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‘No words can tell of our incest pain', father jailed for four and half years

MAN JAILED FOR FATHERING CHILDREN WITH HIS DAUGHTER

A MAN who fathered three children with his own daughter has been sentenced to four and-a-half years in jail for committing incest at Bradford crown court.


Ashraf Khan, 81, who pleaded guilty on three charges of incest dating back to the 1980s, was sentenced by a court in northern England last Tuesday (24).

His abuse of his daughter was only discovered after she confessed to her husband on her deathbed.

“You are a very dishonourable and wicked gentleman, we all now see,” judge Jonathan Durham Hall told Khan while passing sentence.

“Her deathbed confession, how dreadful that must have been. Unburdening her soul about this awful trauma she had carried with her,” he said.

The judge also described the woman’s husband as an honourable man because he continued to care for the children even after a DNA test confirmed his wife’s revelation.

The man did not report the matter to police straightaway, with prosecutor Abigail Langford explaining: “He wished to continue to act as a father and care for the children he had  brought up as his own.”

The victim, born in Pakistan, married her husband there in the early 1980s, before moving to Bradford to join him and her father. She went on to have three children before passing

away in the early 1990s.

After her confession, her husband reported the offences to West Yorkshire Police in 2012 and Khan was questioned about the allegations on his returned to the UK from Pakistan

in 2016. He initially denied the charges but pleaded guilty to incest as evidence against him mounted closer to the trial.

A medical report concerning the three children had found various ailments said to be "directly attributed to their incestual parentage”, including an inability to feel certain kinds of pain, resulting in injuries such as burns during their childhoods.

In a joint victim impact statement, the children said Khan’s offences had caused psychological damage and impacted their physical health.

They also paid tribute to their mother’s husband for his “fortitude and selflessness throughout the years”, according to local media reports.

Their joint statement read: “No amount of words can explain what we have been through or what we are going through.

“You hear and read about men who commit incest, never thinking it would happen in your own family, especially to your own mother.”

The guidelines for an offence of incest in the UK includes a maximum sentence of two years, but with 18-month sentences for each of the three counts to run consecutively, Khan will serve a total of 54 months in jail.

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