A MARRIED dad-of-three accused of raping and selling an underage girl for sex yesterday told the Old Bailey: “I don’t even know this girl.”

Kamar Jamil was the first defendant to give evidence in the trial of nine men accused of targeting, grooming and sexually exploiting girls in Oxford.

Wearing a black shirt and tie, the 27-year-old, pictured above, swore on the Qu'ran before beginning his evidence.

He denies raping the alleged victim known as Girl 1 when she was aged between 13 and 15. He also denies trafficking and selling her for sex and raping Girl 2 in 2006 when she was 14.

Yesterday he said: “I haven’t done nothing wrong at all. This is not me.

“I am not sure where these girls have got this from.”

Girl 1, now 21, claims Tesco security guard Jamil was part of a gang who drove her to Shotover Woods and threatened to slit her throat before making her perform a sex act on them.

But Jamil said: “I would never do something like that. That is evil.”

And when asked about the abuse of the teen, he said: “I have never even done anything like this or even hurt anyone.”

The court heard Jamil met his future wife Natalie and they had their first child together while the abuse is said to have taken place.

He was also helping his cousin drop disabled children off at school in a minibus.

Jamil was born to Pakistani parents in Oxford, the jury heard. He is one of six brothers and sisters who were raised in Tawney Street, East Oxford – a few doors down from defendants Akhtar and Anjum Dogar.

Prosecutor Noel Lucas said the Dogar brothers would hang around the Cowley Road area “chatting up” young girls and grooming them for sex.

Jamil said: “I have never seen anything like this going on.”

And he denied it when Mr Lucas said: “You were part of that group because you wanted to have sex with underage girls.”

Mr Lucas said Jamil had targeted the girls as they were “easy prey” and some of his relationships at the time were not sexual. Jamil denied this too.

Jamil, who has a gold tooth, was identified by Girls 1, 2 and 4 in police procedures.

Mr Lucas said to him: “You were the one who was mixing with these underage girls for the purposes of sex.”

Jamil said: “That’s not true.”

Jamil told the jury he went to East Oxford Primary School and later Cheney Upper School.

He worked for Royal Mail and Unipart after leaving college with an ICT qualification.

He said he got the nickname “K-Dog” – which Girl 1 and 2 named him as – while at college.

He was working as a car salesman at Hartwell Ford in Kidlington when he met Natalie in early 2006, the court heard.

And he took a part-time job at Domino’s Pizza when she fell pregnant later that year. He met defendant Assad Hussain working there, the jury heard.

Asked if he had made money prostituting Girl 1, he said: “I’d been working, what would I want a job like that for?”

Before Jamil took the stand his barrister Sally O’Neill told the jury her client had a “limited intellectual ability”.

l On Monday Judge Peter Rook directed the jury to give not guilty verdicts for 12 charges – not 13 as reported yesterday.

The jury was discharged from returning a verdict on four counts, and five new counts were added.

The defendants deny all 66 charges now against them.

The trial continues.