[5] Another man, Arif Chowdhury, who was previously on the run in Bangladesh, was arrested in June of 2022 upon arriving to the United Kingdom, and sentenced to 8 years of jailtime.
[6] After the verdicts were returned, Judge Roger Thomas QC told the guilty men that they had treated the proceedings with "contempt and arrogance".
He paid tribute to the victims for their courage in testifying against their abusers and described child sexual exploitation as "totally unacceptable" and "one of the most important challenges facing the police".
[1] Kris Hopkins, Conservative MP for Keighley, condemned what he called the "sick model of organised groups of Asian men grooming young white girls" and claimed that more women were still suffering abuse in the same way.
In a statement issued by his office, he said the convictions were vindication of controversial comments he had made in parliament in 2012, when he said that organised groups of Asian men were raping white girls.
Nicknamed "Creepy Khalid" in Keighley, he had convictions for a total of seven sexual offences, including indecent assault and curb crawling.
Detective Chief Inspector Nicola Bryar, of the Homicide and Major Enquiry Team in West Yorkshire Police, expressed her satisfaction at the sentences and also commended the courage of the victims.
She noted that CSE remained a priority for West Yorkshire Police, describing it as totally unacceptable and stressing the responsibility of all agencies, communities and individuals to identify the perpetrators and assist their prosecution, conviction and jailing.