Jordan Henderson has praised Manchester City as a “fantastic team” but admitted he prefers to watch kids TV rather than get nervous watching the Premier League champions’ matches.
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A remorseless sex pest who 'laughed' at a teenage girl as she bravely recounted how she'd been sexually assaulted by him in Piccadilly Gardens has been locked up. Delovan Najeeb, aka Najeed, assaulted the 16-year-old girl while she was out with friends last summer.
After following her through the busy city centre thoroughfare, 38-year-old Najeeb approached her and sexually assaulted her. The victim bravely spoke out as Najeeb was jailed for three years and banned from Piccadilly Gardens for life.
She was forced to give evidence twice as Najeeb went to trial then appealed the guilty verdict. Manchester Crown Court heard that he a previous conviction for an offence with 'almost identical circumstances'.
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A judge tore into Najeeb for launching an appeal with 'no merit', and branded him a 'blight on the city centre'. During the decade he has been in the UK, Judge Alan Conrad QC said Najeeb had contributed 'nothing constructive or of any use'.
"On the contrary, you have simply drank to excess and committed one offence after another, causing resources to be wasted on you which could have been far better used in respect of more deserving cases," he said. Addressing Najeeb, who appeared in court by video link, the victim said: "Some people might say that what you did was a low level sexual assault, and you probably think that yourself.
"When you came up to me and grabbed me I felt terrified. By the way you had your arm around me I could not get away and I was trapped.
"I was a child, and you, an adult man, had trapped me. You could do what you wanted to me. I couldn't get away and you knew it, it
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