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Man, 64, accused of sexually touching woman on bus appears at crown court

Javed Montakhab has yet to enter a plea to the charge against him :: He is remanded in custody until February.

A 64-year-old man accused of sexual assault has made his first appearance at Teesside Crown Court.

Javed Montakhab is charged with sexually touching a woman without her consent in Stockton.

He appeared in court for a short preliminary hearing today via video link to Holme House Prison, Stockton.

Montakhab  has been charged with one count of sexual assault following an alleged incident on a bus travelling from Middlesbrough to Norton on November 27 this year.

The defendant, of Cobden Street, Thornaby, has not yet entered a plea to the charge against him.

Judge Peter Bowers remanded Montakhab in custody until a plea hearing on February 16.

Sex pest doctor ‘octopus’ faces jail for groping fellow hospital workers

A “SEX pest” medic is facing jail for groping colleagues at the hospital where he worked as a respected anaesthetist.

Dr Niaz Ahmed, of Broadlands, Cleadon, was considered to be “always the octopus, hands all over the place” by sickened nurses who he made repeated lewd comments to at South Tyneside Hospital.

Newcastle Crown Court heard the “highly skilled” 55-year-old doctor, who boasted he was “looking for women the day after he got married”, was repeatedly warned by hospital bosses to tone down his outrageous behaviour.

A jury yesterday convicted him of two sex assault charges on his co-workers, during incidents more than a decade ago, and he was told he must sign the sex offenders’ register.

Ahmed will learn his fate at a sentencing hearing next month, but Judge Simon Hickey warned him: “I am not promising what type of sentence I am going to pass, all options remain open”.

Ahmed, who was suspended from medical practice at a tribunal earlier this year for groping a nurse who was treating him after an accident in 2010, was cleared of three similar charges.

He was granted bail until he is back before the judge next year.

Prosecutor Michael Hodson told the court Ahmed had not committed “grave” sex crimes and caused no serious physical injury to his victims.

But he added: “Imagine what it was like going to work with a sex pest, always the octopus, hands all over the place, underlined by innuendo.”

Mr Hodson said one nurse victim was targeted in the scrub room at the hospital, where Ahmed squeezed her bottom and asked her “do you fancy it”.

Another had her breasts prodded by the medic while she was at work and said he had told her “put them away”.

Ahmed denied the charges against him and claimed his behaviour was jokes and banter.

Mr Hodson added: “As all sex pests may well do to get away with their nuisance behaviour, they pass it off as banter, as he did.”

The court heard during a meeting with hospital bosses in 2000 Ahmed accepted it was inappropriate to touch nurses and said any offence caused by him was entirely innocent and accidental.

During a later meeting with management he said his behaviour continued to be innocent and fit in with the “culture” of the hospital.

Ahmed had claimed he was the victim of a “witch hunt” in 2012, after he was cleared of sexually assaulting two teenage girls at a fireworks display in South Shields in 2011.

The youngsters claimed Ahmed had groped them after boasting about the size of his manhood and complaining about his sex life with his wife.

Judge Hickey said he wanted to know more about Ahmed’s attitudes before he considered sentence.

He told him: “You will have to sign a document because of the finding of sexual assault.”

Ahmed has been allowed to remain on bail until the next hearing.

MUSLIM is charged with rape after attack in Mowbray Park in Sunderland on teenagers

Syed Ali, 46, will appear at Sunderland Magistrates Court charged with rape and sexual assault

A 46-year-old man has been charged following a rape and sexual assault in Mowbray Park, Sunderland on Monday, December 8.

Syed Ali from the Barnes area of Sunderland has been charged with rape of a female 16-years or over and sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl.

He will appear before Sunderland Magistrates’ Court on Monday, December 15.

Sunderland chef who posed as taxi driver to abduct and abuse teenagers is jailed for 11 years

Sail Uddin was caught with the two girls in his car along with a collection of sex aids when police pulled him over

A bogus taxi driver who abducted and abused two teenage girls has been locked up for 11 years.

The victims got into chef Sail Uddin’s car believing it was a cab and asked him to take them home.

But instead he drove them to the seafront and subjected them to terrifying sex attacks, a court heard.

One of the girls managed to dial 999 from a mobile phone and was able to give a description of where they had been taken.

When officers stopped Uddin’s VW Polo, which contained a collection of sex aids, both victims were in the car, crying uncontrollably.

Sentencing Uddin at Newcastle Crown Court, Judge John Milford QC told him: “They got, unwittingly, into your vehicle in the belief it was a taxi.

“You, I am satisfied, after you had finished work and despite being a married man with a large family, had gone into the city centre looking for exactly what you found, which was a drunk young woman, in fact you found two.

“I have no doubt what you were looking for was to have sex with such a young woman, one way or another.

“This is a case where there was abduction and a significant degree of planning. It was a terrifying experience.”

The court heard both victims, described as “young, intelligent and have everything to live for” were left extremely traumatised by their ordeals.

Uddin, 43, of Hendon, Sunderland, was found guilty of two sexual assault charges after a trial last month.

During the trial, Uddin blamed the girls for making sexual advances towards him, which jurors rejected outright.

Prosecutor Anne Richardson said the girls were so frightened by what happened to them that they struggled to talk to the police when Uddin’s car was pulled over.

Miss Richardson said: “Both girls were described as hysterical, so hysterical they couldn’t tell the police officer what happened.

“A male police officer couldn’t calm them down.”

The court heard a female police officer managed to pacify the girls enough for them to tell her what had happened.

The teenagers had been on a night out together in February and had decided to go home in the early hours of the morning.

Miss Richardson told the court: “They left the bar, getting into a vehicle. They believed it was a taxi cab.

“The girls asked him to take them home and asked how much it would be.

“The driver said it was fine, they didn’t need to pay. He also said they would have some funk which they also found strange.”

The court heard the girls were taken to a secluded spot at Hendon beach, Sunderland, where they quickly realised they were in trouble.

One girl managed to get out of the car with a mobile phone, saying she was just going to call her mother.

Miss Richardson added: “She didn’t call her mother, she dialled 999 and contacted the police.

“She tried to describe to the operator where they were by reference to landmarks.”

As well as the prison sentence, Uddin, who was working as a chef at the time, must sign the sex offenders register for the rest of his life.

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