Girls abused like 'bits of meat' after being given drugs and vodka

FIVE men from Rochdale have been jailed after plying teenage girls with vodka and drugs before sexually abusing them.

- AMY WALKER

Two girls were abused over a number of years in the mid-2000s.

The abuse came to light after the first victim, Girl A, began a course in which she stated that she had been a victim of child sexual exploitation.

She described being given drugs and alcohol by the men, being ‘passed on to their friends’, adding that she had to do what they said or she would be ‘beaten and raped’.

Police were alerted, and the woman said she had met a group of young men, including Mohammed Ghani when she was just 12 years old. She said she would meet Ghani, known as ‘Gunny’, along with his brother, Jahn Shahid Ghani and Ghani’s closest friend Insar Hussain at Jahn’s flat on Whitworth Road in Rochdale.

The flat was known as the ‘Butcher’s Flat’ as it was above an old butcher’s shop. Girl A described becoming ‘accustomed’ to giving the men what they wanted sexually, that condoms were rarely used, that they would ‘bombard’ her with calls and treat her like a ‘piece of meat’.

Both girls, aged 13 and 14 at the time, had difficult childhoods, with one reported missing to the police on 83 occasions over a three-year period, prosecutor Charlotte Rimmer said. “The men provided vodka, drugs and apparent affection,” she said. “They would call Girl A a ‘b***h’ or a ‘s**g’ if she did not cooperate.”

On one occasion at the flat with Mohammed Ghani and Insar Hussain, Hussain challenged her to drink as much vodka as she could when she was just 14. She drank so much she was violently sick before blacking out and falling down the stairs, Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court heard.