Lord Ahmed
Former British-Pakistani parliamentarian Lord Nazir Ahmed jailed for child sex offence
London: Former British-Pakistani parliamentarian Lord Nazir Ahmed has been jailed for five and a half years for sexually abusing two children in the 1970s.
He was found guilty in January of a serious sexual assault against a boy and the attempted rape of a young girl, reports BBC.
According to reports, the abuse happened in Rotherham when he was a teenager.
Passing sentence, Justice Lavender said his actions had had "profound and lifelong effects" on the victims, reports BBC.
The court heard Lord Ahmed, who was tried under his birth name Nazir Ahmed, attempted to rape the girl twice in the early 1970s, when he was aged 16 or 17 but she was much younger, the British news channel reported.
The attack on the boy, who was aged under 11 during that period, also occurred during the same period.
The victim of the attempted rapes, who cannot be named due to the nature of the offences, said she had lived with "an overwhelming feeling of shame", reports BBC.
She told the court: "It was a burden I was made to carry, and it silenced me for many years."
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