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Telegraph
2 hours ago
- Politics
- Telegraph
Suspend visas, stop aid: we must do whatever it takes to deport Pakistani child rapists
Qari Rauf and Adil Khan are among two of Britain's worst rape gang offenders. They were the ringleaders of a nine-strong gang of Asian men who sexually assaulted 47 girls – some as young as 12 – after plying them with drink and drugs. They are now out of prison, free to walk the same streets as the victims they terrorise. Convicted, but not properly punished. It's completely out of order. Why are these Pakistani nationals – who have committed evil crimes – still here, you will be asking. Well, they have exploited a loophole to renounce their Pakistani citizenship and the Pakistani government is refusing to take them back. I have some advice for the Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, on how to resolve this problem. He should pick up the phone to Pakistan's High Commissioner, summon him to the Foreign Office and give them a week to take back these men. If they don't, visas should be immediately suspended for all Pakistanis wanting to come to the UK. If they continue to refuse, aid should be suspended. It's that simple. That's what a Government motivated by keeping the British public safe would do. But right now we are being walked over and everyone can see it. These two rape gang perpetrators are really just the tip of the iceberg. Most have gone unpunished, their crimes ignored by authorities paralysed by fear of being called racist. The Telford inquiry found over a thousand girls were raped and abused. Just 10 men have been convicted for their crimes. The Rotherham inquiry found that 1400 girls were raped and abused. Just 60 or so men have gone to prison for their crimes. The national inquiry Starmer has been forced to announce is a step forward, but this can only be the beginning. Justice demands we punish every single perpetrator for their heinous crimes. The NCA must now pursue the abusers – they are much better placed than local police forces marred by the scandal – and the guilty men need full life sentences. If they are foreign nationals they must be added to the 18,982 foreign nationals subject to deportation proceedings currently in the community and the 9,800 foreign offenders in prison. All must be removed. For some foreign criminals the obstacle to their deportation is their home country refusing to cooperate, for others it is human rights obstacles – in many cases caused by the Strasbourg Court stretching the ECHR beyond recognition. There are some in Westminster who still say we shouldn't deport these people in case they are unfairly punished back in their home country. To that I say: tough luck. I couldn't care less. My sole interest is protecting the British public from dangerous criminals who have committed appalling crimes. I have long argued that reform of the ECHR is impossible. This week the head of the Council of Europe, Alain Berset, finally confirmed what many else have long suspected. He let the cat out the bag: 'I am not calling for reform of the ECHR… When states face complex challenges, the answer is not to dismantle the legal guardrails they themselves helped build.' There we have it. So, once David Lammy has finished delivering his ultimatum to the Pakistani government, he can report back to the Prime Minister that his ruse of 'reforming' the ECHR is a pointless charade. Starmer has an obvious choice: remain in a broken convention to appease his legal pals, or leave the convention to protect the British public and manage rights with responsibilities sensibly like America and Australia. Increasing the deportations of dangerous foreign criminals while we continue to import criminality from high-risk countries is like bailing out a sinking ship with a bucket. Restrictions on migration from high-risk countries – like Eritrea, whose nationals are estimated, based on conviction data from 2021 to 2023, to be twenty times more likely to account for sexual offence convictions than British citizens – are a prerequisite for safer streets.
Daily Mail
3 hours ago
- Daily Mail
BREAKING NEWS Three men are guilty of raping 12-year-old girl repeatedly over three days after they lured her from Asda car park
Three men have been convicted of raping a 12-year-old girl repeatedly over three days after they lured her from an Asda car park. Kevin Horvath and Ivan Turtak spotted the youngster in Dover on August 11, 2024 and encouraged her to get in their car. She was then given drugs, including crystal meth and amphetamine, and was passed between the two men and a third defendant, Ernest Gunar junior, who repeatedly raped her and subjected her to sexual acts. The girl was taken out in public by the trio, who told her she would be killed if she tried to talk to anyone or tried to run away. She was able to escape from them after she woke up before them on 13 August and was found by police in Dover. Her phone had been taken from her and was later found in Horvath's car. Catherine Wear from the Crown Prosecution Service said: 'The three defendants took a 12-year-old from the street, took full advantage of her, plying her with drugs and using her for their own horrendous gratification. 'None of us can underestimate the impact this has had on her. When she was first found by police, she was unable to tell them what she had been put through, as she was so scared, and the details only came out gradually after that. 'Thanks to her courage in detailing what happened to her, despite the obvious distress that caused her, these three dangerous men have now been brought to justice for the appalling and callous crimes they committed against her. 'We hope these verdicts bring some small comfort to her as she starts to rebuild her life.'
The Sun
3 hours ago
- The Sun
Trio GUILTY of drugging and raping girl, 12, in three-day horror ordeal after luring her into car at Asda
THREE predators have been found guilty of raping a 12-year-old girl in a three-day ordeal after luring her into a car at Asda. Ivan Turtak, 38, Kevin Horvath, 25, and Ernest Gunar, 27, passed the young girl around "like a receptacle" for their sexual pleasure. 3 The "complete strangers" had "targeted and exploited" the victim after spotting her alone in the supermarket car park. All three have been been convicted of raping a child under 13 and a number of other offences. Canterbury Crown Court heard they struck on August 11, 2024, by persuading her to get in Horvath's car with the promise of a cigarette. The evil trio then drove her to Turtak's flat in Dover before she was taken to Gunar's caravan in Folkestone. Once there, the girl was plied with drugs - including crystal meth - and subjected to rape and other sexual acts. Threats to kill her were made if she tried to leave or raise the alarm and a photo of her standing naked in a bathtub was also taken. The horror only came to an end when the schoolgirl made a daring escape out of a window. She was found wearing different clothes by police three days after she was taken. At first, she did not reveal the abuse and claimed she had changed into clothes she found by the side of the road. However, she later gave varied accounts to both her family, police, and in a diary entry that included being attacked in a park and being abducted. Prosecutor Hannah Llewellyn-Waters said that while the accounts differed, the central part of her allegations still ran true - that the trio targeted her and gave her drugs to make her compliant for their sexual desires. She added: "We say that she was passed around and treated effectively as a receptacle for their own sexual gratification, and the defendants' conduct, in the Crown's case, was callous, degrading, and it was entirely exploitative." Horvath was convicted of sexual assault of a child under 13 after previously admitting three counts of rape and assault by penetration. Turtak was found guilty or raping a child under 13, having admitted taking indecent photos of a child. Gunar was convicted of two charges of rape of a child under 13 after he previously pleaded guilty to one charge of rape of a child under 13. Catherine Wear from the Crown Prosecution Service said: 'The three defendants took a 12-year-old from the street, took full advantage of her, plying her with drugs and using her for their own horrendous gratification. 'None of us can underestimate the impact this has had on her. When she was first found by police, she was unable to tell them what she had been put through, as she was so scared, and the details only came out gradually after that. 'Thanks to her courage in detailing what happened to her, despite the obvious distress that caused her, these three dangerous men have now been brought to justice for the appalling and callous crimes they committed against her. 'We hope these verdicts bring some small comfort to her as she starts to rebuild her life.' 3 3
BBC News
3 hours ago
- BBC News
'Devious and perverted' Bradford Imam raped boy at mosque
An Imam at the UK's largest mosque has been jailed for 13 years for raping a teenage Khan, 57, used his position at Bradford Grand Mosque to groom and assault the boy on five separate occasions during the 1990s. Bradford Crown Court heard Khan, from Sheffiled, had previously been jailed for 16 years in 2011 for sexually assaulting two boys in Stoke-on-Trent in Christopher Smith said: "You were a respected member of the teaching staff, but your outward respectful appearance masked a devious and perverted sexual interest in pubescent boys." The court heard Khan had attacked the boy, who was aged between 13 and 16, in his office at the mosque and on a Smith said he had then "secured his silence" by telling him "he would not be believed" if he reported what had happened."Regrettably, opportunities were missed to bring your offending to an end when other individual members of staff found you in suspicious circumstances but failed to to report matters to others as they should have done so," he said Khan had gained the trust of his victim's family while "silently betraying their trust" and "destroying their son's life". Khan's offending only came to light in 2019, more than 20 years after the abuse took pleaded guilty to raping the boy on the first day of his well as the 13-year sentence, Khan was told he would serve an additional three years on licence following his release. Listen to highlights from West Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North.
The Standard
8 hours ago
- The Standard
Chinese student jailed for life after raping women in UK and China
Chinese student Zhenhao Zou was found guilty by a London court of drugging and raping 10 women in Britain and China.
