Britain's first Pakistani Muslim peer from Rotherham was later convicted for sexually assaulting children. During trial, prosecutor Tom Little QC told the court Lord Ahmed had attempted to rape the girl in the early 1970s, when the defendant was aged 16 or 17 but she was much younger.
The repeated attacks on the boy, who was aged under 11 at the time, also happened during the same period.
Mr Little said Lord Ahmed claimed the allegations were a "malicious fiction" but a phone recording of a 2016 conversation between the two victims showed they were not "made-up or concocted".
Lord Ahmed, who was convicted following a retrial, resigned from the House of Lords in November 2020 after a conduct committee report concluded he had sexually and emotionally exploited a vulnerable woman who sought his help.
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Ms Giuffre says the duke sexually assaulted her on three occasions when she was under the age of 18.
The first time was in 2001 in London. In a 2019 interview with the BBC, she said she was introduced to Prince Andrew by Epstein and his then-girlfriend, socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, who took them to a nightclub. Ms Giuffre recounts being told by Ms Maxwell as a 17-year-old that she had to "do for Andrew what I do for Jeffrey". Ms Giuffre Later that evening she says she had sex with the duke upstairs at Ms Maxwell's house in Belgravia.
On the second occasion, it is alleged that Prince Andrew abused Ms Giuffre in Epstein's mansion in New York. And she says the duke abused her a third time on Epstein's private island, Little St James, in the US Virgin Islands.
Ms Giuffre says in the court documents that she was forced into sex by explicit or implicit threats and because she feared the powerful connections, wealth and authority of Epstein, Ms Maxwell and Prince Andrew.
She says the duke knew her age and that she was a sex-trafficking victim.
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