A 59-year-old Pakistani, ringleader of an Asian sex gang that preyed on white schoolgirls, has been convicted by a British court of raping a minor Asian girl 30 times in 10 years
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Shabir Ahmed, a father of four, was the leader of the gang of nine criminals who were jailed last month for a total of 77 years, The Sun reported.
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He alone was sentenced to 19 years, but was not identified at that time fearing that jury would be swayed when he was hauled into the dock.
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Six men and six women in the jury included two Asians. All reporting restrictions were later lifted by Judge Mushtaq Khokhar at the Manchester Crown Court.
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It has now been revealed that during that trial, the leader of the gang from Rochdale put a curse on the court and everyone in it.
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He told the jury: "We were all innocent. No Pakistani went knocking on doors saying, 'Have you got any young girls? Can we have sex with them?'"
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The judge warned him that he was destroying his own protective legal shield.
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Ahmed, a former Oldham council worker, said there was "nothing I or my fellow convicted people have to fear".
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He told the two policemen flanking him, "I hope you rot in hell like me".
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The traumatised Asian girl told the court Ahmed first raped her when she was so small that she used a chair to reach a sink. He continued to rape her for 10 years.
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Ahmed will be sentenced next month.
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