Ringleader of Asian 'child sex grooming gang' jailed for 22 years

Taxi driver Shabir Ahmed, 59, was convicted of a ‘campaign' of 30 sex attacks on a child.

He was already serving a 19-year sentence from May for conspiracy, two rapes, aiding and abetting rape, sexual assault and sex trafficking.

His domineering temper earned him the nickname ‘Daddy' by the white teenage victims, the Telegraph reports.

Ahmed, who called the judge a ‘racist b------‘, was one of nine men jailed at Liverpool Crown Court for a total of 77 years for passing around the youngsters and plying them with drugs and drink.

The Manchester Crown Court heard that Ahmed repeatedly raped and sexually abused a young Asian girl for more than a decade, treating her as a ''possession'' to use for his own sexual gratification.

The court was told that the victim got the courage to report the rapes to police only after an investigation was launched into the sex grooming scandal in Rochdale.