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The killer of Telford schoolgirl Lucy Lowe today faces fresh child sex abuse allegations after a girl claimed he groomed her at 14.

Azhar Ali Mehmood was caged for life for the murder of Lucy, her sister and mother in a fire – but has never been prosecuted for child sex crimes.

He made Lucy pregnant when she was just 14, then killed her two years later by torching her family’s house.

Now another alleged victim has spoken out after the Sunday Mirror revealed up to 1,000 victims could have been abused in the Shropshire town over four decades.

One victim cruelly dubbed “Lady Telford” by sex gangs claims she was just 14 when taxi driver Mehmood – then 10 years older – groomed her, triggering a decade-long abuse ordeal at the hands of dozens of men.

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At 15, she says, Mehmood plied her with alcohol until she agreed to sex.

Lucy’s uncle Ed Lowe said: “I’m stunned. That would have made his crime even more serious and perhaps he wouldn’t have the chance he has now of getting out on parole.

“Police didn’t handle it right. They could have stopped more victims.”

Ed claims he asked West Mercia Police to investigate Mehmood for abusing Lucy in 2000 – and the family now want the case re-opened.

The new allegations come from a woman we are calling Louise to protect her ID.

In grim detail, she told how car loads of men would go to her house demanding sex.

Louise claims some, armed with guns and knives, would kick in her door, saying they had paid for her address – and called her Lady Telford.

Louise, who says police, teachers and her GP knew she was having sex, told the Mirror: “Azi began phoning me when Lucy wasn’t there and eventually I had sex with him. I didn’t really understand what was going on, but soon I felt under pressure to do things with lots of older men.

“I felt young for my age because most girls I knew had been ‘going with Asians’ – as we called it then – since they were about 12. It was only when I was much older that I properly realised I was a victim of abuse.

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“One girl I knew got with a much older man at 12 and there were rumours he’d been convicted of rape. He tried to set her house on fire.

“Another friend had her first abortion at 12 and a few more before 16.”

Officers investigated Louise’s abuse in 2010 – a decade after she first reported it – and launched Operation Thesis into her claims.

Over 21 days of interviews, Louise recounted 92 incidents of rape and sexual assault. Detectives focused on eight cases involving 16 men where they could back up Louise’s claims with diary entries.

But after she picked out her alleged abusers in ID parades in 2012, Louise suffered threats.

Police dropped the case after the CPS said there was no realistic prospect of a conviction.

Louise, now a mum who lives under witness protection with CCTV cameras and a panic alarm, has obtained her police files and handed them to the Mirror. They confirm Louise’s claim that, eight days after the fire which killed Lucy in 2000, she told police that she and the tragic teen were being abused by Mehmood and other men.

A statement confirms Louise gave officers her phone, which she claims contained names and numbers of 130 men and a string of explicit messages.

She described one balding man with “scary eyes” aged around 40. Louise told officers: “He frightens me... he tells me I’ve got to meet him and his friends or I’m ‘done for’. He knows where I live, rings me and says he knows what I’m wearing and he’s not afraid of my dad.”

Louise also claims she was told by someone linked to the abusers that they are prepared to “make the girls pay” for giving evidence against seven paedophiles convicted under Operation Chalice in 2012. She also alleges Mehmood may not have been acting alone over the fire deaths.

Louise says another Asian man phoned her that night to warn her to “stay away from Lucy and the house”.

Louise knew Becky Watson, who had endured years of abuse and later died in a car accident aged 13.

She also knew Vicky Round, 20, who died in a drugs incident after being hooked on cocaine and heroin by her abusers.

West Mercia’s Assistant Chief Constable Martin Evans said: “We have worked extensively with this victim and carried out investigations both in 2000 and 2010. Counsel decided not to pursue prosecution due to concerns over available evidence.

“I have put in place resources to make sure allegations are subject to a detailed investigation, with a view to ensuring those who carry out horrific crimes can be brought to justice.”