A Gloucester drug dealer who raped a 14-year-old girl after plying her with alcohol has been jailed for six years. The sentence passed on Nasir Sheikh, from Gloucester, will begin only after he has served an eight-year term he received last year for drugs supply and firearm charges.
Sheikh had denied raping and sexually assaulting the girl on June 25 last year but was convicted after a trial at Bristol Crown Court two months ago. The court heard that Sheikh and his friend Khalid Abdelrahman, 29, also from Gloucester, had picked up two girls aged 13 and 14 during a night out in the city and took them back to a friend's flat.
Prosecutor Sarah Regan said the men bought alcohol, cigarettes and condoms. The girls were given apple vodka to drink and as they sat with the defendants on the sofa they began to feel uncomfortable and scared about the situation.
Sheikh put his hand down the 14-year-old's trousers and then took her to the bathroom where he pulled her hair, pushed her against the basin and raped her. She felt sickened by the experience and drank more alcohol afterwards to get herself drunk.
Ms Regan said Sheikh had made 16 previous court appearances for 28 offences but none of them sexual. Most were for violence. He received an eight-year jail term last year for supplying Class A drugs and having a sawn off shotgun which was found concealed in his attic. Abdelrahman who had three previous convictions for drugs offences but none sexual was jailed for two and a half years.
