Two members of disgusting gang who abused girls in ‘butcher flat’ lose battle for early release

Senior judges today dismissed appeals brought by two members of a Rochdale sex trafficking gang that plied vulnerable girls with vodka and drugs and then abused them.

Insar Hussain, 38, and Mohammed Ghani, 39, were sentenced to 17 and 14 years in prison respectively in October last year after a trial in which five men were convicted and sentenced. Today, senior judges at the Court of Appeal in London dismissed their appeals against the sentences. They also dismissed an appeal against Hussain's conviction.

The gangs abused two girls over a number of years in the mid-2000s. One of their victims, ...