Locations
South Cross Street, Bury, Greater Manchester, BL9
Description
Remorseless Muhammad Hussain who targeted vulnerable teenage girls in order to sexually abuse them has been jailed.
Muhammad Hussain, 20, has been convicted of a string of 'despicable and sickening' sex offences against young girls in Bury.
Muhammad Hussain was sentenced to six years and two months in prison after a jury found him guilty of raping a 14-year-old girl and sexually assaulting another girl, also aged 14.
The offending took place between August 2016 and August 2017.
The court heard how Hussain would regularly meet up with a group of teenage girls in Openshaw Park, in Bury, and buy vodka for them before heading to the home of one of the girls.
Muhammad was just 16 himself when he raped his 'extremely vulnerable' victim in August 2016.
Prosecutor Henry Blackshaw said the girl, who was known to social services and deemed at 'high risk of child sexual exploitation', invited Muhammad to a house party at her friend's house.
Alcohol was being consumed and the pair kissed before they were encouraged to go upstairs together.
Once in an upstairs bedroom, the girl initially engaged in consensual sexual intercourse with Muhammad.
But the court heard she then repeatedly asked him to slow down as it was 'hurting her'.
However, Muhammad pushed her head down into the pillow and carried on having sex with her.
The girl then started crying and told him to get off her, said Mr Blackshaw.
When she managed to move away from him and started to get dressed, the court heard Muhammad called the girl a f****** bitch and told her finish me off.
She left the room but, feeling under pressure, returned and asked Muhammad what she had to do.
He threatened to tell her on-off boyfriend that they had had sex if she did not comply.
Muhammad later contacted the victim to apologise and 'begged her to send pictures of her bottom', which she refused to do.
On another occasion, between March and May 2017, Muhammad filmed the girl and her friend performing oral sex on him.
The court heard the victim wanted 'to shut the incident out' and it was eight months before she told a social worker she had been raped.
She was interviewed by police in February 2018 as part of an operation - codenamed Burgos - into child sexual exploitation in Bury.
On another occasion, in August 2017, the girl and a friend - aged 14 - were in Openshaw Park with Muhammad Hashim and another man when Muhammad approached the friend and put his hand down her leggings.
The court heard he then 'yanked up her underwear' and grabbed her bottom with such force it caused pain and left 'a number of fingernail shaped impressions'.
When interviewed by police, Muhammad admitted having sex with the first victim, but claimed it had been 'consensual'.
He denied using his phone to record the girl and her friend performing oral sex on him, or sexually assaulting the girl in Openshaw Park.
Hashim's phone was seized by police after he was arrested in relation to driving offences in October 2017.
Detectives found a video showing 'a young, intoxicated female' being sexually contacted by a man, while he was cheered on by others people in a park.
The court heard a girl could be heard on the footage asking whether she was being recorded but was told it's just a torch.
Another video showed a young female holding onto a kitchen counter with both hands while an older male had sex with her from behind.
number of other males can be seen gathered around them, the court heard.
Hashim was identified as the cameraman due to a 'distinctive watch' he was wearing which was caught in the footage.
He was arrested at Manchester Airport in July 2019 after getting off a flight from Pakistan and replied 'no comment' to all questions asked by police.
Following a trial, Muhammad, of South Cross Street, Bury, was found guilty of two counts of rape, as well as one count of taking an indecent image and another count of sexual assault.
Sentencing Muhammad, Recorder Jeremy Lasker said he had taken advantage of the extremely vulnerable victim and given no indication of regret of remorse.
He added: What started as consensual sexual activity between the two of you became something very different.
She may have initially consented to penetration but when she asked you to stop because it was hurting her, you simply ignored her and carried on regardless.
It was a clear example of you putting your own sexual gratification before giving and real or genuine consideration to the feelings of others.