BRITAIN
Scotsman
By Chris Court, PA
A jury considering charges of rape and indecent assault by a former Muslim cleric on a 12-year-old girl at a mosque will continue to consider its verdicts tomorrow.
The panel deliberated for just over three hours at Exeter Crown Court today before Judge Graham Cottle sent them home for the night.
The accused, 42-year-old Manzoor Hussain of Ashley Road, Bristol, has pleaded not guilty to one charge of rape and four charges of indecent assault on the girl between July 1996 and March 1997 at the mosque in Bristol.
The girl, now 21, has told the jury she was indecently assaulted and raped by Hussain when she attended classes at the mosque to learn the Koran.