- Katie was academically gifted and dreamed of becoming a forensic scientist
- At the age of 12 two Pakistani brothers befriended her
- She was completely unaware she was being groomed for…
- Katie was academically gifted and dreamed of becoming a forensic scientist
- At the age of 12 two Pakistani brothers befriended her
- She was completely unaware she was being groomed for sexual exploitation
- For almost three years she was violently and sexually abused by a gang
- She was also sold for sex on hundreds of occasions to child abusers
During her primary school years, Katie was considered academically gifted and dreamed of
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| Girls were sold for £600 a time. This picture is posed by a model |
Suffering: becoming a forensic scientist.
At home, her loving parents read her bedtime stories and would at times remind her to feed her giant African land snail.
But when she turned 12 her life changed forever. Sitting on some steps with a friend in Oxford, Katie was approached by two Pakistani brothers who befriended her with alcohol and cigarettes.
She was flattered by the attention they paid her, completely unaware she was being groomed for sexual exploitation until it was too late.
For almost three years she was violently and sexually abused by a gang and then sold for sex on hundreds of different occasions to a network of child abusers across Britain.
Shockingly, during her ordeal she told police and social services she was being abused, but nothing was done to help her.
As some of her abusers started long jail sentences yesterday, Katie spoke for the first time about her three-year nightmare.
She told the Daily Mail: ‘By all accounts I was a bit of a geek at school,’ she said.
‘Then six months later I become somebody who went missing all the time, coming back days later, filthy and dirty.
'The sudden change is scary to think about, even now.’
Abuse was carried out at the Nanford Guest House in Oxford. Pictured is a room at the guest house
‘By this point I thought my teenage friends wouldn’t like me any more. They would say if you go back to school no one is going to like you because you’re a slag.’
After several months, the Pakistani men began to ask her for sex, pretending to want a loving relationship with her.
But soon they were threatening violence if Katie refused to do what she was told.
Brothers Akhtar Dogar (left) and Anjum Dogar (right) were each given a
life sentence with a minimum of 17 years at the Old Bailey
Mohammed Karrar (left), 38, was given life with a
minimum of 20 years for the 'dreadful offences' he committed against
the girls. His brother Bassam Karrar (right), 34, was also handed a life
sentence with a minimum of 15 years
As her ordeal intensified, Katie was taken to rooms in guest houses and flats in the backstreets of east Oxford. ‘I was taken to parties,’ she recalled.
‘By party I mean everybody coming and having sex with me. If I said I didn’t want it, it would just happen anyway.’
Judge
Zamri Bakar sentenced Tunku Nick Tazuddin Izwan Syah Tunku Qadir, 28,
Alex Foo Hee Wee, 42, and Mohamad Arif Husin, 36, after finding them
guilty of 
"The judge (left)
also said these injuries, including a wide range of internal injuries,
speaks volumes of what had happened during his detention. Yet only one
policeman, V Navindran, was found guilty," Jaspal said in a statement.
However,
Lim said, Kugan's judgment against the police and Inspector-General of
Police Khalid Abu Bakar and the court case involving Home Minister Ahmad
Zahid Hamidi were in the opposite to those calls.
“Instead,
we were trampled on, and still we tried to compromise (on the needs of
the rakyat and on gaining Pakatan’s much needed support to win) with the
hope that we can all unite,” said PSM national president Nasir Hashim (left) in his speech at the party’s annual general meeting today.
E Nalini (right),
the executive director of Suaram, which is one of the NGOs under SSVM,
said in a statement today Kuala Lumpur High Court judge VT Singham's
judgment showed that police were liable for the death of Kugan,
including then Selangor police chief and present Inspector-General of
Police, Khalid Abu Bakar.
Suaram's coordinator R Thevarajan (right) said he agreed with Justice Singham's call for the setting up of the IPCMC.
P Rajjamah made the plea in a meeting with Batu Gajah MP V Sivakumar at the entrance to Parliament this afternoon.
He
said this while reading out his two-hour long judgment on the civil
suit against the government brought by the family of custodial death
victim A Kugan (left). 
At this juncture, Singam commended Surendran's (right) efforts to arrange a second post mortem for Kugan, or and the truth would have been ‘swept under the blue carpet'.
Singham also dismissed then Selangor police chief (now inspector-general of police) Khalid Abu Bakar's (left) 
Kugan's mother, Indra Nallathamby, 43 (right),
in January last year filed a RM100 million civil suit for damages
against the government and police over what she claimed as the 
After
the court had adjourned, tears were seen flowing from Indra’s eyes, but
she declined to speak to the press. PKR vice-president N Surendran (right in photo), who was also a witness for Indra, said she was too emotional to speak. 
Tun Abdul Majid (left), the number five in the Attorney-General’s Chambers, admitted that political analyst Abdul Razak Baginda, who was 
He
was responding to submissions from lawyers for Azilah and Corporal
Sirul Azhar Umar, members of the Special Action Unit of the police force
who are seeking acquittal.
“He (Abdul Razak) is an accused person. Why should we apply to call Musa (left) to save Abdul Razak’s credibility as he is an accused person?”
