September 2014
Paedophile threatened to cut throat of victims sister
A paedophile told one of his young victims that he would slit her sister’s throat and make her watch if she told anyone he had abused her.
Mohammed Kamal Hossein, 59, has been found guilty of 25 sex and abuse crimes, including indecent assault, indecency with a child and child cruelty.
They were committed while he was a restaurant worker in Carlisle.
A jury also convicted Bernadine Samuels, 54, of Ellesmere Way, Morton, of 25 charges of aiding and abetting him in carrying out his sex crimes.
They had denied the charges but were convicted following a two-week trial at the city’s Crown Court.
Details of their offences, committed against two girls during the 1990s, were outlined as Judge Barbara Forrester summed-up the case.
One of the victims was aged between seven and 11 at the time of her ordeal.
The judge said the abuse stopped during the late 1990s after one of the victims told a teacher what had been happening to her.
The resulting police investigation, however, was stopped after officers failed to find and arrest Hossein when he moved to Warrington to start another job.
The inquiry was restarted in 2011 after one of the girls was referred to counselling and went to the police again.
Judge Forrester said that when the abuse first started one victim asked him what he was doing.
She added: “He said if she told anyone he would slit her sister’s throat and make her watch.”
Jurors also heard Hossein also bought his victims sweets, toys and clothes to stop them from telling anyone about what he had done to them.
The abuse included Hossein touching his victims in an inappropriate manner as well as getting them to touch him sexually.
Judge Forrester added that the places where the abuse was carried out included The Viceroy restaurant, where he worked, and in his car at the Sheepmount sports stadium.
Sentencing was adjourned until October 16. Both Hossein and Samuels were remanded in custody.
