Takeaway boss Azad Miah who groomed girls as young as 12 for sex is jailed for 15 years as police investigate possible links to Rochdale gang

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Takeaway boss Azad Miah who groomed girls as young as 12 for sex is jailed for 15 years as police investigate possible links to Rochdale gang

May 15th, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

Azad Miah, 44, hounded girls to have sex for money while running a brothel
The married father-of-four was also found guilty of paying for the sexual services of two teenage girls
Judge said police needed to learn lessons from ‘missed opportunities’
Described at Carlisle Crown Court described as a ‘cold, clinical exploitation of the desperate and vulnerable’
Detectives investigating possible links to child sex ring gang in Rochdale who were jailed last week

By
Paul Sims

PUBLISHED:

11:24 EST, 14 May 2012

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UPDATED:

08:38 EST, 15 May 2012

Guilty: Azad Miah, 44, hounded girls to have sex for money while running a brothel from his premises in Carlisle

An Asian takeaway owner has been jailed for 15 years after paying under-age girls for sex and inciting others to become child prostitutes.

Now detectives
are also investigating possible links to the child sex ring gang in
Rochdale who were jailed last week, it was revealed today.

Azad Miah, 44, targeted his victims in what the prosecution at Carlisle Crown Court described as a ‘cold, clinical exploitation of the desperate and vulnerable.’

The married father-of-four paid for the sexual services of two teenagers who were both introduced to him by the same woman.

One of those girls was encouraged to have sex with him out of desperation for cash when she was 15, while he had a sexual relationship with the other, a heroin addict, when she was aged between 15 and 17.

A jury also found the Bangladeshi national guilty yesterday of inciting three other girls, one as young as 12, into prostitution, while running a brothel above his former Spice of India shop in Carlisle city centre.

Today, Judge Peter Hughes QC said police needed to learn lessons from not heeding her complaint and that there were a number of ‘missed opportunities.’

‘A sad feature of this case is that there were a number of occasions when witnesses complained to police or community support officers about the defendant pestering them but their complaints were not taken further. As a result, opportunities were missed.

The judge added that the investigation of the case owed much to the ‘dedication and determination of one officer to trace the witnesses and make it possible for them to feel they could come forward.’

Miah groomed vulnerable white girls as young as 12 for paid sex and told one of his five child victims: ‘In my country it doesn’t matter about age’.

He saw the girls as ‘fresh meat’ and sent hundreds of text messages promising to give them drugs, alcohol and money in return for sex.

Those who defiantly resisted his advances were branded ‘white trash’ .

Last night, as detectives investigated his possible links to an Asian child sex ring jailed last week, the police were accused of missing three vital opportunities to bring him to justice.

His youngest victim said she eventually gave up talking to officers in 2008 – three years before his eventual arrest in March last year – because they failed to take any action.

She and her mother both complained to police on several occasions but nothing was ever done and Miah’s abuse of young white girls was allowed to continue.

‘We’d complained loads of times but they never did anything,’ she said. ‘We showed them all the texts on my phone as well, but they still did nothing. I was only 12 years old.’

Miah, who ran a makeshift brothel in a locked bedroom above his restaurant, was yesterday found guilty of a six-year campaign of abuse involving young girls aged between 12 and 16.

A jury unanimously convicted him of paying for the sexual services of children, inciting child prostitution and running a brothel between 2006 and 2011.

Police have not ruled out further arrests.

The court was told how Miah, a married father-of-four, stalked his terrified young victims over several weeks and months, often following them home in his car or secretly taking their pictures.

He deliberately preyed on their
vulnerability, targeting girls he knew were addicted to drugs or who
came from troubled backgrounds. Some of the girls were known to local
care authorities.

Seedy: Miah ran a makeshift brothel in a bedroom above his Spice of India takeaway in Botchergate, Carlisle

Miah told them he would pay them more
for sex than the twenty-something prostitutes who used the seedy
brothel above his Carlisle restaurant because of their young age.

They were ‘more like virgins’, he told them.

He
targeted the girls in ‘a cold, clinical, calculated exploitation of the
desperate and therefore vulnerable’ and harassed those who resisted his
aggressive advances, the court was told.

He told one of his victims that he regarded sex with young girls as ‘a thrill’ and insisted that ‘age was just a number’.

One of the girls, who was just 14-years-old when she first met Miah, was paid £100 each time they had sex.

The girl, who is now 21, told detectives she had sex with Miah ‘hundreds of times’.

Tim Evans, prosecuting, told the court: ‘The defendant sought to persuade a variety of young girls to have sex with him for money or the equivalent of money via the provision of drugs and or drink.

‘Those requests were made when the girls came into his takeaway shop, the Spice of India, or were made by telephone calls and or texts.

‘The attempted persuasion was persistent. He would hound young girls for periods of weeks or months, face-to-face and over the phone.

‘Most worryingly, he would stalk some of them, following them home in particular. Some of the girls did indeed have sex with him for money.’

Jailed: The Rochdale child sex gang. Police are investigating Carlisle takeaway boss Azad Miah's possible links to the group

Jailed: The Rochdale child sex gang who were jailed last week. Police are investigating Carlisle takeaway boss Azad Miah’s possible links to the group. Pictured (top row left to right) Abdul Rauf, Hamid Safi, Mohammed Sajid and Abdul Aziz; (bottom row left to right) Abdul Qayyum, Adil Khan, Mohammed Amin and Kabeer Hassan

When his youngest victim told him she was only 12 he simply told her that he ‘wasn’t bothered about her age’.

‘One of the texts that he sent was a picture of her walking down Botchergate (in Carlisle city centre),’ added Mr Evans.

‘She had been extremely frightened by this and had stayed away from home for weeks because he knew where she lived.

DYSFUNCTIONAL STATE OF MANY CARE HOMES UNDER SCRUTINY

The state of many care homes has been under intense scrutiny in the aftermath of last week’s verdict finding nine men guilty of grooming white girls for sex.

The dysfunctional state of many homes allowed, and even facilitated, these men’s vile activities in relation to at least one young victim.

The girl, who was 15 at the time of the abuse, was meant to be receiving round-the-clock ‘solo’ residential care, but went missing 19 times in three months for up to two weeks at a time.

Instead of trying to find her, her carers would resort to text messages asking: ‘When are you coming back?’ It later transpired she had been abused by up to 25 men in a single night.

One former foster child, now in her twenties, today revealed her surprise that the system had failed so appallingly.

Jade, from York, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme how everyone over 18 who was involved in her care had to have a criminal record check.

She signed up for a ‘Missing Person’s Protocol’ which stipulated that if she returned to her foster home more than 15 minutes late it would result in the police and social services being called.

With this in mind, Jade said: ‘I wonder how these young people did slip… it really is unusual.’

She added that the system only works if care is taken in choosing the correct family for a child to live with.

She said: ‘You need to fit the right young person with the right carer and the right home.’

‘He sent her up to 50 texts a day and the texts were of a sexual nature. He would text her up to three or four in the morning.

‘He repeatedly asked her for sex and said ‘In his country it didn’t matter about age’.

‘He
offered her £40 to do ‘such and such, have sex with me and stuff’. Miah
texted the girl and told her he knew where she lived, so she may as
well.’

During police
interviews he admitted being a ‘sex addict’ but said the allegations
against him had been concocted by ‘druggists’ who were upset when he
stopped giving them cash and food.

But at the end of a three week trial the jury refused to accept his version of events and found him guilty of 10 of the 18 charges.

Last night, detectives confirmed they were in contact with their counterparts in Greater Manchester to categorically rule out any link between him and nine Asian men jailed for a total of 77 years last week for running a child sex ring.

Miah, who ran a string of takeaways, lived in the town for a decade until he was 24-years-old but regularly returned to the area on bail after he was first arrested by detectives last March.

Speaking outside Detective Inspector Geoff Huddleston, who led the investigation, said: ‘We know that he travelled down to the area after his arrest on police bail, though he has been based in Cumbria for the past 20 years.

‘We will look at the Rochdale case and speak to the officers involved to see if there are any links to this case.’

In the meantime officers will face tough questions over why they failed to act on complaints by at least two of Miah’s victims three years before his arrest.

The state of many care homes has been
under intense scrutiny in the aftermath of last week’s verdict finding
nine men guilty of grooming white girls for sex.

Barnardo’s chief executive Anne Marie Carrie said there are thousands of ‘hidden victims’ of child sexual exploitation who are still being let down by the system.

‘Cases are dropped because of insufficient evidence or an over reliance of victims to act as witnesses and there seems to be only partial understanding of child sexual exploitation within the criminal justice system,’ she said.

‘We need to see drastic changes to make sure the abusers who control such vulnerable children for sex and personal gain do not get away with it.’ Across the UK, Barnardo’s said it worked intensively with 1,200 victims or young people at risk of sexual exploitation last year.

Of 137 police investigations the children’s charity knew about involving their ‘service users’, only 24 resulted in convictions.

AZAD MIAH WAS YESTERDAY CONVICTED OF OFFENCES INVOLVING FIVE GIRLS AGED BETWEEN 12 AND 16

VICTIM ONE

She was 14 when she was introduced to Miah by a mutual friend who was much older than her. The woman, who was paid to find vulnerable girls Miah could exploit, had taken her to his takeaway in Carlisle city centre.

The girl was addicted to heroin, cannabis and alcohol from the age of 12, and her life was in chaos. She was desperate to fund her £60-a-day habit and instantly agreed to prostitute herself. She was paid £100-a-time by Miah for sex.

The girl, who caught chlamydia and gonorrhoea from Miah, told the court she went on to have sex with him nearly every day – ‘hundreds of times’.

VICTIM TWO

It began with hundreds of text messages, all of them of a sexual nature and aggressive in tone. The girl replied to the first text by telling Miah she was only 12 years old.

Undeterred, he told her that he ‘wasn’t bothered’ about her age and would give her money for sex. More messages followed, including a picture he had taken as she walked down Botchergate, the main road in Carlisle city centre. She was terrified.

In one message he told her: ‘In my country it doesn’t matter about age.’ He offered her £40 to have sex with her and told her that her resistance was futile as he knew where she lived. She refused to have sex with him.

VICTIM THREE

The 15-year-old girl was introduced to him by a much older woman. The girl wanted to earn money to buy cannabis.

She met Miah in the shop and he asked her: ‘Do you want to make love to me for £80?’ He knew she was only 15 yet he saw it as no obstacle and had sex with her.

VICTIM FOUR

The 16-year-old met Miah at his restaurant. Hours later he began texting her and it soon became persistent.

He asked her to marry his cousin to keep him in the country and then asked her to sleep with him for money, but she refused.

VICTIM FIVE

She was 16 when she was introduced to Miah at his takeaway. Within a week he had begun texting her. He offered her £70-£90 for sex, but she refused.