Poor parenting may have helped push vulnerable under-age white girls into the hands of Asian sex gangs, one of Britain’s most senior judges has said.

Judge John Bevan spoke out as he jailed six members of a paedophile ring for a total of 82 years for grooming and raping white girls because of their six year campaign of ‘grotesque’ abuse.

The men targeted vulnerable children in Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire for sex secured with ‘the price of a McDonald’s, a milkshake and a cinema ticket’, the Old Bailey heard.

Vikram Singh, Asif Hussain, Arshad Jani, Mohammed Imran, Akbari Khan and Taimoor Khan were jailed for between three years and 19-and-a-half years.

Judge John Bevan said poor parental supervision of the children made the victims into easy targets.

Mr Justice Bevan added the men, of Indian and Pakistani descent, may have targeted white girls because ‘if they pursued Asian girls they would have paid a heavy price in their community.’

The abuse between from 2006 and 2012 included multiple rapes of a child under 13, child prostitution and administering a substance to ‘stupefy’ a girl in order to engage in sexual activity.

Most of the offences related to child A, who was present in court to see the men who robbed her of her teenage years jailed.

In a statement, she told of her feelings of ‘worthlessness’ as she battled depression and alcohol addiction, adding: ‘I feel my teenage years were taken away from me.’

Sentencing, judge John Bevan QC paid tribute to her bravery in laying bare her life ‘warts and all’ and said the way some of the defendants took advantage of her vulnerability was ‘grotesque’.

He said: ‘She sought friendship amongst Asian males in their 20s and for the price of a McDonald’s, a milkshake and cinema ticket, she became ‘liked’ by stall holders in Aylesbury market, taxi and bus drivers.

‘By the age of 13 she was sexually experienced, confusing sexual gratification for friendship and love.’

By the time she was 16, the girl had been abused by just under 70 men and her vulnerability should have been ‘blindingly obvious’, the judge said.

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Poor parenting may have helped push vulnerable under-age white girls into the hands of Asian sex gangs, one of Britain’s most senior judges has said.

Judge John Bevan spoke out as he jailed six members of a paedophile ring for a total of 82 years for grooming and raping white girls because of their six year campaign of ‘grotesque’ abuse.

The men targeted vulnerable children in Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire for sex secured with ‘the price of a McDonald’s, a milkshake and a cinema ticket’, the Old Bailey heard.

Vikram Singh, Asif Hussain, Arshad Jani, Mohammed Imran, Akbari Khan and Taimoor Khan were jailed for between three years and 19-and-a-half years.

Judge John Bevan said poor parental supervision of the children made the victims into easy targets.

Mr Justice Bevan added the men, of Indian and Pakistani descent, may have targeted white girls because ‘if they pursued Asian girls they would have paid a heavy price in their community.’

The abuse between from 2006 and 2012 included multiple rapes of a child under 13, child prostitution and administering a substance to ‘stupefy’ a girl in order to engage in sexual activity.

Most of the offences related to child A, who was present in court to see the men who robbed her of her teenage years jailed.

In a statement, she told of her feelings of ‘worthlessness’ as she battled depression and alcohol addiction, adding: ‘I feel my teenage years were taken away from me.’

Sentencing, judge John Bevan QC paid tribute to her bravery in laying bare her life ‘warts and all’ and said the way some of the defendants took advantage of her vulnerability was ‘grotesque’.

He said: ‘She sought friendship amongst Asian males in their 20s and for the price of a McDonald’s, a milkshake and cinema ticket, she became ‘liked’ by stall holders in Aylesbury market, taxi and bus drivers.

‘By the age of 13 she was sexually experienced, confusing sexual gratification for friendship and love.’

By the time she was 16, the girl had been abused by just under 70 men and her vulnerability should have been ‘blindingly obvious’, the judge said.

He went on: ‘Why these defendants focused their attention on white under-age girls is unexplained but I have no doubt vulnerability played a substantial part in it.

‘The combination of inadequate parenting leading to rebellious children lacking supervision provided an opportunity.

‘If they pursued Asian under-age girls, they would have paid a heavy price in their community.’

The two victims came from troubled backgrounds and wanted to feel grown-up when they were befriended by the men, who groomed them by showering them with inexpensive gifts such as alcohol, DVDs, food and occasionally drugs.

While aged just 12 or 13, child A was passed between some 60 mainly Asian men for sex after being conditioned into thinking it was normal behaviour, jurors were told.

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A jailed drug dealer who masterminded a £1.5 million heroin plot from behind bars– but was busted after being caught red-handed while on day release.

Sajad Hussain, 35, was sentenced to 15 years in April 2006 after being convicted of conspiracy to supply class A and class C drugs.

Yet before he had finished the jail term he began plotting to flood his home city of Birmingham with huge amounts of heroin.

But his plans were scuppered when he was arrested by police who raided the Saltley-based bedding factory where he was on day release from an open prison.

Officers seized a £1.5 million haul of heroin from the address and from a car at another location in the city.

Hussain has now been told he will serve a further 16 years after pleading guilty to conspiracy to supply class A drugs.

Three other members of the drugs gang were also jailed for a total of 30 years following the seven-month operation by West Midlands Police’s Serious Organised Crime Unit (SOCU).

Hussain’s brothers-in-law, Nazabat Hussain, 23, and Asif Hussain, 26, both of Albert Road, were jailed for 12 and eight years respectively after pleading guilty to conspiracy to supply class A drugs.

Naqash Younis, 33, of Hartley Road, Kingstanding, also admitted the charge and was jailed for ten years.

Two other men, aged 25 and 43, from Birmingham, were found not guilty following a two-week trial in July.

Det Insp Ronan Tyrer, from SOCU, said: “This operation was set up to focus on the suspected drug supply activities of Sajad Hussain.

“As a result, we recovered six kilograms of heroin from a business premises called Cyber Beds in Saltley and a further nine kilograms from a vehicle parked outside Younis’s address in Kingstanding. The total street value of the drugs was £1.5 million.”

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