Market stall 'Bossman' felt almost untouchable'

A MARKET stall holder known as ‘Bossman’ who groomed and raped two girls felt ‘almost untouchable’.

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Mohammed Zahid is one of seven men facing justice for his part in the sexual abuse of two teenagers in the town in the mid 2000s.

A sentencing hearing at Minshull Street Crown Court heard that Zahid was the only of the seven defendants to have abused both girls, known as Girl A and Girl B.

Prosecutors told how Zahid, who was previously jailed for five years for sexual abuse of another girl, met these two victims through his ‘prominent position at Rochdale indoor market’.

“He was known as Bossman,” prosecutor Rossano Scamardella KC said of Zahid. “Others knew him as Bossman, so did the girls.”