Former Labour peer Nazir Ahmed has been jailed for five years and six months after sexually abusing two children. Mr Little has now finished opening his case and the jury will be sent home to return tomorrow morning. Three appeal court judges have now cut that term to two and a half years after concluding that the trial judge, Mr Justice Lavender, fell into error when passing sentence. To be sick or healthy, says Nazir, is the will of Allah. The former Labour peer Nazir Ahmed has been jailed for five years and six months after being convicted of sexual offences against two children in the 1970s. Alabama violated voting rights law, top court rules. The man went on to say that Mr Farouq and Mr Tariq had visited him to tell him the female in the case was confused. A member of the House of Lords has been accused of exploiting his position to pursue sex with vulnerable women who asked him for help, Newsnight reveals. In most cases, there are no cures and even the world over, pharma companies arent incentivised to spend billions of research dollars on them because the patients are too few and the disease too challenging. Read about our approach to external linking. The House of Lords confirmed that, as the title is created by letters patent from the Queen, it has no power to remove it and legislation would therefore be needed to strip Ahmed of it. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, 2023 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. Ahmed had been found guilty of two counts of attempted rape and one of buggery. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. To Tabassum, the reason was simple. In a message, the male complainant said: I have evidence against that paedophile., During a later phone call instigated by the female, which was recorded, the male complainant said: All three of them abused me. Eventually, the CSIR-IGIB team found it. Both had faced charges of indecent assault against the same boy abused by Ahmed. It was as if an incendiary device had been thrown in our midst., He added: This disgraceful situation has sabotaged this trial I do not use that adjective lightly. Mr Little also claimed that there was evidence of allegations of acts Lord Ahmed committed before he turned 14, and although they were not reflected in the charges, "we say it did happen". Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk. The chief executive of the Rotherham hospital, Dr Richard Jenkins, has now met Mr Ahmed and has apologised to him and the family. Mr Little told the jury their job is to determine whether Lord Ahmed is guilty of those offences he is charged with. Earlier visits to hospitals in Agra and one to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi, confirmed that the children suffered from a rare disease, and treatment largely consisted of muscle relaxants and for controlling the seizures. 2023 BBC. Peer and former politician Lord Nazir Ahmed has been found guilty of attempting to rape a young girl when he was a teenager in the 1970s. Around the same time, Human Welfare Foundation (HWF), a Delhi-based charity, also offered to aid Nazir. Dr Jenkins said in a letter to the family's MP Sarah Champion that he has spoken to Yusuf's uncle to "directly express my condolences and to apologise to the family". The victim of the attempted rapes, who cannot be named due to the nature of the offences, said she had lived with "an overwhelming feeling of shame". Both men were given absolute discharges after the judge said the only other two options - a hospital order or a supervision order - would not be appropriate in this case. Yusuf first complained of a sore throat on 13 November. Mr Little said: But she is not saying she was left alone. He said that on the evening when Yusuf was examined, there were 93 children in A&E and only one doctor to see them. He said this was despite the allegations dating back almost 50 years, hearings being postponed for a year due to the coronavirus pandemic, and the allegations being made five years ago. Hes lying on a bed in the courtyard and shares his brothers shrivelled legs though they arent yet locked in. Could it have prevented the Odisha train tragedy? A July 2016 We have migrated to a new commenting platform. April 15, 2017 12:15 am | Updated 08:15 am IST, Deviant gene: Nazir and Tabassums plea to terminate the lives of their children was preceded by 15 years of watching six of their eight children debilitated by a malevolent neurological disease called megalencephalic leukoencephalopathy, which destroys their neurons and wastes away their muscles. The family at their home in Agra. Nazir and his wife Tabassums desperate plea to terminate the lives of their children was preceded by 15 agonising years of watching six of their eight children debilitated by a malevolent disease that destroys their neurons and steadily wastes away their muscles. The bride-to-be, says Shamsudheen, is a carrier. Mr Little said Lord Ahmed's case was that the allegations were a "malicious fiction". A statement from the second victim said: "This is not about revenge, this is about justice.". Current Science editorial notes that though precise statistics of rare disease were absent in India, extrapolating U.K. estimates of 1 in 20 implied that there were 60 million Indians afflicted with such conditions. The poignant story of an Agra family, where six children have the Nalband mutation. It has caused the trial to abort. The trial of Lord Ahmed, 63, who appeared at Sheffield Crown Court under his real name, Nazir Ahmed, was stopped on 22 February. Dr Jenkins said the investigation aims to cover the "whole pathway of Yusuf's care, including both attendances with his GP, the Rotherham hospital attendance at the urgent and emergency care centre and subsequent contact from the family, the Yorkshire Ambulance Service and Sheffield Children's Hospital". Its been two years since Mohammad Nazir, 44, petitioned the government that six of his children be euthanised. Ammonia pipeline blast may end grain deal - Russia, El Nio planet-warming weather phase has begun, Catching the men who sell subway groping videos, Rammstein fan alleges she was groomed for sex. Zaheer Ahmed, the uncle of Yusuf Mahmud Nazir, told Sky News he wants a "full independent investigation out of the NHS". But 200 km away, in Delhi, a group of geneticists read about the Nazir family online and realised that they . Tucked away on the MLC-1 gene on chromosome 21, the researchers informally call it the Agra or Nalband mutation. Last modified on Mon 22 Feb 2021 08.07 EST. Oil palm plantations prove to be a disaster in Mizoram, Why Pali lost out and Sanskrit received more than its due, Thailand Open 2023: Lakshya Sen bows out with loss against Kunlavut Vitidsarn. Judge Jeremy Richardson QC told the court he had reached the "unhesitating conclusion" that Mr Farouq, 68, of Worrygoose Lane, Rotherham, would not be able to instruct lawyers. But they have. One victim came to the witness box to describe the impact the peer of the realm had on her life. The odds of it not being responsible were infinitely small, says Shamsudheen. But in the end, all tyrants fall," she said. "It takes just one person to break that silence and it helps others to come forward.". This is not about revenge, this is about justice.. The trial of a former Labour peer accused of sexually abusing younger children has collapsed due to a disgraceful late disclosure of evidence by the prosecution, a judge has said. The prosecution said there was nothing further they could add at present. The 63-year-old's trial is due to begin at Sheffield Crown Court on Wednesday morning where a jury will be sworn in and the case will be opened by a prosecutor. The petition worked, to the extent that local newspapers carried accounts of the familys predicament. He said the "calamity" had gone from "bad to worse" and he had come to the conclusion that "enough was enough". Appearing under his birth name of Nazir Ahmed, Lord Ahmed denies the charges. "The statements which they have made express more eloquently than I ever could how your actions have affected and continue to affect their lives in so many different and damaging ways.". Wed 17 Feb 2021 11.45 EST Last modified on Tue 25 Jan 2022 04.08 EST A former Labour peer repeatedly sexually abused two younger children when he was a teenager, a court has heard. On Friday, Mr Justice Lavender told Ahmed: Your actions have had profound and lifelong effects on the girl and the boy, who have lived with what you did to them for between 46 and 53 years. To get the latest email updates from South Yorkshire Live, click here . A former Labour peer repeatedly sexually abused two younger children when he was a teenager, a court has heard. He said it would consider the judgement and the issues in the case to help to "drive lasting improvements in our handling of disclosure to ensure that we provide the service the public rightly expect". The 64-year-old had denied the charges, calling them a "malicious fiction", but a phone recording of a conversation between the two victims in 2016 showed they were not "made-up". Nazir Ahmed was charged with two counts of attempting to rape a girl under 16, indecent assault of a boy under 14, and raping a boy under 16, all alleged to have occurred in the early 1970s,. Ahmed, 64, who quit the House of Lords but retains. He understands everything, says Tabassum, 36. We request the people of Agra specially the youngsters to . Their father was a carpenter. Mr Little went on to tell the jury that while they may hear some events which did or may have occurred before some of the defendants 14th birthdays, they will only be asked to convict or make findings as to conduct that occurred AFTER their 14th birthday. These bases form exclusive pairs with each other and their order determines how proteins are made. The winnowing process, that can extend over weeks, is a laborious trial-and-error exercise. In July 2016, the male complainant explained that hearing the woman had complained had prompted him to come forward and report the abuse that had been perpetrated against him not just by Lord Ahmed but also his two brothers Mr Farouq and Mr Tariq. That Nazir has had several children all within two years of each other and not enough time to be aware of the diseases progression that begins only after they are toddlers partially explains the odds. Secondly, he said, the detail and timing goes directly to rebut any suggestion in this case that the offending never occurred and that the allegations have been made up or concocted by the two complainants. They said the fact that Ahmed was a child when he committed the offences had to be taken into account. According to Scaria, a report from Iran seemed to suggest that the Agra mutation may have been reported in a child in that country. If our appeal is successful we will seek another trial of the defendants. It sabotaged the trial. They don't want him to use his title to impress anyone again. Mr Ahmed said: "We want the hospital to reveal the truth to everybody. Ahmed was also found guilty of a serious sexual assault against a boy under 11, also in the early 1970s. Nazir Ahmed was found guilty at Sheffield crown court in January. Mr Little said the prosecution rely on the content of the recording, firstly because it is evidence of the complaint from the male. He said the penetration was a progression. We say it is Nazir Ahmed.. But he had decided to take the unusual course of action for the first time in his career due to a number of factors, he said, including the weakness of the case. In mitigation, Imran Khan QC said Ahmed had devoted his life to public service and that his fall from grace had been in the full glare of publicity including a campaign for him to be stripped of his title. "But that mistake should not have happened. She then said to him: You need to put the blame squarely and firmly where it belongs.. Amber heat alert issued as temperatures set to hit 30C in parts of UK, Hamdan Aslam: Teenager who died after incident at West Lothian school named, Thirteen times as many people waiting too long for urgent cancer check-ups than in 2010, NHS figures reveal. Nazir Ahmed was born in Pakistan . The former Labour peer Nazir Ahmed has been jailed for five years and six months after being convicted of sexual offences against two children in the 1970s. The court heard Lord Ahmed, who was tried under his birth name Nazir Ahmed, attempted to rape the girl twice in the early 1970s, when he was aged 16 or 17 but she was much younger. Despite the internal social stratifications, the family is fairly endogamous. With at least 25,000 endogamous communities estimated, the team has so far worked on 500 families and hopes to find at least 1,000 within the next year. Pakshalika Singh, wife of Bah MLA Raja Mahendra Aridaman Singh, from the erstwhile royal family of Bhadawar, and Nazir Ahmed, shoe baron who dominates Agra's leather industry, his business worth crores spread across continents, represent an interesting contrast. A Crown Prosecution Service spokesperson said: We are appealing this decision and have explained this to the two complainants. Ahmeds two older brothers, Mohammed Farouq, 71, and Mohammed Tariq, 66, were also charged with indecent assault in relation to the same boy abused by Ahmed. A CPS spokesperson said it would seek another trial if its appeal succeeded. Shortly afterwards, Ahmed picked up his rucksack, waved at his family and disappeared through a door to start his five-and-a-half year sentence. Neither Dr. Gulati nor the researchers at CSIR-IGIB have a plausible explanation for why Nazir specifically is particularly unlucky. The male victim, who also cannot be named, said in a personal statement read out in court: "I buried the abuse and carried it with me on my own for years and years. "It is vital that a thorough and independently conducted investigation takes place as soon as possible so the family can have answers to their concerns and we can identify where changes need to be made. Court has now broken for lunch for the next hour. Appeal court judges reduce sentence to six months for buggery of boy when ex-Labour MP was a teenager. (modern). 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