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Sex-assault businessman sentenced to 45 months

A prominent Perth businessman who was jailed yesterday was told that his explanation of how his DNA came to be on a teenage girl’s breasts had been an attempt to “besmirch her reputation.”

Jailing Farooq Hussain (56), of Pitcullen Crescent, Perth, for 45 months for sexually assaulting two teenage girls, Sheriff Lindsay Foulis said that part of his defence—that he had spat out of disgust after one girl bared her breasts—had alleged she acted in a totally inappropriate fashion.

Sheriff Foulis said that not only had he tried to shift blame onto the girl, he had put them through the ordeal of having to relive the incidents. “As a result of going to trial, the two girls in question were required to give evidence,” he said.

Sentence had been deferred until yesterday on Hussain, a restaurateur and leading member of the Perth Muslim community, for reports which revealed a “misogynistic attitude” towards women and an interest in coerced sexual conduct.

The businessman, well-known as a charity fund-raiser, attacked a 14-year-old girl on two occasions while alone with her in Perth flats last year, and a 15-year-old in 2002.

Full story at the Dundee Courier.