ONE of the 12 men who sexually abused a vulnerable Keighley schoolgirl is a convicted rapist guilty of a string of indecent assaults on young women, it was today revealed.

Khalid Mahmood is currently serving an eight year jail sentence after raping a woman in Cliffe Castle Park, the same location where he forced himself on the 14-year-old girl a few months later.

Mahmood, 34, then of Gordon Street, Keighley, has pleaded guilty to twice raping the teenager and three offences of sexual activity with a child.

He raped her in the grounds of Cliffe Castle and at flats in Keighley and had unlawful sex with her at Turtle Rock, near Riddlesden, in the car park at the Factory Shop in Keighley and near the town's railway line.

Mahmood, who was twice his victim's age, plied her with alcohol, cigarettes and cannabis.

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In February, 2013, he was locked up for a total of eight years for raping a 43-year-old woman, in March 2011, and attempting to abduct a ten-year-old girl, in July, 2002.

He gave the woman alcohol before attacking her in a quiet corner of the park.

Bradford Crown Court heard today that Mahmood had a total of 22 previous convictions for 29 offences.

He was convicted as a juvenile, in 1998, of indecently assaulting three young women he grabbed in the street. The following year, Mahmood was dealt with for groping a young woman's breasts in a changing room at the local leisure centre.

He also had convictions for kerb crawling.

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A second defendant, Yasser Kabir, 25, of Belgrave Road, Keighley, who was convicted of raping the schoolgirl three times, is also to be sentenced for raping and abusing two little girls when he was a boy.

He was found guilty at an earlier trial at Bradford Crown Court of four charges of rape, four offences of causing a child to engage in sexual activity and four counts of sexual assault.

Prosecutor Peter Hampton said the abuse happened between 2004 and 2008 when the girls were aged between six and nine and Kabir was 13 to 15 years old.

The offences came to light when one girl told her learning mentor at school.

The court heard she had since become depressed and suicidal and had self-harmed.

"I am a shell of the former me," she said.

The second girl said: "I was told no one would believe me."

Her childhood had been taken away and she felt shame and upset.

Mr Hampton said Kabir orally raped the girls and sexually abused them.

He grabbed one child's hair and called her a bitch before forcing himself on her, saying she had better not tell.

Bilal Ziarab, known as Billy or Browny, 21, of Sedgwick Close, Manningham, Bradford, who was found guilty of two rapes, has a conviction for sexual activity with a child. He was 16 when he walked with a 14-year-old girl to a secluded area and had consensual oral sex with her.

Nazir Khan, known as Khany, 24, of Buxton Street, Keighley, who was found guilty of one offence of rape, has convictions for indecent exposure.

Saqib Younis (Saqi Butcher) 29, of Bradford Street, Lawkholme, Keighley, who was convicted of one charge of rape, has a previous conviction for possession of a firearm.

Faisal Khan, (Buller) 27, of Buxton Street, Keighley, who was found guilty of one offence of rape, had served a sentence of almost four years for robbery.

Also awaiting sentence are: Sufyan Ziarab, known as Sufy, 23, of Kendal Mellor Court, Keighley, who was convicted of two charges of rape; Tauqeer Hussain, known as Toki, 23, of Belgrave Road, Keighley, who was found guilty of three charges of raping two victims; Israr Ali (Sari) 19, of Devonshire Street West, Keighley, who raped the girl at Burgess Fields in Keighley; Hussain Sardar (Dolly) 19, of Bradford Street, Lawkholme, Keighley, and Zain Ali (Droopy) 20, of Buxton Street, Keighley, who each raped the girl in Dalton Lane; and taxi driver Mohammed Akram, 63, of Holker Street, Keighley, who was found guilty of sexual activity with the girl.

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Clockwise, from top left, Nazir and Faisal Khan, Zain Ali, Saqib Younis, Sufyan Zirarab, Mohammed Akram, Hussain Sardar and Israr Ali pictured during the trial at Bradford Crown Court​

All the men are behind bars and were due to be sentenced at Bradford Crown Court today but the Recorder of Bradford, Judge Roger Thomas QC, said the hearing might be adjourned until Monday if time ran out.

At the start of the day, he warned the defendants, sitting in the secure dock flanked by security staff, that there must be "an absolute and utter tin lid" on any bad or disruptive behaviour.

During the trial, the jury heard that the girl was an unhappy and troubled child, with low self esteem. She was unkempt, with poor personal hygiene, and mocked by other children because she was "smelly".

She began truanting when she was 12 and was reported missing 71 times, between 2010 and 2012.

She began drug dealing for a boy called Arif Choudhury, who lived in Victoria Avenue, Keighley, but is now believed to have fled to Bangladesh. He raped her when she refused to sell any more drugs for him.

The girl accused Choudhury, now 18, of beating and slapping her and dragging her by the hair to be abused by young men in the "Cop Shop" underground car park at Keighley's old police station and on Dalton Lane in the town.

The schoolgirl, now 18, had dreams of becoming a nurse that were shattered by the catalogue of rape and abuse she suffered, the court was told. 

In her victim statement, she told how she lost all her friends and felt "isolated and suffocated" after being taken into care aged 14 and moved 200 miles away from Keighley.

Before she met Arif Choudhury, she was doing well at school, with good grades predicated.

"I met Arif and everything changed," she said.

"I lost contact with so many people and my support network had gone."

It hurt that her mother had signed a voluntary agreement to have her taken away.

"I have no self worth. I consider myself as a possession," she said.

Her injuries, when Choudhury punched and kicked her, were still painful and she suffered from post traumatic stress disorder, clinical depression and disrupted patterns of sleep.

The repeated medical examinations she went through at the time, checking for sexually transmitted disease and possibly pregnancy, had left her traumatised. She had feared she would be unable to have children but now had hope of becoming a mother.

Sometimes, her attacks of stress lasted for days, she said.

"I have no coping mechanisms. I feel out of control and spiralling down in a meltdown."

"I wanted to be a nurse but that is now more of a fairytale than a reality."

Tauqeer Hussain's second victim, raped by him in the police station underground car park in 2009 when she was 15, said she felt sick and dirty at the memory.

Giving evidence in the trial had been a stressful experience, even though screens were put up to shield her from the dock.

"I was scared the screens would fall down and Toki would see me," she said.

The young woman said she was homeless and "in a bad place" at the time he raped her.

She cried every time she thought about what had happened to her.

"I thought somehow it might be my fault," she said.

The men will now be sentenced from 10am on Monday.