A baker whose clientele includes Premier League footballers was jailed for keeping a deaf and mute girl in a cellar as a slave.
Tallat Ashar’s creations have attracted a swarm of social media followers, with thousands of ‘likes’ on TikTok and Instagram.
The catering firm has been working with A-listers, working at parties for the sons of Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes, defender Raphaël Varane and former team-mate Paul Pogba, according to the MailOnline.
The business was set up in 2021 alongside her daughter, who was listed as a secretary.
It has since been revealed that in 2014, the influencer baker Ashar was jailed for six years after she and her husband Ilyas smuggled a ten-year-old girl from Pakistan to Manchester, where she was subjected to horrific abuse.
The child was hidden in the ‘sparse, cold, damp’ cellar of the Ashar’s family home, and was repeatedly raped by Mr Ashar as well as being ordered to cook and clean.
The couple was also able to collect thousands of pounds in the victim’s name.
The victim was rescued from the horrific abuse in 2009, but as she had never gone to school, she was unable to speak any English.
The child was taught sign language which meant she was able to give a testimony to police which would later see the Ashars convicted.
Mr Ashar was jailed for 13 years in 2013 after being found guilty of 13 counts of rape as well as benefit fraud and trafficking, at the age of 84.
Tallat Ashar was convicted of benefit fraud and trafficking and jailed for five years.
For charges of false imprisonment, however, jurors had failed to reach a verdict.
Judge Peter Larkin said the couple viewed the girl as ‘merely an object to be used, abused and cast aside at will’.
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