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A former Labour peer has been found guilty of trying to rape a girl when he was a teenager in the 1970s.

Lord Ahmed of Rotherham was also convicted of a serious sexual assault against a boy during the same period.

Jurors at Sheffield Crown Court were told the "repeated sexual abuse" happened in Rotherham over several years.

The 64-year-old, who appeared under his real name of Nazir Ahmed, had denied the charges.

Judge Mr Justice Lavender will decide later when Lord Ahmed will be sentenced.

During his trial, prosecutor Tom Little QC told the court Lord Ahmed had attempted to rape the girl in the early 1970s, when the defendant was aged 16 or 17 but she was much younger.

Mr Little said Lord Ahmed claimed the allegations were a "malicious fiction" but a phone recording of a 2016 conversation between the two victims showed they were not "made-up or concocted".

The call was prompted by an email from the man saying: "I have evidence against that paedophile," the jury previously heard.

Lord Ahmed was charged along with his two older brothers, Mohammed Farouq, 71, and Mohammed Tariq, 65, but both were deemed unfit to stand trial.

Farouq and Tariq faced charges of indecent assault in relation to the same boy that Lord Ahmed abused, with the jury also finding they did the acts alleged.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan...shire-59607283

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Probably why things were covered up for years in that very same city/town