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An investigative review into law enforcement data following operations by West Sussex Police has exposed the systemic risk profile of an internet-based sexual offender whose actions triggered emergency policing responses across the county.
Tarek Miah, a twenty-year-old foreign national originally born in the Sylhet region of Bangladesh, was sentenced to fifteen years in prison at Portsmouth Crown Court. He will serve a mandatory minimum of ten years behind bars before parole consideration, followed by an extended three-year period on licence.
The extensive indictment included four counts of raping a child under the age of thirteen, two counts of false imprisonment, and multiple counts of inciting minors to engage in penetrative and non-penetrative sexual acts. The judicial record confirms Miah was also added to the sex offenders register indefinitely under a strict Sexual Harm Prevention Order.
Investigative disclosures obtained by Daily Dazzling Dawn reveal serious physical tracking elements that went beyond digital manipulation. In February, while operating in Midhurst, Miah lured two young girls into a public car park, trapped them inside a vehicle by locking the doors, and drove away from the scene as the victims actively raised alarms to their peers.
Furthermore, detailed forensic examinations of Miah’s personal electronic devices, seized while he was at large on bail, uncovered active search phrases confirming an ongoing sexual interest in children alongside the possession of prohibited indecent imagery.
The prosecution, led by Steven Molloy, addressed arguments regarding Miah's origins in Sylhet and his subsequent relocation to Worthing, West Sussex, at the age of three. The defense team, led by Abigail Bright, attempted to cite his youth, lack of localized maturity, and clean record as mitigating context, pointing to a probation report suggesting his heritage altered his boundary perception.
However, the prosecution successfully argued to the judge that because Miah was raised almost entirely within the United Kingdom, he was fully bound by local statutory frameworks and legal moral values. The court ruled that cultural background cannot diminish criminal culpability regarding child exploitation.
The victims' families described catastrophic psychological harm directly to journalists, noting that the children now suffer from severe visual and auditory hallucinations, extreme anxiety, and absolute loss of personal independence.
With the custodial phrase finalized, the case is expected to progress to the Home Office for mandatory deportation assessment under automatic deportation rules governing foreign nationals convicted of serious felony offenses in the United Kingdom.
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