EVERYONE KNEW. NO ONE SPOKE OUT. WHY?
The Latest Pakistani Rape Gang Horror
Seven convicted child rapists. One allowed to flee. Years of organised abuse in plain sight while authorities stood by and watched.
“This was a known fact within this community in Rochdale.”
The prosecutor’s words hung in the courtroom. Not alleged. Not suspected. A known fact.
Girl A was raped by “many, many” men. The abuse was not hidden. It was not a secret. People knew. Authorities knew. And nothing was done.
Seven men have now been convicted of historic sexual offences against two girls spanning years in the mid-2000s. The girls, known only as Girl A and Girl B, were groomed, raped, humiliated, drugged and discarded. Treated as “sex slaves,” expected to submit “whenever and wherever” in rancid flats, on filthy mattresses, in cars, car parks, alleyways, even disused warehouses.
But the verdicts, as significant as they are, cannot erase the deeper horror. This was organised child sexual exploitation carried out in plain sight, tolerated by a community, and ignored by institutions that had a duty to act.
And when finally brought to court, the system failed again, allowing one of the guilty men, Kasir Bashir, to flee the country while on bail.
“My life has been destroyed”
From behind a screen, Girl A’s statement was read to the court:
“My life has been destroyed from the abuse of these men. My childhood was taken away from me by these men. I should have been out with friends, playing in parks and being innocent… Instead, it was based on being taken to addresses by men, being plied with alcohol and drugs, raped and then being made to feel worthless.”
One assault was filmed. The recording circulated around Rochdale. “I genuinely fear that the video could still exist and could be reshared anytime,” she told the court.
PTSD. Severe anxiety. Depression. Fear of recognition every time she tries to book a taxi or order food. Constantly moving house for safety. “This has been and still is consuming my life.”
“I believed every man would expect sex”
Girl B stood in the witness box, an act of extraordinary courage, and revealed the mental prison the abuse forced her into:
“I coped with what these men did to me, as at the time I believed that every man I came into contact with would expect sex. It is horrific that I didn’t know any different.”
She blocked out memories to survive but carried the shame for decades. She never had a healthy relationship with a man. Social anxiety dominates her life. Her children have lived in the shadow of what was done to her.
And then the verdicts came. “The day I watched the verdicts changed my life, I instantly had a massive weight lifted off me and I now feel like I can live my life. I do not need to feel ashamed.”
Untouchable Predators
The convicted men were not shadowy figures hiding in the margins. They were taxi drivers, market stall traders, familiar faces. Mohammed Zahid - “Boss Man” at Rochdale Market - felt so untouchable he brazenly called the care home where Girl B lived, asking to speak to her directly.
“The brazen way in which by the end of the abuse… he felt almost untouchable in what he was doing to her,” the prosecutor said.
Zahid: convicted of at least 26 rapes, alongside indecency with a child and procurement.
Mushtaq Ahmed, a Rochdale shopkeeper: at least 16 rapes. Described as “determined” in grooming Girl B.
Mohammed Shahzad and Nisar Hussain: drugged and raped Girl A, then filmed the assault. Hussain, the “cameraman,” recorded the video later used to blackmail her. “She still lives with that fact to this day, that people have seen that video of her.”
Naheem Akram, nicknamed “Lala”: repeatedly raped Girl A across two years.
Roheez Khan: already had prior convictions for sexual activity with a vulnerable child.
This was not random. It was organised. Structured. Industrial in its cruelty. AND IT WAS PROTECTED!
The Oldham Man Who Escaped
And then there is Kasir Bashir. Charged with raping and abusing Girl B. Granted bail. And then, he simply vanished.
The state allowed him the freedom to flee. A convicted child rapist now beyond reach. Justice incomplete.
Girl B called it his “last bit of control over me”:
“I am disappointed that Bashir has taken the coward’s way out and run away from facing what he has done. It’s like his last bit of control over me.”
But where is the manhunt? Where is the international pursuit of a man convicted of raping a child?
Has the British government contacted Pakistani authorities?
Has an extradition request been filed? Has Interpol been mobilised? Or has Bashir simply been allowed to disappear into impunity? Just another child rapist the system couldn’t be bothered to chase?
The silence is deafening. The inaction, damning.
A man convicted of destroying a child’s life is no doubt walking free in Pakistan. And the authorities who granted him bail, who let him slip away, who have done nothing visible to bring him back, they owe these survivors an answer.
The Unanswered Question
Seven men now face justice. But one walks free because the system let him. The question becomes unavoidable. Who let this happen, and why did those in power refuse to protect children they knew were being destroyed?
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