Asian grooming gang made two vulnerable girls in Rochdale ‘sex slaves’ after preying on them from age of 13, court told

TWO susceptible teen girls were made "sex slaves" by an Asian grooming pack who preyed connected them from the property of 13, a tribunal heard.

The complainants were allegedly "passed around" by the 8 men aft being targeted successful Rochdale, Greater Manchester.

Jurors heard they were "susceptible to the advances" of the pack owed their "troubled backgrounds".

From the property of 13, the defendants allegedly plied the girls with alcohol, cigarettes and drugs.

During a 5 twelvemonth campaign, they raped and sexually abused the teens successful "filthy flats and connected rancid mattresses", it is said.

Manchester Minshull Street Court was told the girls were raped besides successful car parks, alleyways and disused warehouses "whenever these men wanted it".

Prosecutor Rossano Scamardella KC said: "Their attraction astatine the hands of these predators was appalling.

"They were children passed astir for sex, abused, degraded and past discarded.

"That it was the 2 of them that were exploited successful this mode was not by chance."

Jurors were told the girls became "sex slaves" and were expected to reply calls from the men astatine immoderate clip time and night.

The defendants would allegedly person unprotected enactment with them - claiming it was "forbidden for Muslim men to usage protection".

Ms Scamardella continued: "These men preyed upon those vulnerabilities for their ain perverted intersexual gratification successful the astir humiliating and degrading mode imaginable.

"Over clip it is possibly casual to spot however they became beholden to men who, for the archetypal clip successful their lives, treated them decently and gave them the attraction they truthful desperately craved.

"But that was to rapidly change, and drastically so."

The tribunal heard some girls were known to the authorities and had "deeply troubled location lives".

As a result, they were "easy prey" for the pack to exploit, it was said.

The alleged intersexual offences, said to beryllium committed betwixt 2001 and 2006, see rape, indecent battle and indecency with a child.

The defendants are Mohammed Zahid, 64, Naheem Akram, 48, Mohammed Shazad, 43, Nisar Hussain, 43, Roheez Khan, 39, Arfan Khan, 40, Mushtaq Ahmed, 66, and Kasir Bashir, 50.

All 8 men person denied the charges and the proceedings continues.

It comes aft Labour refused to motorboat a statutory nationalist inquiry in grooming gangs contempt unit from the Tories, Reform and Elon Musk.

Sir Keir Starmer has insisted victims privation enactment now, alternatively than another drawn-out enquiry from the government.