Sheffield Crown Court has sentenced Lord Nazir Ahmed to five-and-a-half years in prison for sexually assaulting children.
Lord Nazir Ahmed was found guilty of sexually assaulting children in Sheffield Crown Court.
Lord Nazir was accused of attempting to rape a girl younger than himself in the early 1970's when he was 16 or 17 years old. He was also accused of assaulting a boy under the age of 11 during the same period.
Lader Nazir Ahmed denied the allegations, calling them "malicious fiction".
Lord Nazir had denied the allegations and announced to appeal against the verdict while his two elder brothers were also charged but declared unfit for trial.
Sentencing, Justice Lavender said his actions had "profound and lasting effects" on the victims.
During the hearing, the court also heard Lord Ahmed who was tried under his real name Nazir Ahmed.
The two-judge judge said the crimes were "so serious that only a sentence of detention could be justified." "You were a child when you committed these crimes," he added. That makes the punishment extremely difficult. "
According to media reports, the victim demanded withdrawal of Nazir Ahmad's speech.
According to reports, it is possible to withdraw the address from the Parliament Act but at present there is no such act.
In this regard, the British government says that Nazir Ahmad has resigned from Lord's, he is no longer a member of the House.
It may be recalled that in November 2020, Lord Nazir Ahmed, a senior Pakistani politician of the UK and a member of the upper house of the British Parliament, the House of Lords, retired from the House.
Lord Nazir Ahmad was the first Muslim Pakistani to be elected a member of the British Darul Amra.
Lord Nazir Ahmad was born in Azad Kashmir in 1957 and moved with his family to Rhodesham in 1969. He joined the Labor Party in 1975 at the age of 18 and was first elected a member of the Rhodesham Council in 1990.
