An alleged member of a child sex ring in Telford picked up two schoolgirls and told them they would have to do “something sexual” to get a lift home, a court heard.

One of the girls was just 12-years-old at the time of the alleged incident in early 2009.

The girl, giving evidence as a witness at Stafford Crown Court yesterday, said Ahdel Ali drove her and a friend to an abandoned barn and implied she would have to walk home if she refused.

Ali, 23, of Regent Street, Wellington, faces 20 charges and is one of seven Telford men who deny more than 50 allegations relating to sexual exploitation and child prostitution.

The witness told the jury that she was with a 15-year-old friend – a girl who is an alleged victim in the trial and who has yet to give evidence to the court.

The girl confirmed that in May last year she had pointed out to police various locations where she and the other girl had been driven in Ali’s light blue Peugeot.

She said that an Asian teenager, who she knew as Izar, and was a friend of the other girl, had also been in the car.

The jury heard they stopped at an abandoned farm and the witness said she was left in the car with Ali while her friend was with Izar.

“They said that they would not drop us off if we didn’t do something,” said the girl.

Asked by prosecutor, Miss Deborah Gould, what she thought they were talking about, the girl said: “I gathered it was anything, like, sexual.”

“So, if you did not do anything sexual they would not drop you off?” asked Miss Gould.

“Yes,” said the schoolgirl.

Earlier she said they had been picked up in Donnington and then driven around as the two men talked about money and said they had “hundreds of pounds” that they spent on clothes.

The jury heard it was school half-term holidays and the day before the two girls had been spoken to by the two men through a car window in Trench area when it was arranged they would pick them up the next day.

The trial continues.