Peer Nazir Ahmed’s jail term for 1970s sexual assault cut by three years

Appeal court judges reduce sentence to six months for buggery of boy when ex-Labour MP was a teenager

A peer who sexually assaulted a boy and attempted to rape a young girl when he was a teenager has had his jail term cut by judges at the court of appeal.

The former Labour politician Nazir Ahmed was convicted in January 2022 of three sex crimes which happened in the 1970s in Rotherham, South Yorkshire.