Top, l-r: Bogdan Gugiuman, Codrin Dura, Stefan Ciuraru; Bottom, l-r: Klaudio Aleksiu, Leonard Paun (Image: Northumbria Police)

A group of men who raped and sexually exploited underage teenage girls have been jailed for a total of 39 years. The attackers, four from Romania and one from Albania, were convicted of a series of offences involving the sexual exploitation of six girls.

Codrin Dura, 27, Leonard Paun, 24, Bogdan Gugiuman, 44, Klaudio Aleksiu, 28 and Stefan Ciuraru, 23, many of whom were youths themselves at the time, carried out the offences between 2015 and 2019 against girls aged between 13 and 16, some of the offending happening in a Tyneside park.

During the trial earlier this year at Newcastle Crown Court , prosecutor Anne Richardson told the jury that the six girls inv

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