Rotherham rapist who attacked and tortured victims as young as 11 is freed from jail after serving just nine years of 19-year sentence
A member of a Rotherham grooming gang who attacked and tortured his victims will be released from prison nine years after he was sentenced to serve 19.
Banaras Hussain, 44, abused his victims over 11 years and was one of six members of the grooming gang jailed for a total of 103 years.
He is being released on licence today.
Hussain was sentenced in 2016 after admitting 10 charges including rape, indecent assault and actual bodily harm, with some of his victims being as young as 11.
It emerged during his trial that Hussain, who is also a convicted drug dealer, was once caught in a police car park with one of his victims while she was performing a sex act on him - but that officers simply drove off.
Now shadow justice secretary, Robert Jenrick has written to the Parole Board asking to 'keep the monster behind bars'.
Sammy Woodhouse, a victim of the grooming gang previously described Hussain as 'one of the most dangerous men in the country'.
Hussain's brother, and the ringleader, Arshid Hussain was imprisoned for 35 years, brother Basharat Hussain, 39, was handed 25 years and their uncle, Qurban Ali, 53, was jailed for 10 years.
Banaras Hussain, 44, who is also a convicted drug dealer, will be freed from prison today after serving half of his 19-year prison sentence
Victim Sammy Woodhouse described Hussain as 'one of the most dangerous men in the country'
Richard Tice, Reform UK's deputy leader, said a 'sentence is a sentence' and an example should be set for 'heinous' crimes, The Telegraph reports.
He added: 'What is the point of giving someone 19 years and [letting them] out after nine and a half.'
He also stated that if you don't like it 'don't rape people and groom people'.
A report released in 2014 found that at least 1,400 children were victims of child sexual abuse in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013, as it slammed police and other professional agencies for not acting, claiming they did not see the children as victims.
Speaking on Hussain last year Sammy Woodhouse said: ' He kidnapped, assaulted, raped and tortured children over a period of several years.
'Those children are now adults and still struggle every single day because of the horrific acts he and others have committed against them.'
A Prison Service spokesman said: 'Offenders released on licence are subject to strict conditions and we do not hesitate to recall them to prison if they break the rules.'
Last year Hussain was moved to an open prison on appeal and had already served time on remand, meaning he has served more than half of his full sentence.
Hussain will be released under strict conditions and if he breaks them he can be recalled to prison.
It is understood that one of Hussain’s licence conditions prevents him from entering the Rotherham area.
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Abid Saddiq (left) and Tahir Yasin (right) were both convicted of rape
Mohammed Zameer Sadiq (left) and Mohammed Siyab (right) were found guilty of rape
Ramin Bari, 37, of Sheffield, was found guilty of four counts of rape
Mohammed Amar (left) and Yasser Ajaibe (right) were both found guilty of indecently assaulting a 11-year-old girl
Waleed Ali, 42, from Scunthorpe has been sentenced to five years in jail for raping a 14-year-old girl down an alleyway in Rotherham 21 years ago
A MailOnline investigation has revealed that 11 out of 22 core members of linked Rotherham sex gangs are back on the streets despite being involved in the abuse and trafficking of up to 1,400 girls. Pictured left to right: Mohammed Whied, Waleed Ali, Asif Ali
The Secretary of State for Justice has 28 days to ask the Parole Board to reconsider its judgement. It does not have the power to overturn the decision. Pictured: Naeem Rafiq (left) and Masaued Malik (right)
MailOnline understands that 10 have already been freed and were automatically released on licence half-way through their sentence. A 12th was released at the end of his sentence after a rejected parole. Pictured: Sharaz Hussain (left) and Zaheer Iqbal (right)
Amjad Ali, then 38, jailed with Dad, Hussain and Sadiq, after pleading guilty to one count of sexual intercourse with a girl under 13. He was jailed for 11 years
Mohammed Imran Ali Akhtar, 42, (pictured) was jailed for 23 years at Sheffield Crown Court for sexual offences against three vulnerable victims between 1998 and 2005
Asghar Bostan, jailed for nine years for two counts of rape against a girl under 16, served four and a half years but has now been recalled for alleged breach of licence terms
Rochdale grooming gang member Qari Abdul Rauf, who spent two years and six months in jail, was seen leaving his home in Rochdale, Greater Manchester
Like Rauf, Adil Khan, left, and Abdul Aziz, right, faced deportation orders to Pakistan although Aziz was later told he could stay while Rauf and Khan also remain in the UK
The horrific crimes of Asian grooming gangs were laid bare when six men were jailed for a total 101 years after sexually exploiting five vulnerable teenage girls. Iqlak Yousaf (left) got a 20-year jail term. Salah Ahmed El-Hakam (right) got 15 years
One of the victims told a trial how she was made to have sex with 'at least 100 Asian men'. Asif Ali and Tanweer Ali (right) got terms of terms of 10 years and 14 years respectively
Nabeel Kurshid and Mohammed Imran Ali Akhtar (right) are among a sex gang from Rotherham jailed for a combined 101 years
Shabir Ahmed, the ring-leader of a notorious grooming gang in Rochdale, was employed by Oldham Council as a welfare rights officer
The wives of the jailed gang members condemned the men's victims
Qurban Ali, 59, jailed after being found guilty of conspiracy to rape, was released early and is currently on probation
Tayab Dad, 40, who was found guilty of one count of rape, was released from prison in the first few months of this year
(Top row left to right) Tayab Dad, Nasar Dad, Basharat Dad, (bottom row left to right) Matloob Hussain, Mohammed Sadiq and Amjad Ali were all given jail sentences at Sheffield Crown Court for sex offences after they groomed two girls and sexually abused in Rotherham
Arshid Hussain was jailed for 35 years after being convicted of raping Ms Woodhouse and assaulting young girls. He was shot in the stomach in 2005 and now uses a wheelchair
Arshid Hussain (pictured) raped his young victims and subjected them to a catalogue of indecent assaults
As many as 100 teenage girls in Rotherham, pictured, had babies after being made pregnant by their rapists. The courts gave custody of some of the kids to the rapists.
20 men were jailed for a total of more than 250 years for abuse in Huddersfield
Free: Mohsin Khan walks the streets of Rotherham. He was given a four-year jail sentence for grooming a girl of 13, but has been released
Two of the convicted already back in town: Mohsin Khan, 26, left, was given a four-year sentence for grooming a girl, 13, for sex while Umar Razaq, 27, right was jailed for less than a year for having sex with a 12-year-old girl
Peer and former Labour politician Lord Nazir Ahmed has been jailed for five years and six months for the attempted rape of a young girl and sexually assaulting a boy under 11
