A GIRL of 13 lied about her age on Facebook and made up a story about having a baby after she was raped, a jury at Bradford Crown Court was told.

The teenager, now 18, was cross-examined today by defence barristers about allegations that she was forced by drug dealer Arif Choudhury to have sex with 13 Asian males in Keighley, between May, 2011 and June, 2012.

The girl agreed she had chatted on Facebook with some of the defendants.

Asked by Tahir Khan QC, barrister for Yasser Kabir: "Did you tell somebody that you were 18-years-old when you were only 13?" the teenager replied: "I don't think so."

Mr Khan suggested she gave a false date of birth on her Facebook page, saying she was a 17-year-old college graduate who worked at McDonald's.

He added: "Did you say you were married?"

She answered: "I don't think so."

She agreed she had been Facebook friends with Kabir, sending him a birthday message in July, 2011, "with a load of kisses and some love hearts."

Kabir's defence is that he met up with the girl on a number of occasions and she performed consensual oral sex on him but he never raped her.

She has admitted lying to the police in May, 2011, when she made up an allegation that two white males had raped her. She told officers she invented the story because she was worried about getting into trouble for being out late.

The girl also wrongly claimed she was threatened by Choudhury and made to withdraw cash for him in late 2011, while he was locked up in prison for drug dealing.

At the start of yesterday's proceedings, the Recorder of Bradford, Judge Roger Thomas QC, said some of the jurors might be aware of an incident outside the court building the previous night that may have involved some of the defendants.

He told them: "It may be there was concern raised about some members of the public who had been trying to take pictures of the defendants coming to and from court.

"What is clear, whatever happened last night, is that the vast majority of the defendants in the dock were not in fact present when that occurred.

"In a case such as this, it is not surprising that emotions run high.

"Anything that happens outside the courtroom is irrelevant for evidential purposes in the courtroom. For that reason, whatever it was that did happen last night, and whatever it is any of you may have seen, you have got to put that out of your mind and concentrate on what is happening in the court."

Kabir, 25, of Belgrave Road, Keighley, denies four allegations of rape.

Tauqeer Hussain, 23, of Belgrave Road, Keighley, and Nazir Khan, 23, of Buxton Street, Keighley, plead not guilty to three allegations of rape.

Israr Ali, 19, of Devonshire Street West, Keighley; Mohammed Sardar, 19, of Bradford Street, Lawkholme, Keighley; Saqib Younis, 29, of Bradford Street, Lawkholme, Keighley; Bilal Ziarab, 21, of Sedgwick Close, Manningham, Bradford; Sufyan Ziarab, 22, of Kendal Mellor Court, Keighley; Zain Ali, 20, of Buxton Street, Keighley, and Faisal Khan, 27, of Buxton Street, Keighley, deny two allegations of rape.

Rohail Iqbal, 22, of Skipton Road, Beechcliffe, Keighley; Rohail Hussain, 18, of Hawk Street, Lawkholme, Keighley, and a 17-year-old youth, plead not guilty to one allegation of rape.

Mohammed Akram, 62, of Holker Street, Keighley, denies one charge of sexual activity with a child under 16.

The trial continues.