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An underage girl was raped by a Huddersfield man before being punched in the face by his wife, a court heard.

The teenager was allegedly abused in the town by six males between around 2005 and 2008.

Leeds Crown Court heard one of the men was in his late twenties or early thirties when he had sex with her in houses on two occasions.

Giving her evidence-in-chief today (Wednesday), she said the man's wife physically assaulted her after the second occasion.

She told jurors: "The door just burst open, she came flying in, I can't remember the words that came out of her mouth but it was abusive and she punched me in the face."

She said the man's wife called her a 'wh***' and said something to the effect of: "You have f**ked my husband."

The court heard police tried to speak to the alleged victim in 2016 and she gave her first written, prepared statement the following year.

When asked by prosecutor Richard Wright QC why she did not want to speak to police in 2016, she replied: "I felt a lot of anger. I felt let down.

"It had been so long I didn't want to speak about it there and then."

She told jurors that issues in her life led to her skipping school and making new friends.

She said that one night one of her new, older friends took her to meet two men in a car where she drank vodka from a plastic cup.

The complainant said she woke up in Huddersfield Royal Infirmary with no memory of how she got there or how long she had spent in the car.

She said she had never had a sexual encounter before the incident and was bullied in school about the incident.

She said she started regularly drinking vodka and other spirits after the incident.

She said that around a month later, she, another one of her new friends and another girl were drinking in a house where there were 'lots of different men'.

She said she had oral and vaginal sex with a man she did not know in the house as she felt pressured due to the car incident.

She said that after that she had sexual encounters with men 'once or a few times a week', could not feel normal without having a drink and stopped going to school.

Speaking about the complainant yesterday, prosecutor Richard Wright QC said: "Her mother did what she could but her daughter, still a child, did not want to be found or helped."

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Iftikar Ali, Manzoor Akhtar, Basharat Hussain, Fehreen Rafiq, Mohammed Sajjad, Banaris Hussain, Umar Zaman, Mohammed Arif, and Samuel Fikru and a 42-year-old man deny all charges.

The men deny 25 charges including rape, attempted rape and and trafficking for sexual exploitation, while the woman denies two charges of arranging or facilitating the commission of a child sex offence.

Charges Iftikar Ali, 38, of Holly Road in Thornton Lodge, denies two counts of rape and one count of attempted rape. Manzoor Akhtar, 30, of Blackmoorfoot Road in Crosland Moor, denies two counts of rape and one count of trafficking for sexual exploitation. Basharat Hussain, 32, of William Street in Crosland Moor, denies two counts of rape. Fehreen Rafiq, 39, of Blackmoorfoot Road in Crosland Moor, denies two counts of arranging or facilitating the commission of a child sex offence. Mohammed Sajjad, 32, of Yews Mount in Lockwood, denies four counts of rape, one count of rape of a girl under the age of 13 and one count of arranging or facilitating the commission of a child sex offence. Banaris Hussain, 36, of Beech Street in Paddock, denies one count of rape. Umar Zaman, 31, of William Street in Crosland Moor, denies two counts of rape. He is being tried in his absence. Mohammed Arif, 32, of New Hey Road in Oakes, denies one count of rape. Samuel Fikru, 31, whose address cannot be reported for legal reasons, denies two counts of rape. A 42-year-old man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, denies one count of rape and two counts of trafficking for sexual exploitation.

The trial, which is expected to last seven weeks, continues tomorrow (Thursday).