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A British mum was drugged and gangraped by a five Italian men, a court has heard.

The 50-year-old victim was allegedly filmed during the attack with the video shared on a WhatsApp group called 'Dirty Habits'.

She had been on holiday in Sorrento, Naples when she was allegedly attacked.

Italian prosecutor Antonio Barba has urged the men to be jailed for nine years for the sex attack, reports The Sun.

He is reported to have said: "There is evidence this group sex attack was carried out with the use of drugs."

He added the men videoed the attack and then shared it on a vile WhatsApp chat called "Dirty Habits".

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DNA from two of the accused was found the victim's fingernails after the attack in October 2016.

Prosecutors say the victim was taken to a room close to the swimming pool where she was raped several times by the men before stumbling back to her room at the Hotel Alimuri.

The woman reported the attack to cops when she returned to the UK, and DNA samples and drug tests were sent to Italian investigators.

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They revealed a high level of the sedative benzodiazepines but lawyers for the five defendants claim the victim was on tranquillisers following the death of her husband.

All five men are either employees or ex employees at a hotel in Sorrento, a seaside resort popular with Brits.

Antonio Miniero, Gennaro Davide Gargiulo, Raffaele Regio, Francesco Ciro D’Antonio, Fabio De Virgilio, Catello Graziuso, Vincenzo and Francesco Guida all deny rape and claim the drug test results are flawed.

The trial continues.