Takeaway driver accused of handcuffing and raping girl plied with crack cocaine

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A takeaway delivery driver handcuffed and raped a teenage girl who had been plied with crack cocaine, a jury has been told.

The 16-year-old alleged victim said in police interviews that she had told Mustafa Iqbal, of Trellewelyn Road, Rhyl, she did not want to have sex with him.

But in a video shown to the jury the girl, known as Child A, described how she was sexually assaulted in the bedroom of a house in Prestatyn, Denbighshire, after being taken there by the 43-year-old.

The defendant faces 21 charges involving the sexual exploitation of three girls between 2022 and 2024, including four counts of rape and two of conspiracy to traffic.

Iqbal is one of four men from Rhyl on trial at Caernarfon Crown Court.

He denies three charges of raping the teenager, who cannot be identified for legal reasons.

Iqbal also denies the rape of a 15-year-old girl and the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl in Rhyl in 2022, identified in court as Child B and Child C.

In police interviews, his oldest alleged victim said she would be picked up by Iqbal "every single day" and driven to a property owned by Sarah Gray, 53, of Llanasa Road, Gronant.

She told the police that Gray would accept crack cocaine from Iqbal and leave him and the girl alone in the house.

Gray has been charged with perverting the course of justice, assissting an offender, conspiracy to supply cocaine to another and conspiracy to supply cannabis to another.

The teenager said on one occasion she had smoked a pipe of cocaine when Iqbal began sexually assaulting her on a bed.

He then grabbed her wrists and put handcuffs on her.

"He raped me," she told the police.

Asked if she had given consent, she replied: "No."

"I could move but I couldn't get him off," she said.

"He made sure he was getting what he wanted, no matter what."

Two other men, Mohamed Usman Arshad, 36, of Clifton Grove, Rhyl and Ziaullah Badsha, 25, of Brighton Road, Rhyl, have also pleaded not guilty to the rape of 15-year-old Child B.

Another man, Jaswinder Singh, 65, of River Street, Rhyl is accused of trafficking Child B, and also denies supplying her with cannabis.

The trial continues.