June 2021 Man who travelled to Reading to rape children is jailed A pervert who travelled to Reading with the intention of raping two young children has been sentenced to eight years. Shahmaan Ahmed, of Roman Road, London, believed the children to be three and eight years old when he travelled from the capital in August 2020 and even bought sweets for the youngsters. The children were not real, but Ahmed, who also brought ‘sexual item’ with him to the meeting, was arrested by officers from Thames Valley’s Paedophile Online Investigation Team. He was sentenced to eight years in jail after being found guilty of child sex offences by a jury back in February. During the trial, Ahmed tried to convince the jury that he was attempting to expose other people involved in sexual exploitation, however the jury unanimously found Ahmed guilty of all four counts. The court was told that Ahmed’s intensions were clear, he went to Reading that day in the belief that he was going to abuse children. A particularly distressing part of this case is that he brought sweets with him as gifts for the children he believed he was there to abuse, the youngest being just three years old.