A TEEN girl was raped by four Afghan nationals including a 16-year-old boy after being lured to a home and plied with vodka, a court heard.
Mehrab Safi, 21, Awal Ahmadzai and Salman Habibkheil, both 19, and the schoolboy allegedly attacked the girl in Bristol.
The defendants are on trial at Bristol Crown Court Credit: Alamy
The girl had been shopping at Cabot Circus Shopping Centre when she met Mehrab Safi Credit: Alamy
Jurors heard she had been out with a friend Christmas shopping when they got talking to Safi, who they had not met before.
He later asked her to add him on social media platform before requesting nude photographs of her on November 28.
Two days later, Safi allegedly arranged for a taxi to take her from her home in to Bristol in the early hours.
She was initially dropped off in an industrial area of the city, where Safi was waiting with Habibkheil, before they got into another taxi which took them to a house in the St Werburghs area.
Once there, she was provided with cigarettes and vodka before being allegedly raped by Safi and his co-defendants, Bristol Crown Court heard.
Ed Hetherington, prosecuting, said: “The prosecution say that they sexually abused a young girl who Mr Safi had met and began grooming only days before the rapes took place.
“On November 30 last year, Mr Safi and Mr Habibkheil arranged for her to be brought by taxi to meet them in Bristol in the early hours of a Sunday morning.
“Once she arrived, she was taken to a home in St Werburghs and she was very quickly expected to have sex with Mr Safi.
“She didn’t want to, not yet, but it happened anyway.”
The court was told after she was allegedly raped by Safi, the other three defendants “took it in turns to get her alone in a bedroom or in a bed and to have sex with her against her wishes”.
Mr Hetherington said she was “plied with alcohol and cigarettes to secure her compliance”.
He added: “She was alone.
“She was isolated in an unfamiliar city miles from home, in the dead of night, with a house full of men she didn’t know.
“We say she was raped and she was abused repeatedly over a period of several hours.”
Jurors were told the alleged sex attack ended when the girl’s mother contacted police.
Safi denies one count of and two charges of rape.
Habibkheil has pleaded not guilty to one count of human trafficking and one charge of rape.
Ahmadzai denies one charge of rape and one of assault by penetration, while the 16-year-old boy denies one charge of rape.
Their trial is expected to last up to three weeks.
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