Rapists and burglars among those jailed this week at Bradford

NINE men were jailed for a total of more than 132 years for their roles in the “wicked and relentless” grooming, rape and sexual exploitation of two vulnerable girls from a Bradford care home.

The teenager at the heart of the seven-week trial was plied with alcohol and cocaine before being “raped without blandishment but with violence” by several of the defendants.

“She was treated by you, or some of you, like a toy or a commodity to be used,” the Recorder of Bradford, Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC, said.

Basharat Khaliq, 38, of Glaisdale Court, Allerton, Bradford, was jailed for a total of 20 years for five offences of rape and a count of assault by penetration.

Saeed Akhtar, 55, of Back Girlington Road, Bradford, was also locked up for 20 years. He was convicted of one offence of rape and two charges of causing or inciting child prostitution, by sending the girl out to exchange sex for drugs.

Naveed Akhtar, 43, of Newport Place, Manningham, Bradford, was jailed for 17 years for two offences of rape.

Parvaze Ahmed, 36, of Farcliffe Road, Manningham, Bradford, was also jailed for 17 years, for three rapes.

Izar Hussain, 32, of St Leonards Road, off Duckworth Lane, Bradford, was jailed for 16 years for rape and attempted rape.

Kieran Harris, 28, of Fir Parade, Dewsbury, was jailed for 17 years for two rapes.

Fahim Iqbal, 28, of Quarry Road, West Town, Dewsbury, was convicted of one charge of aiding and abetting rape and jailed for seven years.

Mohammed Usman, 31, of Quaker Street, Undercliffe, Bradford, was jailed for 17 years for two rapes.

Zeeshan Ali, 32, of Durham Terrace, Girlington, was jailed for 18 months for sexual assault.

A FORMER school teacher turned mixed martial arts fighter was jailed for seven-and-a-half years for raping a woman and harassing another with intent to rape her.

Brad Conway, 37, was found guilty of the offences following a retrial at Bradford Crown Court.

He forced a woman to perform oral sex on him at a property in Bradford and harassed a second woman with intent to commit rape,“ bombarding” her with emails that included threats to send sexually explicit photos to her parents.

Conway, of Berwick Street, Halifax, said he had played semi-professional rugby league with Dewsbury Rams and Hunslet Hawks and had a stint with the United States national rugby league team.

Previously of Wibsey, Bradford, he taught maths at a Brighouse secondary school.

Judge Neil Davey QC said Conway’s previous character masked “an arrogant belief” that he was entitled to have women do whatever he wanted them to do.

A DRUG addict who preyed on vulnerable places of worship in Bradford was jailed for 33 months.

Stuart McCarron added to his already “appalling” criminal record by targeting a Methodist church, a mosque and an elderly Good Samaritan who had given him gifts of money.

McCarron, 39, of Thornville Court, Manningham, Bradford, had 46 previous convictions for 82 offences.

Bradford Crown Court heard that he burgled a bank card from a church helper at Aldersgate Methodist Church, in Common Road, Low Moor, just before morning service on Sunday, October 7.

He next attended a church on Beacon Road, Wibsey, where he was befriended by a woman worshipper aged 83 who gave him four gifts of money, totalling almost £100. When he turned up at her address for a fifth time, the pensioner declined to give him any more cash. McCarron then stole her purse and used her bank cards to buy goods worth £60.

He struck again on December 1 when he was caught on CCTV inside The Mosque in Little Horton Lane. He was seen putting his hand into the suggestion box and using the torch on his phone to peer inside a charity box, before leaving empty-handed.

BRADFORD’S leading judge criticised the “intolerably lenient” sentences dished out by magistrates for persistent and blatant breaches of a restraining order.

The Recorder of Bradford, Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC, spoke out while jailing a man for 27 months for repeatedly flouting an order designed to protect his wife and their six children.

He told Basharat Ali: “You see nothing wrong with this. You think it’s ‘a family matter.’ You are wrong. The message must get out that short sentences for persistent breaches of restraining orders are intolerable and do no good at all.”

Bradford and Keighley magistrates imposed the order after Ali physically assaulted his wife in 2012.

As well as imposing the restraining order, the Justices jailed Ali for four months.

He received a further six months imprisonment for breaching the order three times in 2013. But a further breach attracted only 12 weeks custody, and another breach was met with a suspended sentence. When Ali again made a frightening nuisance of himself, he received just eight weeks behind bars.

The latest breaches happened on November 9, 11 and 20, Bradford Crown Court heard.

The judge made a new restraining order, without limit of time, warning Ali that he would deal with any breaches himself.

A BUSINESSMAN was jailed for 16 years for the sexual abuse of two girls when he was a teenager.

Naser Mahmood, of Bradford Road, Shipley, was convicted of two offences of rape and six allegations of indecent assault after a trial.

The 37-year-old showed no emotion when he was sentenced by Judge Neil Davey QC at Bradford Crown Court.

Mahmood abused the two girls when he was a child aged between 14 and 18.

After he sexually assaulted one of the girls, he asked her to pick up the Quran and told her, "Promise you won't tell anyone or I will kill you."

A “NINTH strike” burglar had a message for householders in Bradford when he was locked up for his latest home raid.

“I no longer go into people’s houses when they are in there,” Dale Poppleton shouted from the dock at Bradford Crown Court before he was led down to the cells.

Poppleton, 37, of Charnwood Road, Undercliffe, Bradford, was jailed for two years