Insar Hussain

Hussain argued, among other things, that his rape conviction was inconsistent with acquittals on other counts and that the jury had generally rejected C1's account. The Court of Appeal rejected that argument: a jury could accept parts of testimony while having reasonable doubt on other counts. It confirmed that the rape verdict was safe. It also rejected his arguments concerning the seventeen-year sentence, including classification of the offence, use of alcohol to facilitate the acts and a request for credit for remand time spent in custody in another case. On 4 July 2024, his appeal against conviction was dismissed, and permission to appeal his other convictions and sentence was refused.

Attribution

Directly implicated

The Court of Appeal stated that Hussain met C1/Girl A when she was 12. She described subsequent meetings during which she was given large quantities of alcohol. The jury found Hussain guilty of one rape and two counts of penetrative sexual activity with a child. The judge found that he had given the child large quantities of alcohol despite her age, had penetrated her mouth with his penis on multiple occasions and had raped her vaginally at least once. She also treated ejaculation, failure to use a condom and the use of a humiliating video to threaten C1 as aggravating factors; Hussain had been present and had laughed at what was being done to her. He was sentenced to seventeen years' imprisonment on 31 October 2023.

State of the evidence

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Attribution

Directly implicated

Hussain was convicted of one count of rape and two counts of penetrative sexual activity with a child.

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Accused

The published verdicts indicate that Hussain was acquitted of six further counts of rape, two counts of sexual intercourse with a child, three counts of indecency with a child, one further count of penetrative sexual activity with a child and one count of trafficking for sexual exploitation.

Attribution

Accused

Greater Manchester Police announced 15 charges against Insar Hussain in Operation Lytton.

State of the evidence

Documented

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Accused

The judge found that Insar Hussain had taken advantage of Girl A's childish attachment to Mohammed Ghani to exploit her in turn.

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Accused

The court singled out an incident in which Hussain took Girl A directly to a lorry stop to have sexual intercourse with her, then immediately returned her home without conversation.

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Accused

The judge found that Hussain gave Girl A large quantities of alcohol and sometimes cannabis, and that she knew sexual acts were expected in return.

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Accused

The court found that Hussain had penetrated Girl A orally on numerous occasions over approximately two years.

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Accused

The judge found that vaginal rape had occurred and classified the offence as particularly serious given the circumstances.

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Accused

The Court of Appeal stated that before his 2023 sentencing, Hussain had spent a significant period on remand awaiting trial in an entirely separate case and was subsequently acquitted. His defence asked for this period to be taken into account in reducing the seventeen-year sentence in Operation Lytton. Both the trial judge and the Court of Appeal refused the reduction. No guilt is attributed to Hussain in that separate case, in which he was acquitted.

State of the evidence

Documented

Legal status — source text

Acquitted / conviction overturned

Course of the proceedings

1. Formally charged — Formal charge before the current outcome

At the 2023 sentencing hearing, the defence requested that account be taken of the time Hussain had already spent on remand in an unrelated sexual offence case involving a family member, which had no connection with Operation Lytton.

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Accused

Course of the proceedings

1. Formally charged — Formal charge before the current outcome

The sentencing transcript explicitly states that Hussain was acquitted in December 2022 in the separate sexual offence case for which he had been remanded in custody.

State of the evidence

Documented

Attribution

Accused

Course of the proceedings

1. Formally charged — Formal charge before the current outcome