Nine guilty in Rochdale sex grooming trial, but more arrests on way in hunt for FIFTY sex beasts

Top - Abdul Qayyum, Hamid Safi, Kabeer Hassan, Abdul Rauf; Bottom - Abdul Aziz, Mohammed Amin, Adil Khan, Mohammed Sajid.

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Top - Abdul Qayyum, Hamid Safi, Kabeer Hassan, Abdul Rauf; Bottom - Abdul Aziz, Mohammed Amin, Adil Khan, Mohammed Sajid.

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Top - Abdul Qayyum, Hamid Safi, Kabeer Hassan, Abdul Rauf; Bottom - Abdul Aziz, Mohammed Amin, Adil Khan, Mohammed Sajid. Top - Abdul Qayyum, Hamid Safi, Kabeer Hassan, Abdul Rauf; Bottom - Abdul Aziz, Mohammed Amin, Adil Khan, Mohammed Sajid.

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As they were convicted following an 11-week trial, it emerged police believe the gang may have had FIFTY members. Many of the men were identified to the girls only by nicknames and have proved difficult to track down.

Officers are still trying to establish the real identities of the men – some of whom were referred to in court as Goofy, Ray, Juicy, Arfan, Ali, Manni, Mamma, Pino and Arfan.

But we understand police believe they have established the names of four men alleged to have sexually abused the prosecution’s main witness at a ‘sex party’ in 2008.

Detectives believe at least one may be in Pakistan. They expect to make arrests in the next few days but are not planning to extend the investigation to Pakistan.

n addition to the four, Mohammed Shazad, 40, who was said by the Crown to have organised the sex parties at his flat in Jephys Street, Rochdale, was arrested but jumped bail before the start of the trial and fled to Pakistan last year.

He is said to have paid taxi driver Abdul Aziz, who acted as a pimp, £30 or £40 for bringing girls to his flat for sex.

The prosecution’s main witness said she went to Mr Shazad’s flat on countless occasions and was forced to have sex with him each time. He also took her to another flat in Nelson where she was forced to have sex with other men, she told the jurors. Mr Shazad, also known as Khan, and who worked in a chip shop on Spotland Road, Rochdale, is said to have told reluctant girls brought to his flat: ‘No sex no money’.

The trial heard that the men – who are all from Pakistan, apart from one who is from Afghanistan – groomed and ‘shared’ the young white girls because they were vulnerable.

Assistant Chief Constable Steve Heywood, of Greater Manchester Police said: "It is not a racial issue. This is about adults preying on vulnerable young children. It just happens that in this particular area and time the demographics were that these were Asian men."