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

Eight alleged predators accused of the rape and sexual exploitation of two 13-year-old girls in Rochdale “abused, degraded and discarded” them in an “appalling” way, a jury has heard.

The complainants from the age of 13 were expected to have sex with the defendants and others “whenever and wherever the men wanted” from 2001-6, jurors at Manchester Minshull Street court were told.