UK: After two decades, Muslim rape gang members convicted, previously thought they were ‘untouchable’

This is a step in the right direction, but much, much more needs to be done if Britain is going to survive the shameful phenomenon of sacrificing a generation of its young girls to the idols of “diversity” and “multiculturalism.” All the authorities who countenanced or excused or ignored this behavior should be fired and bared from ever again holding a position of public trust. All of them, without exception. But such an action isn’t even on the horizon in shattered, staggering, dhimmi Britain.

“How ‘Knickerman’ Rochdale market stall holder groomed girls to be raped by hundreds of men,” by Paul Jeeves, Express, October 1, 2025:

The ringleader of one Britain’s most depraved grooming gangs has been jailed for 35 years after the evil sex predators from Rochdale’s latest vile abuse ring were finally brought to justice after their victims endured a two-decade wait. Mohammed Zahid headed a group of seven paedophiles convicted of 30 counts of rape, who believed they were “untouchable” due to a shocking failure by police and social workers to protect their vulnerable young victims.

Astonishingly one of the girls – living in a children’s home at the time – was dismissed by social workers as having been ‘prostituting’ herself from the age of ten. Earlier this year Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer finally committed to a national enquiry to find the true extent of the sickening scandal after pressure from victims, campaigners, politicians and X owner Elon Musk became deafening. The seven men – all of Pakistani heritage – were convicted of exploiting two young girls as ‘sex slaves’ in Rochdale between 2001 and 2006. The gang preyed on the vulnerabilities of the victims to groom them from the age of 13 over a five-year-long campaign of abuse

Zahid, 65, known as ‘knickerman’ gave out free underwear from his lingerie stall at Rochdale Indoor Market to both teenagers, with money, alcohol and food, in return for the expectation of regular sex with him and his friends.

The father-of-three was today jailed for 35 years for the systematic abuse of the girls between 2001 and 2006. The victims were abused by hundreds of men after their numbers were shared among a network of taxi drivers and take-away restaurants across the north of England.

Both girls had “deeply troubled home lives” and were given drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, places to stay and people to be with, Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court heard.

They were expected to have sex “whenever and wherever” the defendants and other men wanted in filthy flats, on rancid mattresses, in cars, car parks, alleyways and disused warehouses.

Three of the abusers, Mohammed Zahid, 64, Mushtaq Ahmed, 67, and Kasir Bashir, 50 – all born in Pakistan – had been stallholders on Rochdale’s indoor market.

The gang’s depraved pot-bellied ringleader Zahid was known as ‘Knickerman’ because of his underwear stall at the centuries-old trading hub, but also boasted of being the ‘Bossman’.

The father-of-three exploited his products’ appeal to young girls to lure in vulnerable youngsters who were then subjected to “years of misery”.

Previous trials have heard how a network of depraved taxi drivers and takeaway staff – mainly from Rochdale’s Pakistani community – passed around vulnerable girls and sexually abused them.

But this one revealed another location tainted by grooming gangs – the town’s markets.

Dating back to the award of a charter in 1251, Rochdale’s market has been a source of prosperity and pride for centuries.

But its popularity with young girls in particularly would be exploited by Zahid – who was known by his cronies as ‘Bossman’.

Fellow traders revall Zahid was a “pest” and a “creep” – but insist they had no idea he was using his stall to groom girls.

One said: “He had a real reputation for chasing women. He was always offering them free stuff, especially young girls.

“I know there was a lot of women who bought lingerie off him but would never go back because of the way he made them feel.

“It was well-known that he was a pervert but what he has done is still shocking.”

Once trading had finished for the day, the grotesque pair would take the stock to a nearby shop, Maria Fashions, then run by another paedophile, co-defendant Mushtaq Ahmed.

Already duped by Zahid’s superficially friendly manner and the offer of small amounts of cash or free underwear, the girls would naively agree to enter the store’s dingy cellar.

Here they would strip off and wait to be joined by men who raped and sexually assaulted them on a filthy mattress.

Maria Fashions – the shop beneath which the victims were ordered to strip before being raped on a ‘rancid’ mattress – is now under new ownership.

Later the traders acquired a storeroom to keep their wares in overnight – it soon became a new location where the girls could be abused.

By now dehumanised by their treatment, the girls were callously passed on by Zahid to paedophile taxi drivers from Rochdale’s Pakistani community in return for payment.

One was regularly raped by members of the grooming ring at what she described as a “horror house” in Oldham.

Girl B – who was raped by the two market traders and shopkeeper Ahmed – told jurors that she was sexually abused by “close to 100” men.

Since being released from a five-year sentence in 2016, Zahid is understood to have been living off benefits.

The latest convictions represent the eighth time that a group of men of mainly Pakistani heritage have been convicted of grooming girls for sex in Rochdale in the early 2000s….