Child sex abuse trial: Alleged victim 'pulled into car and threatened with gun'

The 32-year-old woman is the fifth alleged child sex abuse victim to give evidence and said she was approached in Masbrough near Fernham Park by a man in a car in 2014.

She said in her police interview in March 2015 that was shown to the jury today: “He pulled me into a car, put a gun in my mouth and said ‘police have contacted you haven’t they about Ash, Bash and Bono? Open your mouth and this is what you get’.

“I was that scared I weed myself.”

The woman, who grew up in and out of care homes, said Arshid and Basharat began sexually abusing her in 1997 when she was 14-years-old and was forced to handle guns and drugs when she was driven to Bradford and Halifax.

She said: “How we got used, abused, it was just appalling and nobody at all listened.”

The woman claims she, and her sister, were sexually abused by the pair and forced to give oral sex to their friends “just because they said so”.

She added: “I was so naive, I felt overpowered, totally overpowered, I was very vulnerable, nobody was listening to me in care.”

The woman said the abuse started when the brothers barged their way into her rented family home, which they claimed their uncle owned, and knew her mother was an alcoholic.

She said Arshid, who she believed was in his 20s, said: “I own this, Rotherham’s mine, don’t you get it”.

The woman said he then forced her to perform oral sex, and in the evening Basharat visited and had sex with her but used a condom so he would not ‘give any diseases to his wife’.

She added: “They owned Masbrough, they owned every house going.”

The sexual abuse at her home happened around five times and she said the men were also violent towards her.

Clifton Park was an area the brothers would take the sisters to and force oral sex on them, she said, and then inform their taxi driver friends to join.

The woman described how low her confidence was today due to the alleged abuse and said she did not trust going to the police to report it at the time it was happening.

She added: “I have no confidence, I get undressed in the dark sometimes, I hate myself, I actually hate myself.

“Not just because of what they have done.

“How could I go to a police officer when they are just more involved with it, with them?

“The police basically gave them a free card to do what they wanted.

“How could us women go to police officers and tell them these things when they are going straight back to tell them? You couldn’t.”

The trial continues.