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Conviction Islamic institutions and contexts Other Islamic authority or family context Bradford, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom · 2025

United Kingdom: Bradford imam jailed 13 years for repeatedly raping a boy at his mosque

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

imam at a mosque on Sunbridge Road, Bradford

Organization

mosque on Sunbridge Road, Bradford

Spiritual nexus

Khan groomed and repeatedly raped a boy over several years using the access and trust his position as the mosque's imam gave him — the same mechanism a prior 2011 conviction at another mosque had already established as his pattern.

  • Pastoral or clerical authority
  • Guru or spiritual-teacher authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2025-06-20 · guilty plea and sentencing

    Bradford Crown Court, United Kingdom. Mohammed Hanif Khan, 57, admitted two counts of rape and one count of multiple rape committed against a boy in the 1990s while he was imam at a mosque on Sunbridge Road, Bradford. He was sentenced to 13 years' imprisonment with a 3-year extended licence period.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • grooming a child through his position as imam
  • religious-authority access to a child at the mosque

Primary record

Sources

police press release sentencing report West Yorkshire Police, 'Man jailed for non-recent rapes, Bradford' (June 2025).

Official police release confirming Khan's role as imam at the Sunbridge Road mosque, the guilty pleas, and the 13-year sentence with extended licence.

national broadcast court reporting sentencing report ITV News Calendar, 'Former Bradford imam jailed for repeatedly raping boy at mosque' (23 June 2025).

Broadcast news report corroborating the sentencing, Khan's role as imam, and reference to his earlier 2011 Stoke-on-Trent conviction for offences against two other boys.

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