Lord Nazir Sexual Abuse: Pakistani-origin ex-House of Lords member Nazir Ahmed faces trial
London: A British court has heard that a former Labour peer had repeatedly sexually abused two younger children when he was a teenager, media reports said.
Nazir Ahmed, 63, is on trial at Sheffield Crown Court charged with a number of sexual offences dating back to the 1970s, reports BBC.
The court was told the allegations came to light in 2016 when a man and a woman had contacted the cops.
Ahmed, who was formerly known as Lord Ahmed of Rotherham, has rejected the charges.
He is accused of two counts of attempting to rape a girl under 16, indecent assault of a boy under 14 and raping a boy under 16, all said to have occurred in the early 1970s, reports BBC.
His brothers Mohammed Farouq, 70, and Mohammed Tariq, 65, also from Rotherham, are accused of the indecent assault of a boy under 14, but are not fit to plead and face a trial of the facts, the British news channel reported.
Prosecutor Tom Little QC opened the case and told the jury that the complainants in the case were too young to stop the abuse at the time and were too young to do anything about it, reports Yorkshire Live.
Little said: “They have now complained - not just to those that they know or love but more recently to the police.”
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