Daily Mail
May 17, 2015
A ‘predatory’ restaurant owner has been jailed for 13 years after he groomed girls as young as 12 for sex with McDonald’s burgers, cash, cigarettes and alcohol.
Pakistani born Mohammed Khubaib befriended girls and then ‘hooked’ them with alcohol – normally vodka – in an attempt to make them ‘compliant’ to his sexual advances.
The letting agent met his victims through his Peterborough restaurant ‘Zaika’ before taking them to properties under his control.
Married businessman Khubaib, 43, had a ‘persistent and almost predatory interest’ in teenage girls, the Old Bailey heard.
Following a trial, he was found guilty of forcing a 14-year-old girl to perform a sex act on him and nine counts of trafficking for sexual exploitation, involving girls aged from 12 to 15, between November 2010 and January 2013.
Khubaib is the 10th man to be convicted following operation Erle – a multi-agency investigation into child sex crimes in Peterborough set in train in the wake of the Rotherham and Rochdale child abuse cases.
Today, Judge Peter Rook QC sentenced him to 13 years in jail for the rape extended for five years on licence.
For each of the trafficking offences, he sentenced him to either four or two years, all to run concurrently.