A sex offender discovered by police with a young girl in a hotel room after a tip-off from a member of the public has been
jailed for nine years. Tahmid Majid, 24, was caught after he and another man were seen talking to the girl in a passageway near Grantham train station on June 26, 2022 and were trying to persuade her to go with them on a train to Manchester.
A conversation about how the girl could earn large sums of money and would be given a house to live in was overheard and the witness called Lincolnshire Police. Officers attended the area and established the girl had left in a taxi with the two men. Shortly afterwards, they tracked her and Majid to a hotel room and he was arrested.
Enquiries revealed he had been travelling from London to engage in sexual activity with the young girl for more than two years. Majid, of Whitehorse Road, Croydon, had denied two offences of sexual activity with a child between February 2020 and June 2022.
He changed his pleas to guilty halfway through his trial at Lincoln Crown Court and was sentenced to nine years in prison on December 22, handed a sexual harm prevention order and placed on the sex offenders register for life.
His Honour Judge Simon Hirst awarded the person who called the police £250 from the High Sheriff in recognition of their great efforts in the incident. Detective Constable Helen Morris, from the protecting vulnerable people unit at Lincolnshire Police, said: “We are so grateful to the person who took the time to call us and tell us what they had seen and heard.
“It was the right decision to ring us. Their actions have been recognised by the court award. My thanks also go to the victim, for her bravery and determination, in helping to get this man convicted and taken off the streets. He has been remanded in custody since June.
“We rely on information from our community to keep people safe. If something doesn’t feel right then ring and let us decide and check the information out. If you are scared or worried about child sexual exploitation, call and talk to us, we will do our very best to help.”
