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Jury retires in Gillingham gang rape trial of Ahmed Naeem and unnamed teenager

A jury has retired to consider verdicts in the trial of two teenagers accused of taking part in the alleged gang rape of a drunk girl at a Medway house.

Ahmed Naeem, 18, and a 17-year-old boy, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, deny rape.

The younger teenager claimed in evidence that the girl, 18, consented to sex with him. Naeem did not give evidence.

The incident was alleged to have happened in Burnt Oak Terrace, Gillingham. Picture: Google.
The incident was alleged to have happened in Burnt Oak Terrace, Gillingham. Picture: Google.

The girl told Maidstone Crown Court she went to the house in Gillingham in October last year late at night for what she thought was going to be a party.

But she said was sexually attacked by several teenagers and men. “It was one after the other,” she claimed.

Prosecutor Amanda Hamilton said when the girl she eventually arrived home at 4.30am her mother immediately saw something was wrong. She looked dazed and had lost her phone.

The girl declared: “I think I might have had sex.” She dropped her pink bra on the floor before getting a beer from the fridge.

When interviewed the next day, she said she had smoked some cannabis and had some alcohol before she went out.

She met up with some friends and they played snooker. She drank strong beer and Sambuca. Asked how drunk she was on a scale of one to 10, she said seven or eight.

The boy was locked up for sexual abuse
The boy was locked up for sexual abuse

A back calculation showed she would have been about twice the legal limit for driving.

The 17-year-old, who came to the UK from Syria, said one of his friends had been having intercourse with the girl before he went into the bedroom.

“The girl was on the bed,” he said through an Arabic interpreter. “She was naked.”

She asked him a question about his private parts, he said.

“She was happy,” he continued. “I said: ‘Do you want to try it?’ She laughed. I took it she wanted it. She made me have the desire to want to sleep with her.

“She took my shirt off. I took the rest of my clothes off. I slept with her.”

The boy said he went home and had a bath before going back to the house.

He saw the girl again. About 30 minutes later she left saying she would be back at 5pm.

The jury has been sent home for the night.

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