Rochdale gang convicted for raping and exploiting teenage girls for five years

(L-R) Mustaq Ahmed, Mohammed Zahid and Kasir Bashir are three of the seven men convicted of sexual exploitation - (Greater Manchester Police)

A group of men have been convicted of the sexual exploitation of two teenage schoolgirls in Rochdale.

The seven defendants were all Asian males aged between 39 and 67. They preyed on the vulnerabilities of their victims to groom them as “sex slaves” from the age of 13 on various dates in the Greater Manchester town between 2001 and 2006.