamic State (also known as ISIS), Al Qaeda, Al Shabaab, Al Muhajiroun and Boko Haram.

Although the vast majority are radical Islamist groups, the Act also proscribes Northern Ireland related groups such as the Irish Republican Army and Ulster Freedom Fighters.

According to the Telegraph's security editor Tom Whitehead, today's arrests came after a storm which surrounded leaflets which were handed out in London's busiest shopping street.

There was an outcry in August after the leaflets, which were photographed and appeared on Twitter, heralded the 'dawn of a new era' in a newly-created 'Islamic State'.

Declaring 'The Khilafah has been re-established', one leaflet claimed 'the Khilafah (Islamic State)' had been destroyed in 1924.

It added: 'After many attempts and great sacrifices... the Muslims with the help of Allah have announced the re-establishment of the Khilafah.'

The leaflet also called on Muslims to 'migrate and resettle' to the supposed state, 'obey' its leaders and 'expose lies and fabrications' about it, though did not state explicitly where it was.

Commons Home Affairs Committee chairman Keith Vaz said at the time he would ask the Metropolitan Police to investigate, adding:

'The public should not be subjected to a terrorist recruitment drive in the middle of Europe’s biggest shopping high street.'

Ghaffar Hussain, managing director of the anti-extremism foundation Quilliam, said at the time: 'This is a very disturbing development but one that should not come as a surprise since we are aware that around 500 British nationals have joined up with ISIS already.'

However, there was a debate over whether the leaflets broke the law, because the one pictured did not appear to reference any banned groups directly.

A Metropolitan Police spokesman declined to confirm or deny the Telegraph's report

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Spared jail, mum who helped fraudster boyfriend dupe the taxman out of £1.2m

December 17, 2014, 12:27 pm

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Mother-of-five Shabana Asim, from Rochdale, is handed suspended sentence at Manchester Crown Court for assisting VAT scam by Mubashir Alam

A mum-of-five who helped her fraudster boyfriend dupe the taxman into paying him a fortune has been spared jail.

As reported in the M.E.N. last month, Mubashir Alam - who also uses the name Mubbashir Ali - masterminded tax frauds which attempted to cheat £1.25m in VAT refunds.

His girlfriend, Shabana Asim has now been sentenced for fronting two of the businesses he used to cheat the system on an industrial scale.

Tax rules allow firms to reclaim VAT paid on goods and services they have bought for business use.

In order to scam huge sums, Alam, from Rochdale, registered company names and claimed to have spent a fortune on goods like sewing machines and material for the manufacture of children’s clothes and womenswear.

In reality the companies Alam, 39, set up were not making anything - but by faking invoices he duped the taxman into refunding VAT on goods he hadn’t bought.

Convicted heroin dealer Alam began the fraud within weeks of leaving jail for another offence in 2007.

While in prison, he prepared for the scam by reading hundreds of books on business.

By 2010, he was under investigation for cheating £685,000 from the public purse.

Undeterred, he moved his operation to County Durham, where he set up new businesses which netted £140,000 in false refund claims, using his then-girlfriend Asim, 45, as a front.

Asim helped Alam secure premises for two of these bogus businesses in the north east, was named as a director, and signed cheques for the purposes of the fraud.

Manchester Crown Court heard that at first she believed the businesses were genuine, but carried on helping Alam when she realised what he was really up to, until her arrest in 2013.

Her lawyer told the court that Alam ‘took advantage’ of Asim, a single mum with no previous convictions.

Judge Martin Rudland, sentencing, concluded Asim, of Bentmeadows, Rochdale, had been much less involved than Gemma Caffrey, 33, who helped Alam between 2007 and 2010.

Caffrey, who had previous convictions for dishonesty, was jailed for six months last month.

Sentencing Asim, who admitted cheating the revenue, to six months suspended for two years, Judge Rudland said: “(Alam) seems to have used both of you - Caffrey and yourself - to assist in the preparation of a complex and sophisticated fraud.

"You were both at various times in a relationship with him, so he was able to assume some control over you.”

Alam was jailed for five years after admitting cheating the public revenue and furnishing false returns.

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Man who raped and beat woman in three hour ordeal jailed for 11 years

December 17, 2014, 12:29 pm

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A man who kept a woman prisoner for three hours while he raped and beat her has been jailed for 11 years.

Serwan Abdullah repeatedly assaulted the woman in a house in Leicester in May this year. The woman’s young child was present throughout the attacks.

Her ordeal ended when she managed to escape from the house, clutching her child.

She was taken to safety by a passing motorist.

Police have praised the woman’s "immense bravery" and the motorist’s "quick thinking and kindness".

Abullah, (28), of Narborough Road, Leicester was sentenced at Nottingham Crown Court earlier this month. He had been convicted of a series of crimes at an earlier hearing.

Leicestershire Police released details of the case today.

Officers said the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had endured a three hour ordeal at Abdullah’s hands.

He said he intended to kill her, officers said.

Believing he intended to carry out the threat, the woman ran into the street holding her young child and managed to flag down a passing motorist, who was on his way to work.

He took her to safety and alerted the police.

Abdullah was tracked down and arrested.

In November he was convicted of one count of rape, two counts of assault by penetration, one count of threats to kill and one count of actual bodily harm.

Detective Constable Michael Buckey, who led the investigation, said: "The victim was left traumatised by these events.

"She has shown immense bravery throughout this investigation and has had to relive the events when giving evidence at the trial.

"The passing motorist should also be recognised for his help to the distressed victim.

"His quick thinking and kindness assisted her in coming to no further harm for which I am sure she is extremely grateful.

"I am pleased with the verdict and I hope that it goes some way in helping the victim move on with her life and put the events of that night behind her."

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Britain was just 'days' from a terror attack - with FIVE plots foiled since the summer, Met police chief reveals

December 17, 2014, 12:39 pm

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Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe reveals scale of terror threat faced by Britain
In last four months, five plots have been thwarted and 35 people arrested
There is 'no doubt' UK extremists are as dangerous as Sydney gunman
Demanded an extra £50million to fund counter-terror operations
Children aged 15, including growing numbers of girls, travelling to Syria

Britain has been just days from a major terror attack, with five plots foiled in the last four months, Met Police chief Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe revealed today.

Terrorists have been 'very close to hurting somebody badly, or killing them' since the summer and there is 'no doubt' that there are extremists in the UK as dangerous as the gunman behind the Sydney café siege, the Commissioner warned.

And he claimed officers are struggling to cope with the mountain of digital files seized in police raids, with recent cases seeing terror suspects hours from being released before crucial evidence was found for them to be charged.

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Sir Bernard Hogan Howe warned officers are struggling to cope with the mountain of digital files seized in police raids

David Cameron last night warned Britain could be hit 'at any moment' by a Sydney-style terror attack.

Two hostages died and Islamic extremist Man Haron Monis was killed after a 16-hour siege in the busy financial district of the Australian capital.

The Prime Minister said it was only through the efforts of the security services that plots to murder UK police officers 'in cold blood' had been foiled in recent months.

But Sir Bernard insisted that the police need extra resources to deal with the growing terror threat in Britain. In a wide-ranging interview, the country's most senior police chief:

Revealed five plots have been thwarted in the past four months, including some which were just days away from killing and maiming on the streets of Britain
Demanded an extra £50million to fund counter-terror operations, including tracking suspects and analysing digital evidence
Warned that children as young as 15, including growing numbers of girls, are travelling to fight in Syria, using Spain as a stop-off to Turkey to avoid detection
Appealed to members of the public, and even other criminals, to report any unusual behaviour which could be linked to terrorism

Sir Bernard told LBC Radio: 'In terms of plots over these last four months really it's probably five. We have arrested 35 people.'

The dramatic warning comes amid growing fears of a so-called lone wolf attack in the UK.

In Sydney, the Iranian asylum seeker Monis struck terror into the heart of the city after taking 17 staff and customers hostages inside the Lindt cafe in Martin Place.

The 50-year-old gunman is believed to have fired the first shots, which sparked teams of heavily armed police to swoop on the café at 2am on Tuesday.

Asked if there were people in Britain as dangerous as Monis, Sir Bernard told LBC radio: 'There will be, there's no doubt. You look at what happened to Lee Rigby.

'There are people out there who are dangerous, and that's why we keep arresting them because we need to stop them hurting people.

'And the operations we have talked about earlier, they have been very close to hurting somebody badly, or killing them. So they are a threat. Very, very close.'

Pressed on how close the plots had been to being carried out before being intercepted by police, he replied: 'I'm acknowledging days.'

Terror suspects can be held for up to 14 days before they must be charged or released.

Sir Bernard revealed: 'The last couple of case we have got right to the wire, to 13 days, I fact 13 and a half days, another one 12 days, and then we've found the thing we needed to prove the charge.

'Had we not got that we'd have had to release on bail. So for those reasons we need some help.'

The government last month announced that an extra £130million would be made available over the next two years for the security services to 'monitor and disrupt those self-starting terrorists'.

But Sir Bernard said Scotland Yard needed more money to cope with the rising threat level and the increasingly complex use of technology by criminals and terrorists.

Police and security officials have previously warned it is 'almost inevitable' that Britain will be hit by an attack by fanatics who have been 'militarised' by Islamic State.

Sir Bernard warned that have a 'radicalised individual' with weapon taking many people hostage is 'a terrifying prospect' which is 'very difficult to guard against'.

He stressed that the best defence that the police has is good intelligence.

'It means members of the public tell us when they are worried about someone. Other criminals tell us when they are worried about people.

'We get some of our best information from criminals, for various motives, frankly sometimes financial, but sometimes they don't like them, sometimes they're frightened of them.

'We get the best information from people in that area.'

Last night the Prime Minister warned it was much harder for the authorities to prevent attacks by fanatics who are 'self-radicalised on the internet' than to tackle known extremists who had travelled to the Middle East.

Mr Cameron, appearing before senior MPs at the Commons Liaison Committee, said: 'The threat we face definitely includes those sort of self-starting, sometimes quite random attacks that could happen at any moment in Britain.

'We've seen over the last few months there have been a series of plots that have been detected and prevented that would have seen police officers or other authorities murdered in cold blood.

'It's thanks to the brilliance of our security services that these things have been prevented.'

But he added: 'We can't count on them to prevent it every time because it is one thing understanding the terror networks coming out of Pakistan or Afghanistan or Iraq and Syria, trying to monitor what they're doing, who's going and who's returning.

That's one thing.

'But people who are self-radicalised on the internet, who then suddenly do appalling things, that is much more difficult to prevent.'

'We need an extra £50million to find needles in digital haystack'

Scotland Yard has requested an extra £50million to track and prosecute terror suspects.

Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe revealed he has asked the government for 'more help', including staff to trawl millions of digital files seized in counter-terror raids.

He likened trying to find conclusive evidence of extremism to looking for a needle in a haystack, adding: 'The last job we had 10 haystacks and weren't sure which one the needle was in.'

Police need more resources to trawl computers, laptops and mobiles seized in raids to secure a prosecution, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe said

Sir Bernard said: 'Have we got enough resources? Well we have asked the government for more help.

'We are losing money, but in this area we have got to invest so we have asked for around £50milion for across the country. We are waiting for an answer on that. We need it.'

He said counter-terror operations 'use lots of people' and cost a lot of money.They are resource intensive when trying to track suspects around the clock.

But once someone has been arrested, officers facing a daunting task in analysing their computer files for evidence.

Sir Bernard added: 'When we arrest them what we have found is we are seizing huge amounts of digital evidence, computers, laptops, all the things we all have.

'One of the operations, the last one I think, one person had about 19 devices. Now you think that's ridiculous. But you think how many devices you have at home.

The last job we had 10 haystacks and weren't sure which one the needle was in. It's really hard

'We get all that, then we've got to download it, and then having downloaded it we have got to find the stuff.

'Sometimes you are looking for a needle in a haystack. The last job we had 10 haystacks and weren't sure which one the needle was in. It's really hard. So we are getting backlogs in the digital retrieval.'

The government insists that it does not break down the counter-terrorism budget into individual lump sums it is only ever published as a single total figure.

Officials also refused to discuss the details of funding requests made by 'operational partners'.

Mr Cameron last month announced that an extra £130million would be made available over the next two years for the security services to 'monitor and disrupt those self-starting terrorists'.

The PM's official spokesman said: 'We have already protected funding for counter terrorism policing due to the ongoing threat posed to the UK by terrorism and more recently the Prime Minister announced an additional £130million to strengthen counter-terrorism capabilities.

'This will include new funding to enhance our ability to monitor and disrupt terrorists and some of this funding will go to counter-terrorism policing.'

A Home Office spokesman added: 'Public protection is the first responsibility of any government and we are committed to ensuring the police and other agencies have the resources they need to respond to changing threats.

'While all public services must constrain their spending, we have protected funding for counter terrorism policing due to the ongoing threat posed to the UK by terrorism.

'The Prime Minister has also announced an additional £130million which will be made available over the next two years to strengthen counter-terrorism capabilities.

This will include new funding to enhance our ability to monitor and disrupt terrorists and additional resources for programmes to prevent radicalisation.'

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muslim EXPOSES HIMSELF TO DOG WALKER IN WORCESTER

December 18, 2014, 9:51 am

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Yet another instance of a Muslim pervert who thinks its clever to expose himself to a random female. This latest offence happened in Gheluvelt Park, Worcester where are a lone female dog walker was flashed at. There has been that many indecent exposures carried out by Muslim sex offenders this year that I’ve totally lost count.

Here is a few others that have featured on KC this year

Witness appeal after man exposes himself to woman in Gheluvelt Park

A DOG walker was left shocked after a man exposed himself to her in a Worcester park.

The woman was walking along the brook in Gheluvelt Park at about 3pm on Friday, November 21, when she saw the man exposing himself to her.

She shouted a warning at an elderly woman who was walking towards the bridge, at which point the man ran off.

Neither woman was touched or hurt in the incident.

The flasher was described as Asian, about 5ft 6in tall, of slight build and was clean shaven with dark skin. He is thought to be in his late 20s or early 30s and was wearing a black leather jacket, dark jeans and a knitted black beanie hat.

Constable Amanda Gregg is leading the investigation and has appealed for anyone who was in the area at the time to contact her.

“This is of particular concern given the time and place of the incident,” she said.

“We are working hard to ensure the offender is brought to justice and we urge anyone who may have been in the park at the time of the incident or may have seen someone matching the description to get in touch.”

Anyone with any information can call police on 101 quoting incident number 372-s-211114.

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