Child sex abuse trial: Accused pair "never forced sex on girl"

Mr Tahir Khan QC, representing Hussain, asked the 36-year-old woman yesterday about claims he assaulted her “100 times” in nine years.

“You have described a lot of incidents over a long period of time,” the barrister said. “His [Hussain’s] case says there was never any sexual contact between you.”

He suggested that the woman had not even met Hussain, known locally as Mad Ash, but just knew him by reputation.

Mr Khan pointed out differences in her accounts to police, on different dates last year, of the first time Hussain allegedly had sex with her at a Masbrough garage when she was 11.

He also noted different versions of the last time Hussain and co-defendant Sajid Bostan allegedly raped her in the Prince of Wales Hotel, Masbrough in 1999.

Mr Khan put it to the woman that all her accounts of sexual contact with Hussain were “lies”.

She replied: “Oh, are they? No they’re not.”

Mr Khan queried the woman’s claims that she terminated three pregnancies while she she was allegedly abused — twice in Doncaster and once in Rotherham.

He put it to her that there were no records from either hospital to back up those claims.

“You have just invented these pregnancies and abortions just to make things worse for [Hussain],” he said.

She replied: “No.”

Mr Khan asked why, if Hussain repeatedly raped and beat her between 1990 and 1999, she did not tell staff at the children's homes she lived in.

She replied: “I tried to tell them. They just thought I was being mischievous and running away all the time.”

The woman says she had a child in March of 2000 after Hussain and Bostan allegedly raped her at the Prince of Wales Hotel.

But Mr Khan pointed out that Hussain was in prison when the child must have been conceived, around June 1999.

The woman says she had a consenting, sexual relationship with Bostan for around six months in 1999 and 2000, something Bostan admits.

Mr David McGonigal, representing Bostan, suggested that the man she dated was not the same man who abused her from 1990 to 1999.

He pointed out that, in the woman’s initial contact with police in 2014, she did not mention Bostan by name.

In a later interview, the woman told officers she was unsure of Bostan’s last name, despite a six-month affair with the married man.

The woman replied: “I know what I've been feeling for the last 20 years. You don't know what I've gone through.”

The trial continues.