MIAH:SUPPORTER OF HATE PREACHER GROOMED GIRL FOR SEX

A supporter of hate preacher Anjem Choudary faces jail after he admitted grooming a 15-year-old girl on the internet.

Mansoor Miah, 21, invited the schoolgirl to meet him for sex at the Premier Inn in Folkestone, Kent, on social media site Facebook in November 2013.

The Tesco worker, who has ‘limited sexual experience’ also swapped lewd photos with the youngster and pleasured himself in front of the teen via webcam.

The child’s mother was alerted after her daughter’s school reported online contact between the pupil and Miah, Southwark Crown Court heard.

Miah retweets several messages from Anjem Choudary including one just three days before his arrest on June 25 last year, which begins: ‘Which Muslim wouldn’t want to live in the Khilafah, ie Islamic ruling system…’

Dressed in blue trousers and a black jacket and with his long hair in a ponytail, Miah spoke only to confirm his name and admit attempting to meet a child following sexual grooming.

Neville Rudston, defending Miah, said: ‘What is different about this offence is that he is a 21-year-old of limited sexual experience who unfortunately seized the opportunity to pursue a sexual relationship with someone who was 15.

‘I will seek to distinguish him from someone who has deliberately targeting children rather than effectively being a relatively young person who has committed this act.’

Judge Loraine-Smith told Miah: ‘I’m going to adjourn sentence to the 26 February.

‘Your counsel rightly concedes that this case crosses the custody threshold.

‘He will be attempting to persuade the judge on that occasion to suspend the sentence. Whether he succeeds or not, time alone will tell.’

Miah, of Hilgrove Road, Kilburn, northwest London, admitted one charge of attempting to meet a child following sexual grooming.

He denied five charges of intentionally encouraging an offence and a further charge of attempting to arrange the commission of a child sex offence.

Prosecutor Stephen Requena said: ‘The plea is acceptable, we won’t seek trial on counts one to six.

‘The plea to count seven is on the full facts basis and encompasses all the facts.’

Miah was released on bail ahead of sentence on 26 February.
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