Overview
- Greater Manchester Police announced on Monday that three men have been formally charged with a total of 46 offences linked to Operation Sky.
- The defendants are named as Ashfaq Khan, Zaheer Iqbal and Qamar Jehangeer and face multiple counts including rape, attempted rape, indecent assault and false imprisonment.
- The alleged offences are non‑recent and are said to have occurred in the late 1990s and early 2000s involving around 10 girls who were teenagers at the time.
- Police say they are working with trauma‑informed support services such as Saint Mary's Sexual Assault Referral Centre and Greater Manchester Rape Crisis and are urging anyone affected to come forward while stressing the suspects are presumed innocent.
- The charging follows a wider pattern of historic abuse investigations reaching court in recent weeks, which could prompt further reporting and additional inquiries by other forces.