Man convicted of rape for keeping deaf and mute girl as sex slave for 10 yrs

The man who kept a deaf and mute Pakistani girl captive in a cellar and repeatedly raped her for a decade in London has been convicted of 13 counts of rape.

The girl, who is now 19-years-old, was repeatedly raped, beaten and forced to cook, clean, do the washing and ironing for the captor Ilyas Ashar and his family and also clean the homes of their friends in Eccles, Salford, Metro.co.uk reported.

She was trafficked to Britain in 2000 and was taught to communicate in sign language and write so that her captors could claim 30,000 pounds in benefits.

The girl's passport claimed that she was 20-years-old when she entered the country.

She was made to spend her days in the cellar packing football shirts, clothes and mobile phone covers and had no family or friends there and never went to school.

The 84-year-old captor and his 68-year-old wife were convicted for trafficking, exploitation and benefit fraud, at an earlier trial.