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A trio of vile sex offenders who targeted a young girl on her paper rounds before raping her in a playground and her own bedroom have been jailed.

Banaras Hussain, 44, Talish Ahmed, 41, and Mohammed Akram, 44, subjected the child to a horrendous campaign of abuse in Huddersfield between 1995 and 1998.

Leeds Crown Court heard the girl, who can't be named for legal reasons, was just 12 years old and wearing school uniform when the predators identified her as a target.

The vulnerable teenager suffered the abuse between the ages of 13 and 15 before finally managing to break away from her tormentors, who are all from Huddersfield.

They have been found guilty 25 years later as part of West Yorkshire Police's Operation Tendersea enquiry, which investigates the historical abuse of young girls in the region.