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| Guilty ... Seven members of Oxford sex gang |
The men, including two sets of brothers, were convicted of a string of brutal crimes against their victims.
A five-month trial at the Old Bailey heard the Oxford-based gang sexually exploited girls as young as 11.
They were found guilty of a catalogue of offenses against the vulnerable underage girls, including rape, trafficking and organizing prostitution, last month.
Akhtar Dogar, 32, and Anjum Dogar, 31, were told they had been found guilty of “exceptionally grave crimes” as they were jailed for a minimum of 17 years.
Co-defendant Kamar Jamil, 27, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 12 years.
The judge Peter Rook told him: “I accept that you were a follower rather than a leader, the leadership role was played by the Dogar brothers.”
But he said Jamil had joined in the group rape of one of the victims and accepted that he was a risk to girls aged 11 to 16.
The judge said the gang had targeted vulnerable girls and that on occasions “the depravity was extreme”.
He added: “You targeted the young girls because they were vulnerable, underage and out of control.”
Each of the six victims had shown “enormous courage” in giving evidence during the trial.
He said they had attended “knowing that they would be accused of lying, knowing they would have to relive their ordeals, knowing that they have not been believed in the past”.
Mohammed Karrar, 38, was given life with a minimum of 20 years for the “dreadful offences” he committed against the girls.
The judge said he treated one of his victims as his “commodity” and forced another to carry out “depraved sexual” acts.
He told Karrar, who was found guilty of 18 offences, including rape of a child under 13 and procuring an abortion, conspiracy to rape, child prostitution and trafficking: “You do and will continue to represent a high risk to young girls.”
His brother, Bassam Karrar, 34, was also handed a life sentence.
Jailing him for a minimum of 15 years, the judge referred to the “grotesque sex acts” he had carried out with his older brother.
He had been found guilty of nine offences including rape of a child under 13, conspiracy to rape a girl under 13, child prostitution and trafficking, which the judge described as “offences of truly exceptional gravity”.
Assad Hussain, 32, received a total of seven years in prison.
The judge told him he had been convicted of serious offences, although they were in a “different league” to those of his five co-defendants.
“In my view you do have a predatory sexual interest in young girls and your actions show a callous disregard for the consequences of your actions,” he said.
The judge said Hussain - who the court heard had lost two young children with his wife because of a congenital defect - had no history of sexual offending and although he had previous convictions, they were “of a different nature”.
Zeeshan Ahmed, 28, was jailed for seven years for two counts of sexual activity with a child.
The judge said he had known the girl was aged just 14 and he was still deemed harmful to girls under 16.
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