Grooming gang monster Sageer Hussain, infamous for branding white girls “slags” and abusing children as young as 11, has been hit with an extra three-year sentence
A vicious member of a grooming gang, who abused victims as young as 11 and declared “all white girls are slags”, has been handed another three years in prison for rape.
Sageer Hussain was one of four brothers previously jailed for a combined 79 years for orchestrating the “industrial-scale” exploitation of girls in Rotherham.
His elder siblings – Arshid, Basharat and Bannaras Hussain – known by their nicknames Mad Ash, Bash and Bono – formed a brutal gang, ran a petrol station, takeaways and an egg farm supplying supermarkets. They also owned several properties and are said to have “owned” the South Yorkshire town for more than a decade, the Express reported.
Some of their victims were just 11 years old when they were raped, bound and tortured, and passed around abusers across the north of England. After finally being apprehended, ringleader Arshid was sentenced to 35 years, Bannaras received 19 years, and Basharat was handed 25 years.
Their younger brother Sageer was later imprisoned for 19 years for raping a 13-year-old girl in the town. Sageer chillingly told one of his victims “this is what white girls are for” as he and two accomplices subjected one of the alleged victims to sexual abuse.
Sageer, who is now 39 years old, has now been dealt an additional sentence after being one of three men found guilty of two further rapes following a trial earlier this year, which heard how he targeted his victim 25 years ago. A jury was reportedly told that Hussain raped a girl who was around 14 at the time and is now in her 30s.
Sageer, who was roughly the same age, is said to have lured her down an alleyway in Rotherham town centre, insisting he wouldn’t let her leave unless she had sex with him. Prosecutors said how Hussain raped her with two other individuals present, one female and one male.
They detailed how the victim wept throughout the horrific ordeal as her escape route was blocked. Andrew Bailey, prosecuting, previously told Sheffield Crown Court how the girl, now in her late 30s, who was raped by Sageer, Kessur Ajaib and Mohammed Makhmood between 1999 and 2002.
Mr Bailey recounted one instance when the teenager was allegedly raped by Sageer, stating: “He said it was my own fault, I’d led him on. I shouldn’t have walked around in what I was dressed in. I deserved it and that is what white girls were for.” During his three-year reign of abuse, Sageer would hurl the insult “white slag” at her whenever he saw her in the street.
Mr Bailey described the first victim as an “immature and vulnerable young girl” who frequented a Rotherham youth club. He noted that this club was also visited by young men, some around her age but others slightly older, who would offer the girls drinks and cigarettes.
The prosecutor stated that the girl met Kessur at the youth club and he began to sexually assault her after rumours circulated that she had had consensual sex with a boy of her own age, despite being only 14. Mr Bailey explained that Kessur saw this as a “green light” and the defendant said that “now she needed to come to try somebody real”.
He informed the jury how Kessur, who was around 18 at the time, raped her in an alleyway. He said: “She told him she didn’t want to do it” and added: “He was a lot bigger than her and she felt overpowered. She realised she had no choice.”
Mr Bailey revealed that this girl was forced into sexual intercourse on “about five or six occasions”. He said: “She felt like a prostitute.
“She was in fear of being hurt if she didn’t do it.” The prosecutor stated that Mohammed Makhmood, who was about 18 or 19 at the time, raped the same girl in an old graveyard in Rotherham as she fought against him.
The convictions are the latest to emerge from the National Crime Agency’s Operation Stovewood, a massive probe into child sexual exploitation in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013.
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