Banaras Hussain, Mohammed Akram and Talish Ahmed were convicted of abusing the girl during the mid 1990s. The Asian men, all with Huddersfield Heritage, were jailed for up to 18 years after a trial at Leeds Crown Court.
They were convicted as part of West Yorkshire Police’s long-running Operation Tendersea inquiry. The court heard Hussain and Akram, both 44, and Ahmed, 41, groomed and abused the girl between the ages of 13 and 15. Hussain was aged 19 and married at the time he groomed the 13-year-old girl.
Akram, also known as Buckree, was also aged 19 and in a relationship at the time he is accused of first abusing the complainant.
Jurors were told that he had been present on many occasions both on the playground and in flats or houses where the girl was taken, including when she lost her virginity.
He introduced her to amphetamine and thought he could grope her sexually when he wanted.
The prosecutor said Akram first raped the girl on an airbed in a flat when she was aged 15, high and drunk.
She said the defendant’s girlfriend was asleep next to them on the airbed when it happened.
“On a second occasion, when she was still 15, she was at her father’s house when he climbed up the drainpipe and into her bedroom.
“Again, she was intoxicated and again he abused her before leaving in the early hours of the morning so that her father didn’t become aware that he was in the house.”
Mohammed Akram, 44, of Moorbottom Road, Thornton Lodge*, denied two counts of rape and one count of indecent assault but was found guilty by the jury of all three.
He was sentenced to 13 years in prison.
*Moorbottom Road & Thornton Lodge Road, Thornton Lodge, Netherton, Huddersfield, HD1 3
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