In March last year reports were made to our officers of separate incidents where girls were given drugs such as nitrous oxide, ketamine, and cocaine by Azam Khan (pictured).
The girls were taken to hotels and houses in the Chorley area and Darwen, where they were sexually abused.
Lancashire Police launched an investigation and teamed up with Lancashire County Council’s social workers to support the victims.
The victims were interviewed by specially-trained officers and evidence was gathered which showed Khan – nicknamed ‘Kaizer’ – and Jack Anderson-Rigby were involved together in a significant drug-dealing operation.
They advertised on Snapchat and social media, selling drugs in Lancashire.
Khan and Anderson-Rigby were arrested and charged.
In December, Khan, 29, formerly of Seacole Close, Blackburn, was found guilty by a jury at Preston Crown Court after a seven-day trial of sexual activity with a child, four offences of sexual assault and one offence of attempting to engage a person in sexual activity without consent.
Khan was also convicted of being concerned in the supply of Class A, B and C controlled drugs.
At a sentencing hearing today (18th January), Judge Simon Medland KC, jailed Khan for nine years and placed him on the sex offenders’ register for life.
Anderson-Rigby, 22, of Chorley Lane, Charnock Richard, pleaded guilty to possession of controlled drugs with intent to supply and one charge of sexual assault on a child.
He was given a two-year prison sentence, suspended for two years.
