Two-year sentence for youth after sex attacks

A YOUTH who subjected three teenage girls to humiliating sexual assaults in Bradford city centre has been sent to a young offenders' institution for two years.

Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC told 20-year-old Amir Uddin that although he and his friends probably thought their actions were "hilarious fun" their victims had suffered horrific and traumatic effects.

Uddin, who was 19 at the time, assaulted two 14-year-old girls after he and his friend had been abusive towards two other women during an early evening incident last September.

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Bradford Crown Court heard yesterday how Uddin made a derogatory remark about one of the girls being flat-chested, but then went on to sexually assault her friend and push her violently into a wall.

Prosecutor Nigel Hamilton said the girl had stopped going bowling or to cinema and was upset about the fact that she could not be a normal teenager.

The incident was captured on CCTV and Mr Hamilton said Uddin was congratulating himself after the incident, and laughing at his victim.

Just over three weeks later Uddin was involved in causing 250 worth of damage to a gaming machine at the Hollywood Bowl Leisure complex and within minutes of being spoken to by police officers near the city centre he and two others pinned a 17-year-old girl up against a wall and sexually molested her.

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That attack was broken up when door staff from a nearby nightclub intervened.

Uddin was not arrested until March this year but he pleaded guilty to three charges of sexual assault and one of criminal damage when he appeared before the city's magistrates.

His case was sent to the crown court for sentence and yesterday his lawyer Anne-Marie Hutton conceded that Uddin, of Cornwall Terrace, Manningham, had perhaps been "revelling" in what he had done in front of his friends.

Judge Durham Hall said all the victims had been minding their own business when they were attacked.

Uddin will have to register as a sex offender with the police for the next 10 years.

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