Suspended sentences for East Lancs men who abducted teens (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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Suspended sentences for East Lancs men who abducted teens
1:00pm Saturday 5th June 2010 in Keep Them Safe campaign
A JUDGE has blasted two cousins who took three young girls from the streets of East Lancashire, plied them with drink and drove them 20 miles to a hotel.
Azeem and Tabassum Shah were only caught out when an eagle-eyed night manager at Darwen Travelodge became suspicious about the age of one of the girls and alerted police, Burnley Crown Court was told.
The pair, from Vernon Street and Railway Street, Nelson, respectively, admitted abduc-ting the three girls, aged 14 and 15, in August last year.
Police say there was evidence that the two men and three girls, taken from the streets of Nelson, had all been drinking.
Another charge of engaging in sexual activity, relating to Azeem Shah and involving one of the girls, was allowed to lie on the file by Judge Simon Newell.
Both were given a 12 month prison sentence, suspended for two years. They must carry out 200 hours community service and observe a four-month curfew, between 8pm and 6am.
Lawyers representing Taba-ssum Shah, 24, claimed the father-of-two had not had sex with any of the girls on the night in question. But the judge criticised the two men and labelled them a danger to young women in passing sentence.
Judge Newell said “They were interested in them because they were young and attractive girls.
“I come to the conclusion that there continues to be a risk to young females from you and people such as yourselves who may cruise the town looking for such young women,” he said.
Francis Nance, prosecuting, said the girls had been abducted at around 8pm and were discovered around 1.30am.
The investigation was mounted by the Operation Engage team, which monitors offences of grooming and underage sex across East Lancashire.
Supported by the Lancashire Telegraph's Keep Them Safe campaign, the operation highlights dangers posed by older men who befriend and exploit younger women for sexual purposes.
Comments(65)
time.team
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1:16pm Sat 5 Jun 10
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Justice?
That will teach them. NOT!
the genuine cypruslad
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1:22pm Sat 5 Jun 10
They should be suspended from a rope.
masterdebater.co.uk
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1:30pm Sat 5 Jun 10
Bb24
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2:02pm Sat 5 Jun 10
The offspring
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2:04pm Sat 5 Jun 10
masterdebater.co.uk wrote:Im very confused,why has the judge not locked up these paedaphiles for a very long time?
I'm confused, isn't this classed as statutory rape?
madari
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2:29pm Sat 5 Jun 10
The Judge himself should be locked up,He has the audacity to state: `I come to the conclusion that there continues to be a risk to young females from you....`
Give me a break,!!! and this ,so called,sentence is meant to be a deterrent is it?
The two pieces of scum are laughing at the british justice system.
They should have been deported and tried under the Pakistan justice system(they do know how to serve justice)
I hope someone dosent subject their own children to abduction when they are teenagers.
brfcianbrfc
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2:40pm Sat 5 Jun 10
blueandwhitey79
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4:37pm Sat 5 Jun 10
Roverette
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5:45pm Sat 5 Jun 10
lancashirewoman
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5:46pm Sat 5 Jun 10
rovergeoff
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5:46pm Sat 5 Jun 10
Chris P Bacon
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6:00pm Sat 5 Jun 10
Well, when I say 'faith', I mean 'despair'.
Well, when I say 'despair' what I actually mean is this gives you total and complete contempt for such a pathetic 'sentence' that in no way reflects the severity of the crime and fatally undermines the credibility of such a legal system.
About a month ago, the court had passed a pre-sentence ruling on this case and had informed both men that they would face a suspended sentence or community service! You've got to think that this was some way of ensuring the public became familiar with the likely sentencing in this specific case.
If that's fair, then I am Johann Cryuff, the former Dutch footballer.
happycyclist
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6:39pm Sat 5 Jun 10
blueandwhitey79 wrote:I agree. They're paedophiles, and erm, isn't that what the sex offenders' register is for?
what about puttin them on sex offenders register too?
Ian_G
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6:49pm Sat 5 Jun 10
I have heard of and read about some disgraceful sentences handed down over the years but this one is utterly staggering!!!!!!!!!!
These men are absolute scum, they are a danger to young girls and they have been let off with absolutely nothing.
Just because they weren't caught 'in the act' is completely irrelevant - common sense tells anyone reading this story that these men had every intention of abusing these young girls.
I doubt VERY much that it was the first time they had acted in a similar way.
Why can't the justice system protect society from scum like this?
Why are people who, as the judge said, are a danger to young women let free to roam our streets?
They have been caught doing something that any normal and decent person finds repulsive and disgusting and they have been let off effectively scott free!!!
What on earth was the judge thinking about?!? How can he openly admit that these men ARE (current tense) a danger to young women and then let them walk out of court?!?
They haven't even been put on the Sex Offenders' Register!
These men and all like them strike fear into the heart of any parent, they are a nightmare for society and the court, by handing down a pathetic sentence, has just told them that society permits their behaviour and that in the future, others will not be punished for similar offences.
I FEAR for our society when we have little or no justice and absolutely NO common sense!!!!
moggy669
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7:00pm Sat 5 Jun 10
Maybe the people who make the rules take pity because they are just as bad, SICKOS.
RK
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7:14pm Sat 5 Jun 10
trajan
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7:44pm Sat 5 Jun 10
lewops
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9:13pm Sat 5 Jun 10
Smooth
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9:13pm Sat 5 Jun 10
Irrelevent of their ethnicity the crime of grooming young girls for sex is a crime on the rise and until the judiciary impose the required sentence and set an example to these scums they will continue to flaunt the law and cause harm and destroy young lives.
Serenity10
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9:56pm Sat 5 Jun 10
retired one
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11:13pm Sat 5 Jun 10
No wonder the crime rate is high when there is no deterrent.
anotherview
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12:05am Sun 6 Jun 10
Pendle power
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4:19am Sun 6 Jun 10
suttydog
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7:33am Sun 6 Jun 10
accy stanley mascot got sent to jail and put on the register for less.
what about enoch,s post he dont sit on the fence does he
leelancs
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8:18am Sun 6 Jun 10
leelancs
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9:03am Sun 6 Jun 10
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As it states in the article above 'another charge of engaging in sexual activity, relating to Azeem Shah and involving one of the girls, was allowed to lie on the file by Judge Simon Newell'. This means he was not conviced of a sexual offence. If he had have been convicted of this offence, he would have been subject to registration.
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Before anyone has a go at me for this. it is purely my understanding of the legal position - I'm not offering a view whether I agree with it or not!!
AkitaRedRose
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10:53am Sun 6 Jun 10
Digby
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11:32am Sun 6 Jun 10
Pendle power
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12:41pm Sun 6 Jun 10
AkitaRedRose
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1:31pm Sun 6 Jun 10
tomwilliams wrote:No im not a muslim, i think you are missing the point tom, i am asking why these individuals didnt get jail, wheras the two that i mentioned did. Re-read the post before you stick your twopence worth in.
AkitaRedRose wrote:Well you do not remeber rightly of course - I assume you are a muslin Akita attempting to divert th3e issue.
If i remember rightly, last year two former BNP members were convicted of similar offences, and given 4 and 3 years prison. All i ask of the justice system is consintency.
Provide a link to the cases you quote pleawse. I won't be holding my breaathe as they , of course, do not exist.
By the way, I see the Lancashire Telegraph pro-muslim censors are at work again, supressing free speech as the truth in my (deleted) post is too near the truth to be published.
Inter-Rossiter
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1:55pm Sun 6 Jun 10
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I said nothing that could be construed as racist because I'm certainly no racist, only a realist seeking the truth.
In fact, all I said was that there is a problem with a certain section of our community with regards to the grooming of under-aged, vulnerable white girls for sex.
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Now I know some people would rather brush the whole issue under the carpet, but for a newspaper to be complicit in hiding the truth - well this beggars belief and you should hang your heads in shame.
dmmike
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2:07pm Sun 6 Jun 10
Laughing stock if you dont. Although it's not realy funny, is it?
tomwilliams
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3:16pm Sun 6 Jun 10
Pendle power wrote:Well, religion and culture HAS something to do with it. In the case of catholics and the other situations that you will identify , the predators and the victims were not of different religions.
What has religion got to do with this ?has anyone mentioned the religion of the Cumbria shooter ? No, because it is irrelevant just sick individuals.
In these cases, it is white underage non-muslim girls that are selected for abuse by Pakistani-heritage muslims. They do not use their 'own' girls in this way. Sorry to disillusion you, but there IS a culture element in this situation, as the facts show.
That is WHY it is the subject of an attempted mass media blackout and cover-up ( especially by the establishment BBC ) and inaction by government bodies because there is a racial element to it, which is politically inconvenient for the pro-multicultural powers that be.
Even the little players like this paper is a party to it. Haven't you noticed ?
retired one
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3:42pm Sun 6 Jun 10
Digby wrote:I for one will back you up on this and I am sure many people are in the same frame of mind.
We now have a new man in charge of "justice" called Kenneth Clark, he does not have a large muslim population to appease such as the previous incumbent war criminal Straw had, who has finally been thrown out of office. I will be writing to the new Secretaty of State pointing out his case and asking for it to be renewed as obviously the judge needs to be sent for re-training now that the disgusting NuLabour have been removed from power. Such PC nonesence will not be tolerated in future.
How many more young girls are being groomed in this way? It needs a strong deterrent to stop it happening.
Chris P Bacon
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4:11pm Sun 6 Jun 10
Digby wrote:While you might have the interests of justice at heart, the way you come across here makes you look like a fool.
We now have a new man in charge of "justice" called Kenneth Clark, he does not have a large muslim population to appease such as the previous incumbent war criminal Straw had, who has finally been thrown out of office. I will be writing to the new Secretaty of State pointing out his case and asking for it to be renewed as obviously the judge needs to be sent for re-training now that the disgusting NuLabour have been removed from power. Such PC nonesence will not be tolerated in future.
YOU will be writing to the new Secretary of State 'pointing out this case'? Are you so important something will be done about this?
The way you politicise this and refer to governments being in 'power' (they're there to represent the public - if you want to hand them unearned and undeserved 'power', be my guest) makes you a bit of a laughing stock.
joe blackburn
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6:04pm Sun 6 Jun 10
Mike Oxlong wrote:i find this story sick .. and so is the judge , ther peadophiles lock em up and throw away the key .. end of
another fantastic sentance, well done Judge Newell, you certainly showed these lot whose the boss.
Pendle power
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6:16pm Sun 6 Jun 10
sackthegov
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8:31pm Sun 6 Jun 10
Nice message the Judge just sent out their to all the peado's looking for their next victims!
Maybe someone should do the same to the Judge's daughters/grand-daug
hters then they will think different!
wrinkles
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8:39pm Sun 6 Jun 10
pdb951
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10:00pm Sun 6 Jun 10
Pinkerbell
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11:00pm Sun 6 Jun 10
Pinkerbell
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11:15pm Sun 6 Jun 10
tomwilliams
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12:30am Mon 7 Jun 10
Pinkerbell wrote:Free speech no longer exists in Britain - haven't you realised it yet ?
What has happened to free speech in this country? Is it only banned in the Lancashire Telegraph? I repeat my earlier comment that the stupid suspended sentence does not protect young girls in this or any other area.
That is the primary purpose of the Race and Religious Hatred laws - to subdue and restrict your opinions. It also opeartes to force the media to censor views as they wish under the premise of 'legal reasons'.
The famous quote from a judge in court case against an individual making 'defamatory religious statements ' was , and you check this for yourself ....
" the truth is no defence "
How long have you been under the illusion that you have had free speech in the last 15 years ?
happycyclist
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7:02am Mon 7 Jun 10
A man was arrested after a domestic. He spat at police officers and received a 10-month suspended sentence, 220 hrs unpaid work and £1200 fine.
Or the guy who punched someone on a karaoke stage after the guy had dedicated the song to the defendent's girlfriend. £235 fine, 180hrs community work. One drunken punch and even the judge admitted there was some provocation.
Yet two dangerous paedophiles get only 200hrs community work, a 12 month suspended sentence and a four-month curfew?????? No fine, no compensation or costs, no sex register...
What's going on with the judicary?
blackburn_rovers
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7:30am Mon 7 Jun 10
what happened to the rights of the victims oh yeh "youll get some forms through the post and claim your componsation through the cps"
"b******s
R.J
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8:36am Mon 7 Jun 10
vote BNP n make england a safer place
Digby
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9:40am Mon 7 Jun 10
Chris P Bacon wrote:Well then Mr Bacon, tell us all what YOU are going to do about it?
Digby wrote: We now have a new man in charge of "justice" called Kenneth Clark, he does not have a large muslim population to appease such as the previous incumbent war criminal Straw had, who has finally been thrown out of office. I will be writing to the new Secretaty of State pointing out his case and asking for it to be renewed as obviously the judge needs to be sent for re-training now that the disgusting NuLabour have been removed from power. Such PC nonesence will not be tolerated in future.While you might have the interests of justice at heart, the way you come across here makes you look like a fool. YOU will be writing to the new Secretary of State 'pointing out this case'? Are you so important something will be done about this? The way you politicise this and refer to governments being in 'power' (they're there to represent the public - if you want to hand them unearned and undeserved 'power', be my guest) makes you a bit of a laughing stock.
It is all very well for armchair commentators like yourself to state your opinions on this site, but what difference do you think YOU will make to anything in the world? Do you think anybody outside East Lancashire will even read your views?
Regardless of if you agree or not governments do have power and do not really represent the interests of the public at all and never have, or have you been asleep for the past 13 years? They only get that power through elections and with public confidence in them. If there is no confidence then they get voted out just as the disgraceful traitors, New Labour, have. Good riddance to old rubbish.
If anyone is a fool Mr Bacon it is yourself and others like you for voting the fascist socialists into power. Make no mistake big changes are coming and you will probably be snoozing when they hit
Incoming Fax
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11:06am Mon 7 Jun 10
Saima
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11:18am Mon 7 Jun 10
Mr Hussain
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12:56pm Mon 7 Jun 10
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Some of you may be pleased to hear that Azeem Shah took a serious beating some time last year. He was lured to a house and jumped by a group of lads. At the time I felt sorry for him but after reading this story I hope the same happens to him again!
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When are PROPER sentences going to handed out? I miss the old days...
Mr Hussain
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12:57pm Mon 7 Jun 10
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Some of you may be pleased to hear that Azeem Shah took a serious beating some time last year. He was lured to a house and jumped by a group of lads. At the time I felt sorry for him but after reading this story I hope the same happens to him again!
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When are PROPER sentences going to handed out? I miss the old days...
loo82
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1:25pm Mon 7 Jun 10
Pinkerbell
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Pinkerbell
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Pinkerbell
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star18
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Chipdan
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4:58pm Mon 7 Jun 10
defective typewriter
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6:03pm Mon 7 Jun 10
alf-garnett
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10:23pm Mon 7 Jun 10
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ou silly Moo !!!
Richard_Nelson
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1:17pm Tue 8 Jun 10
useyourhead
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1:33pm Tue 8 Jun 10
Tetley Drinker
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4:54pm Tue 8 Jun 10
Furthermore, why did they go with the men voluntarily?. It sounds as though they are not exactly innocent and this was factored into the sentence. We dont alawys know the full facts in these brief press reports and therefore need to tread carefully.
The court was of course in Burnley which is often an explanatory factor in thinking not located in the real world;-)
ROBERTSLUMDWELLER
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8:17am Wed 9 Jun 10
susan banks
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9:30am Wed 9 Jun 10
Mike Oxlong wrote:AND... my son has been framed by his best friend for a robbery he did not commit, which if found guilty carries a 3-7 year jail term, all becasue he gave information to the police to enable them to arrest the true perpatrator of the crime, this person said " NO COMMENT" dont know anything about it but it could have been (my son) and on arrest of suspicion, my son gave them the information that his friend told him what he'd done that night, so he's been charged as he is the only person with any knowledge of the crime and crime figures need to be reduced at any cost....WHAT !! Where's the justice in this. Hope Judge Newell handles my Son's case yippee. Stay proud Son you've done nothing wrong.
another fantastic sentance, well done Judge Newell, you certainly showed these lot whose the boss.
Mike Oxlong says...
1:06pm Sat 5 Jun 10