Islam versus Europe

Restaurant workers queued to have sex with a teenage girl whose abusers viewed her as ‘a commodity’, a court is told.

Restaurant workers queued to have sex with a teenage girl whose abusers viewed her as “a commodity” to be sold for money as and when they pleased, a court was told yesterday.

She was one of four girls aged from 13 to 17 who are said to have been targeted by two brothers who, the prosecution claim, “variously sexually abused, raped, trafficked, prostituted or tried to prostitute” them between 2008 and 2010.

Ahdel Ali and Mubarek Ali deny 26 child-sex offences linked to the alleged exploitation in Telford, Shropshire, of young teenagers whose troubled backgrounds left them “unable to distinguish between abuse and affection”.

The prosecution claims that lured by the “forbidden fruits” of alcohol, cigarettes and drugs, some of the girls grew “so dependent upon the defendants that it almost became an addiction”.

A jury at Stafford Crown Court was told that one girl was regularly sold for sex to three, four or even five men at a time in various restaurants and above a fish-and-chip shop. She was allegedly rewarded with cannabis or top-ups for her mobile phone.
The court was told that the girl and a young friend, both known to social services, were taken to one restaurant where three men were waiting to have sex with them.

Deborah Gould, for the prosecution, claimed that the friend had said that after Mubarek Ali, 29, spoke to the men in Punjabi, the girls were asked to use stairs at the rear of the premises before climbing through a window. The secrecy was necessary “because they were white girls”.

On another occasion the two girls were allegedly driven to a park in Stoke-on-Trent to meet a man from Bradford called Ajiman and were told to perform sex acts on him.

Miss Gould told the court that the brothers set out to isolate children from members of their own family before asking them to “sort out” their friends as “a favour”.

In 2008 the parents of one 15-year-old girl grew so concerned that they gave police a list of the phone numbers of men who regularly spoke with or sent text messages to their daughter. Her alleged exploitation is said to have continued unabated.

Miss Gould said that the girl had such low self-esteem that being sold for sex, for between £20 and £50 per man, made her feel “important, loved, attractive and valued”. The prosecution claimed that she agreed to have sex in a car with a man in his sixties and was still being told to have sex when she was 14 weeks’ pregnant.

Ahdel Ali, 24, a fast-food delivery driver, is said to have built “a portfolio of girls” to exploit for financial gain. Miss Gould said that he also targeted under-age teenagers for his own sexual gratification. With “casual brutality”, he allegedly raped a 13-year-old girl who thought she was in love with him.

His alleged victim later claimed that she had “wanted to feel that someone cared for her and thought, because he was showing her affection, it was real”.

The court was told that Ahdel Ali once took two girls, aged 12 and 15, for a drive in his car. He allegedly told them they looked “like dirty bitches” and asked for sex.

The elder girl said he told her that he would pay her if she was willing to “have sex with Asian men” but she told him she did not want to be a prostitute.

The trial continues.