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A pervert who raped two men after meeting them on the Grindr app is a notorious figure in Scotland’s Asian gangster underworld.

Omar Mohammed Khan – jailed for seven years this week for two appalling rapes – was caught up in a gang vendetta involving the family of Imran “Baldy” Shahid, the killer of innocent teenager Kriss Donald.

Khan, a director of his family’s Khan Autos business in Glasgow’s Govanhill, has also been repeatedly accused of being a neighbour from hell in Cambuslang, near Glasgow.

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In 2009, the High Court in Glasgow heard how Khan and a friend were pursued in a car by two armed brothers of Shahid and fellow murderer Faisal Mushtaq, who had been jailed for life.

Ahsan Shahid, 24, and Farooq Mushtaq, 25, were jailed for the vendetta – which arose from Khan’s brother, Sheban Khan, now 31, being a key witness in Kriss’s murder trial in 2006.

One source told the Record: “Omar Khan is well known in the south side of Glasgow but kept his sexuality a secret.

“He’s told his family he was innocent of any rapes and they’re standing by him but what he did was awful.”

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The source said Khan was “out of their league” in dealings with Baldy’s evil gang in years past.

He said: “When Omar got chased by Shahid and Mushtaq, he was just a boy and was targeted by people who were prepared to use a lot of violence.

“His brother Sheban is a bodybuilder and looks like a clone of Baldy Shahid. He was the real target.”

It is believed that Khan forged friendships with Slovakian nationals after giving them work at his garage. They masked their sexuality and targeted gay men, hoping that victims would be too afraid to report their ordeals to police.

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Khan, 28, was jailed for seven years at the High Court in Edinburgh on Thursday.

The court heard how he and a teenage boy described themselves as “two discreet lads” before raping two men they met on gay hook-up app Grindr.

Khan and a 17-year-old Slovakian arranged to meet a 30-year-old man at his home on September 3 last year after chatting with him on Grindr.

There was a consensual sex act between him and the teenager before Khan grabbed the man by the arm and pushed him against a wall while the teenager raped him.

Khan and the Slovakian attacked their second victim in Glasgow a week later.

The student victim told the court he had been threatened with violence before Khan forced him to perform a sex act on him.

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Judge Lord Uist also sentenced the Slovakian to eight years’ detention. Both were told they would be supervised by the authorities for two years following their release from custody.

Khan told a social worker the crimes were “just a bit of fun”.

Another Slovakian, Julius Horvath, 20, from Glasgow, and Khan’s friend Afzaal Hassan, 20, from West Calder, West Lothian, were also found guilty of luring a 40-year-old man to a deserted industrial estate to attack and rob him.

Horvath had driven to a crime scene in a car with “Khan’s Autos” livery on the side.

Khan and the Slovakian rapist were placed on the sex offenders register indefinitely.