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The former manager of Rhino Ridge shoe shop on
Camden High Street has been jailed for seven years for sexual offences
against two teenage tourists. Shail Sakhare, 33, enticed the two
girls into his shop on July 13th 2001, gave them alcohol and then
forced them to perform sexual acts. The girls, from Lublin in Poland,
were in London for a fortnight's holiday.
Snaresbrook Crown Court heard that Sakhare and an
accomplice, Rehan whiskey and Red Bull, Snaresbrook Crown Court
heard. , who disappeared while on police bail, invited the two girls
aged 17 and 18 into the shop, asked other customers to leave and
closed the shutters. They then gave the girls whisky and Red Bull
and threatened them with rape unless they agreed to give the men
oral sex.
During the trial, Sakhare protested his innocence
and claimed that Rehan had said one of the girls was his girlfriend
and that the two teenagers had left the shop in a good mood. But
after considering their verdict for fours the jury of three women
and nine men found Sakhare guilty of two counts each of indecent
assault and false imprisonment.
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