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<\/div>London – Four members of a grooming gang from Telford who passed around an under-age girl \u2018like a piece of meat\u2019 for sex were jailed for a combined 22 years on Thursday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The victim, now an adult, told how she was forced to perform sex acts in a churchyard and was raped above a pizza shop on a filthy mattress from the age of 13.<\/p>\n
When she tried to resist, she was violently abused. The ringleader Mohammed Ali Sultan, 33, has already been jailed twice before for two rapes and other offences against teenage girls.<\/p>\n
Sentencing the group, Judge Melbourne Inmam QC said they had groomed and abused a \u2018helpless\u2019 victim until she was \u2018no longer in effective control of her own life\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The Recorder of Birmingham told Sultan, who was only 15 or 16 at the time of the offences, he had \u2018exercised significant control\u2019 over the \u2018extremely frightened\u2019 girl and remained a \u2018very dangerous man\u2019.<\/p>\n
The judge said the gang had passed the \u2018vulnerable\u2019 victim around as a \u2018sex object\u2019.<\/p>\n
The four men went on trial this month accused of historic offences from 2000 to 2003 in the Shropshire town.<\/p>\n
The victim claimed many others, as yet unidentified, also assaulted her with the abuse continuing until her mid-teens.<\/p>\n
Prosecutor Michelle Heeley QC had said: \u2018This case involves the sexual exploitation of a young girl, a girl passed around like a piece of meat for sexual gratification.\u2019<\/p>\n
Jurors at Birmingham Crown Court had seen video interviews in which the victim told of two years of \u2018hell\u2019 and of repeatedly considering taking her own life.<\/p>\n
Years later, she recognised photos of Ali Sultan and another abuser from press reports on an earlier Telford sex ring case.<\/p>\n
She picked out the four defendants at photo-based identity parades up to 16 years after her ordeal.<\/p>\n
Sultan, convicted of rape and three counts of indecent assault, was jailed for eight years.<\/p>\n
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Mohammad Rizwan, 37, was convicted of two counts of indecent assault and given five-and-a-half years.<\/p>\n
Shafiq Younas, 35, was found guilty of indecently assaulting the girl in a churchyard and jailed for four-and-a-half years.<\/p>\n
Amjad Hussain, 38, was given the same sentence for one count of indecent assault.<\/p>\n
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Telford is feared to have been the epicentre of one of the worst and longest-running child grooming scandals in Britain.<\/p>\n
Daily Mail
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