GANG-RAPE PAIR JAILED FOR 13 YEARS OVER HUDDERSFIELD SUBWAY ATTACK
Two men have been jailed for 13 years each for their roles in the gang rape of a 17-year-old girl in a Huddersfield subway.
The victim was attacked on 14 July last year in the pedestrian underpass beneath the A62 Castlegate, between New North Road Baptist Church and the former Technical College building. She was assaulted by a group of men who were forensically linked to the scene and arrested within days.
Abdul Latif Salih, 35, of Trinity Street in Huddersfield town centre, and Bahaldin Doud, 21, of Village Terrace in Burley, Leeds, were sentenced on Monday at Leeds Crown Court.
Salih was convicted of causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent, rape and attempted rape. Doud was found guilty of two counts of attempted rape. Both men received 13-year prison terms and will be placed on the sex offenders register.
A third defendant, Saddam Muhamadaim, 18, of Blacker Road in Birkby, is awaiting sentence. He was convicted of three counts of rape and one count of attempted rape in relation to the same incident.
Sentencing for Muhamadaim was adjourned while the court investigates his true age, which could affect the length of his sentence. The court previously heard that he arrived in the UK from Sudan and gave his date of birth as January 1993 on an asylum registration form, but later told police it was March 2001. If correct, he would have been 17 at the time of the attack rather than 25.
He was returned to custody following the hearing.
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