Ramazan Ilter - Child Predator

Denying at first there had been any sex involved, Ilter said his contact with the girls had been in the interests of ‘bringing his own children up better’ – a claim declared ludicrous and laughable by the judge.

A KEBAB shop owner who took a 14-year-old girl to a Cardiff hotel after grooming her while she was living in a children’s home has been jailed for three years.

When police arrested sexual predator Ramazan Ilter, 42, they found he had pictures of the girl posing in underwear.

There was also a video of him performing a sex act on a 16-year-old girl he had also taken to the Blue Dragon Hotel on Newport Road.

Denying at first there had been any sex involved, Ilter said his contact with the girls had been in the interests of ‘bringing his own children up better’ – a claim declared ludicrous and laughable by the judge.

Judge Neil Bidder QC told Turkish-born Ilter whose own children are around the same age and who had also brought up step-children, that he had entrenched sexist views about women and still had no proper understanding of what he had done wrong.

Ilter had been due to stand trial earlier this month on allegations against the girls from a Rhondda Cynon Taf community home he befriended after meeting them in the city centre.

But on the trial day he pleaded guilty to two charges of meeting 14-year-old children following grooming, one of possessing indecent images and one of supplying cannabis to a 16-year-old. All the girls were said to have been vulnerable and to have been living in care.

Prosecutor Robert Buckland told Cardiff Crown Court: “Staff at the home became concerned about the association one girl of 14 had formed with a man called Charlie – this defendant.

“He would pick up her and her friend, the same age, and take them to a car park where they would sit talking and there would be vodka drunk.”

The grooming progressed to gifts and trips in his car for the children to Barry and Porthcawl – one of them saying he touched her leg as he drove – to dinner and a nightclub then a visit to the hotel for the other.

When he said he wanted to sleep with her, the girl refused, but on New Year’s Eve he was filming other girls dancing and singing in a room and was then showed indulging in sexual activity with a 16-year-old.

As well as being jailed for three years, Ilter, who lives in Mead Lane, Cwmbran, and runs a shop in Newport, was put on the sex offenders’ register for life and made the subject of a sexual offences prevention order.

Under that order he is banned for 10 years from going to playgrounds, swimming pools, arcades and cinema complexes or within 50 yards of schools and children’s care homes.

In addition, he can’t take children – apart from his own – into his home or car or offer them presents.

Judge Bidder told him: “Girls have to be protected from themselves as well as from predatory men like you.”