A takeaway boss arrested for inciting under-age girls into child prostitution and paying them for sex, treated his arrest as "a joke" and showed contempt for the girls who accused him, police said.
Azad Miah, 44 was "arrogant" and "disrespectful" when investigated by Detective Constable Christy Robertson over the charges.
"I do not think he feels he has done anything wrong. I think he feels he is the victim." the detective added.
The married Bangladeshi father-of-four claimed he was the victim of a conspiracy between the girls after he stopped giving money to some of them out of kindness.
One of Azad Miah's under-age victims complained to the police about him three years before his eventual arrest, his trial heard.
His youngest victim, aged 12, said she eventually gave up talking to the police in 2008 about the takeaway owner pestering her for sex in exchange for cash because nothing was being done.
In the wake of Miah's arrest in 2011 she was asked at the start of her police interview if she knew why she was being questioned.
Tellingly, she replied: "Because of something that happened three years ago and now youse have finally decided to do summat about it."
Also that year, a woman complained to police that Miah had began to undress and told her to take her clothes off on her second day of work at his Spice of India restaurant in Carlisle city centre.
And one of the girls who Miah was cleared of encouraging to have sex for money had also complained to police about him in 2008 about claims he persistently harassed her, the court heard.
Cumbria Constabulary did not launch its investigation into Miah though until Christmas 2010 following a disclosure by one of his victims to one of its "partnership agencies" about claims of child prostitution.
After those initial 2008 complaints, Miah continued to commit sexual offences until his arrest in March 2011.
"And we showed them all the texts on my phone as well but they still never did anything. I was only 12 at the time.
"The police never done anything about it so I just stopped complaining in the end."
The girl, said to have come from a troubled background, claimed she thought the texts were written down by an officer.
She refused to hand over her phone, the court heard, and was told the police would get back in touch with her but nothing happened.
Under cross-examination at Carlisle Crown Court, she was told there was no record of any of her supposed complaints.
"They (the police) have not got any records because it did not happen," said barrister Stephen Meadowcroft QC. "The police keep careful records."
Behind a screen in court, she replied: "So they should but they didn't."
The takeaway boss said it was he who was embarrassed at having to admit in open court that he had a number of extra-marital affairs.
DC Robertson who questioned him said: "I would say that he showed contempt for the girls, he was dismissive of them.
"He was disrespectful to me. If I challenged him in any way then he was across the table with fingers (pointing) in my face.
"I think that he thought it was a joke to him."
She said he displayed the same lack of compassion to his victims in the lengthy police interviews as when he entered the witness box in his trial at Carlisle Crown Court.
She praised the girls for their bravery and courage in coming forward and giving evidence against Miah.
"I have to admire these girls for what they have done," she said.
"They have had to admit to themselves a part of them which had remained hidden - things that their family and close friends may not have known about.
"This is a massive secret that they have held for a number of years.
"After talking to a number of the girls individually they said they had to do this to stop it happening to anyone else."
She conceded there may be more victims of Miah who have so far been reluctant to contact them, but the force was treating it is an isolated incident in the county.
"This was about one man driven by his sex addiction who was organised and very persistent for many years," she said.