https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/local-news/evil-huddersfield-grooming-gang-trio-20953377
A teenager was targeted by Banaras Hussain, Mohammed Akram and Talish Mahmood Ahmed between 1995 and 1998.
Three members of a Huddersfield gang have been convicted of grooming and sexually exploiting a vulnerable schoolgirl.
The teenager was sexually abused by Banaras Hussain, Mohammed Akram and Talish Mahmood Ahmed in the town between 1995 and 1998.
Leeds Crown Court had previously heard she was raped in a primary school playground and one of the men once climbed up a drainpipe and into her bedroom at her dad’s house and raped her.
The three defendants, along with Mohammed Khalil, who was acquitted of indecent assault, accepted knowing the complainant, but denied all charges on a seven-count indictment.
Opening the trial last month, prosecutor Kate Batty told the jury that the case concerned the sexual exploitation of a young girl who, from the age of 13, was deliberately targeted by older men who wanted to use her for their own sexual purposes.
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Mrs Batty described the girl, who was the daughter of an abusive single mother and was bullied in school, as vulnerable with low-self esteem.
She said older men struck up conversations with her in the street and she was groomed between them by being made to feel special, including by being given cigarettes, vodka, special brew lager and drugs.
Mrs Batty said: “By the time she was 13 years old, she was drinking every day and was intoxicated most of the time.
“More and more men came onto the scene and the group got bigger and bigger – such that she can’t even remember them all now. You will hear reference to men who are not part of this trial.”
Mrs Batty said the teenager was treated as an “object”, adding: “Routine to her became the day in, day out events of being touched or groped or having sex on grubby mattresses on the floors of flats and houses that she found herself in.”…
