A jury has resumed its deliberations in the trial of eight men and one woman who are accused of grooming vulnerable girls and treating them as "objects to be used and abused at will".

Prosecutors told Leeds Crown Court that three socially isolated girls from Huddersfield were lured into associating with older men, before then being treated as sexual commodities against their wishes.

The eight men are facing charges including rape and attempted rape, while the female defendant faces a count of arranging or facilitating the commission of a child sex offence.

Jurors started deliberating on Thursday, following a month-long trial.

The defendants are Banaris Hussain, 36, Umar Zaman, 31, Mohammed Arif, 32, and Samuel Fikru, 32, as well as five others who cannot be named for legal reasons.

Introducing the case to the jury last month, prosecutor Richard Wright QC said: "These men cared only for themselves and viewed these girls as objects to be used and abused at will."

Describing the girls as "vulnerable youngsters", Mr Wright said they rapidly found themselves in a situation where they had been groomed and were "unable to make truly free or informed choices".

Mr Wright said of the complainants, who were allegedly abused between 2005 and 2008: "What they plainly had in common was their young age, their social isolation, and the fact that each of them was in their own way extremely vulnerable so that they were easy targets for abuse."

Sending jurors out to resume their deliberations on Monday, Judge Geoffrey Marson QC said they should strive to reach unanimous verdicts.