10 April 2026
A man convicted of raping two school girls when he was 11 years old is facing jail.
Fahad Ahmed, now aged 20, was found guilty of abusing and raping two primary school children under the age of 13 in 2017.
Ahmed warned his victims ‘not to tell anyone about what he had done’, Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court hear
In a victim impact statement, one of the girls told of the lasting effect the ordeal has had on her relationships with family and friends.
She sometimes becomes scared in the company of men and struggles to sleep at night, the court heard.
The other victim told how she used to be a bubbly person but has been left feeling suicidal as a result of the rape, with moments where ‘she no longer wants to be here’.
She added: ‘I can barely sleep at night. I no longer feel comfortable in my own skin.’
Ahmed denied two charges of rape of a child under 13 and two charges of assaulting a child by penetration but was convicted of all four charges.
Fahad Ahmed, 20, is being sentenced at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court
Defending, Paul Cliff pointed to Ahmed’s ‘extreme youth’ at the time of the attacks as a mitigating factor.
He accepted the inevitability that the young victims would be psychologically damaged, but asked the judge to consider Ahmed’s previous good character and his limited understanding of the offence.
Mr Cliff told the court: ‘He had only just become capable of obtaining criminal legal responsibility. Custody is a last resort when one is dealing with the sentence of a child, although he is now 20 years of age.
‘The principal aim for this court is to sentence the offender as though he was being sentenced shortly after the offending took place. Had he been dealt with in 2017 there is every likelihood that his case might have been dealt with in the youth court.
‘There would be a realistic possibility that, had he been dealt with as an 11-year-old, a non-custodial sentence may have been imposed.’
Since the rapes, Ahmed has not been found to have committed any other crimes, which Mr Cliff said ‘enabled him to demonstrate that he is capable of avoiding further offences’.
He has had a ‘blameless life’, the lawyer said, adding that ‘he was immature, even for an 11-year-old’ which resulted in him having ‘limited understanding of sexual intercourse’, and ‘limited understanding of the offences.’
Ahmed will be sentenced on Friday, April 10, by Judge Hancox. Until then, he has been remanded in custody.