{"id":953298,"date":"2026-05-11T20:01:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T20:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/953298\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T20:01:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T20:01:17","slug":"rhyl-takeaway-driver-accused-of-handcuffing-and-raping-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/953298\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhyl takeaway driver accused of handcuffing and raping girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Iqbal is one of four men from Rhyl on trial at Caernarfon Crown Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He denies three charges of raping the teenager, who cannot be identified for legal reasons. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Iqbal also denies the rape of a 15-year-old girl and the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl in Rhyl in 2022, identified in court as Child B and Child C.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In police interviews, his oldest alleged victim said she would be picked up by Iqbal &#8220;every single day&#8221; and driven to a property owned by Sarah Gray, 53, of Llanasa Road, Gronant. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She told the police that Gray would accept crack cocaine from Iqbal and leave him and the girl alone in the house.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gray has been charged with perverting the course of justice, assissting an offender, conspiracy to supply cocaine to another and conspiracy to supply cannabis to another.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The teenager said on one occasion she had smoked a pipe of cocaine when Iqbal began sexually assaulting her on a bed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He then grabbed her wrists and put handcuffs on her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He raped me,&#8221; she told the police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Asked if she had given consent, she replied: &#8220;No.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I could move but I couldn&#8217;t get him off,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He made sure he was getting what he wanted, no matter what.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two other men, Mohamed Usman Arshad, 36, of Clifton Grove, Rhyl and Ziaullah Badsha, 25, of Brighton Road, Rhyl, have also pleaded not guilty to the rape of 15-year-old Child B.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Another man, Jaswinder Singh, 65, of River Street, Rhyl is accused of trafficking Child B, and also denies supplying her with cannabis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trial continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iqbal is one of four men from Rhyl on trial at Caernarfon Crown Court. He denies three charges&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":953299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-953298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116557727936334953","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/953299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}