A SLY and evil man who abducted and raped two teenage girls has been jailed for 14 years.

Munshur Ali, 22, talked the girls, both 13, into his car, plied them with drink and drove them to a secluded spot, Manchester Crown Court heard.

He then raped both girls in turn before dropping them off in the street nearby.

Ali, of Hyde, Greater Manchester, denied the offences on November 8 last year, saying the girls were willing to have sex.

A website was even set up by family members protesting his innocence. But he was convicted of three counts of rape following a trial last month.

Clutches

Passing sentence, Judge Peter Lakin told Manchester crown court: "Once you had them in your clutches, you plied them with more alcohol. You drove them to a secluded area and then you raped them.

"You subjected these two vulnerable girls to a terrifying ordeal, an ordeal that had and continues to have a very substantial impact on both girls and their respective families. "Throughout this case you have been devious and manipulative. Not only have you made serious and deeply unpleasant allegations against the two girls, you also concocted a defence to fit the prosecution evidence against you.

"Your attempts to pull the wool over the eyes of the jury failed, and rightly so."

Following the case the victim's mothers told of their horror at what happened to their daughters.

One mum said: "I felt violently sick. I can't really explain it.

"I think they have both been very brave and very strong throughout it all.

"It has affected them though."

The other girl's mum added: "When I found out, it was more shock than anything. Her friend's mum told me. I can't remember really, it was shock. I just felt like someone had hurt my baby.

Once you had them in your clutches, you plied them with more alcohol. You drove them to a secluded area and then you raped them
Judge Peter Lakin

 "When I went in to see my daughter, she was sat in my bed fully dressed - even though I was her own mum, she didn't want to look at me.

"It was like they thought they had done something wrong. I think they felt ashamed - it's a natural thing for a woman to be ashamed.

"They were naive, and they were very trusting. They are at that age where they know right from wrong, but sometimes they don't understand the consequences - that when mum and dad tell you not to do something, you don't do it."

Detective Constable Lindsey Morgan said: "Both the girls have basically lost their innocent childhood, and they are traumatised by what's happened to them.

"What they have got to do now is try and build and put this behind them and move on with their life, but the whole family has been traumatised by the ordeal. They're going to have to work together to overcome what's happened."

Asked what she thought about Ali, she said: "I think he was a sly, evil person that knew full well what he was doing, and he went out on this evening knowing that his intention was to get vulnerable girls into his car and rape them."

She said his insistence on his innocence had further upset the families.

"He's gone down the line of the girls were committing sexual acts on themselves, and they tried to commit sexual acts on him, which is just absolutely ludicrous and absurd."