Teenage victim of alleged Doncaster grooming duo pressured into smoking drugs until she 'saw double'
“They [the defendants] kept saying ‘go on, don’t be boring, just do it.’”
A teenage girl told a jury how two Doncaster men allegedly pressured her into smoking cannabis before taking her phone off her and raping her.
A trial is underway at Sheffield Crown Court for two men charged with trafficking and sexually abusing seven underage girls after plying them with alcohol, cash, drugs and e-cigarettes.
The girls, some of whom were known to each other, were allegedly targeted through Snapchat and abused by defendants Bawan Harwe, 28, and Sharam Muhamadi, 20, in 2024.
Evidence from Girl D
At court on Thursday (May 14), a jury heard a video interview one of the alleged victims - designated Girl D, who was 14 at the time - gave police where she described being pressured to take drugs before being isolated and raped by Harwe.
“I kept saying no, I don’t want any,” said the girl on the video, who was wearing her school uniform when she spoke to officers.
“They [the defendants] kept saying ‘go on, don’t be boring, just do it.’
“They put the joint to my lips and made me do it.”
On Wednesday, the jury heard an account of the night at an address in Doncaster from another of the victims, Girl C.
Girl C described how she and Girl D were each given dresses and told to shower before being given alcohol and cannabis, to the point Girl D said she was “seeing double.”
During the night, Muhamadi (20) reportedly said he was 17, Murwe (28) said he was 16, while Girl C and Girl D said their were 15 and 14.
The jury heard they were both repeatedly raped by both men.
At one point, Girl D was allegedly isolated by Harwe in a bedroom, where he kept putting his hands on her despite her saying no “three or four times.”
Girl D said: “He grabbed my phone out my hands and put it on the table.
“He pulled me by the wrist to stand up and turned me around.”
A common detail among all of the girls’ accounts so far include being made to shower after every offence, and being introduced to Harwe because he advertised e-cigarettes on Snapchat.
In each offence heard so far, the victim also told Harwe and Muhamadi they were under 16, with Harwe allegedly saying either “I don’t need to know”, encouraging them to say they were 18, or “age is age.”
The charges faced by the defendants
The defendants are accused of a total of 21 offences between them, with both men accused of multiple counts of rape and trafficking charges.
They deny the charges.
However, Harwe, 28, of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty to one count of rape committed against the 12-year-old victim.
He denies one further count of rape of a child under 13, along with: five counts of rape of a girl aged 13/14/15; two counts of adult meeting a girl under 16 years of age following grooming; two counts of false imprisonment and six counts of arranging or facilitating travel of another person with a view of exploitation.
Mr Muhamadi, now aged 20, of Hexthorpe Road, Doncaster, denies one count of rape of a girl aged 13/14/15; one count of rape of a girl under 13 and three counts of arranging or facilitating travel of another person with a view of exploitation.