The court convicted Lord Ahmed guilty of serious sexual assault on a child and attempted rape on a girl, according to the BBC. The Sheffield Crown Court said, the alleged sexual abuse occurred when the former MP was a child in Rotherham, Yorkshire.
According to prosecutor Tom Little, Nazir Ahmed attempted to rape the girl in the early 1970s, when the defendant was 16 or 17 years old but she was much younger. Around the same time, the boy, who was under the age of 11, was attacked.
Lord Nazir Ahmed said the allegations were a “malicious fiction,” but according to Mr Little, a phone recording of a conversation between two victims in 2016 showed they were not “made-up or created.”
The woman’s contact was spurred, according to the verdict, by an email from the male victim claiming, “I have evidence against that pedophile.”
Lord Nazir’s accusers are thought to be his relatives. Lord Nazir and his family are said to have been embroiled in a family feud with relatives over property and family matters.
Ahmed was born in Mirpur, Azad Kashmir, but grew up and still lives in Rotherham. He joined the Labour Party at the age of 18 and served as a councillor on Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council for a decade until being elected to the House of Lords in 1998.
