Wednesday 3 August 2022 12:03 PM Eleven people in court charged with child sex abuse ring allegedly involving ... trends now

Wednesday 3 August 2022 12:03 PM Eleven people in court charged with child sex abuse ring allegedly involving ... trends now
Wednesday 3 August 2022 12:03 PM Eleven people in court charged with child sex abuse ring allegedly involving ... trends now

Wednesday 3 August 2022 12:03 PM Eleven people in court charged with child sex abuse ring allegedly involving ... trends now

Eleven people have appeared in court accused of taking part in a child sex ring which also allegedly involves witchcraft, serious violence and neglect.

The sex ring mainly centres around two young girls and a boy between 2010 and 2020, as well as a third victim, all in Glasgow, a court heard.

According to prosecutors, the eleven suspects are said to have got the boy and the older girl to take part in 'seances (and) use a Ouija board...to call on spirits and demons' as part of the sex ring.

They also allegedly got the children involved in 'witchcraft' leading them to believe that they themselves had 'metamorphosed into animals'.

The group, of seven men and four women, are also believed to have worn cloaks and devil horns as well as making the young boy stab a budgie to death.

It is also claimed the children were forced to take part in satanic 'seances' and made to kill animals - including dogs - as part of the ring that is thought to have spanned across a decade. 

One of the girls is also said to have been shut in a microwave during an attempt to kill her, while also allegedly being trapped in an oven and a fridge freezer too, prosecutors allege.

The eleven suspects faced a 14-page indictment listing 43 different charges during a hearing at the High Court in the Townhead, Maryhill and Craigend areas of Glasgow.

The accusations claim that the three young children were raped at different times while some of the group did 'clap, cheer and verbally encourage' and film a ten-year-old girl being sexually assaulted.

Iain Owens, 43, Elaine Lannery, 38, Lesley Williams, 40, Paul Brannan, 40, Marianne Gallagher, 37, Scott Forbes, 49, Barry Watson, 46, Mark Carr, 49, Richard Gachagan, 44, Leona Laing, 50, and John Clark, 46, deny the charges they face. 

Seven men and four women appeared at Glasgow High Court, faced with 43 charges involving an alleged child sex ring across ten years in the city

Seven men and four women appeared at Glasgow High Court, faced with 43 charges involving an alleged child sex ring across ten years in the city 

Owens and Lannery first face a charge of neglecting the three youngsters along with another child while apparently caring for them.

The accusation claims they got the young boy to 'courier controlled drugs' on their behalf. 

Owens, Lannery,

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