COURT SEES 'RAPE' FILM.Byline: JON CLEMENTS A JURY was yesterday shown footage of a girl of 13 allegedly being gang raped at knifepoint knife·point n. The sharp end of a knife. Idiom: at knifepoint Under threat of being stabbed or cut with a knife: was mugged at knifepoint. by three teenage boys who filmed her on a mobile phone. The girl, who had left school after being bullied, was led to the eighth floor of a block of flats for the humiliating hu·mil·i·ate tr.v. hu·mil·i·at·ed, hu·mil·i·at·ing, hu·mil·i·ates To lower the pride, dignity, or self-respect of. See Synonyms at degrade. ordeal, which her 14 and 15-year-old attackers filmed. The assault on an estate in Peckham, South London South London (known colloquially as South of the River) is the area of London south of the River Thames. Some neighbourhoods north of the Thames have South London postal codes (SW), but these neighbourhoods are classified as West or Central London. , on February 24 this year, was interrupted by teachers who rushed to the scene after the girl's friend ran back to school and raised the alarm, Inner London crown court The Inner London Sessions House Crown Court, more commonly known as the Inner London Crown Court, is a Crown Court in London, United Kingdom. It is located in the Sessions House on Newington Causeway at the corner of Harper Road in the Newington area of the London Borough heard. The four-minute video was found on a mobile phone belonging to one of the suspects. It shows one boy pushing the victim's chest as he has sex with her while his friend apparently forces the schoolgirl to perform a sex act. Two of the boys sitting in the court with their parents, bowed or covered their faces as the explicit clip was played. Tom Wilkins, prosecuting, said: "The Crown's case is that together in a group these defendants raped a girl who was at the time 13, and they recorded it on a mobile telephone." The boys were arrested within a day. Two made no comment and one admitted having consensual sex with her. The two boys now 16, of Kennington and Brockley respectively, and the now 15-year-old, of Peckham, all deny rape. The trial continues. CAPTION(S): TRIAL Court in London |
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