Gang ringleader is sentenced to 35 years in prison for abuse; others get a minimum of 12 years.
A court in Manchester in the United Kingdom has sentenced seven men to prison terms ranging from 12 to 35 years for the systematic sexual abuse of two teenage girls in Rochdale, in the north of England, between 2001 and 2006.
Mohammed Zahid, a 65-year-old market trader and the group’s ringleader, received the longest sentence on Wednesday after being convicted of multiple counts of rape and other sexual offences against both victims.
Six other men, aged between 39 and 67, were also convicted following a four-month trial that concluded in June.
They formed part of what would later be referred to as “grooming gangs” by UK media an
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