A woman has denied luring two 16-year-old girls on a night out to be raped by three men.

Stephanie Knight, 19, told a jury there was no prior agreement that the teenagers would be sexually assaulted.

It is alleged the girls were driven around and plied with vodka and drugs before one of them was forced to have sex with Knight's "boys" - brothers Amjad Hussain, 34, and Shahid Hussain, 37, and their cousin, Tanveer Butt, 39.

Amjad Hussain, whose partner was due to give birth at the time, was then said to have raped both girls as he drove them home to Blackburn, in December 2009.

Giving evidence at Burnley Crown Court today, Knight said she was "shocked" when the girls were taken to a house with no electricity in Accrington instead of the supposed visit to a nightclub.

Knight, who has been in local authority care since the age of 11, said she first met Amjad Hussain six months earlier when he pulled up beside her in the street and asked for her mobile phone number.

They went on to have a sexual relationship and she said she later fell in love with him.

In the months that followed Amjad Hussain persuaded her to perform sex acts on his brother and cousin, she said.

Her counsel, Elizabeth Nicholls, asked her: "When you went out with the girls, did you agree with Amjad that they would be raped?"

"No," she replied.

"When you went out did you expect they would perform oral sex or any form of sexual activity with these three men?" Miss Nicholls continued.

"No," she said.

"Who did you think was most likely to perform sex?"

"I thought it would be me," Knight replied.

She also denied she heard one of the girls scream out in the house in Craven Street and that she had prevented the other from going to her aid.

She said she had not tried to force one girl to perform sex acts on one of the men by threatening to assault her.

The girl who was allegedly raped at the house told the jury she had only known Knight a week before the incident.

When asked by the officer what she knew about her now, the girl replied: "She hangs around with a load of Asian lads."

Knight, of Preston New Road, Blackburn, Amjad Hussain, of Sharples Street, Accrington, Shahid Hussain, of Drake Street, Rochdale, and Butt, of St Albans Street, Rochdale, all deny conspiracy to rape.

Knight and Butt also pleaded not guilty to aiding and abetting rape, while the Hussain brothers and Butt all deny rape.

Amjad Hussain claims sex with both girls was consensual, while the other two defendants denied ever having met them.

Giving evidence, father-of-four Butt said he had never met Knight either and was in Manchester on the night of the incident.

"I swear on almighty God, who is watching me now, I have never picked up Stephanie Knight, that is a lie," he said.

He denied that on a separate occasion he drove her to Rawtenstall, ordered her out of the car and told her to walk back to Blackburn after she refused to perform sex acts on him.

He conceded he had frequented prostitutes but said it was "a terrible lie" that he had raped anyone.

"I have made mistakes. I have been to a massage parlour but I have never touched a woman in this position," he said.

"I don't go round picking up little girls."

When asked to explain why his DNA was found on a cigarette butt at the house in Accrington along with that of one of the alleged victims, he said it must have gotten there when weeks earlier he helped move furniture into Amjad Hussein's former home.

The trial continues.

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