Cousins Jailed for 58 Years Over Horrific Teen Rape Spree
Two cousins have been locked up for a total of 58 years after a chilling, decades-long grooming and rape spree targeting vulnerable teenage girls. Manzorr Hussain, 54, and Imtiaz Ali, 53, were viciously branded “scum of the earth” by one victim as justice finally caught up with them.
Market Stall Predators Used Bury Market to Trap Girls
Hussain, a grandfather from Bury, received a 30-year sentence after being convicted of seven rapes and seven indecent assaults on girls aged 13 to 16. Ali, from Radcliffe, was sentenced to 28 years for five rapes, five indecent assaults, and one attempted indecent assault. The two men preyed on girls from troubled backgrounds, using their market stalls at Bury Market as hunting grounds. They lured victims with alcohol, drugs, gifts, and false friendship before pushing them into horrific abuse – sometimes by other men.
Drugs, Threats and Sickening Abuse Revealed
- Victims were drugged with GHB, LSD, cannabis, speed, and alcohol to keep them under control.
- One 14-year-old girl was gang-raped by six men in a grim Bury flat.
- Another victim was threatened with being abandoned naked on the moors if she refused abuse.
- The cousins forced a girl to perform oral sex on each of them back to back inside a car.
Victims Condemn ‘Paedophile Scum’ as Judge Slams Campaign of Horror
“You are nothing better than paedophiles, rapists and scum of the earth. You are the lowest of the low,” a victim tearfully told the court. “Every agency or individual who covered up or turned a blind eye is complicit.”
Judge Bernadette Baxter condemned the cousins’ actions as a “campaign of rape” and slammed their total lack of remorse. Meanwhile, Hussain cheekily waved at his family in court moments before being taken to prison.
Police Praise Brave Victims, Search for Third Man Ongoing
Detectives built their case from harrowing testimony, social services records, and location evidence. Meanwhile, Manzorr Hussain’s older brother, Ghulam Hussain, 64, has fled to Pakistan and remains on the run. Chief Inspector Ian Partington praised the courage of the first victim to speak out. “These predators thought they’d got away with it. But victims’ bravery opened this case wide.” This grim case comes just months after a major grooming gang in nearby Rochdale was locked up for 174 years for similar crimes.
