Three Pakistani-Heritage Men, Including Brothers, Convicted of Rotherham Teenage Rape

Three men of Pakistani heritage, including two brothers, have been convicted of the grooming, trafficking and repeated rape of a vulnerable teenage girl in Rotherham between 2008 and 2010, Daily Dazzling Dawn understands. Mudasar Hussain, 37, Ghazanfar Hussain, 42, and Kamir Ifzal Khan, 37, were unanimously found guilty on all counts by a jury at Sheffield Crown Court on 12 November 2026 following a National Crime Agency investigation under Operation Stovewood. The complainant, now in her thirties, was aged thirteen and fourteen when the abuse took place, and two of the convicted men—Mudasar Hussain and Khan—remain at large after failing to attend their trial.

Daily Dazzling Dawn understands that the case forms part of Operation Stovewood, the National Crime Agency’s long-running investigation into child sexual exploitation in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013. The three defendants had denied any wrongdoing, claiming that the years of sexual abuse, the supplying of cannabis, and the offering of the girl to other males were either consensual or a case of mistaken identity. A jury rejected those defences unanimously. The convictions add to a growing body of cases examined under Operation Stovewood, which continues to review allegations of historical grooming and abuse in the South Yorkshire town.

The court heard that Mudasar Hussain, a drug dealer of Henley Grove Road in Rotherham, met the girl when she was thirteen and plied her with cannabis and alcohol before repeatedly abusing her. He was convicted of twelve counts of rape. His brother Ghazanfar Hussain, of Rosebery Street, drove the teenager to a garage in Tinsley in April 2009, where he forced her to commit a sex act in a vehicle inspection pit; he was convicted of one count of rape. Kamir Khan, of no fixed abode, abused the girl over seven months and offered her to other males as a “favour”; he was convicted of two counts of rape and one count of trafficking a person within the UK for sexual exploitation.

Her Honour Judge Sarah Wright told the court that while Ghazanfar Hussain did not groom and manipulate the victim in the same way as his brother or Khan, he also took advantage of her when the opportunity presented itself. Daily Dazzling Dawn learned that family members of the defendants left the court weeping as the verdicts were returned. The three men are due to be sentenced at Sheffield Crown Court on Friday morning, 13 November 2026.

Daily Dazzling Dawn can reveal that Mudasar Hussain and Kamir Khan did not attend the trial to answer for their crimes. Only Ghazanfar Hussain stood in the dock. The two absent defendants were convicted and will be sentenced in their absence. Philip Marshall, Head of Operation Stovewood, told journalists: “The victim has shown tremendous courage in reporting the predatory grooming, exploitation and sustained sexual abuse these men subjected her to as a child. Mudasar Hussain and Kamir Khan have attempted to avoid justice but my officers are determined to find the men.” The National Crime Agency confirmed that officers have been pursuing numerous lines of enquiry in the United Kingdom and overseas to locate the pair, and have appealed for anyone with information to come forward.

Melissa Garner, Specialist Prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, told journalists: “Mudasar Hussain and Kamir Khan separately groomed a young and vulnerable girl with alcohol, drugs and gifts. They raped her multiple times between 2008 and 2010 at various locations around Rotherham. Ghazanfar Hussain was quick to take advantage of the vulnerable victim when the opportunity presented itself.” She added that the abuse had caused the victim serious and lifelong harm, and that the victim’s determination in seeing the case through had been crucial in bringing the offenders to justice. Daily Dazzling Dawn understands that the Crown Prosecution Service and the National Crime Agency will continue to work together on the search for the two missing convicted men.