Oxford maths prodigy now working as a 130-an-hour hooker

London, March 31 : A child Math prodigy who won a place at Oxford University when she was just 13, is now working as a 130pounds-an-hour prostitute in Manchester, it has been revealed.

Sufiah Yusof, now 23, whose father Farooq is a Pakistani and mother Halimathon is from Johor, was reported to have entertained an undercover reporter from Britain's News of the World, in her flat in Manchester.

Claiming that she had posted her services for 130 pounds on the Internet, the newspaper said she had called herself Shilpa Lee on a hookers' website. She is said to have advertised herself as "a sexy, smart student" who preferred "older gentlemen".

She is also alleged to have described herself as a "very pretty size 8, 32D bust and 5'5'' tall - available for bookings every day from 11am to 8pm." The website has been shut down since then.

The news comes just days after Sufiah's father was jailed for sexually assaulting two 15-year-old girls as he home-tutored them in Maths.

Sufiah passed the Maths A-Level she needed for entry into Oxford at the age of 12. Three years into Oxford, she sparked a massive police hunt after running away.

At the time her father bizarrely claimed Sufiah had been kidnapped and brainwashed by an organisation seeking the key to her intelligence.But Sufiah sent an e-mail to her family describing her life under her father as a "living hell".

Farooq denied that he had pushed Sufiah too hard and implied that she was being told what to say by those controlling her.

Police later found her living in Bournemouth, posing as a student among the 30,000 foreigners who go to the seaside resort each year to study English.

The report, which carried grainy photographs of a semi-nude woman it claimed was Sufiah, said the girl met the reporter who posed as a client wearing a tiny skirt, leather boots and a tight T-shirt. The report also said that the girl was carrying three mobile phones.

She also told the reporter that she was studying for a Masters degree in Economics.

"Sufiah has suffered so many knocks in her life. I just hope she can drag herself out this life she has got herself into," News of the World quoted Sufiah's pal, as saying.

"She is a good person and deserves a much better life than this. Her gift really has been a curse," the pal added.

ANI