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It took an intensive four-year police investigation and the dogged determination of an officer to secure a conviction against a group of paedophiles.

Jordyn Ferguson was groomed when she was only 14 and endured months of being raped and sexually abused and “treated like a sex object”.

The men, Aivars Hauberts, 21, Ailands Aleksanders, 22, Hardis Gindra, 27, and Ludvigs Rudevics, 35, originally from Latvia, were jailed for a total of 15 years at the High Court in Glasgow yesterday.

The case was taken over by Detective Inspector Christopher Nisbet, left, after Jordyn admitted to a social worker she was being abused.

The men had exploited Jordyn in a brief period of only four months when she was having trouble with her father at home.

She was introduced to Hauberts, Aleksanders and Gindra through a school friend when she was only 14.

DI Nisbet said: “This was a short period in her life that she was exposed to these men.

"It was a short window in early 2015, which they created and exploited.

“When she started telling us about the rapes and sexual assaults, I don’t think she realised their gravity. She didn’t quite see that they were rapes. She was a child. She was still tied in to the exploitation.”

In a painstaking process, DI Nisbet was able to use the data from her phone to establish when, where and by whom Jordyn had been sexually exploited.

Nine suspects were looked at but only five went to trial, one of whom was admonished.

By the time officers had enough evidence to prosecute, two of the perverts had moved to England while Rudevics and Hauberts were extradited after they were picked up for shoplifting in Latvia.