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.
The prosecutor said the girl was aged 15 when she was taken from a snooker centre to a flat, had her drink spiked, was taken in a car to a secluded location in the dark and was raped.
She said: “Talish Ahmed was a passenger. She remembers him being in the back with her. He abused with her when she was in no fit state to consent; a state that they had deliberately put her in so that she could be raped.
“Once they were finished with her, she was dumped, thrown out of the taxi at the end of her street with her knickers and trousers round by her ankles.
“They couldn’t even be bothered to help her get dressed again.”
Mrs Batty described the incident as the “final straw” for the complainant, adding: “The offence he committed against her marked the end of her abuse.”
The incident was reported to police at the time so the prosecution has been able to say it happened on November 25, 1997.
The prosecutor said the complainant feels “let down” by the police, explaining: “She gave a statement to the police and was medically examined. Despite that, no action was ever taken.
“It’s not entirely clear why but what we do know is that things have come a long way since the late 1990s in terms of our understanding of sexual offending.”
Jurors were told that the complainant moved on with her life and intended to take the abuse to her grave until she saw a photo of one of her other abusers in a newspaper alongside an article about him being prosecuted for child sexual exploitation offences.
Ahmed, 41, of Rashcliffe Hill Road, Rashcliffe, Huddersfield, HD1 3, was convicted of one count of rape.
He was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
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