Oxford child sex abuse ring: seven jailed for torture and rape of girls [UK]

The Guardian ^ | Thursday 27 June 2013 11.42 EDT | Alexandra Topping

[DeaconBenjamin]

Oxford gang members: Akhtar Dogar, Anjum Dogar, Kamar Jamil, Assad Hussain, Mohammed Karrar, Bassam Karrar and Zeeshan Ahmed who were found guilty of child sexual exploitation Photograph: PA

Seven men who were part of a brutal paedophile ring that raped, tortured and abused vulnerable girls as young as 11 in Oxford have been jailed.

Five were sentenced to life and will serve a minimum of between 12 and 20 years after one of the biggest child sexual exploitation trials in recent years.

The severity of the jail terms, which are longer than those in other high-profile grooming cases such as Rochdale and Derby, sent out a message to abusers that they would be targeted and brought to justice.

Sentencing the men, Judge Peter Rook said that they had committed "a series of sexual crimes of the utmost depravity" and had targeted "young girls because they were vulnerable, underage and out of control".

Brothers Akhtar Dogar, 32, and Anjum Dogar, 31, were given life sentences and were found guilty of "exceptionally grave crimes." Ahktar Dogar was told he had robbed a victim known as Girl A of her teenage years. "You took her soul, she felt as though it had been ripped out. You put her parents through years of torture," said the judge.

A second pair of brothers, Bassam Karrar, 33, and Mohammed Karrar, 38, were also given life sentences. Mohammed Karrar was given a minimum tariff of 20 years for the "dreadful offences" he committed against the girls, including one child whom he branded and sold when she was only 11 and forced to have a backstreet abortion when she was 12. The judge said he treated one of his victims as his "commodity" and forced another to carry out "depraved sexual" acts.

[SilverMine]

Seven animals, seven bullets.....easy peasie.

Pork coated bullets, after a forced pulled pork dinner.

[Trod Upon]

Let me guess...it’s not the Irish.

[rawhide]

They all need to be executed!

[BwanaNdege]

One rope.

Reuse repeatedly.

Efficient

Quiet

Re-useable

Organic (if that's your thing... heck, if could even be a hemp rope for all you potheads out there)

If these animals want to be "swingers", well, the rope is a great solution.

[1066AD]

A similar rape case in Sweden drew sentences of simply community service and a fine, unbelievable.

[tillacum]

EEE gads, I thought they may have been Presbyterians.

[madprof98]

Unbelievable? I assume you mean that Sweden punished such an activity at all.

[Sicon]

Hey, I think you're all being very narrow-minded here. We need to be accepting and open to people of all cultures and backgrounds, including those who worship a bloodthirsty pedophile named Muhammed (or is it Mohammed, as if I care?) and who rape and murder women and children.

</sarcasm>

Just in case you couldn't tell.

[Gene Eric]

Sharia in action. It’s what the United Kingdom wants, right?

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Why waste bullets on these pigs—Decapitation! That’s what they would get in Saudi Arabia. That or let them in with the other prisoners and have the guards look away for ten minutes in the yard. Justice will be served—what they did was against Christian, secular and Islamic Law.

[svcw]

Are you sure their actions were against islamic law?
I say it isn't

[the scotsman]

Oh yes, child rapists and molesters and killers are despised, and have to be kept from the main prison populace for their own safety.

[VideoDoctor]

Those wacky muzzies at it again. /s

[the scotsman]

Nope. And don’t let the hype tell you so.