INDIAN STUDENT JAILED FOR 30 YEARS AFTER GROOMING DOZENS OF GIRLS ACROSS UK ONLINE
Bilal Kazi, a 27-year-old Indian student who had studied at the University of Chester, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison after admitting dozens of child sexual offenses arising from what Cheshire Police described as its largest online child abuse investigation. Investigators identified 70 victims across 28 UK police-force areas and found evidence of as many as 180 potential victims. Kazi posed as a teenage boy named “Reece,” used stolen photographs to build fake relationships with girls and then coerced them into sending explicit images and videos, using threats of exposure when they resisted. He must serve at least 20 years before becoming eligible for parole, will remain on the sex offenders register for life and faces an additional eight-year licence period if released.