Bullfinch: Young woman denies "making up" allegations at Old Bailey (From Oxford Mail)

Bullfinch: Young woman denies "making up" allegations at Old Bailey

1:55pm Monday 11th February 2013 in News By Ben Wilkinson, Crime Reporter. Call me on (01865) 425427

A YOUNG woman cried on the witness stand as she denied making up allegations she was groomed, raped, and trafficked for sex.

The unnamed witness, known as Girl 3, was questioned this morning by defence barristers at the Old Bailey trial of nine men accused of raping and selling girls for sex in Oxford.

She claims she was abused by brothers Akhtar and Anjum Dogar, brothers Mohammed and Bassam Karrar, and Assad Hussain between the ages of 12 and 15.

She sobbed as she told the jury how Bassam Karrar gripped her throat, hit and bit her in a "brutal" rape at the Nanford Guest House in November 2006.

Mark Milliken-Smith, defending Bassam Karrar, suggested the witness's memory may not be as accurate due to the amount of drink and drugs she took.

But she said: "I can recount every second of that allegation."

And Mr Milliken-Smith said the witness had dropped the charges because it was a "wholly false allegation of rape".

She broke down and said: "That's not true."

The young woman, now 20, says she was groomed by Mohammed Karrar before he began sending her to London to have sex with strangers.

But Tracy Ayling, defending Mohammed Karrar, suggested the woman had only met her client a few times and he had not known how old she was.

And she said: "If you were having sex with anybody it had nothing to do with Mohammed but to do with funding your drug habit."

But the witness said Karrar had got her into drugs and given her drugs for having sex, adding: "He set the situation up."

The jury heard the girl had been reported missing to police 58 times.

And when asked by Miss Ayling about inconsistencies in police statements, she said:"It's kind of hard to tell them six years of your life without missing things out."

The court also heard the witness had told police she was raped by two Albanian men in June 2005 and by a taxi driver in March 2007.

And when asked why she had not told police about the Karrars, she said: "I didn't want to."

She later said: "I don't like to talk about it. I didn't want to talk about it."

Girl 3 was adopted to Oxford aged 11 and was taken into care as a teenager, the jury has heard.

The witness agreed with Miss Ayling that her and her mother had had a "stormy relationship" with social services.

She said: "I hated social services."

The court also heard the woman dated drug dealers as an underage girl.

The nine men in the dock deny all 79 charges.

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, 30, 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.