7 men in UK convicted in latest trial over ‘grooming gangs’ scandal
They were convicted after a trial involving 50 offences, including rape and indecency with a child, which occurred between 2001 and 2006
Seven men who sexually exploited two vulnerable girls in northern England were convicted on Friday in the latest trial over a decades-old “grooming gangs” scandal.
Greater Manchester police said the men were convicted after a trial involving a total of 50 offences, including rape and indecency with a child, which occurred between 2001 and 2006.
Prosecutor Rossano Scamardella told jurors at the start of the trial at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court that the group’s two victims were “passed around for sex, abused, degraded and then discarded”.
Scarmardella also said the two girls were known to social services and that it was “no secret” they were having sex with older South Asian men such as the defendants – a situation with similarities to other grooming gangs.
The men had all denied the charges, but were unanimously convicted by the jury after three weeks of deliberations.
