Jury returned unanimous guilty verdicts for 50 offences committed by the men between 2001 and 2006
Seven men who groomed two vulnerable teenage girls in Rochdale and treated them as “sex slaves” have been found guilty of multiple sex offences.
A long-running trial in Manchester heard that the men subjected the girls to years of misery and expected them to have sex with them “whenever and wherever they wanted”.
Both girls had “deeply troubled home lives” and were given drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, places to stay and people to be with, a jury heard. The crimes took place in filthy flats, on rancid mattresses, in cars, car parks, alleyways, disused warehouses and on moors, the court was told.
The prosecutor Rossano Scamardella KC told a jury at Manchester Minshull Street crown court that the crimes happened “under the noses of social workers and others who should have done far more to protect them”.
