'They did what they wanted with me - no matter how disgusting': Victim of Oxford sex gang talks of her three-year nightmare

• 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

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

Katie still struggles to comprehend how a girl with upstanding parents – her father is a civil engineer – could fall prey to such abuse.

‘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

‘It’s something I felt I had to do,’ she said. ‘Although I knew what sex was, there’s a difference between having sex as an adult and as a child. This was people taking advantage of a child.’

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.’

Kamar Jamil (left), 27, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 12 years while Assad Hussain (right) , 32, was sentenced to seven years in prison

On some occasions there were up to ten men were in the room, waiting to have sex with her.

Zeeshan Ahmed, 28, was jailed for seven years

 

Katie said: ‘They just thought they could do what they wanted with me, no matter how disgusting. It got to the point where I just went along with things.

'Mentally I shut down and just did it.’

Aged 14, and by now in a care home, she alerted her carer to the abuse but was ignored.

A month after her 15th birthday, she told police that one of her abusers, Akhtar Dogar, was forcing her to have sex with him and other men.

But instead of following up these allegations, she said officers threatened to arrest her for wasting police time.

‘My behaviour and appearance should have been sending alarm bells,’ she said.

Although Katie is now in a long-term relationship, memories of her past still haunt her.

She was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress two counts of sexual activity with a childdisorder at the age of 15 and suffers from severe bouts of depression and OCD.

• Katie’s name has been changed to protect her anonymity.

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Issue gag order on party polls, MIC president told

A MIC leader wants the party president to order party members to stop speaking to the media regarding the party elections

PETALING JAYA: A MIC leader has requested the party’s top leadership to issue a gag order to members regarding the party elections in September.

Taman Mujur MIC branch chairman VT Rajen said party president G Palanivel must direct all members to stop speaking to the media regarding the party elections.

Rajen said he was concerned over several divisions and branches openly showing their support for certain leaders and this had tarnished the image of others.

“Any announcement on the party elections should be from the party president and his deputy Dr S Subramaniam and secretary-general A Sakthivel,” he told FMT today.

He added that the young Turks in the party must understand the party’s long struggle and sacrifices.

“We are in a critical situation now because of the lack of support from the Indians. Let us unite to get back our community support and strengthen the party before going to the party elections.

Rajen said issues concerning the party elections should be resolved internally.

Recently, the MIC’s Central Working Committee (CWC) decided that branch elections would be held between July 12 and Aug 4, divisional elections in September and October and the presidential election on Sept 22.

Elections for the other top national posts, including that of deputy president, will be held in November.

MIC held its last elections in 2009, when S Samy Vellu won the presidency uncontested. He relinquished the post in 2010.

Palanivel, then his deputy, became acting president. Fresh elections were due in 2012, but was postponed to prepare for the 13th general election.
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Member of royalty jailed for assaulting national boxer

A member of a royal family was sentenced to four years' jail by a sessions court in Johor Baru today, along with two others, for seriously injuring national boxer Muhamad Farkhan Mohd Haron.

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 voluntarily causing hurt to Farkhan.

Tunku Nick, Foo and Mohamad Arif were found guilty of committing the offence under Section 325 of the Penal Code at No 44, Jalan Molek 3/2, Taman Molek, between 4.30am and 7am on May 6, 2012.

A person convicted of an offence under Section 325 can be jailed for a maximum of seven years.

Tunku Nick resides at Istana Bukit Kesenangan in Johor Bahru.

The judge also rejected their application for a stay of execution of the sentence pending appeal, resulting in Tunku Nick, Foo and Mohamad Arif to spend time in the lock-up.

DPP Dzul Iswari Mohd Jaafar prosecuted in the case, while the three were represented by Zamri Idrus, Norman Fernandez and Masri Mohammad.

Lawyer Gobind Singh Deo held a watching brief for the national boxer, who was also a SEA Games gold medallist.

Missed the London Olympics

On June 15 last year, Gobind gave given the Attorney-General's Chambers an ultimatum, demanding to know whether it would take action on the assault against Farkhan. 

Farkhan, the 2009, Laos Sea Games gold medallist, is said to have been assaulted with wood, iron rods and a samurai sword by a member of the royal family and his friends on May 6, 2012, after which he lodged a police report.

The assault caused Farkhan to suffer a broken jaw and miss last year's London Olympics.

To make matters worse, Farkhan's father, Mohd Haron Ismail, who was disturbed by the attack, died of a heart attack several weeks after the incident.

After this, the prosecution charged Tunku Nick, Foo and Mohamad Arif for the attack.

VT Singham retires after illustrious judicial career

Kuala Lumpur High Court judge VT Singham, who delivered the A Kugan judgment two days ago, is retiring after serving 13 years on the bench.

Justice Singham retires today at the age of 65. Officials from the judiciary’s corporate communications and international relations department indicated that was his chosen age of retirement.

Normally, judges, including those in the Federal Court, can serve on the bench until they are 66, which is the compulsory retiring age.

Singham was appointed a High Court judicial officer in 2000 after being in private practice, and was confirmed a full High Court judge in 2002.
He is the most senior High Court judge and until his retirement today, he had served in Temerloh, Taiping, Ipoh, Kuantan and in Kuala Lumpu.
It is also learned that Singham was a part-time news reporter in the early days of his life.

Known for his witty comments and spontaneous rulings, Singham, a bachelor, is known as a hard, fair and judicious judge willing to go the extra mile in hearing cases and giving advice to lawyers.

Among the civil cases he has presided over, besides Kugan’s, are Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim’s suit against Utusan Malaysia’s group editor Abdul Aziz Ishak and the suit by Shazryl Eskay Abdullah of the 'Datuk T trio' fame on the crooked bridge project.

Several blogs and Malay rights group Perkasa have also attacked Justice Singham’s fairness in favouring Anwar in the suit, by questioning his sexual orientation.

However, that matter is subject to an on-going contempt proceeding involving Perkasa president Ibrahim Ali and the blogger.

Kugan judgment 'a damning indictment on government'

Wednesday's High Court ruling on A Kugan's death in police custody is a damning indictment of the government's handling of such cases, says MIC treasurer-general Senator Jaspal Singh.

Jaspal said it also showed that the people could can no longer accept or tolerate custodial deaths.

"The home minister stated in Parliament that the government will not protect wrong-doers. He must now keep his word. The Kugan investigation must be re-opened and his killers must be found and charged.

"Justice VT Singham said the 45 injuries on Kugan's body are an indication that more than one person was involved in torturing him.

"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.

In light of the landmark Kugan judgment, he said, the cabinet must review its decision not to form the Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission (IPCMC).

"Whether it was the IPCMC or otherwise, the police cannot be expected to investigate themselves.

"They certainly cannot be sitting on the board of the Enforcement Agency Integrity Commission or the IPCMC. The government must act swiftly to address public outrage over this case. Public trust is easily lost and hard to recoup," Jaspal added.

Skeletons in the cupboard

DAP parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang said Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin had said two weeks ago that the clear message from Malaysian voters in the last general election was that they want the government to be more stern and bold in defending the important institutions of the country.

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.

"It is unlikely for the home minister to suggest that the IGP assumes full responsibility for Kugan's death when the question remains as to why the police did not investigate or charge Ahmad Zahid for the offence of assault against Amir Bazli Abdullah way back in 2006.

"Similarly, it is unlikely that the IGP can suggest that the home minister should assume full responsibility for the 2006 assault case when Khalid himself is in the dock over responsibility for Kugan's death in police custody in 2009," Lim said in a statement.

The Gelang Patah MP said both the minister and the IGP seemed to be trapped in a lockstep, with neither able to assert authority over the other because each has a "skeleton in the cupboard".

"Is this the way for the BN government to restore national and international confidence in the key institutions of the country after the 13th general election?" he asked.

In less than two months after GE13, Lim said, the BN was already facing a full-blown crisis on good governance.

Malaysians, he added, were entitled to know how Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak proposed to resolve these matters, whether he would terminate, suspend or ask both Ahmad Zahid and Khalid to take leave of absence from their offices until both have cleared themselves.

Pakatan backstabbed us, says PSM chief

Parti Sosialis Malaysia in assessing the 13th general election said its opposition allies had “backstabbed” them even though they fought a common enemy.

“True, we faced problems especially when our own friend betrayed and backstabbed us, even though we did not see them as the main enemy.

“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.

“We were bullied, promises to us were broken, and tackling our problems took a back seat as everyone was concerned with their own (political) well-being, and so on.

He described PSM’s relations with Pakatan as a “mess” in the run-up to the hotly contested polls, even though it was good elsewhere when both fought for common goals against injustice and abuse.

PSM ran into seat allocation problems with its Pakatan partners well past nomination day in the last general election, and even as the candidacy of Nasir for the Kota Damansara seat under the PKR banner was finally ironed out, PAS’s candidate continued to run against him, causing both to lose the seat to BN.
Nasir said we realised the fact that PSM entered the elections without the strength and was hoping for a one-on-one contest and also the Pakatan votes to ensure victory.

“As a result of the obstacles and sabotage, we were left alone (in this election) in the face of our enemies in Pakatan and also BN. They took the opportunity to exploit this as had happened in Kota Damansara, where PAS saied they expected to win with the support of PKR and Umno.

“Despite this, PAS was not successful and it only resulted in splitting the votes and handed the Kota Damansara seat on a silver platter to Umno,” he said, adding that the same story of attack and sabotage happened in Semenyih and Jelapang.

Addressing false perception on socialism

He noted that PSM’s weaknesses is that it cannot alleviate such a false perception that the people have on socialism.

Nasir said we were not able to inculcate and analyse socialism when we were with the people in fighting tyranny and past discrimination.

Going through the evolution of socialism parties in Malaysia, when we had PSRM, PRM then Parti Rakyat, Nasir said this was due to socialist leaders in the past not being aggressive to attack or cancel out all the false allegations on the ideology of socialism.

He said the party should be given new breath, and hence there is a need for a new approach.

Nasir said the ideology of socialism has to take consideration of local surroundings.

“While we see that socialist countries like Cuba and Venezuela have developed, we have to further study whether their ideas there could be adopted to our struggle in Malaysia in the local context,” he said.