Telford grooming gang jailed for 22 years for abusing 'helpless' girl

Four men have been jailed for more than 22 years for sexually abusing a vulnerable young girl who was "passed around like a piece of meat".

The victim told how she was forced to perform sex acts in a churchyard, raped above a shop on a filthy mattress, and violently abused when she tried to refuse their advances.

In all, five men went on trial at Birmingham Crown Court, leading to convictions for four of the defendants while another was cleared.

Sentencing the men on Thursday, Judge Melbourne Inman QC said the men had abused a "helpless" victim, who had been groomed until she was "no longer in effective control of her own life".

Addressing the ring-leader Mohammed Ali Sultan, Judge Melbourne Inman QC, the Recorder of Birmingham, said: "The victim was clearly extremely frightened of you, and you exercised significant control over her."

Turning to the three other men, he said: "There were a group of you using this girl, you all tended to meet in the same type of areas; a churchyard, or near a pizza place."

The offences took place in the Telford area sometime between 2001 and 2002, and started when the girl, now an adult, was just 13.


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