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Yasser Ajaibe

Documented profile covering 7 controversies, including “2003–2008: sexual exploitation of victim aged 11 when offences began and previously in care system” and “2003–2008: exploitation within collective pattern of collecting victims by car from care homes”.

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Profile No. 1299 · Updated on 25 September 2026

7Documented controversies
9Sources
1Formal charge · all time1 followed by a conviction
1Conviction

I. Documented controversies

Case · 7 documented stages

5 June 2024: convicted of indecent assault on an 11-year-old girl

Conviction
01

2024-06-05

5 June 2024: convicted of indecent assault on an 11-year-old girl

Conviction

Following the nine-week trial, Ajaibe was found guilty of one count of indecent assault against the 11-year-old victim.

State of the evidence
Established by a court
Attribution
Accused

Sources · 3

  1. [1]
    Crown Prosecution Service / Wired-Gov archiveOperation Stovewood: Seven men guilty of sexually abusing two young girls in RotherhamProsecutor's statementVery high reliability
  2. [2]
  3. [3]

Last verified: 10 September 2026

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02

2024-09-12 to 2024-09-13

12–13 September 2024: sentenced to six years in prison with twelve months' extended licence

Conviction

Sheffield Crown Court sentenced Ajaibe to six years' imprisonment with twelve months' extended licence.

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Attribution
Accused

Last verified: 10 September 2026

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03

2003-04–2024-09-13

2003–2008 / 2024: indecent assault of an 11-year-old girl in Operation Stovewood — six years in prison and twelve months' extended licence

Conviction

Yasser Ajaibe was prosecuted as part of Operation Stovewood, the National Crime Agency investigation into child sexual exploitation in Rotherham. The case concerned offences committed between April 2003 and April 2008 against two girls who were aged 11 and 15 when the abuse began, both of whom had spent time in the care system. Ajaibe was linked to the younger victim. Following a nine-week trial at Sheffield Crown Court, he was found guilty of one count of indecent assault against an 11-year-old girl. Trial sources describe a general context in which the victims were collected by car and given cigarettes, alcohol, cannabis or money before being assaulted; these contextual elements are not converted into additional individual acts unless specifically attributed to Ajaibe. In September 2024, he was sentenced to six years' imprisonment with twelve months' extended licence.

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Directly implicated

Last verified: 9 September 2026

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04

2023-04-19

19 April 2023: charged with one count of indecent assault then released on bail

Formally charged

Ajaibe appeared at Sheffield Magistrates' Court on one count of indecent assault linked to the Stovewood investigation and was released on bail.

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Accused

Last verified: 10 September 2026

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05

2003-04 to 2008-04

2003–2008: sexual exploitation of victim aged 11 when offences began and previously in care system

Conviction

Ajaibe was among the four men convicted of abusing the youngest victim in the case, aged 11 when the exploitation began.

State of the evidence
Established by a court
Attribution
Accused

Sources · 2

  1. [1]
    Crown Prosecution Service / Wired-Gov archiveOperation Stovewood: Seven men guilty of sexually abusing two young girls in RotherhamProsecutor's statementVery high reliability
  2. [2]

Last verified: 10 September 2026

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06

2003-04 to 2008-04

2003–2008: exploitation within collective pattern of collecting victims by car from care homes

Conviction

The trial established that victims were regularly collected by car, often from the children's homes where they lived. Ajaibe belonged to the subgroup that abused the 11-year-old victim.

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Last verified: 10 September 2026

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07

2003-04 to 2008-04

2003–2008: grooming context involving cigarettes, alcohol, cannabis and money before assaults

Conviction

The victims received cigarettes, alcohol, cannabis and money as part of the exploitation system presented to the jury.

State of the evidence
Documented

Sources · 2

  1. [1]
  2. [2]

Last verified: 10 September 2026

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II. Constellation of documented links

No documented link with another published profile for now.

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