Schoolgirl, 13, 'gang-raped by boys who filmed ordeal on mobile phone'

A 13-year-old schoolgirl was gang-raped at knifepoint by three teenage boys who filmed the attack on a mobile phone, a jury heard today.

The girl, who had walked out of school after being bullied, was led to the eighth floor of a block of flats for the ordeal which was filmed by her 14 and 15-year-old attackers, it is claimed.

The alleged attack on an estate in Peckham, South-East London, on February 24 this year, was interrupted by teachers who came to the scene after a friend raised the alarm at school, Inner London Crown Court heard.

The four-minute video was apparently extracted from a phone belonging to one of three youths arrested.

The footage, played to the jury, shows one teenager pushing on the victim's chest as he rapes her, while his friend forces her to perform a sex act.

Jurors watched as the boy filming the incident reaches into frame to make an 'ok' sign with his fingers.

Two of the boys, who were sitting in the well of the court with their parents, bowed or covered their faces as the explicit video was played.

Tom Wilkins, prosecuting, told the jury: 'The Crown's case is that together in a group these defendants raped a girl who was at the time was 13, and they recorded it on a mobile telephone.

'Events started in the morning, shortly before nine o'clock.

'She had decided to leave school with a friend of hers.

'There had been some name calling of her and as she was leaving she saw these three defendants.

'They asked her where she was going and she replied: 'Home'.

'She never made it home. Instead she was taken to a block of flats.'

As she was led away she turned to her friend who saw her mouth the words: 'Don't leave me.' The friend waited outside the tower as she disappeared.

Before going in, one of the boys, now aged 16, asked her for oral sex and she refused, said the barrister.

He persisted, allegedly asking her to get into the lifts with him.

Mr Wilkins added: 'As she started to walk away, he said "You don't know what's in my pocket". A clear threat. Scared, she got into the lift with all three boys.'

A second boy, now 15, allegedly pulled out a flick knife which a third boy, now 16, took from him and played around with in front of her, it is claimed.

While the girl was subjected to the degrading assault on the eighth floor, her friend went to get help at school, jurors heard.

Shortly afterwards, it is claimed, the third boy spotted a teacher approaching the block and could be heard to say: 'Oh s**t, what are we going to do?'

Mr Wilkins said: 'There is a general panic and they hurriedly leave the block.' They took the lift back outside and fled on a bus, the court heard.

The teacher found the alleged victim on the estate and she was taken for medical help.

The prosecutor said an intimate examination revealed she had been subjected to sexual activity and was bleeding. continues here

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