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A rapist due to face justice over the grooming and historic sexual abuse of a vulnerable girl in Rochdale has twice been attacked since being remanded in prison.

Mushtaq Ahmed, 66, has been the victim of two 'substantial assaults' and has lost his front teeth. He is frightened in jail and anticipates that his time in prison will be 'difficult', Minshull Street Crown Court heard.

Ahmed is one of seven men expected to be sentenced tomorrow (Wednesday, October 1) for their part in the repeated and sustained grooming and rape of two girls in the town. The girls, who were teenagers at the time in the mid 2000s, were groomed and sexually abused for years.

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They were treated as 'sex slaves' and were expected to have sex 'whenever and whe

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