Seven years for rapist of child forced into vice life

Simon Kandrac, 20, paid a relative 40 for the Slovakian teenager before taking her to a hotel room and forcing her to have sex.

Sheffield Crown Court heard the girl, who had run away from a children's home after her mother died, was tricked into travelling to Britain for a "better life".

But after arriving in Sheffield on a false passport she was immediately set to work on the streets as a child prostitute. She was held captive, beaten, drugged and told she would be killed if she tried to escape.

She had sex against her will with at least 40 men before she escaped, after an Iraqi punter took pity on her and called the police.

Three Slovakian nationals were jailed for a total of 50 years in December after being convicted of trafficking the girl into the UK for sexual exploitation, causing the girl to become a prostitute and controlling a child prostitute.

Marcel Dunka, 27, and Roman Dunka, 34, were also convicted of unlawfully imprisoning the girl and were each jailed for 17 years.

Alzbeta Dunkova, 26, who travelled to Slovakia to bring over the girl, was jailed for 16 years.

Kandrac was living in the same house in Page Hall Road, Sheffield, as the other Slovaks, who are of Roma gipsy origin.

Marcel Dunka is his brother-in-law, Alzbeta Dunkova his sister and Roman Dunka his brother.

After Kandrac was found guilty of two offences of rape after a retrial yesterday, Det Sgt Alisdair Duncan, of the North East Yorkshire and Humber Immigration Crime team said: "It is a superb result and the victim can put this behind her. She has been very brave throughout."