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Grooming gang found guilty of exploiting teenage girls for sex
(Clockwise from top left) Mohamed Arshad, Ziaullah Badshah, Mustafa Iqbal, Sarah Gray, and Jaswinder Singh were found guilty of their roles in exploiting three girls
Four men and a woman have been found guilty of being part of a grooming gang that exploited teenage girls for sex.
Mustafa Iqbal, Mohamed Arshad, Ziaullah Badshah, Jaswinder Singh were convicted of conspiracy to traffic their victims, who were aged 14,15 and 16.
At Caernarfon Crown Court on Monday, Iqbal, Arshad and Badshah were also found guilty of rape while another member of the gang, Sarah Gray, was found guilty of perverting the course of justice and assisting an offender.
The men were remanded in custody ahead of sentencing on 25 September, while Gray was released on bail.
Prosecutor Owen Edwards KC said the men had used the three girls - named only as Child A, B and C - like "sexual commodities".
"They took full sexual advantage of Girl B in particular," he said.
The jury was told Child A had been treated as a "sexual plaything", who finally had gone to the police after having been handcuffed by Iqbal and had been raped.
The court heard the teenagers were given drugs and sexually abused in cars, homes and businesses in Rhyl, Denbighshire and the surrounding area between April 2022 and March 2024.
The first two victims, Child B who was 15 and Child C who was 14, were approached by Iqbal, 43, near a petrol station in the town, and he persuaded them to come back to his home.