Bolton grooming gang man breached order with Saudi flights

Kamran Khan, 44, had been given a string of conditions as part of his eight-year sentence as part of a notorious grooming gang back in 2018.

Bolton Crown Court heard how alongside his jail sentence at the time, Khan had been ordered to keep to a notification requirement.

Josh Matthews, prosecuting, said: “As part of this requirement, the defendant must register his passport with the police.

“He must register any foreign travel with the police within seven days.”

The case was heard at Bolton Crown Court (Image: Phil Taylor)

Khan watched via video link from prison as Mr Matthews told the court how on two occasions in January 2025 and then later in 2026 Khan had passports that were not registered.

He said that Khan had then taken return flights from Saudi capital Riyadh to Heathrow Airport four times without telling the police.

Khan, who has 18 previous convictions for 29 offences including, false imprisonment, indecent assault and blackmail confessed to his breaches.

The grooming gang that Khan, of Netherfield Road, Great Lever, had been involved in had been largely based in the Oxford area.

Brought before Chester Magistrates Court he pleaded guilty to six breaches of a notification requirement.

Helen Chenery, defending, said that Khan had “issues with consequential thinking” but said most of his crimes had been in the Oxford area.

She said: “He describes there as being issues in that area, negative influences.”

Ms Chenery said that Khan had been in custody since the end of February this year.

But Judge Abigail Hudson said she found Khan’s explanation that he had been travelling to Dubai to help set up a business “implausible in the extreme.”

She said: “I cannot know why you were flying repeatedly and I accept the point that it was not with criminal intent, but I do not accept the letter you wrote to me was legitimate.”

Judge Hudson said she did not accept that “any legitimate businessman” would have sent Khan out to Saudi Arabia and Dubai in this way.

She also said that given his frequent travelling she did not accept that Khan was pursuing education or caring for his mother as he had claimed.

Judge Hudson sentenced Khan to 24 months in custody.