A police officer and 15 other men have appeared at Bradford Magistrates' Court accused of sexual assaults against children. The charges, which include rape and supplying drugs, relate to offences against three teenage girls in Halifax between 2006 and 2009. PC Amjad Ditta faces a single charge of sexual touching. He and the other men were given bail and will appear at Bradford Crown Court on 20 January. The victims were aged between 13 and 16 at the time. The charged men, who are all from Halifax, are:
- Vaqaas Abbas, 30, charged with three counts of rape and three of supplying a class C drug
- Nadeem Adalat, 34, charged with four counts of rape and four counts of supplying a class C drug
- Sajid Adalat, 43, charged with rape
- Waseem Adalat, 33, charged with two counts of rape, trafficking and supplying a class C drug
- Amjad Ditta, 35, charged with sexual touching
- Christopher Eastwood, 45, charged with two counts of rape and two counts of supplying a class C drug
- Mahtab Islam, 46, charged with five counts of rape, three of supplying a class A drug, three of supplying a class C drug, two of sexual assault and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice
- Mohammed Rizwan Iqbal, 34, charged with rape
- Ishtiaq Latif, 32, charged with sexual activity with a child
- Asad Mahmood, 33, charged with two counts of rape and trafficking
- Khalifa Mughal, 36, is charged with six counts of rape, supply of a class C drug, supply of a class A drug and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice
- Younis Mohammed, 34, is charged with rape and causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent
- Nadeem Nassir, 39, charged with rape, supply of a class C drug and making threats to kill
- Shahzad Nowaz, 40, charged with rape, supply of a class C drug and making threats to kill
- Shazad Nazir, 44, charged with two counts of rape and two counts of supplying a class C drug
- Sohail Zafar, 36, charged with rape and supplying a class C drug
