‘Six men convicted of raping two vulnerable schoolgirls have been sentenced to a combined 55 and a half years in prison.
Usman Ali, Banaras Hussain, Abdul Majid, Gul Riaz and two other defendants were sentenced today after a four-week trial at Leeds Crown Court.
A seventh man will be sentenced tomorrow.
The sickening abuse took place between 1995 and 2011 in Huddersfield and the girls were aged just 13 and 14 when they fell victim to the vile gang.
The court heard that the schoolgirls were ‘made to feel special’ by the ‘vile and wicked’ predators who then treated them as ‘objects to be used and abused at will’.
By the time she was 15, the first victim had been raped by 300 men.
Leeds Crown Court heard today how both girls now suffer with PTSD, while one of the victims has also had a lifelong struggle with depression and bulimia.’
