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A predatory gang who raped underage girls and drove them around in a 's**g wagon' have been jailed for almost 90 years.

Eight men targeted vulnerable, underage girls, plying them with drink and drugs at sickening child sex 'parties'.

They also drove the girl around in a car fitted with a registration plate ending in 'SHG'.

The sick grooming ring was described by a judge as 'predatory and cynical' when they were found guilty on Friday following a five-month trial at Oxford Crown Court.

The men each denied their part in the child sexual exploitation but were found guilty on charges which included rape, indecent assault and false imprisonment.

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A jury of four women and seven men took a record-breaking 107 hours and 31 minutes, over the course of 24 days, to reach their verdict.

The charges related to five victims, whom were all aged between 13 and 15, between 1998 and 2005.

During the trial, Oxford Crown Court heard accounts from victims, who said they were plied with drink and drugs and took part in sex parties.

A number of the women also recalled a vehicle driven by the men regularly referred to as the 's**g wagon' - with a licence plate ending 'SHG'.

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Judge Peter Ross, who presided over the trial, said once the final verdicts were handed out: "Systematic and widespread grooming, that is what this case has revealed.

"The investigation has involved countless hours of work and [the police] are entitled to commendations for the work they have done."

He also thanked jurors for their 'assidious' and 'phenomenal' dedication to the case in returning their verdicts, following the longest jury deliberation in Oxford Crown Court history.

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The men on numerous occasions coerced the girls into sex at a number of addresses across Oxford.

These included at guest houses, in cars parked at lay-bys, and at local parks.

Two of the men were sentenced in April at Oxford Crown Court, and the remaining six were sentenced yesterday at the same court.

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Prosecutor Oliver Saxby QC called the abuse 'routine, cynical and predatory sexual exploitation'.

Opening the trial in October, Mr Saxby said: "Each of the young girls we are dealing with shared one very important characteristic, they were vulnerable.

"Perfect prey for, in the main, young men prepared to exploit them for casual sexual gratification that was easy, regular and readily available."

During the trial one victim recounted how she would be pressured into sex at numerous locations across Oxford, between February 1998 and February 2001.

She said this took place at Shotover woods, at lay-bys outside the city and near Oxford City FC's ground Court Place Farm.

She told jurors how Assad Hussain, Kameer Iqbal, Khalid Hussain and Alladitta Yousaf had all indecently assaulted or raped her on various occasions.

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Another woman, who was aged 14 at the time, was sexually assaulted by Moinul Islam, the court heard, while at Cronin's B&B in Iffley Road.

She told police she recalled 'feeling sick' after the sexual assault.

In other instances of abuse the girls were plied with drink and drugs as part of what prosecutors called the 'grooming process'.

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They were made to take part in 'sex parties' at a number of addresses across Oxford involving large groups of men.

At one such party, which took place at a flat in London, one girl said that she was forced into sex with Khalid Hussain.

A number of the woman also recalled a black Nissan Serena people carrier in which many sexual abuses are alleged to have taken place, including gang rape.

One woman said of the vehicle: "They would pick the girls, have sex with them, and dump them. Everything happened in that Serena."

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The same woman said that the men would 'take it in turns' to have sex with her and that gang rapes would take place after she was plied with booze and drugs.

Another woman told police in 2015 that she was 'mind-f***ed' by the group during the ordeal of repeated rapes and sexual assaults.

She said: "[They] made you believe they actually care about you, and they actually don't."

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