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Joe Middleton

Lord Nazir Ahmed jailed for attempted rape of girl and sexually assaulting boy

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Former Labour peer Lord Nazir Ahmed has been jailed for five years and six months for sexually abusing two young children.

The 64-year-old was found guilty at Sheffield Crown Court in January of the attempted rape of a young girl and sexually assaulting a boy under 11 in the 1970s. The offences took placewhen Ahmed was a teenager in Rotherham.

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