Osmon Koroma and Max N'Gasa bought booze and cigarettes for young girls before attacking them

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Osmon Koroma and Max N'Gasa were convicted of involvement in a series of 18 sexual exploitation offences against twelve teenage girls.

The duo targeted girls as young as 13 across Littlehampton, West Sussex, buying them booze and supplying them with cigarettes between 2010 and 2014.

Koroma, 31, from Hove, East Sussex, was convicted of eight offences against five different girls - rape, two sexual assaults and five offences of sexual activity with a child.

N'Gasa, 25, also from Hove, was convicted of ten offences against seven girls, including two offences of rape and eight offences of sexual activity with a child.

He was also found not guilty of one sexual assault and one offence of attempting to carry out sexual activity with a child.

Both men were remanded in custody for sentencing at Lewes Crown Court on June 7.

Koroma and N'Gasa were arrested on March 12 last year and were charged in October a following a police and local authority investigation.

According to officers the attacks centred around a flat above shops in Wick Parade, Littlehampton, where Koroma lived.

It was at the shops below the men targeted their victims.