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A Derby man has gone on trial today charged with 14 offences including rape, rape of a child, sexual assault and inciting a child for prostitution.

The trial of Dilan Amin, 27, has begun at Derby Crown Court.

Amin, of Pear Tree Road, Normanton, stood in the dock with an interpreter as the jury was sworn in for the trial which is expected to last several weeks.

The offences are alleged to have taken place against seven victims.

There are two charges of rape of a child, two of rape, four of inciting a child for prostitution, four charges of sexual assault, one for paying for sexual services and one of supplying cocaine.

Amin wore a black jacket and a t-shirt in the dock.

Prosecutor Ian West has begun his opening of the case. He said Amin is an Iraqi Kurd who came to the UK around ten years ago. Amin runs a shop called the Famous Shop in Pear Tree Road in Normanton.

Mr West said: "The defendant used this shop to seduce young girls and take advantage of them."

Photographs of the shop were shown to the jury.

Mr West said Amin and another man took an alleged victim to the International Hotel in Burton Road. The girl was 15-years-old at the time of the alleged incident.

The barrister said the alleged victim was "encouraged and pestered" to try cocaine, which she did. The "cocktail of drugs" caused the alleged victim to blank out. Mr West said: "She can recall lying on the bed and Amin then coming over and lying on top of her. Amin then had sex with her. The prosecution case is that (the alleged victim) was in such an intoxicated state that she did not know what she was doing."

Another alleged victim met Amin when she was 12, sometime before Christmas 2012, the court heard.

He is alleged to have raped her at his house, which is behind the shop.

The trial continues.