Two men have been jailed after a vulnerable child was raped and sexually abused by more than a dozen members of a grooming gang.
Mohammed Akram, 33, and Usman Khalid, 31, were two of those who abused the victim - known as Girl N - in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, between 2004 and 2011.
Akram had his prison sentence increased from 17 years to 22 years and Khalid was locked up for five years at Leeds Crown Court - bringing the total jail time as the result of a police operation into vile sex gangs to 267 years.
The pair's sentencing marks the end of the first phase of West Yorkshire Police's Operation Tendersea - a long-running and ongoing investigation into child sexual exploitation.
Usman Khalid (left) Mohammed Akram (right) art Leeds Crown Court together
Girl N was groomed at the age of 11 and passed around members of the gang, who even went so far as to abduct her from a care home.
Akram, also known as Kid, sexually abused her when she was aged 12 and he was aged 19 or 20 and repeatedly raped her a few years later.
Khalid, also known as Gujji, previously of Brook Street, Huddersfield, sexually abused her on one occasion when she was aged 12 and he was aged 16 or 17.
Akram was convicted of rape of a child under the age of 13, three counts of rape, abduction of a child, trafficking for sexual exploitation and sexual assault.
Khalid was convicted of sexual assault.
Judge Simon Phillips QC, who presided over the pair's three-week trial, described the case as 'a tragic tale of human misery and suffering'.
Mohammed Akram, 33, had his prison sentence increased from 17 years to 22 years and Usman Khalid, 31, was locked up for five years at Leeds Crown Court
He acknowledged that the victim had been let down by a number of professionals who were unable to ward away the 'malevolent influences that were ever present'.
The judge told the defendants: 'You and others exploited her in the most cynical and depraved way imaginable. You gave her alcohol and drugs and then sexually abused her.'
Akram was also convicted as part of Operation Tendersea last year, meaning this is the second time he has been convicted as part of the investigation.
He was convicted of trafficking two other girls for sexual exploitation and repeatedly raping one of those girls.
His 22-year sentence for his latest convictions will be served concurrently to his 17-year prison sentence.
Both defendants will be made subject to sexual offender notification requirements for life and sexual harm prevention orders.
From 2018 to today, Operation Tendersea has seen 21 men convicted and jailed for a total of 267 years.
Usman Khalid attempts to avoid cameras as he leaves Leeds Crown Court, West Yorks., after the start of his trial into child grooming, April 29 2019
Eighteen officers and staff from the force, including Sgt Hayley Nortcliffe and DC Rachel Cooper, were commended for their work by the judge, who presided over the latest two trials, and Judge Geoffrey Marson QC, who presided over the first two trials.
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