JURORS were yesterday reminded of the evidence of a young woman who told the Old Bailey she had been violently sexually abused from the age of 11.
Summing up the Oxford child sex exploitation trial for a fourth day, Judge Peter Rook recapped what the alleged victim, known as Girl 4, told the court.
The jury could retire to consider it verdicts later today if the judge finishes summing up.
Girl 4, now a young woman, told the court in February brothers Mohammed and Bassam Karrar raped her and arranged for her to be gang-raped between the ages of 11 to 15. They are two of nine men who deny involvement in a child sex ring in the city.
Judge Rook told the jury: “(Girl 4) told you she could remember most things that happened to her between the ages of 11 and 16.
“There were things she didn’t want to remember.”
The judge summarised her story of how Mohammed Karrar took her for an illegal abortion when he got her pregnant. The jury also heard how he sexually assaulted her with a baseball bat.
The complainant said the brothers would make her have sex with their “guests” at parties. She said she saw money changing hands.
And she had said Mohammed Karrar had often injected her with heroin, adding: “It was better than being there. Better than feeling.”
Mohammed Karrar took to the witness stand to deny the charges, claiming he had met Girl 4 only twice. His brother did not give evidence, but also denies the charges and said he only met her once.
But Judge Rook told the jury: “You cannot and must not jump to the conclusion that his silence proves the case against him.”
The judge now has to summarise the evidence relating to Girl 5 and Girl 6 before the jury retires.
All nine defendants – including Mohammed Karrar, 38, of Kames Close, Cowley, and Bassam Karrar, 33, of Hundred Acres Close, Cowley – deny a total of 66 charges.
The case continues.
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