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Two brothers are on trial for grooming a pair of teenage girls before pimping them out to workers at a curry house for £150 a time after hour’s sex sessions, a court heard
Mubarek Ali, 29, and younger brother Ahdel Ali, 24, were paid for carrying the girls, aged 15 and 16, to a restaurant. The two are charged with total of 26 offences including controlling child prostitution, people trafficking and sexual exploitation. Ahdel Ali, known as Eddie, is also accused of rape and sexual activity with a child.
The offences are alleged to have taken place between March 2008 and December 2009.
The Stafford Crown Court was told how the two siblings groomed two teenage girls for sex before persuading them to work as prostitutes for them four years ago.
One of the victims, now aged 19, told the court that she and her friend were driven to the Dhaka Tandoori restaurant in Wellington, Telford, Shropshire, after hours.
The victim was giving evidence from behind a screen told the court that the two of the men had taken her friend to the bedroom after the restaurant was closed and that there were three men in rooms upstairs.
She said when she went into one of the room she found her friend in compromising position with one of the men and when another man asked her for sex she refused and performed an act on him. She said she did it because she had to but she didn’t want to do it.
While leaving the restaurant they found the Ali brothers taking drugs and drinking in their car, the jury heard.
The girl told the court the two were just laughing. They thought it was funny because we had to do it and they got money for it.
Earlier the court heard the girl met the brothers when she was 15. She said that the brothers befriended her but when she turned 16 she was forced to have sex with men up to four times a week.
Mubarek Ali, from Wellington, Shropshire, denies four charges of controlling child prostitution, two of trafficking for sexual exploitation and a charge of causing child prostitution.
Ahdel Ali, 24, denies rape, 11 allegations of sexual activity with a child, three charges of controlling child prostitution, two of inciting child prostitution, an allegation of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and meeting a child after grooming.