Child sex abuse trial: Brothers "tied girl up and forced her to have sex"

The woman, who says she was bound and forced to have sex with groups of men, is the fourth complainant to give evidence and the jury has heard how her life changed from when she met the brothers when she was 15.

The woman (33) said she met Basharat Hussain (38) and his brother Arshid (40) when she and her friends would deliver leaflets for the Quick Seal window business in Edlington run by the brothers’ father.

She said Basharat told her he had just finished studying at university in London and she believed he was in his early 20s.

In her interview with police, she was asked what she was like when she was 15.

She answered: “I would do anything to help anyone, we had an elderly neighbour next door and I used to go and clean for her.

“I was independent, I loved school, I was always scared of being late.”

The woman said she had a happy upbringing and stable home.

She became one of the first people in her school to have a mobile phone after Basharat bought her one, Sheffield Crown Court heard.

Basharat singled her out and they would hang around together alone, the woman said, but on her 16th birthday she felt pressurised into having sex with him.

From then on until she was 20, she said, they were in a relationship, but looking back now she realised it was not a normal relationship.

She said Basharat was often violent that and he and Arshid would force her into performing sex acts on other men at a “dingy flat on Clough Road”.

The woman said she was forced into performing oral sex on several men “while they lined up like a waiting room” around eight times between being 16 and 18 years old, adding: “They used to tie my hands and blindfold me.”

She said Bash “was like the king” of the group — “powerful” and like “he owned everybody”.

The woman said he began forcing her to store drugs in her bedroom at her parent’s house and it then progressed onto weapons including guns.

“Now I am such a positive strong person it's hard for me to think I would let anything like that happen,” she said.

“It all seemed to happen really quickly from being a young girl knocking around with my friends having a laugh, to ‘I am sat here with drugs in my house’ — it just went really quick.”

The witness said she self-harmed during her relationship because of the “horrible feeling inside that he and his brothers have got total control over you”.

She added: “Luckily, I haven't got any scars.”

The woman said Basharat would often make threats to kill her or her family if she did not do what he said and she believed he would kill her.

She said she told no one of the abuse, but added her parents were not happy at their relationship but said they would support her in her decisions.

The witness will be cross-examined this afternoon.

Basharat and Arshid Hussain deny all the charges against them.

The trial continues.