A teenage girl was ‘gifted cannabis’ and treated ‘like a prostitute’ by a gang of Asian men in a seaside town, a court heard today.
In police video interviews played to a jury, the 15-year-old told how she felt ‘gross’ while performing a sex act on the alleged child traffickers.
She is one of three teenage girls who were allegedly supplied with drugs and exploited by four men in the North Wales town of Rhyl.
The youngster met Mustafa Iqbal, 43, a scooter-riding takeaway driver and alleged drug dealer, on a street in the resort in 2022 while she was ‘high’ on cannabis, Caernarfon Crown Court heard.
She and a friend were invited to his home to smoke, she said. But while there, three men allegedly groped her.
Iqbal is accused of raping the 15-year-old, as is Mohamed Usman Arshad, 36, who ran a café.
The girl told police she also had sex with another defendant, Ziaullah Badshah, 25, at his flat having gone there during Ramadan to smoke cannabis.
‘He was horrible,’ she said. ‘He treated me like a prostitute.’
Three teenage girls who were allegedly supplied with drugs and repeatedly raped by four men in the North Wales town of Rhyl (file picture)
She also described being driven to London by ‘Punjabi’ man Jaswinder Singh, 65, to get a fake passport to go clubbing in the capital.
The teen alleged he gave her ‘weed’.
While in London police were called because a friend of the girl was concerned for her, the jury heard.
But the alleged victim said she tried to protect the men and no prosecution followed at that stage.
Singh, who lived on disability benefits, told the alleged victim to pretend to his sister that she was his 22-year-old carer so she would not suspect he was part of an ‘Asian grooming gang,’ the jury has heard.
Opening the case involving three girls aged 15, 14 and 16, prosecutor Owen Edwards KC said the alleged victims were treated as ‘sexual commodities’.
Iqbal, Badshah, Arshad and Singh, all of Rhyl, deny more than 20 counts of conspiracy to traffic children for sexual exploitation.
Additionally Iqbal and Sarah Gray, 53, of Gronant, are accused of conspiracy to supply cocaine and cannabis.
Gray is charged with allowing her house to be used by Iqbal for sexual exploitation and perverting justice by washing bedding following a rape, involving handcuffs, of the girl of 16.
The trial continues.
