November 2020 Sex predator from Bolton has been jailed for another eight years A sex predator from Bolton has been jailed for another eight years– even though a court could not establish the circumstances of a rape he carried out 15 years ago. Mohammed Suman was accused of raping a 12-year-old as part of a gang attack in August 2005, where it was alleged he took her in a car, and plied her with vodka and cannabis before she was pounced on by eight men. The 34-year-old was questioned about this after his DNA was found to match that of semen found on the clothing of the girl. But at Minshull Street Crown Court he insisted the girl had approached him and offered sex for £5 in a park. Suman told the court the girl had taken him to an area which resembled a “jungle” and she took the money before they had sex. But prosecutor Iain Simkin told him: “You raped this girl as part of a group, you subjected her to a long, drugged rape?” Suman replied: “I didn’t have any friends at that time, what people you are saying? The court previously heard the girl, who now lives abroad and could not travel to give evidence, was troubled and ran away from home. Mr Simkin urged Judge Peter Atherton to dismiss Suman’s version of events and accept it was a gang rape. Judge Atherton said prosecutors had been “unable to adduce evidence of associations between this defendant and those who abused and raped” the girl. But he also said Suman’s version was “utterly unreliable” and said “I do not accept that his life over the period of two to three years after he came to this country from Bangladesh was limited in the way he described.” Judge Atherton jailed Suman, already serving an eight-year jail term for raping a 15-year-old, for a further eight years. February 2019 “We have to live with this for the rest of our lives” – mum’s harrowing words on impact of son’s rape This is what one devastated mum told Bolton Crown Court as her teenage son’s rapist was jailed for eight years. Rapist Mohammed Suman met his 15-year-old victim on Bolton Town Hall steps in July last year. After offering him drugs, he followed him before subjecting him to a violent rape near Queens Park, in Bolton. As the terrified child, who cannot be named for legal reasons, tried to escape, he was subjected to another sexual attack. Suman was sentenced to eight years in prison this week and during the case the boy’s mother bravely spoke out about the impact of the attack. She said: “As a mother all you want to do is protect your children. I feel as though I have failed to do that. “Why did he do this to my son? “We’ll have to live with the memory of this for the rest of our lives. I’ll never truly understand why this happened.” The court heard that the boy encountered Suman on the steps of the town hall and the 33-year-old offered him a cannabis joint. The pair then went for a walk near Queens Park and behind Bolton Lads and Girls Club. The victim refused Suman’s advances before he grabbed him, trapped him against a fence and raped him. As he walked away, he was subjected to another attack. In a victim statement, read out in court the boy said: “The whole incident has affected me greatly. “It will be a long time before it begins to make sense to me.” Suman, who is from Bangladesh, had come to the UK in 2003 and had not committed any previous offences. In addition to the jail sentence, Suman was placed on the sex offenders’ register for life and a sexual harm prevention order was made banning him from contacting his victim or associating with anyone aged under 18.