Thread: Life Peer found guilty of serious sexual assault

Tony Blair made him a life peer. Say no more.

The former peer Nazir Ahmed has been found guilty of serious sexual assault against a young boy and the attempted rape of a girl when he was a teenager in the 1970s.
Ahmed, 64, was found guilty on Wednesday of buggery against a boy in Rotherham, and twice attempting to rape a girl. Buggery was the legal term for the specific sexual assault at the time of the offences.
The former Lord Ahmed of Rotherham was charged alongside his two older brothers, Mohammed Farouq, 71, and Mohammed Tariq, 65, but both were deemed unfit to stand trial.
A woman told a jury at Sheffield crown court that Ahmed attempted to rape her in 1973 and 1974, when the defendant was about 16 or 17 years old, but she was much younger. The former politician was also found guilty of a serious sexual assault against a boy under 11 in 1972.
The jury was played a recording of a telephone call between the two complainants, made by the woman after she went to the police in 2016.
Tom Little QC, prosecuting, told the jury that the call was prompted by the man contacting the woman by email saying: “I have evidence against that paedophile.”
Ahmed claimed the allegations were a “malicious fiction” but the prosecution said the call showed they were not “made up or concocted”.
In the recording, the woman said to the man: “What they did to you was utterly wrong and it’s time now to seek justice for the little boy who could not protect himself.”
Ahmed, who denied all the charges, was found guilty on Wednesday of two counts of attempted rape and one of buggery.
Appointed a life peer by Tony Blair, Ahmed resigned from the Labour party in 2013.
His brothers Farouq and Tariq faced charges of indecent assault in relation to the same boy that Ahmed abused and, also on Wednesday, the jury found that they had carried out the acts alleged.
The judge, Mr Justice Lavender, bailed Ahmed to appear at the same court for sentencing on 4 February.

Former peer Nazir Ahmed found guilty of serious sexual assault | UK news | The Guardian

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Ahmed, 64, was found guilty on Wednesday of buggery

......is that a legal term?...

He's the first member of the House of Lords to be recommended for expulsion. Rightfully so- compared to those perverts, he's just an amateur.

Originally Posted by tomcat

......is that a legal term?...

Certainly is. Before it was decriminalised in Hong Kong it was on the statutes as "the abominable offence of buggery"

Believed to originate among the Smocchi Coochites
In Old Teakdoorese

When our Sophie was trying to Slip Socal her Slavic sodomite into the correct crevice

She was reknowned for shrieking so loud they could here from Plodiv to Constantistiffnipple

"Bugga me Senseless until I spin back , nobloketback mounting"

[COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.65)]buggery (n.)

mid-14c., "heresy," from Old French bougrerie, from bougre "heretic" (see bugger (n.)). Later (1510s) "unnatural intercourse" with man or beast, "carnalis copula contra Naturam, & hoc vel per confusionem Specierum;" from bugger (n.) + -y (4).


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bugger (n.)
"sodomite," 1550s, earlier "heretic" (mid-14c.), from Medieval Latin Bulgarus "a Bulgarian" (see Bulgaria), so called from bigoted notions of the sex lives of Eastern Orthodox Christians or of the sect of heretics* that was prominent there 11c. Compare Old French bougre "Bulgarian," also "heretic; sodomite."
Softened secondary sense of "fellow, chap," is in British English "low language" [OED] from mid-19c. Meaning "something unpleasant, a nuisance" is from 1936. Related: Buggerly.
* The religious heretics in question were the Bogomils, whose name is a Slavic compound meaning "dear to God" (compare Russian bog "god") and might be a translation of Greek theophilos.




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Originally Posted by Shutree

Certainly is. Before it was decriminalised in Hong Kong it was on the statutes as "the abominable offence of buggery"

shouldnt that be "the abdominal offence of buggery"?

Political career blighted by scandals.

Ahmed’s conviction on charges of historic child sex abuse marks the downfall of a controversial figure who was dogged by scandal throughout his political career and personal life.

Born in Kashmir, the disputed area of Pakistan in 1957, he came to the UK with his parents aged 12, not speaking a word of English, and settled in Rotherham, South Yorkshire.

Politically ambitious, he joined the Labour Party at 18 and studied public administration at Sheffield Polytechnic. He became a Labour councillor in Rotherham in 1990 and was made chairman of the South Yorkshire Labour Party three years later.

A passionate advocate of British Pakistani affairs, he founded the British Muslim Councillor’s Forum and also became a magistrate.

In 1998, he was created a life peer, Baron Ahmed of Rotherham, and often used the platform to defend British Muslims. He campaigned against forced marriage and criticised the wearing of the face veil by some British Muslim women.

However, his outspoken views on sensitive issues and allegations of anti-Semitism often brought him into conflict with his own colleagues and party, and sometimes tainted his reputation in Parliament.

Following the 9/11 attacks, Ahmed claimed his phones had been tapped by the Government because of his opposition to the war in Afghanistan.

Ahmed regularly attacked Labour over its foreign policy and was highly critical when Sir Tony Blair knighted writer Salman Rushdie, the author of The Satanic Verses, which he claimed was deeply offensive to Islam.

The beginning of the end
But away from politics, it was his personal life where things dramatically unravelled.

On Christmas Day 2007, he was involved in a fatal crash on the M1 in South Yorkshire for which he was eventually jailed for 12 weeks.

He was convicted of dangerous driving after a court heard how he had been using his mobile phone to send text messages just before he hit a 28-year-old man who had got out of his car following a crash.

Ahmed was subsequently freed from jail after the Court of Appeal said the original sentence should have been suspended.

However, in 2013 he was suspended from Labour after giving an interview to a Pakistani media outlet in which he blamed his conviction on a “Jewish conspiracy”.

He suggested he had been targeted because he had visited Gaza to lend his support to the Palestinians.

Ed Miliband, the Labour leader at the time, described the comments as “disgraceful” and ordered an investigation.

Ahmed later apologised for the comments and said they were “completely wrong” and “unacceptable” and he subsequently resigned from the Labour Party.

Sexual impropriety claims
In February 2019, he was accused of sexual impropriety after a woman came forward to allege that he had exploited her vulnerability to pursue a relationship with her.

The woman, who was being treated for anxiety and depression, approached the peer believing he might be able to help her get the Metropolitan Police to investigate a faith healer who she believed was exploiting women.

However, she later claimed the married father-of-three had used his position to pursue a sexual relationship with her before suddenly breaking off all contact.

Following an investigation into the matter, the Commissioner for Standards concluded: “I find that Lord Ahmed exploited [the woman] emotionally and sexually even though he knew she was receiving treatment for anxiety and depression. This exacerbates the seriousness of his breaches of the Code.”
Lord Ahmed found guilty of trying to rape a young girl

an utter scumbag and a perfect example of how the blind rush towards the holy grail of diversity and equality, whilst ignoring the processes of due diligence and common sense can come off the rails, just as it has done so many times before and no doubt will do again.

was quite usual under new labour.

Originally Posted by tomcat

......is that a legal term?...

I will ask a homosexual friend.