Iranian Sex Traffickers in Britain

From a Daily Mail report last week:

A sex trafficking gang offered to sell the virginity of underage girls to wealthy businessmen for up to £150,000 each.

The three women and a man were offering girls as young as 13 but were arrested in an undercover Scotland Yard operation after staff at a luxury hotel tipped off police.

One of the women had arrived at the Jumeirah Carlton Hotel in Knightsbridge, central London, in a silver BMW to offer the gang's services in a handwritten letter to the owner in August last year.

It read: 'I have 12 girls ready from the age 14-20 years, who are living all over the UK, I have spent money on the preparation of this event such as a rented house for the girls and also all expenses needed.'

Gang members arrested, mostly Iranian and unemployed, include Fatima Hagnegat, 24, and her husband, Rassoul Gholampour, 30, and her aunt, Marohkh Jamali, 41, and Sara Bordbar. All admitted to sex trafficking and prostitution offenses in Harrow Crown Court.

All were sentenced to jail terms of two years and three months to two years and nine months.

The court heard that Iranians Jamali and Hagnegat were seeking asylum in Britain. Gholampour remained in Britain illegally as he has no right to remain. Bordbar is British.

In my opinion, two years and change for sex traffickers could hardly be called harsh punishment. In a tangentially-related note, I wonder if anyone else is as surprised as I am about the going rate for virgin girls.