Current trials of men accused of grooming gang rape.
Two local newspapers are being very thorough here.
The Rhyl Journal collates their almost daily reports here
A GIRL allegedly raped by a man from Rhyl has told a court he “was feeding me drugs so he could have sex with me”.
Mustafa Iqbal, 43, of Trellewelyn Road, also messaged the girl, Child A, that he loved her and about having “exciting sex” with her, and sent her flowers and chocolates on Valentine’s Day.
Iqbal is one of five on trial at Caernarfon Crown Court, concerning an alleged child trafficking and sexual exploitation conspiracy involving three female teenage complainants.
On Wednesday (May 13), Child A continued giving evidence from the witness box, telling Iqbal’s barrister, Alexandra Felix KC, that she disagreed with her suggestion that she was “in a caring relationship with him”.
Child A regularly had sex with Iqbal in exchange for drugs including crack cocaine and cannabis for a period of about five months between 2023 and 2024.
It is alleged that Iqbal raped her using handcuffs at the Gronant home of his co-defendant, Sarah Gray, in February 2024.
During cross-examination, Child A told Ms Felix: “He was feeding me drugs so he could have sex with me.
Child A’s evidence has now concluded; the trial, expected to last until June, resumes on Thursday.
And over in Yorkshire the Barnsley Chronicle reported from the Crown Court this morning.
SEVEN Barnsley girls were lured in by two men who offered e-cigarettes, money, alcohol and drugs before they were sexually abused, a jury was told this week.
Bawan Harwe, 28, and 21-year-old Sharam Muhamadi – who lived in Doncaster – are currently on trial at Sheffield Crown Court charged with more than a dozen counts of sexual abuse.
At the court on Wednesday, a police interview with one of the victims – aged 14 – was shown to the jury after she came forward in November 2024.
She described how she first became in contact with Karo over the school summer holidays when he was selling e-cigarettes on social media platform Snapchat
Having met multiple times over a period of a few weeks, the alleged victim told the police interviewer that Karo asked her to give him oral sex, which she refused and told him ‘we are just friends’.
Girls allegedly went to their house in Doncaster where they drank alcohol and the 14-year-old recalled returning to the living room after going to the bathroom and believing that something had been put in her drink.
The victim then entered Harwe’s bedroom and that is when the rape allegedly took place.
She told the police interviewer that he removed her underwear before putting his ‘willy’ inside her and then putting his hand over her mouth because she was asking him to stop.
Harwe denies six counts of rape and ten other charges, including false imprisonment, while Muhamadi denies two counts of rape and three counts of facilitating travel for exploitation.
The trial – which is expected to last for four weeks – will resume today.
A third case continues to show daily in the public list at the Crown Court marked “no information to display”.