Overview
- Saeed was sentenced on Friday, 19 June 2026 to 16 years in prison and received a 10-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order after convictions and guilty pleas for 17 offences.
- The charges include multiple counts of rape, attempted rape, blackmail and making indecent images of children, with offences prosecuted across five identified victims.
- The Metropolitan Police began the probe after an August 2024 rape report and arrested Saeed in November 2024 after tracing Snapchat accounts and seizing two phones that contained images linked to further victims.
- Detectives say Saeed posed as young women or transgender women on Snapchat to obtain intimate images, then used those images to extort money and coerce in-person sexual assaults, and that some victims were children and others from south Asian and Muslim backgrounds.
- Police have named Snapchat usernames linked to the offender, urged anyone who recognises them to contact officers for confidential support, and warned there may be more victim-survivors who have not yet come forward.