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22.11.2023 - 14:57 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A disgraced former police officer who sexually assaulted teenagers he was training has launched an appeal against his conviction and sentence.
Mohammed Adnan Ali, 37, was found guilty in April this year of five sexual assaults on young men and women and 15 counts of misconduct in a public office. The charges related to incidents, between 2015 and 2018, involving youngsters enrolled on Greater Manchester Police's Volunteer Police Cadet Scheme.
Known as Adz, he became police leader of Trafford cadets in 2013 after suffering post traumatic stress disorder after a serious knife injury while on duty. He was based in Stretford and the cadet unit rapidly grew to about 130 cadets, the largest group in Greater Manchester.
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But Ali used the training scheme as a 'grooming playground' and 'exploited the freedom he was given', a court was told previously.
He denied the charges he faced at a three-week trial, but was convicted by a jury sitting at Liverpool Crown Court. Ali was jailed for five years in total in June this year and has been sacked by the force.
The court heard how Ali, of Leighton Road, Old Trafford, sexually assaulted two teenage girls and a 17-year-old boy. The misconduct charges involved allegations of sexualised conversations with six other teenage boys and asking for and sending indecent images to some of them.
The Court of Appeal in London was told at a hearing on Wednesday that it is his application for leave to appeal his conviction and sentence.
The application, said his counsel, relates to 11 of the 15 counts of misconduct in a public
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