Rotherham gang leader jailed again for raping 13-year-old girl after giving her alcohol

The ringleader a Rotherham grooming gang has been sentenced to prison again after raping a 13-year-old girl as part of a heinous campaign of abuse.

Mohammed Imran Ali Akhtar, 42, gave the girl alcohol and Drugs Before Drive them to different places to attack them.

He has now been sentenced to 12 years in prison after pleading guilty to two counts of rape and two counts of sexual assault.

The sentence will be served in parallel with the 23-year prison term he was sentenced to in 2018 for a series of previous sex offences against young girls.

His last victim came forward after News Reports of his convictions.

At Sheffield Crown Court she was described as “a very vulnerable girl living in difficult circumstances”.

Akhtar had deliberately attacked the teenager as she drove through Rotherham town centre.

He abused her four to five times a week for a year, and if she refused, the monster threatened to abandon her in the middle of nowhere.

Once, she was forced to walk for hours after Akhtar threw her out of the car in the early hours of the morning, even though she said no.

In a disgusting way, Akhtar made the young girl believe that she was in a relationship with him.

During her police interview, she said that when she “sees anyone who even remotely resembles the defendant, she feels sick.”

In announcing the verdict, Judge Sarah Wright said: “I commend the victim’s courage in coming forward after all this time.”

“Their childhood and youth can never be regained, the impact of your (Akhtar’s) crime on them cannot be overestimated.

“She was an extremely vulnerable young girl who came from a difficult family background and was clearly seeking attention.”

He was jailed in November 2018 for his role as the ringleader of a seven-strong Asian grooming gang in Rotherham.

The perpetrators subjected the girls to “degrading and violent acts.”

One victim had sex with “at least 100 Asian men” by the time he was 16, while another victim was gang raped in a forest and threatened with abandonment.

Akhtar and the gang were the first to be prosecuted under Operation Stovewood – the National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation into past child sexual exploitation in Rotherham.

The major investigation has identified more than 1,500 victims and was launched in 2014 in the wake of the damning Jay report, which revealed the shocking extent of exploitation between 1997 and 2013.