An ‘abhorrent’ grooming gang who preyed on vulnerable girls as young as 14 in a Welsh town have today been jailed for a total of more than 80 years.
Mustafa Iqbal, 43, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for raping two girls, while Mohamed Usman Arshad, 36, and Ziaullah Badshah, 25, were given 19 and 17 years, respectively, for raping one of the three victims.
All three were convicted found guilty of multiple counts, including rape, conspiracy to traffic and supplying cannabis to another.
The grooming began in 2022 when Iqbal met two of the teenagers in Rhyl, North Wales, and took them to his address, where
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