Nine men accused of being involved in a child sex ring in Oxford are set to appear at London’s Old Bailey today.

The group, arrested as part of Operation Bullfinch which saw raids across the city in March, are expected to enter pleas. All the men are in custody. They are Kamar Jamil, 27, of Aldrich Road, Summertown; Mohammed Karrar, 38, of Cowley Road, East Oxford; Bassan Karrar, 33, of no fixed address; Akhtar Dogar, 31, of Tawney Street, East Oxford; Zeshan Ahmed, 27, of Palmer Road, Wood Farm; Bilal Ahmed, 25, of Maidenhead; Mohammed Hussain, 24, of Horspath Road, Cowley; Assad Hussain, 31, of Ashurst Way, Rose Hill, and Anjun Dogar, 30, of Tawney Street, East Oxford.