Child-sex case: I heard girl sob

A WITNESS to an alleged rape broke down in tears as she told a jury about the “horrible” and “disgusting” moment she realised a teenage girl was being forced to have sex for money.

Kabeer Hassan (24), of Lacrosse Avenue, Oldham, and 10 men from Rochdale all deny conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with children under the age of 16.

The jury at Liverpool Crown Court heard from a girl who was 15 when she went for a drink with friends at the flat of one of the defendants in Jephys Street, Rochdale. The girl, now aged 20, gave evidence behind a curtain in order to protect her identity.

She said she went to the flat with friends when two teenagers and two Asian men came in. One of the men was said to be taxi driver Mohammed Amin, known to the girls by the nickname “Car Zero”. The witness described the older teenage girl as being “like a Honeymonster”.

She said it was “all normal” until Honeymonster started “going on about how they had sex with Asian guys for money.”

The witness then told the jury that the girl said she was “not doing it herself. She was getting other people to do it for her.”

All the while, the other 15 year old girl who came in with the group was quiet and drinking vodka before the older girl told her to go to the bedroom with a “skinny Pakistani man” who had come in with them. “You could tell she didn’t want to go,” she told the jury.

She said the girl eventually went after about 15 minutes but that she looked at them as though she wanted someone to say something. Then, the witness described how after about another 15 minutes she heard crying in the bedroom. She went in and saw the girl sitting on the bed with no underwear on.

“She was vulnerable and she was a young girl,” the witness said. “She obviously had problems. Someone who can do that to someone — it’s disgusting.”

The girl then broke down in tears.

The defendants all deny the charge.

Simeon Evans, defending Mohammed Amin (44), of Falinge Road, Rochdale, accused the witness of “adding details” to her account of what happened and said his client was not even at the party in Rochdale she was describing. She replied that he “was definitely there.”



Proceeding.