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A victim of one of the Rotherham sex abuse ringleaders revealed police drove away from her as she was being abused - after being told "she's just sucking my c***, mate."

This comes as the ringleader, Arshid Hussain, was today jailed for 35 years for his crimes .

The unnamed victim was abused in a car park next to Rotherham Police Station.

Prosecuting, Michelle Colborne QC told the court: "(The girl) performed oral sex on Bannaras Hussain.

"When, shortly afterwards, a police car pulled up alongside them and asked what was going on, Bannaras Hussain shouted 'she's just sucking my c***, mate.'

"The police car drove off."

Today, three brothers were jailed for the systematic abuse of young girls in the Yorkshire town after they groomed, raped and abused 15 teenagers.

Arshid Hussain - the ringleader of the group - was jailed for 35 years.

His brothers Basharat Hussain, 39, and Bannaras Hussein, 36, got 25 years and 19 years respectively.

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Their uncle, Qurban Ali, 53, was jailed for 10 years. Female accomplice Karen MacGregor, 58, was jailed for 13 years while Shelley Davis, 40, was given an 18 month suspended sentence.

Ms Colborne said Bannaras met one victim when she was 12 or 13 and she performed sex acts on him.

She told Sheffield Crown Court: "He was indifferent to whether she consented or not.

"When her brothers found out, they were furious with her and would physically assault her because she was involved sexually with an Asian man."

Many of the victims of the brothers sat in the public gallery overlooking the packed courtroom as the sentencing hearing got under way.

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Twelve women told a jury they were sexually, physically and emotionally abused in the South Yorkshire town when they were in their early teens.

The jury heard that the Hussain brothers "ruled Rotherham" with their drugs and guns operation and abused girls with impunity.

Ms Colborne said the sister of one victim described her sister as a "broken human being".

She handed in a pile of victim personal statements, highlighting a comment from one girl who said the Hussain brothers acted "as a pack of animals" when she was urinated on.

The prosecutor said: "They describe from their teenage years a life in the main of feeling dirty, ashamed and guilty.

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"Between them, a plethora of emotional conditions - eating disorders, self-harm, agoraphobia, self-loathing and terminations for many of them from the age of 14 - events they have never been able to put behind them."

Ms Colborne said many of the victims, most who are now in their 30s, have had relationship problems throughout their lives and have found themselves subjected to domestic violence.

Jailing the gang, who were said to have ruled Rotherham with impunity, Judge Sarah Wright told them: "The harm you have caused is of unimaginable proportions."

She paid tribute to the "immense courage" of the victims who came forward.

As Judge Wright passed sentence on Arshid, there was a shout of "Yes" and gasps from the packed public gallery.

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Some of the victims and their relatives who held hands on the balcony of the court hugged each other.

Arshid was clearly visible on a big screen in court - appearing by video-link from Doncaster Prison. He showed no reaction at the sentence, barely opening his eyes for most of the hearing.

The judge said: "Each in your own way perpetrated or facilitated the sexual abuse of these young girls.

"Your victims were targeted, sexualised and in some cases subjected to acts of a degrading and violent nature.

"Many of the victims were subjected to repeated abuse. There was a pattern of abuse which was repeated over and over again. Some victims were groomed, some coerced and intimidated.

"They were made to feel that they could not report what was happening to them.

"Even if they did, no action was taken and you were free to continue your exploitation of them."

Addressing Arshid, she said: "You and your brothers, Bannaras Hussain and Basharat Hussain, were well-known in the area - you drove distinctive cars and had a reputation for violence.

"There was a perception by some of your victims that you appeared, in their words, to 'rule Rotherham'.

"You exploited that to the full."