THREE men plied a 13-year-old with alcohol before bullying her into performing sex acts on them, a court heard today.

Sajid Ali, now 38, Riaz Makhmood, 39, and Zaheer Iqbal, 39, from Rotherham, are all charged with sexually assaulting the girl in the 1990s.

3 Sajid Ali, 38, is accused of bullying a 13-year-old girl into performing sex acts on him and his friends in 1994 Credit: SWNS:South West News Service

Sheffield Crown Court heard how the girl allegedly believed Ali, 38, was her "boyfriend" and was warned they would "tell her parents" if she refused their requests.

Opening the trial, prosecutor Sophie Drake alleged the victim was given alcohol and passed around by the three defendants in a car park and a graveyard in South Yorkshire in 1994.

She told the court: "At first she thought Ali was her boyfriend but she later realised he was using her for sex [acts].

"The others would ask for [it].

3 Riaz Makhmood, 39, is also alleged to have had the girl perform sex acts on him in 1994 Credit: SWNS:South West News Service

"At the time she thought she was being rebellious and liked the attention.

"The crown says she was not capable of consenting to these acts - she was only 13 and was given alcohol and made to feel she had no choice but to do it.

"Her mother was a governor at the school and they scared her by saying they would tell her mother what she was doing."

The court was told how the victim eventually went to police in September 2014 and identified all three defendants in September 2016 as those she had met in Rotherham in the mid-90s.

3 Zaheer Iqbal, 39, was identified in a complaint made to the police, along with the two other defendants, in 2016 Credit: SWNS:South West News Service

All three were arrested later the same month.

Ms Drake played a police interview recorded in September 2014 to the jury.

In it the victim explained how she was introduced to the three defendants and performed a sex act on Ali, who she knew as "Sos" at the time, four times before he allegedly started offering her to his friends.

The teenage girl reportedly met the men, who were teenagers at the time but all aged 16 or over, at some shops in Rotherham.

After a couple of weeks, she was allegedly taken to a car park, a graveyard and disused stairwells at a block of nearby flats where she was "bullied into performing a sex act" on all three.

She told the court: "They would say 'you've done that for him [Ali], will you do it for me'.

"You felt like you were wanted - it was nice to have attention from boys."

The woman, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, went on to say that her mum eventually found out through a friend that she was hanging around in the streets and was banned from visiting the men.

Riaz Makhmood denies three charges of indecent assault, Sajid Ali denies seven charges of indecent assault and Zaheer Iqbal denies five charges of indecent assault.

The assaults are said to have happened between June 1994 and June 1995.

The trial continues.

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