The nephew of serial killer Rose West has been found guilty of kidnapping and raping a 12-year-old girl after abducting her from a city centre street.

Steven Letts, 39, plied his victim with cocaine, cannabis and vodka, a court heard. He abducted and sexually assaulted the child after they met in the street and she asked him for a cigarette.

The girl, who lives in care, was with her support worker but went off with Letts after he offered her a joint during the encounter in Gloucester city centre on March 6 this year. The support worker said she warned Letts of the girl's age.

Letts, of Gloucester, denied abducting the girl on March 6 and raping her in his flat between March 6 and 8. He was found guilty of both counts at Gloucester Crown Court on Monday.

The trial heard Letts and the girl went back to his flat to drink apple vodka and smoke cannabis.

He let the girl smoke cocaine through a pipe "to see how her body copes with it" because it was her first time trying the class A drug.

Letts' friend was also present, the court heard, but he was said to have left the flat when the girl declared that she was underage.