Disgraced fomer Labour peer Nazir Ahmed ought to be stripped of his title after his conviction for the tried rape of a woman and the sexual assault of a boy, in keeping with a Conservative MP.
Lord Ahmed of Rotherham was convicted on Wednesday of two counts of tried rape and considered one of buggery.
Sheffield Crown Courtroom heard he carried out the assaults when he 16 or 17 within the Seventies, however the woman was a lot youthful.
Alexander Stafford, the Rother Valley MP who has launched a petition calling on justice secretary Dominic Raab to withdraw the peerage, described the title as “an insult to his victims”.
“There isn’t any getting away from the truth that this paedophile is in possession of a peerage and that is completely and categorically unacceptable,” he mentioned.
He tweeted: “As I mentioned within the Commons final yr: ‘There isn’t any particular person crime extra horrific than paedophilia and there’s no punishment too extreme for the perpetrators of those heinous acts’.”
Ahmed, 64, was created a life peer in 199 bu resigned from the Home of Lords in 2020 after an investigation advisable he be expelled.
Nevertheless, solely an Act of Parliament with royal assent can strip him of his title.
A former Labour councillor in Rotherham, he left the celebration in 2013.
Mr Stafford, who has beforehand spoken out in opposition to baby sexual exploitation, mentioned: “The main focus now must be on the victims of this sick abuser and their decades-long combat for justice.
“I thank them sincerely and wholeheartedly for his or her bravery and persistence and I welcome this verdict.”
He added: “I shall be chatting with my colleagues within the Division of Justice to make sure that this particular person will not be allowed to proceed to carry a peerage, which might be an insult to his victims.”
In the course of the trial, a girl instructed the jury that Ahmed tried to rape her.
Ahmed, who was each a Labour and non-affiliated peer all through his 22-year parliamentary profession, denied all the fees.
The choose, Mr Justice Lavender, bailed Ahmed to look for sentencing on 4 February.
Kaynak: briturkish.com
