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Huddersfield grooming: Six men jailed for up to 15 years each for sexually abusing girls
The six men received a total of 55-and-a-half years, bringing the combined total from Operation Tendersea to 377-and-a-half years.
Usman Ali, 34, Gul Riaz, 43, Banaras Hussain, 39, Abdul Majid, 36, and two others who could not be named for legal purposes were jailed for a combined 55-and-a-half years on Wednesday.
They were found guilty of a total of nine counts of rape and two counts of indecent assault of two girls in the Huddersfield area between 1995 and 2011.
The victims, who were aged 13 and 14 when the "insidious and persistent" abuse began, were said by Judge Geoffrey Marson QC to likely "never recover" from the ordeals they suffered.
It was the sixth trial related to West Yorkshire Police's Operation Tendersea investigation - a probe into child grooming gangs in Huddersfield.
A total of 34 men have been convicted in the investigation, with prison sentences now totalling 377-and-a-half years.
Speaking at the sentencing, Judge Marson said the dozens of men convicted as part of the operation had taken advantage of the vulnerability of their victims and had built a relationship of trust.
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