Overview
- Sheffield Crown Court sentenced 45-year-old Riyasth Hussain on 19 February for raping a girl aged about 13 and a woman in her 20s in the 2000s.
- The court imposed 12- and 8-year terms for the child rapes to run consecutively and an additional 8 years concurrently for the adult victim, resulting in 20 years in prison.
- A jury found Hussain guilty on 17 February following a National Crime Agency Operation Stovewood investigation that identified him and led to his 2019 arrest.
- Investigators corroborated victim accounts using her description of the attacker and reported links to a local taxi firm.
- Officials said Operation Stovewood has now secured 50 convictions with custodial sentences totaling more than 1,500 years, as they praised the survivors’ courage and outlined available support services.