Eight grooming gang suspects in court for 82 child sex offences against girls
EIGHT members of a suspected grooming gang appeared in court yesterday charged with 82 sex offences against girls.
The men were accused of “widespread sexual exploitation and abuse” of two youngsters aged between 12 and 16.
It follows the Operation Lytton probe into non-recent child sexual exploitation in Rochdale.
Manchester magistrates heard the offences allegedly took place between 2002 and 2006.
Accused are Mohammed Ghani, 37, Jahn Ghani, 49, Insar Hussain, 36, Ali Kasmi, 34, Mohammed Iqbal, 66, Ikhlaq Yousef, 37, and Aftar Khan, 33, all of Rochdale, and Martin Rhodes, 36, of Blackpool.
The men were bailed until next month.