Seven gang members sentenced for sexual crime in UK

LONDON: A court in London has sentenced seven members of a gang to 106 years imprisonment for sexually assaulting minor girls in the UK over the past many years.

The court on June 6 had convicted the gang of Pakistanis for their involvement in sexually assaulting minor girls over the past many years, according to media reports.

The court sentenced seven members of the gang that targeted girls aged between 11 and 16 years. The seven convicted of child sex crime were identified as Muhammad Ammar, Muhammad Zamir, Abid Siddiqui, Muhammad Siyab, Yasir, Tahir Yasin and Amin Bari.

Sheffield Crown Court continued hearing for over nine months and found the gang members involved in the child sex offences.

The court was told that the gangsters took young girls from a children house and sexually assaulted them. 

From the year 1997 to 2013, the Pakistani gang members sexually assaulted over 1400 minor girls after which an investigation was launched.

The National Crime Agency of the UK said that the girls were raped by the gangsters in parks, super markets, in cars, near nurseries as well as in graveyards.

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