THE jury in the Keighley schoolgirl rape trial will tomorrow resume considering its verdicts.

The panel first retired on Tuesday in the five week case at Bradford Crown Court.

Thirteen Asian males deny raping a vulnerable girl, aged 13 to 14, between May, 2011, and June, 2012.

The teenager, who was reported missing from home 71 times, is said to have been abused in the grounds of Cliffe Castle, at Burgess Fields, behind the library and the leisure centre, in the Stockbridge Tunnel subway and in the underground car park at the town's former police station.

A second alleged victim was involved in a single rape allegation, dating from 2009 when she was 15, the jury has been told.

Before the court are Yasser Kabir, 25, of Belgrave Road, Keighley, who denies four allegations of rape; Tauqeer Hussain, 23, of Belgrave Road, Keighley, and Nazir Khan, 23, of Buxton Street, Keighley, who both 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, who 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, who cannot be named for legal reasons, who plead not guilty to one allegation of rape.

Mohammed Akram, 63, of Holker Street, Keighley, denies sexual activity with a child under 16.