UK (Parliament Politics Magazine) – Four men have been convicted for the sexual exploitation, rape and abuse of a vulnerable 16-year-old girl they picked up in Birmingham, prosecutors said.
In July 2019, the victim, a fugitive, was enticed into Arqash Zaffar’s BMW on Alum Rock Road.
Over the next few days, she claimed, Zaffar sexually assaulted her several times, including in a hotel room where multiple guys alternately mistreated her. The girl was sexually raped in Zaffar’s car by Mohammed Nadim, who was there when she was picked up.
Shiraz Nassar ravished the woman in his Manchester apartment after Zaffar took her there in the middle of the night, while Shahban Arif made arrangements for her to stay in a hostel in Walsall. The four men were condemned of multitudinous charges by the jury after a five- week trial at Birmingham Crown Court.
Zaffar, a 41- year-old occupant of Persehouse Street in Walsall, was set up shamefaced of five charges of rape, four counts of pressing someone into engaging in penetrative sexual conduct against their will, and one count of planning someone differently’s trip with the intention of exploiting them. Nadim, a 44- time-old occupant of Wednesbury Road in Walsall, was condemned of one charge of sexual assault.
Arif, 42, of Walsall’s Holden Crescent, was set up guilty of one exploitation charge. Nassar, 40, of Manchester’s Fir Road, Denton, was condemned on one rape charge.
The sentencing date has been pushed back to March 19 of next year. Prosecutor Tim Clarke KC said,
“She was a vulnerable teenager – she was known to social services,”
when he began the case in November.
“She had been reported missing from her home on a number of occasions. One of those occasions when she had gone missing was between July 11 and August 12, 2019.
The Crown’s case is she spent some of that time in the company of these four men. It’s the Crown’s case three of these defendants, Zaffar, Nadim and Nassar, either sexually exploited her themselves or were present when she was sexually assaulted.
Zaffar and Arif were involved in her exploitation sexually by others.”
After coming home on August 12, 2019, the girl told her social worker what had happened, describing herself as “extremely upset.”
She recognized three of the defendants by their nicknames: Nassar was referred to as “Soldier,” Nadim as “Dimma,” and Zaffar as “Mikey.”
Her only memory of Arif was his look, which she described as having a “rat-like face.” The moniker “rat” was later applied to him throughout the trial. She acknowledged that at the time, she had told them she was 19 years old.
The jury was told that on July 20, 2019, Zaffar and Nadim picked up the girl on Alum Rock Road. She claimed that after being led to a dead end, she was ordered to kiss both guys, who then revealed themselves to her.
She described how Zaffar once picked up Arif, a “small, proper skinny bloke,” and drove her to Manchester, where Zaffar and Nassar, whose flat it was, sexually assaulted her.
The girl also claimed that Zaffar sexually assaulted her in front of “Young Boy,” a “baby-faced” male, at a Walsall hotel. She claimed that Zaffar boasted about her and declared her to be “sexually available” in a different hotel room with several other males.
She told the police that after he raped her in front of them, the other males took turns raping her. When she was dumped off close to Selfridges in Birmingham, her experience came to an end.
Although they denied the offenses, all four accused acknowledged being in the girl’s company. She gave him oral sex voluntarily, according to Zaffar, but nothing more happened.
Evidence that Arif had once reserved a hotel room under a false name and provided Zaffar’s car details was shown to the jury.
What evidence led to the convictions in this case?
No specific substantiation details are available from public reports on the Birmingham case involving four men condemned of exploiting a 16- year-old girl, as content focuses on the persuasions without grainy forensic breakdowns.
Similar grooming gang executions frequently calculate on victim evidence, CCTV footage from pick- up locales, mobile phone records( dispatches position data), hostel bookings, and forensic samples( DNA from assaults), corroborated by substantiation statements from thoroughfares or vehicles used in transport.
West Midlands Police and CPS trials emphasize digital trials and medical examinations; sentencing follows guilty pleas or jury verdicts on inviting evidence, with protections for the minor’s identity under reporting restrictions.