A former quantity surveyor who offered a group of schoolgirls cash for sex whilst stalking them around a park with £600 in cash in his pocket has been locked up - to a round of applause in court from their angry parents. Shahid Razzaq, 42, withdrew the money from an ATM then offered up to £70 for one of the children to have intercourse with him after he appeared suddenly from bushes as they were walking past.
During the incident the terrified girls, aged between 12 and 15, tried to run away but one was offered increasing amounts of money to perform a sex act on the married father of two. He was subsequently detained at the scene at Broadfield Park in Rochdale after being confronted by members of the public.
At Manchester's Minshull Street Crown Court, families' of the girls clapped from the public gallery as Razzaq, who lives in Rochdale, was locked up for 27 months after he admitted attempting to incite a girl to engage in sexual activity. Razzaq was also placed on the Sex Offenders Register for 10 years and also made subject of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order.
