“Monster” who raped a vulnerable teenage girl and a woman in separate attacks
Taxi driver Riyasth Hussain, 45, was convicted of three counts of rape, which took place between 2004 and 2008 in Rotherham, following a trial at Sheffield Crown Court on Monday. The court heard he attacked the girl twice in about 2004, when she was 13 or 14 and in care, and the woman, who was in her 20s, in a bedsit in front of others in 2008.
Sentencing Hussain, from Doncaster, on Thursday, Judge Sarah Wright told him: “The harm and the wider harm you have caused is of unimaginable proportions.” Hussain was arrested by officers from the National Crime Agency (NCA) as part of Operation Stovewood, which investigates child sexual abuse in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013. According to the NCA, Hussain stopped his car in a street in Rotherham and offered to help a girl who was being verbally abused by a man. When he later passed her again on a street, the victim agreed to get into the vehicle, and Hussain drove her to an empty industrial estate where he pulled her out of the car and raped her.
