Breaking News: 32 arrests made in huge child sexual exploitation operation

BREAKING NEWS: 32 arrests have been made on Thursday, December 10, in a huge child sexual exploitation operation in West Yorkshire as part of an ongoing investigation.

Operation Tourway, a continuing investigation into allegations made against the defendants from 1999 to 2012, has resulted in the 32 men, largely from the Kirklees area, being charged with a variety of offences said to have occurred in parts of Kirklees, Bradford and Wakefield.

The allegations involved offences committed against eight female victims, who were aged between 13 and 16-years-old at the time of the alleged offences, with some of the victims also having been subjected to offences when they were young adults.

Here is a list of those who have been charged:

  • Asif Ali (50)
  • Amer Ali Hussain (42)
  • Sarfraz Miraf (45)
  • Nazam Hussain (43)
  • Mohammed Nazam Nasser (35)
  • Moshin Nadat (35)
  • Michael Birkenshaw (34)
  • Zafar Qayum (41)
  • Jabbar Qayum (39)
  • Ansar Mahmood Qayum (43)
  • Mohammed Tauseef Hanif (36)
  • Ali Hussain Shah (35)
  • Saleem Mohammed Nasir (44)
  • Amran Mehrban (37)
  • Ebrahim Pandor (41)
  • Shakil Daji (41)
  • Mohammed Imran Zada (41)
  • Sarkaut Yasen (35)
  • Amjad Hussain (41)
  • Asuk Hussain (50)
  • Zafar Iqbal (35)
  • Nasar Iqbal (35)
  • Bilal Mahmood Patel (38)
  • Khurum Raziq (38)
  • Irfan Khan (34)
  • Omar Farooq Hussain (36)
  • Sarfraz Hussain Riaz (37)
  • Rameez Cheema (33)
  • Nasar Hussain (42)
  • Mohammed Chothia (41)
  • Sajad Hussain (37)
  • Yasser Ali (31)

The men are due to appear at Kirklees Magistrates Court on December 11 and 14.


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Matthew Roscoe

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