Teen "approached by men thinking she was a prostitute", Old Bailey hears (From The Oxford Times)

Teen "approached by men thinking she was a prostitute", Old Bailey hears

2:00pm Friday 8th March 2013 in News By Ben Wilkinson, Crime Reporter. Call me on (01865) 425427

A GIRL thought men were "planning to do something" at a flat where she would be pressured to drink and take drugs, the Old Bailey heard this morning.

The girl also told the Oxford sex exploitation trial men would approach her in Cowley Road thinking she was a prostitute.

Now 17, the unnamed witness known as Girl 6 is the last complainant to give evidence.

She claims she had sex with Zeeshan Ahmed when she was 15 between June 2010 and June 2011.

Ahmed denies sexual activity with a child and conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with a child.

The jury saw a video of a police interview with the alleged victim from June last year.

The girl told DC Alexandra Gill she and Girl 5 - who gave evidence this week - met Zeeshan Ahmed, now 27, in Florence Park.

She said: "He was a nice guy. But after a couple of months of getting to know him he started to show his proper side." She said he would drink heavily, take a lot of cocaine, and fight.

The 15-year-old told the officer she felt safe in the park as there were people around, but they started to see Ahmed in his flat off Cowley Road.

The teen said Ahmed would pressure her to drink alcohol and take drugs.

She said: "Zeeshan used to invite all his mates from different cities round. His cousins, his brothers, and we used to sit and drink."

But she said she began to feel uncomfortable, adding: "I started to see different faces I didn't know. Honestly I think they were planning to do something."

She said men would ask her to take her trousers off and dance.

The girl said she had sex with Zeeshan about three months after they met.

She said: "I had a bit too much to drink, he had a bit too much to drink, and it just happened.

"He didn't force himself on to me."

But when asked if she would have had sex with the man if she was not drunk, she said: "No. he's ugly." Yet she told the officer: "I do like him and don't want to get him in to trouble."

The girl told DC Gill men on Cowley Road would think she was a prostitute because she used to hang around there.

She said: "They would say are you working tonight? Like I was a prostitute. Even the man in the chip shop said it."

She added: "Taxis used to beep at me as well."

The teenager also said Girl 5, now 16, would lie about her age and had started having sex aged 11.

She told the court Girl 5 was raped by a "dirty pervert" called "Biggie".

She said: "I even told her don't lie about your age because one day someone is going to get you and do something bad."

She also said: "She would do anything with anyone. She would be the one jumping on them."

And she later said: "They are now getting arrested and in trouble for something she has done."

All nine defendants deny all 51 counts against them.

The trial continues.

The accused all deny the charges. They are:
- Kamar Jamil, 27, of Aldrich Road, Summertown, Oxford, denies four rapes, three charges of conspiracy to rape, two of arranging or facilitating child prostitution, and one of trafficking for sexual exploitation.
- Akhtar Dogar, 32, of Tawney Street, East Oxford, denies six rapes, three charges of conspiracy to rape, three of arranging or facilitating child prostitution, and trafficking for sexual exploitation.
- Anjum Dogar, 31, of Tawney Street, East Oxford, denies four rapes, three charges of conspiracy to rape, three of arranging or facilitating child prostitution, and trafficking for sexual exploitation.
- Assad Hussain, 32, of Ashhurst Way, Rose Hill, Oxford, denies two charges of conspiracy to rape and three of sexual activity with a child.
- Mohammed Karrar, 38, of Kames Close, Cowley, Oxford, denies seven rapes, four charges of conspiracy to rape, an alternative charge of conspiracy to commit sexual activity with a child, two of trafficking for sexual exploitation, two of arranging or facilitating child prostitution, assault, conspiracy to assault, using an instrument to procure a miscarriage, and supplying a Class A drug to another.
- Bassam Karrar, 33, of Hundred Acres Close, Cowley, Oxford, denies three rapes, three charges of conspiracy to rape, two charges of arranging or facilitating child prostitution, trafficking for sexual exploitation, and conspiracy to assault.
- Mohammed Hussain, 24, of Horspath Road, Cowley, Oxford, denies rape, conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with a child, and two charges of sexual activity with a child.
- Zeeshan Ahmed, 27, of Palmer Road, Wood Farm, Oxford, denies two charges of conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with a child and two charges of sexual activity with a child.
- Bilal Ahmed, 26, of Suffolk Road, Maidenhead, denies conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with a child and sexual activity with a child.