UNITED KINGDOM
Dudley News
A RELIGIOUS leader is facing time behind bars after being convicted by a jury of carrying out sex attacks on two young girls at his Cradley Heath mosque.
Hafiz Rahman was the Imam at the place of worship and he sexually assaulted the girls in a string of attacks between March 1986 and August 1987.
The girls who had gone to the Queens Cross mosque for religious studies had described to the jury how they were touched sexually by Rahman.
The 58-year-old of Ballard Road, Netherton, had denied seven charges involving indecent assault at Wolverhampton Crown Court.
But at the end of his five day trial the eight man- four woman reached unanimous guilty verdicts on five of the charges.
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