Child Grooming Gang In Newcastle 18 Convicted.

[mackem 23,785]

18 people convicted after girls and young women groomed, drugged and raped in Newcastle

 

Under-age girls and vulnerable young women were taken to parties in Newcastle and groomed with drugs before being raped and sexually abused, it can now be reported.

A total of 17 men and one woman have been convicted of, or have admitted, charges including rape, supplying drugs and inciting prostitution, in a series of trials at Newcastle Crown Court.

Older men preyed on immature teenagers who were plied with cocaine, cannabis, alcohol or mephedrone, then raped or persuaded into having sexual activity with the lure of the illegal drugs at parties known as "sessions".

 

Northumbria Police launched a major investigation after receiving information from social workers and initially spoke to 108 potential victims.

Over the course of four trials, 20 young women gave evidence covering a period from 2011 to 2014.

Those prosecuted were from the Bangladeshi, Pakistani, Indian, Iraqi, Iranian and Turkish communities and mainly British-born, with most living in the West End of Newcastle.

The investigation into child sexual exploitation in Newcastle, Operation Shelter, was part of a wider inquiry called Operation Sanctuary.

The wider operation has seen around 100 people convicted of a range of serious offences, including drugs, modern-day slavery and firearms charges, with jail terms totalling more than 300 years.

 

Northumbria Police made frequent announcements after launching Operation Sanctuary in 2014, but then stopped releasing details once reporting restrictions were imposed by the courts to avoid prejudicing later prosecutions.

That left a vacuum of information which some on the far right looked to exploit, claiming details were suppressed.

The English Defence League claimed "the long silence about these cases reeks of manipulation and procrastination for political purposes".

Over the course of the consecutive trials, a picture emerged of how victims were befriended by abusers and lured to parties where they would be given mephedrone, or M-Kat, for free.

Police pieced together links between the offenders, using telephone data to show how they knew each other, gathered at the same places or had mutual acquaintances.

As with the Rochdale, Rotherham and Oxford grooming cases, victims were conned into thinking they were in a relationship with their abuser, who would then pass them round their network to be used for sex, sometimes with the encouragement of the class B drug M-Kat, or cannabis.

Known as "Bubble" on Tyneside, M-Kat has similar effects to Ecstasy and can be quickly addictive.

Defendants were charged with conspiracy to incite prostitution for gain - reflecting how women were exploited with drink or drugs.

Roles within the conspiracy included providing the premises, supplying drugs, transporting victims, having sex with them or encouraging it to happen.

There was no suggestion the victims were working as prostitutes or were paid.

Not all the defendants were part of the conspiracy.

The progress of the four trials was halted in October last year when defence barristers tried to have the cases thrown out over the existence of a police informant - named in court as XY - who it emerged was himself a child rapist. That application failed.

John Elvidge QC, who prosecuted the cases, said girls were exploited ruthlessly.

Summing up the final trial, he said: "This was a section of young women who were tricked into believing they were in the company of friends.

"They were groomed and lulled into trusting those who would ultimately abuse them."

Under cross-examination, one victim said she did not go to the police because she was addicted to the drugs the abusers were handing out.

One girl described how a victim was demeaned in a flat in Newcastle's West End.

She told the jury: "She seemed scared. She came into the room where I was and the men were treating her like a slave.

"They were dropping things on the floor on purpose to make her pick them up."

While investigating the abuse of girls, police used disruption tactics such as pulling over taxis to check occupants were safe and alerting hotels to what might be happening.

 

[Francie 6,362]

Disgusting filfthy b*****ds need tortured an hung.

[baz 463]

It must worrying allowing young daughters out in areas that are infested with these "multicultural " gangs .... The punishments definatley will not suit the crime

[Born Hunter 17,638]

There's a bit of outrage that Plod used a convicted sex offender, Mr XY, as a tax payer paid undercover intelligence source.

 

As on the other threads about paedo's, my take is that if it gets results then I can stomach it. The safety of children comes before my own hatred of paedo's.

[mackem 23,785]

Plod spokesperson has just said "Any area that says it doesn't have this problem is simply not looking for it",its a f***ing pandemic across the country wherever there are congregations of Islamic males.

Edited August 9, 2017 by mackem

[mackem 23,785]

I think the white girl is a procurer of young kids for the gang,string her up.

 

[walshie 2,804]

18 banged up and another few hundred just waiting to step into their shoes. If I had a young daughter, she wouldn't be allowed out without me till she was 30. Why are these dogs allowed to do as they want in our country but we aren't?

[waltjnr 5,972]

Walshie, that's a question I ask myself a lot now days, think some how we are dumbed down, how I don't know, the fire in our bellies has been extinguished, I don't care what any of you say, if the young teens early 20 year olds we have today had to endure the 1St or 2nd world war, we'd be fuxxed! What ever seems to go on in the world we just plod on, moan, light a tea light, moan on a forum , and carry on. Weird really don't know why, we seem to have definitely lost something!

[mackem 23,785]

A total of 17 men and one woman have now been convicted of a string of offences and face jail when they are sentenced next month.

Four of the men - Mohammed Ali, Solful Islam, Yasser Hussain and Redwan Siddquee - have already been sent to prison for a total of 20 years and four months.

Northumbria Police Chief Constable Steve Ashman said in a statement today: 'To date we have arrested 461 people, spoken to 703 potential complainants and have found 278 victims.

'In total we now have 93 convictions delivering more than 300 years of imprisonment in addition to today's convictions.'

[delswal 3,817]

There's a bit of outrage that Plod used a convicted sex offender, Mr XY, as a tax payer paid undercover intelligence source.

 

As on the other threads about paedo's, my take is that if it gets results then I can stomach it. The safety of children comes before my own hatred of paedo's.

The informant in question was paid £10,000 to act as an undercover informant, money well spent? For them convictions yes, should a previous convicted child molester be rewarded not a chance, he should have been told "you're lucky to still be alive, so you're going under cover or under the ground your choice".

[Jamie m 668]

 

A total of 17 men and one woman have now been convicted of a string of offences and face jail when they are sentenced next month.

Four of the men - Mohammed Ali, Solful Islam, Yasser Hussain and Redwan Siddquee - have already been sent to prison for a total of 20 years and four months.

Northumbria Police Chief Constable Steve Ashman said in a statement today: 'To date we have arrested 461 people, spoken to 703 potential complainants and have found 278 victims.

'In total we now have 93 convictions delivering more than 300 years of imprisonment in addition to today's convictions.'

That means 2 and a half years each

[Pirate 9000 675]

If you turn the tables white gangs raping Pakistani young girls there would be riot's like this country had never seen, we obviously don't really care has much.

[Jonjon79 13,340]

Absolute scum - especially that bitch that set up the kids.

 

They should all be sent to different prisons and, left on regular wings - I'm sure the dads in there will dish out some proper justice.

 

She should be burned at the stake in a market square as a message.

[Francie 6,362]

Theyl be out in couple months, no doubt about it.

[C556 351]

Lets be really honest here no white british males give enough of a fcuk to do anything about it, not even their own fathers brothers uncles...no fcuker, what a sad sorry state this country has become when we sit back and allow the systematic rape and torture of our children by these 3rd world animals

If they did, I bet the authorities and media would be all over them, denouncing them as nazis with the police rounding them up.