'Evil' men raped and trafficked teenage girls in Coventry

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Five men have been convicted of sexually abusing and trafficking six teenage girls in Coventry.



Waqaar Khan, Kadeem Bourne, Kenan Kelly, Marcus Woolcock and Zahid Chaudhary were accused of almost 40 offences, Warwick Crown Court heard.

Ringleader Khan befriended the girls, aged 15 to 17, on social media before picking them up and forcing them to have sex, sometimes filming it.

West Midlands Police described them as "brazen, calculating and evil".

The court heard the men took the girls, some of whom were in care, to secluded areas of the city and sometimes gave them alcohol or drugs before abusing and trafficking them for sex.

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One girl, aged 17, said she was knocked out by one of the men and came round to see them watching a video of herself being raped while she was unconscious.

Det Ch Insp Ian Green said Khan came to the attention of police in March when he was a mutual "friend" on the accounts of several vulnerable young girls in the city.

When police subsequently examined his phone, officers found thousands of text messages containing "sexualised conversations and several videos of graphic sexual abuse".

The girls identified the other men and a "comprehensive investigation" was started.

"It was the brazen nature of their offending that they actually thought they were untouchable and these girls wouldn't report it through fear," Mr Green said.

"So I'd like to thank the bravery of the girls for coming forward to bring these men to justice."

The men, who all know each other, showed no remorse or empathy for their victims, he added.

The uncle of one of the girls described them as "despicable rats".

He said: "They're out there prowling through social media acting on vulnerable girls and abusing the life out of them for their own satisfaction and videoing them for their gratification - they're just treating them like pieces of meat."

• Khan, 24, was convicted of three charges of rape and and two of trafficking. He was cleared of one charge of trafficking and seven rape charges.
  
• Bourne, 23, was convicted of three rape charges, one sexual assault and one of trafficking. He was cleared of four rape charges.
  
• Kelly 18, was found guilty of two rape charges, one of trafficking and one of sexual assault.
  
• Chaudhary 20, was found guilty of trafficking. He was cleared of one charge of rape and sexual assault.
  
• Woolcock, 22, was convicted of trafficking and sexual assault. He was cleared of five charges of rape, one of attempted rape, sexual assault, and trafficking.

The men were remanded in custody to be sentenced next month.

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NSPCC speaks out following "chilling" Coventry rape case

A children’s charity has hailed the “incredible bravery” of the teenage girls who spoke out against a gang of rapists from Coventry.

Five men were found guilty of a total of 18 offences - including rape, sexual assault and human trafficking - following a six-week trial.

Waqaar Khan, Marcus Woolcock, Kadeem Bourne, Keenan Kelly and Zahid Chaudhary - whose addresses cannot be published - now face long prison sentences.

They groomed two teenage girls on Facebook and then plied them with alcohol before carrying out the sickening attacks.

The NSPCC has spoken out following the “chilling” case and say that social media sites must do more to protect vulnerable people.

An NSPCC spokesperson said: “This gang of predators used chilling and calculated methods to identify, pursue and abuse vulnerable teenage girls, subjecting them to humiliation and sexual violence.

“Control and fear are recurring features of child sexual exploitation, with abusers making victims feel they cannot escape or speak out.

“The incredible bravery of these young people has shown victims will be listened to.

“The case also highlights how social media can be manipulated by groomers. These sites and platforms must do more to ensure that children and young people are protected.”

All five men will be sentenced at Warwick Crown Court on January 20.

So their addresses "cannot be published" yet men who have yet to be convicted of anything have had their addresses published.

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Gotta protect the 'minorities' Dutchman. Can't possibly have shame heaped on their families can we?

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Gotta protect the 'minorities' Dutchman

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Rape gang jailed for 42 years



A gang who plied two teenage girls with alcohol and drugs before they were raped and sexually assaulted have been jailed for a total of 42 years.

The five men – all from Coventry – groomed their victims on Facebook before driving them to locations in the city where they were attacked.

One of the girls regained consciousness while she was being attacked on the back seat of a car.

Waqaar Khan, Kadeem Bourne, Marcus Woolcock, Kenan Kelly and Zahid Chaudhary - whose addresses cannot be published for legal reasons - were found guilty of a total of 18 offences following a six-week trial which ended in December.

All five men appeared for sentencing at Warwick Crown Court today.

The heaviest prison sentence was handed to Khan, 24, who will serve 14-and-a-half years after being found guilty of two counts of trafficking and three of rape.

Bourne, 23, was found guilty of two counts of trafficking, three of rape and one of sexual assault and was jailed for 13-and-a-half-years.

The youngest in the group, 18-year-old Kelly, was convicted of two rapes, one sexual assault and one count of trafficking, and was jailed for ten years.

He also pleaded guilty to two counts of possession with intent to supply drugs.

Marcus Woolcock, 22, was sentenced to two-and-a-half years for one count each of trafficking and sexual assault, while Chaudhary was given 18 months for one count of trafficking.

The group were charged in connection with offences against six girls, but were only found guilty of offences relating to two of them.

Judge Sylvia de Bertodano told them: “You five are all here because of what happened between you and two teenage girls.

“You, as older boys and young men, each in different ways, took advantage of the naivety of these teenage girls in order to sexually exploit them.

“You, Waqaar Khan, used the fact that through social media it is easy to get in touch with girls and to exploit their desire to be grown up and rebellious in order to persuade them to get in to cars with you, and to then sexually exploit them when they have no realistic chance to escape.

“All of you played a part in that exploitation that then happened.

“These two girls suffered horrific experiences.”

Judge de Bertodano told the five defendants that they all come from supportive families and they must all have “younger sisters or cousins who you would be horrified for if anyone treated them in the way you treated these girls”.

She added: “Your families have had to sit and listen to what you have been doing which bears no reality at all to the person they have brought up.”

Khan, Bourne and Kelly were all ordered to sign the sex offenders’ register for life, while Woolcock must sign for five years.

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Convicted rapist handed more jail time after knifing bouncer



A man who is already serving over 14 years in prison for rape and trafficking will be behind bars for even longer – after being convicted of stabbing a nightclub doorman.

Waqaar Khan had denied wounding the bouncer at Club M in Coventry with intent to cause him grievous bodily harm, claiming he had not been responsible for the stabbing.

But a jury at Warwick Crown Court took just 49 minutes to find Khan, 25, who is from Coventry but whose address cannot be published for legal reasons, guilty by a unanimous verdict.

He was jailed for three-and-a-half years – on top of the 14-and-a-half years he was given in January after he and others were convicted of rape and trafficking offences.

Judge Sylvia de Bertodano told Khan, who was also found guilty of having an offensive weapon - a knife - it would have been nine years if it had not been for the “totality” of the sentences.

Jailing Khan, who was also given a concurrent three-month sentence for an offence of fraud, Judge de Bertodano told him: “If somebody in the course of doing his job is stabbed in that way, of course it will have very, very serious effects on him indeed.

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...whose address cannot be published for legal reasons.

I am really curious about this. I wonder just what the reason(s) can be?

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I am really curious about this. I wonder just what the reason(s) can be?

He could be related to one of the victims and that would give her address away?

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Possibly Dutchman.