October 16, 2025
The man being arrested in the footage is 33-year-old Aqueel Hussain and he is a dangerous child rapist.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=s_vym5D1Y-E%3Fsi%3DtOjGh2VVyvDfd8XA
Yesterday he was given a sentence totalling 16 years.
Last year he groomed a 12-year-old girl on Snapchat and told her he was 19.
Eventually they arranged to meet at a Asda in Colne on 28th November.
The victim went to the shopping centre with a friend, but that friend had to leave. Having never met the victim or her friend, Hussain agreed to book and pay for the victim’s friends’ taxi on an online booking platform.
CCTV footage captured Hussain accompanying the victim, who was dressed in her school uniform, into Asda where he bought her a phone charger.
After they left the store, Hussain invited her into his white BMW car. After driving to a secluded spot in the carpark, Hussain got into the back of his vehicle sand said he would give his victim £100 if she joined in. It was while the victim was in the back of the BMW that Hussain raped her.
The matter was reported to police after the victim began to get bullied at school as a direct result of the incident.
Our officers managed to identify Hussain from the mobile number he used to book the taxi.
We visited a property in Blackburn and although Hussain wasn’t there at the time, the same distinctive trousers he was wearing in the CCTV footage the day he committed the rape were found in a locked bedroom.
While our officers were on their way to a second property linked to Hussain in Blackburn, they spotted his white BMW.
After briefly following Hussain, the BMW was stopped and he was arrested on suspicion of rape. He was wearing the same jumper and jacket he had been wearing in the CCTV footage the day he committed the rape.
Following consultation with the Crown Prosecution Service, Hussain, formerly of Irene Place, Blackburn, but now of no fixed address, was charged with rape and meeting a girl under 16 years of age following grooming.
Hussain was found guilty following a trial at Preston Crown Court earlier this year. He returned to the same court yesterday where he was jailed for 15 years and given an extended licence period of 12 months after a Judge deemed him to be a dangerous offender. Hussain was also made subject of an indefinite Sexual Harm Prevention order and ordered to sign the Sex Offenders Register for life.