Overview

• Prosecutors told jurors the child was taken from a Winson Green street on March 30 and found inside the defendant’s downstairs room.
• Witnesses said the girl’s mother heard crying, locals forced entry, and the child told her mother “he hurt me” after being removed from the house.
• A neighbour testified she saw both the child and Mohammed Abdulraziq with their lower clothing at their ankles and said he struck her when she tried to intervene.
• Taking the stand, Abdulraziq said the child entered to use a toilet, asked for help with her shorts, and denied any sexual touching or detaining her.
• He has pleaded not guilty to false imprisonment with intent to commit a sexual offence, an alternative of false imprisonment, sexual assault and assault, and the case remains before the jury.