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Eight men are on trial over alleged offences against two teenage girls in Rochdale.

Mohammed Fahir Amaaz and Muhammad Amaad, both of Rochdale, are to stand trial at Liverpool Crown Court.

The eight men on trial at Minshull Street Crown Court deny various alleged sexual offences said to have been committed between 2001 and 2006.

Court hears eight older men coerced two girls with ‘deeply troubled’ home lives into sex in exchange for alcohol and attention

Both young girls, then aged 13, had troubled upbringings and were particularly vulnerable

Across the 2000s, a series of child sex exploitation cases affected British towns, including Telford, Rochdale, Oxford and Rotherham, scarring the lives of hundreds of children. In 2011, Times journalist Andrew Norfolk reported that networks – so-called “grooming gangs” – of largely British Asian men of Pakistani heritage had trafficked…

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Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announced on Thursday that the Government will commission a series of local reviews into grooming gangs.

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