A UK court sentenced to former Labour peer Lord Nazir Ahmed of Rotheram to five-and-a-half years in prison for sexually abusing two children in the 1970s.
In Jan 2022, Lord Nazir was charged with serious sexual assault against a boy and attempted rape of a young girl in UK and convicted as well.
Announcing sentence, Mr Justice Lavender said the disgraced actions of Lord Nazir had “profound and lifelong effects” on the sex abuse victims. Lord Nazir committed these abuses at the age of 16 and 17.
Tom Little, prosecutor in this case, said Lord Nazir claimed the allegations were a “malicious fiction”, but a phone recording of a 2016 conversation between the two victims negated Lord Nazir’s claims.
The woman’s call was prompted by an email from the male victim, saying: “I have evidence against that paedophile,” the jury previously heard.
“He is a paedophile who has no personal shame. But in the end, all tyrants fall,” the female victim said, according to the BBC.
A statement from the second victim said: “This is not about revenge, this is about justice.”
