New home at last for teen victim who had to live OPPOSITE vile attacker
A TEEN tormented by living opposite the pervert who groped her can finally move home.
The girl, now aged 14, and her mum have been found a new council house.
They were forced to live opposite 51-year-old Tarlok Sarai when an order banning him from their street was overturned.
The council had sold the property to Sarai and the Court of Appeal said depriving him of it was unfair.
Last year, Sarai was given an eight-month suspended jail sentence for attacking the girl when she was just 12.
He lured her with the promise of strawberries before cornering her, asking sexual questions and then groping her.
The girls devastated mum hit out at the disgusting treatment of her daughter by the authorities.
She revealed Crawley Council in West Sussex initially refused to relocate them, saying it could take five years to find them a new home.
But after the Daily Star Sunday intervened on the familys behalf it has agreed to rehouse them.
The girls mother said: As if our family hasnt been through enough. My girl has to face that vile man every day.
Its like a never-ending nightmare.
Hes known my daughter since she was four years old. He was considered a family friend but he lured her in and attacked her.
Instead of siding with my daughter the victim the courts and council have ruled in favour of her attacker a paedophile.
Sarai was initially banned from living across from his victim. But High Court judge Sir Richard Henriques, now retired, lifted the order.
Sarai was allowed to buy his council house at a £75,000 discount while the case against him was ongoing.
His victims mother continued: The fact the judge said it would cause him hardship is a joke.
Who cares about causing a paedophile hardship?
He is the one who committed the crime and she is the one still suffering because we are going to have to move.
In documents seen exclusively by this newspaper, Judge Henriques said: We question whether (Sarai) contemplated that one of the consequences of a conviction would be the loss of his long-term, much cherished and highly valued home.
The loss of it, in our judgment, would be most disproportionate.
A Crawley Council spokesman said: The council regrets it has no legal grounds to refuse the right to buy on the property occupied by the man subsequently found guilty of this offence.
When the condition preventing him living at the property was lifted by the courts the council assisted the victims family to move.
A TEEN tormented by living opposite the pervert who groped her can finally move home.
The girl, now aged 14, and her mum have been found a new council house.
They were forced to live opposite 51-year-old Tarlok Sarai when an order banning him from their street was overturned.
The council had sold the property to Sarai and the Court of Appeal said depriving him of it was unfair.
Last year, Sarai was given an eight-month suspended jail sentence for attacking the girl when she was just 12.
He lured her with the promise of strawberries before cornering her, asking sexual questions and then groping her.
The girls devastated mum hit out at the disgusting treatment of her daughter by the authorities.
She revealed Crawley Council in West Sussex initially refused to relocate them, saying it could take five years to find them a new home.
But after the Daily Star Sunday intervened on the familys behalf it has agreed to rehouse them.
The girls mother said: As if our family hasnt been through enough. My girl has to face that vile man every day.
Its like a never-ending nightmare.
Hes known my daughter since she was four years old. He was considered a family friend but he lured her in and attacked her.
Instead of siding with my daughter the victim the courts and council have ruled in favour of her attacker a paedophile.
Sarai was initially banned from living across from his victim. But High Court judge Sir Richard Henriques, now retired, lifted the order.
Sarai was allowed to buy his council house at a £75,000 discount while the case against him was ongoing.
His victims mother continued: The fact the judge said it would cause him hardship is a joke.
Who cares about causing a paedophile hardship?
He is the one who committed the crime and she is the one still suffering because we are going to have to move.
In documents seen exclusively by this newspaper, Judge Henriques said: We question whether (Sarai) contemplated that one of the consequences of a conviction would be the loss of his long-term, much cherished and highly valued home.
The loss of it, in our judgment, would be most disproportionate.
A Crawley Council spokesman said: The council regrets it has no legal grounds to refuse the right to buy on the property occupied by the man subsequently found guilty of this offence.
When the condition preventing him living at the property was lifted by the courts the council assisted the victims family to move.
New home at last for teen victim who had to live OPPOSITE vile attacker
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