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A survivor of the Huddersfield grooming gang believes paedophiles are still targeting teenage girls in the town.

Known as Girl L, she spoke to ExaminerLive along with her mum, revealing how they believe having these 20 men off our streets does not mean girls in our town are safe.

The brave woman, who is now in her late 20s, gave evidence in not one but two trials, helping West Yorkshire Police and the Crown Prosecution Service successfully convict two members of the gang.

That included one conviction against Irfan Ahmed, also known as Finny, and three convictions against her rapist Nasarat Hussain, also known as Nurse.

When asked if she still thought this sort of abuse is still going on in Huddersfield, Girl L said: "I think it's still going on, definitely, yeah.

"I just don't think it'll ever stop."

Referring to Asian men and white, teenage girls, her mum agreed: "I still see young girls now in the areas where she was when it was happening with older men.

"It was only on Saturday I was driving up Fartown when I saw a young girl who looked about 14/15 with a guy who must have been about 50. . .

"I've seen stuff like that a couple of times."

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Girl L's story

When Girl L was around 14 years old, ringleader Amere Singh Dhaliwal 's main victim Girl A introduced her to the men.

Both girls were vulnerable from being bullied at school and Girl L saw it as a chance to make 'friends'.

She can barely remember their first encounters now, but they're still embedded in her mum's memory.

Recalling an incident involving Mohammed Imran Ibrar, also known as Bully, her mum said she realised the girls were hanging around with older men when Greater Manchester Police called to their house to ask about her daughter's friends who had been reported missing.

Girl L was honest and said the men had given her alcohol and a cigarette for the first time and her mum tried to ground her.

But Girl L continued going out and started going missing and coming home drugged.

She said in evidence: "They used take us to houses, buy us drinks and then make us, like, do things in exchange for cigarettes."

Leeds Crown Court heard that Finny and another man picked her up and drove her to a house where another girl tried to beat her up and Mohammed Irfraz, also known as Faj, locked her in.

There was no sexual abuse on that occasion.

Faj was tried for false imprisonment, along with other charges, but the judge directed the jury to return a not guilty verdict on that count.

On another occasion, Finny and another man took Girl L, who had been drinking, and another one of her friends to a car park where they were passed on to men in another car.

They were told: "Just get in for a few minutes and then we will come and get you."

Girl L was given more alcohol by the men and then raped, she thought without contraception.

Her mum recalled one night when she came home with her neck 'completely black with love bites', 'scratches up her arms and legs' and only one shoe on.

Her dad took her to Spain for a few weeks, thinking she would be 'off the radar' but when she came back her mum said she was even more 'entrenched' than she was before.

Nurse began raping her.

On what may have been the first time they met in a 60-year-old man's bedsit on North Street, Nurse got under the bed covers and started taking her clothes off while others were present in the room.

The court heard he took her lower clothing off, climbed on top of her and raped her vaginally despite her objections that others were in the room.

About a year later, Nurse borrowed the key to Sajid Hussain's flat in Great Northern Street and picked Girl L up around the corner from her house in a taxi.

Nurse gave her vodka and cigarettes and then raped her - an incident which she remembers little of.

On another occasion, Nurse picked her up in a taxi and took her to a house in Thornton Lodge where he tried to take her pants off.

When she left, he pushed her down the stairs and she tripped. She phoned another man to take her home.

She said: "He thought that we were together, but I don’t think we were."

Girl L also gave evidence against Hussain, which resulted in him being charged with facilitating the commission of sexual activity on a child - a charge that was dropped before the trial.

She says one of the other characters she encountered was Abdul Rehman, also known as Beastie, but he was not charged with any offences in relation to her.

Justice at last?

Girl L's mum said: "Years after it ended, she moved house but they still found her, followed her and tried to gain access to her home.

"She took an overdose and had to leave her home as she's too scared to go back."

Her mum also said that one of the men's girlfriends shouted abuse at them in a supermarket after Girl L started to co-operate with the police.

Girl L said it was 'intimidating' having to give evidence in the witness box just feet away from her abusers in the dock and admitted she still has trust issues, is paranoid about people following her and has trouble sleeping.

She said: "Some of the verdicts were good, I just wish some of them did get longer.

"And I wish some of them did get [convicted] because some of them didn't for what they did to me.

"I think Faj should have got [convicted]. . . How [could] the jury believe one thing I said and not the other?"

The victims are referred to as girls A-O instead of by their names as they are entitled to lifelong anonymity.