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Three men who kidnapped a 13-year-old girl and made her their sex slave over four days were today jailed.

A court heard they took advantage of her “youth and naivety” to persuade her to get in their van in a London street and drove her to a house in Ipswich, where she was passed around for sex “like a piece of meat” last July.

The trio, from East London, were all convicted of trafficking earlier this year.

Married dad-of-two Suran Uddin, 26, of Bethnal Green, was also convicted of two rapes and supplying a class B drug to the victim.

He was jailed for 15 years.

Mohammed Sheikh, 32, of Hackney, was also convicted of causing a child to engage in sexual activity and supplying a class B drug.

He got eight years.

The van driver Hamza Ali, 39, also married, of Waltham Forest, was found guilty of sexual assault as well.

He was locked up for five years.

Judge Nicholas Coleman said at Norwich crown court: “You were intent on sexually exploiting her.

"She was taken to a town she’d never visited, a house she had never been to, with men she had never met and treated like a piece of meat.”