A restaurant owner is facing a lengthy jail sentence after he became the last of a string of men to be convicted of child sex offences on girls in Peterborough. He groomed vulnerable underage girls by giving them money, gifts or cigarettes before plying them with alcohol. Following a trial at the Old Bailey he was found guilty of forcing a year-old girl to perform a sex act on him and nine counts of trafficking for sexual exploitation involving girls aged from 12 to 15 between November and January His South African friend Manase Motaung, 32, was cleared of raping a year-old and seven trafficking charges, involving six girls.
Khubaib was remanded in custody and warned he faces a long spell behind bars when he is sentenced on 15 May. Four previous cases led to nine male defendants being jailed for 59 offences against 15 girls, from Peterborough, with a couple from Lincolnshire and Rutland.
Later that month, the defendants were arrested at a terrace house in Peterborough, where police found two girls aged Khubaib said in police interviews that his association with all of the girls was innocent and he had not acted in any improper way, denying any sexual contact with the girl he is said to have raped.
The joint investigation was proactively initiated in response to the Rotherham and Rochdale child abuse cases. As a result of the information given to us, we launched a number of investigations. A police investigation formally began in early January A number of the victims were in care at the time and had problems at home and school. I should have known better than to accept alcohol and things from Mohammed, but actually he was the one who should have known better.
The jury heard details of the trafficking allegations. The girls became uncomfortable when Khubaib got into a row on his phone and slipped away. Motaung also denied wrongdoing by saying he had consensual sex with the rape complainant. The two defendants, both from Peterborough, denied the charges. Topics UK news. Crime Peterborough news.
