The ringleader of the latest Rochdale grooming ring led an outwardly respectable life, involved with the family’s children’s clothing business and living in a £700,000 detached house close to a primary school.
But 39-year-old Mohammed Ghani was hiding a vile secret – that as a young man, he groomed a young girl into putting up with degrading sexual abuse by his older brother and other associates.
It is a badge of shame which has ‘devastated’ his elderly Pakistan-born businessman father Abdul and his mother, community members told MailOnline this week.