An Ex-Bedfordshire Police Constable, Mohammad Arshad, 35, has been sentenced at St Albans Crown Court to 15 years for 17 sexual offences against teenagers, including one offence of rape, several of sexual activity with a child, causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and meeting a child following sexual grooming.
The offences were in relation to 12 teenage girls.
Amanda Sawetz, Senior Crown Prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service said,
“Mohammad Arshad, formerly a Police Constable for Bedfordshire Police, groomed young and vulnerable girls, approached them through their friends and their social networks and systematically offered them money in exchange for sexual favours.
“The jury heard that his modus operandi was to make contact with the young girls on social media through Blackberry messenger, Facebook or Whatsapp. He gave the name of ‘Waz’, sometimes lying about his age, saying that he was 17 or 26 years old. He would sometimes use the fact that he was a police officer to gain the girls’ trust but would reveal quite quickly to each of them his sexual intentions. On one occasion he raped a 14 year old girl he had taken for a drive.
“We would like to thank all the young girls who gave evidence in this case and supported the prosecution. They did nothing wrong and were preyed upon by Arshad who used their innocence and vulnerability to commit his criminal acts.”
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