PIZZAS AND BOOZE FOR SEX

ACCUSED....Six of the accused (top left to bottom right) Abdul Rauf, Liaquat Shah, Abdul Qayyum, Mohammed Sajid, Kabeer Hassan and Mohammed Amin.

GIRLS as young as 13 got pizzas and booze for having sex with a gang of men, whose nicknames included The Ugly One, Master and Tiger, a jury heard yesterday. Victims were chatted up and groomed by the men who then passed them around so fellow Asians could satisfy their lust, the court was told.

Prosecutor Rachel Smith said as 11 men including a 59-year-old went on trial for child-sex crimes how schoolgirls would be plied with drink until they were in a stupor.

Ms Smith said of one 14-year-old: "She was unable to describe all of the men but said she would regularly find herself drunk to near-unconsciousness, waking up with men having sex with her."

The youngster told cops how she was so "hammered" on one occasion that two men even had sex with her while she was being sick over the side of a bed. The girl said: "They were just having it in turns sort of thing. There was nothing I could do, I was throwing up. I felt like I couldn't move." The prosecutor said: "Afterwards they left and she cried herself to sleep."

On another occasion a man watching her being raped begged: "I want a turn, I want a turn."

The 11 men in the dock plead not guilty to plotting to have sex with underage girls in and around Rochdale, Gtr Manchester.

Several are charged with rape, which they also deny. Four of the accused are taxi drivers and two are fast food workers.

The girls often chatted up at kebab shops were targeted because they were seen as having little parental supervision, Liverpool Crown Court heard.

They saw the men who seduced them as boyfriends. But before long a 'pattern of abuse emerged'.

Youngsters started out being rewarded for sex with treats such as food and free cab rides, it was claimed. Later they would be driven to various addresses where they were passed around to other men who would pay for sex in cash. Some of those in the dock are accused of sex trafficking, which they deny.

The charges against the 11 involve five girls, all aged between 13 and 15 at the time. The attacks are alleged to have happened between 2008 and 2010.

The jury heard that youngsters reluctant to have sex were held down and raped. Some deliberately drank themselves into oblivion to blot out what was happening.

One was said to have told police how after she was befriended a "massive circle" of Pakistani men ended up with her phone number.

Prosecutor Ms Smith described all the victims as "easy to identify, target and exploit for the sexual gratification of these men".

That was partly because they spent a lot of time off school.

An older girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons moved on from having sex with the gang to finding fresh prey, it was claimed. Ms Smith said the former victim was paid for 'procuring' others. One 15-year-old was said to have told police she was having sex with "several men in a day, several times a week".

The girl said she would get drunk so "it wouldn't feel as bad" when the men raped her. The jury was told the first to abuse her was the 59-year-old. He cannot be named for legal reasons.

After repeatedly raping her he forced her to have sex with fellow defendant Kabeer Hassan, 25, it was alleged. The court heard she told cops but no charges were brought and the abuse went on.

Two victims one of them just 13 were made pregnant by members of the gang, it was claimed.

Those on trial with the 59-year-old and Hassan are: Abdul Aziz, 43, Abdul Rauf, 43, Mohammed Sajid, 35, Adil Khan, 42, Abdul Qayyum, 43, Mohammed Amin, 44, Qamar Shahzad, 29, Liaquat Shah, 41, and Hamid Safi, 22. (thesun.co.uk)

The case continues.