British court finds sex gang guilty of grooming underage girls for sex

A paedophile ring in the UK was found guilty today of a catalogue of charges involving vulnerable underage girls who were groomed for sexual exploitation.

Brothers Akhtar Dogar, 32, and Anjum Dogar, 31, and Kamar Jamil, 27, were convicted of rape, facilitating child prostitution and trafficking.

Assad Hussain, 32, was convicted of two counts of sexual activity with a child.

Mohammed Karrar, 38, was found guilty of rape of a child under 13 and procuring abortion, conspiracy to rape, child prostitution and trafficking.

The verdicts were delivered at the Old Bailey at the end of a five-month trial during which the jury was told the gang sexually exploited girls as young as 11 between 2004 and last year in the Oxford area.

Verdicts were also being delivered on similar charges involving other defendants.

Mohammed Karrar's brother Bassam, 33, was found guilty of rape and conspiracy to rape girls under 13, child prostitution and trafficking.

Fighting broke out in the dock after two of the defendants were cleared.