The ringleader of a gang six people who groomed, raped and abused teenage girls in Rotherham in Britain has been jailed for 35 years.
Arshid Hussain (40) was found guilty of one count of conspiracy to rape, 11 indecent assaults, three rapes and a series of other charges during his trial at Sheffield Crown Court.
His brothers Basharat Hussain (39) and Bannaras Hussain (36) have also been sentenced to spend 25 years and 19 years in jail respectively. Their uncle Qurban Ali (53) has been jailed for 10 years.
Accomplice Karen MacGregor (58) was also jailed for 13 years, while Shelley Davis (40) was given an 18 month suspended sentence.
During today's sentencing, Judge Sarah Wright told the gang: "The harm you have caused is of unimaginable proportions".
Judge Wright also paid tribute to the "immense courage" of the women who came forward to give evidence.
She told the gang: "Your victims were targeted, sexualised and in some cases subjected to acts of a degrading and violent nature".
"Each of your victims was vulnerable in some way, either because they had unsettled home lives, had previously suffered ill treatment and abuse, were in local authority care or were naive young girls who despite being from loving and caring families were reaching adolescence and were susceptible to the attention that was given to them".
Earlier today, the court heard that one of the gang's victims was attacked by her own family after she suffered abuse at the hands of one of the brothers.
Prosecutor Michelle Colborne QC said Bannaras met one victim when she was 12 or 13 and she performed sex acts on him.
"He was indifferent to whether she consented or not," she said.
"When her brothers found out, they were furious with her and would physically assault her because she was involved sexually with an Asian man".
Many of the victims sat in the public gallery overlooking the packed courtroom as the sentencing hearing began.
Twelve women - now mostly aged in their 30s - had told the jury they were sexually, physically and emotionally abused in the South Yorkshire town when they were teenagers.
The court heard that the Hussain brothers "ruled Rotherham" with their drugs and guns operation and abused the girls with impunity.
On Wednesday, victims of the gang welcomed the convictions after so many years in which they were disbelieved and ignored by the authorities.
