GIRL, 13, RAPED BENEATH FLAG

ONE victim – a vulnerable 13-year-old in care – was drugged before being gang-raped under a Kurdish flag.

She was picked up from her children’s home in a Mercedes and driven to flats in west Newcastle to be abused by anyone who wanted to do so.

The girl was a frequent runaway and in a ‘wrecked’ state, the court heard.

On one occasion she was taken to a party at a flat where there was a group of seven men in a room with a Kurdish flag on the wall.

She tried to resist the advances of one man but was given the drug mephedrone before the gang took turns raping her. She was later returned to the children’s home with £200 and more drugs.

Another of the girls was 16 when she met Abdul Sabe as she walked home drunk with a friend through a park in west Newcastle.

Sabe took her number and from this moment she was in the gang’s clutches.

She started taking mephedrone, which she was told to call ‘God’, and was soon having sex in return for drugs in hotels and private flats.

This went on for over a year. She moved in with Habibur Rahim who later raped her, an experience that left her with ‘severe depression’.