A MAN aged 37 is behind bars awaiting a prison sentence for sexually abusing two young girls when he was a teenager.

Naser Mahmood, of Bradford Road, Shipley, was yesterday convicted by a jury at Bradford Crown Court of two offences of rape and six allegations of indecent assault.

Mahmood was remanded in custody by Judge Neil Davey QC to be sentenced on Wednesday, February 27.

The judge told Mahmood he had been found guilty of extremely serious child sexual offences and would be going to prison. During the trial, the jury heard that one girl reported the abuse in 2012 but did not take the allegation further at that time.

She alerted the police in 2016 that Mahmood had raped her. Mahmood told the police that the women were lying and he had done nothing wrong.