🔴 TEEN RUNAWAY ‘RAPED BY 5 MEN IN HOTEL AFTER BMW PICK-UP’
In a chilling tale of exploitation, a missing Birmingham teen endured days of horror as four men allegedly trafficked her for gang rape in seedy hotels – jury hears evidence.
A vulnerable 16-year-old girl who had run away from home was repeatedly raped by a group of men over several days in hotels in Walsall and Manchester after being lured into a BMW on a Birmingham street, Birmingham Crown Court has heard.
The Crown alleges that between July and August 2019 the teenager – already known to social services and reported missing for weeks – was systematically exploited by four men then in their late thirties: Arqash Zaffar, 41, Mohammed Nadim, 44, Shahban Arif, 42, and Shiraz Nassar, 40.
Prosecutor Tim Clark KC told the jury the girl was first spotted by Zaffar (nicknamed Mikey) and Nadim while walking along Alum Rock Road.
After an initial refusal, she later accepted a lift.
Within hours, the prosecution says, Nadim sexually assaulted her in the back of the BMW while Zaffar forced her to perform oral sex despite her saying “no” and physically pushing him away.
Over the following days Zaffar kept her in hotels in Walsall, booking rooms where he again forced oral sex upon her, once in front of another male described as “baby-faced”.
Shahban Arif – identified by the girl as having a “rat-like face” – is accused of paying for one of the hotels and later driving her north to Manchester in the company of Zaffar.
There, at the home of Shiraz Nassar (known as Soldier), the Crown says both Zaffar and Nassar raped her while cocaine was openly used in the property.
The girl was then taken back to another Walsall hotel.
There, prosecutors allege, Zaffar boasted to four younger unidentified men that she was sexually available.
He raped her first, the court heard, then watched as each of the four strangers raped her in turn.
The teenager later told police she hid in the bathroom listening to the conversation, too frightened to come out, and that Zaffar showed “no mercy” throughout the ordeal.
Although she had told the men she was 19, the prosecution argues she had neither the freedom nor capacity to consent and was simply submitting to what she believed was inevitable.
When finally released near Selfridges in Birmingham, she returned home, disclosed everything to her social worker while “extremely upset” and feeling “dirty”, and immediately asked for a sexual-health check.
All four defendants accept they spent time with the girl but insist every sexual act was consensual.
Zaffar, giving evidence, described an initial “flirty exchange” of smiles from the pavement, said the teenager bragged about her oral skills, willingly entered his car twice in one night, and that he only continued to help because she told him she was homeless and showed bruises.
He called the rape allegations “disgusting” and suggested they might be a set-up.
Nadim denies sexual assault, Arif denies facilitating exploitation, and Nassar denies rape.
The trial at Birmingham Crown Court continues.
