A Greater Manchester Police officer, in England, in an undated file photo. Alamy/PA
Seven men who raped two vulnerable girls in Rochdale, northern England, were jailed on Wednesday for a total of 174 years, in the latest case of the decades-old “grooming gangs” scandal that has rocked the United Kingdom.
Mohammed Zahid, Kasir Bashir, Mushtaq Ahmed, Mohammed Shazad, Nisar Hussain, and Naheem Akram were unanimously convicted by a jury in June of a total of 50 offenses, including 30 counts of rape, between 2001 and 2006, the Crown Prosecution Service said.
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