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Aberdeen man who sexually abused young girl starts fight to clear his name

Allahbaksh Nadaf
Allahbaksh Nadaf

An Aberdeen man who sexually assaulted a young girl and exposed himself to two other children in the city is fighting to clear his name.

Allahbaksh Nadaf was jailed for 27 months and given a three-year extended sentence after being convicted of three child sex charges following a trial at Aberdeen Sheriff Court last May.

Now, the 31-year-old has launched a bid to have his conviction and sentence quashed and a procedural hearing will take place at the High Court of Justiciary in Edinburgh next Wednesday.

Nadaf denied the allegations claiming he had been mistaken for someone else but a jury of 10 women and five men took just an hour to find him guilty of all the charges.

During the trial, the court heard Nadaf had handed himself into the police station after the media released CCTV footage of him at the Castlegate following one of the attacks.

But he claimed he had only been in the area by coincidence and just happened to match the description of the flasher.

During evidence, he told the jury he had walked along Flourmill Lane on November 24 last year, shortly before a man had exposed himself to an eight-year-old girl.

But he denied he was the culprit and said he had not seen the girl.

He also denied inappropriately touching a 12-year-old girl on November 25, 2014, and exposing himself to a 10-year-old girl on January 15, 2016.

It emerged Nadaf had been picked out of a police parade by the three children as someone they thought looked like the man who had attacked them.

Nadaf’s wife, Ruma, also gave evidence during the trial and said she would have left her husband if she believed he was guilty.

The former social worker and child protection officer said she supported her husband and did not believe he was guilty of “any crimes”.

Sheriff Graham Buchanan also imposed a sexual offences prevention order on him, which will last for five years.

This forbids him from having any contact with all children, apart from his son and nephew.

He will also be banned from going to public swimming pools, children’s parks and other community areas when he is released.

He will be on the sex offenders register for life.