A serial rapist with a "dreadful record of sexual offending" against girls and young women in Rochdale is starting another lengthy jail sentence.

Married father-of-four Mohammed Miah, 41, was convicted in two separate trials of raping two teenage girls and a 22-year-old woman, along with the attempted abduction of a 15-year-old girl walking home from school, on various dates between 2005 and 2010.

His identity can finally be revealed after reporting restrictions were lifted against him at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court.

Both Miah's teenage rape victims came forward to police shortly after the widespread publicity of the 2012 convictions of a gang of Asian men who preyed on white girls in Rochdale.

Last April Miah was one of 10 men jailed for sexually abusing one complainant who said she had been repeatedly groomed by a large number of men in the town.

On Friday, he was sentenced for the rape of a 16-year-old girl on a North Wales beach in 2007.

His "extremely vulnerable" victim - who had a chaotic lifestyle after she was effectively abandoned by her parents in her early teens - had met the defendant the day before but knew him only as "Ali".

After driving her from Rochdale in the evening and buying her alcohol, Miah demanded that she have sex with him otherwise he would leave her on the beach.

She told him tearfully to stop halfway through sex but the defendant continued.

The girl reported the incident to police but no match was found at the time to Miah on the DNA database.

When traced and interviewed as part of GMP's Operation Doublet investigation - launched in the wake of the Rochdale grooming scandal - he denied the offence.

Takeaway cook Miah was also charged with offences against three other complainants as part of the same police operation and again pleaded not guilty at an earlier trial.

Another "vulnerable" victim, aged 14 or 15 at the time in 2005, was repeatedly violently raped by Miah - who she too only knew as Ali - after he bought her vodka.

Miah also passed himself off as "Ali" when he raped a young woman in 2010 who he also plied with vodka.

She went on to tell police of her ordeal but later withdrew her complaint after he denied the matter.

He was also found guilty of the attempted abduction of a 15-year-old girl when he approached her in the street in his car in 2009 and falsely claimed that her mother had told him to pick her up.

She declined the request and the incident was reported to police but days later he followed her again on the way home from school and told her: "Come to my boot I've got some vodka, hair straighteners and fags.

"If you get in my car you can have them."

Miah received a 23-year jail term last April and was told he would have to serve an extended licence period of eight years.

On Friday, he was jailed for 12 years for the North Wales rape - with an extended licence of four years - which will run concurrently to the above sentence.

The court heard he had previous sexual convictions and was jailed for 10 months in July 2014 for sexual assault and received a community order in November 2012 for two offences of sexual activity with a child.

Sentencing, Judge John Potter said: "You have a dreadful record of sexual offending against children and young women."

In mitigation, Stephen Welford said his client said imprisonment had had a "significant effect" on his family life as he had been "deprived" of seeing his children grow up.

Miah, formerly of Bellshill Crescent, Rochdale, was jailed alongside four other men on Friday who were also arrested as part of Operation Doublet over offences against teenage girls.

Ashefaq Yousaf, 30, of Rochdale, was sentenced to 19 years in prison for four counts of rape involving two complainants. Reporting restrictions against him were also lifted.

Mohammed Sadeer, 28, of Brimrod Lane, Rochdale, was jailed for 12 years after he was found guilty of one count of attempted rape.

Joshim Miah, 32, of Yorkshire Street, Rochdale, received a seven-year sentence for rape.

Yousaf's younger brother, Ittefaq Yousaf, 26, of Stanley Street, Rochdale, was convicted of sexually assaulting one girl and inciting another to engage in sexual activity.

He was sentenced to 18 months in jail and received an additional two-month sentence for a separate case of possessing and distributing an indecent image of a child.