Lord Nazir Ahmed of Rotherham's appeal against his child sex abuse convictions was rejected.
A former Labour peer's bid to overturn his conviction for sex abuse against two children in the 1970s has failed.The Court of Appeal concluded that Ahmed did not have arguable grounds for staging a full appeal.
Ahmed was convicted in 2022 of trying to rape a young girl and sexually assaulting a boy under 11 while he was a teenager in South Yorkshire.That term wasImage caption,Ahmed, who was convicted of two counts of attempted rape and one of sexual assault, has now left prison. He was in court for Tuesday's appeal hearing.
A woman had told jurors Ahmed tried to rape her in the early 1970s, when he was about 16 or 17 but she was much younger. Ahmed was also found guilty of a serious sexual assault against a boy under 11, also in the early 1970s.
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