Eight men have been convicted of sexually exploiting teenage girls in Rotherham.

The court heard how the men "sexualised" their victims and subjected them, in some instances, to acts of a "degrading and violent nature" between 1999 and 2003.

One girl and her family told police, their MP and the then home secretary David Blunkett about the abuse and eventually moved to Spain to get away from the men.

The jury retired to consider verdicts on October 11 and on Monday convicted all eight gang members on all counts after deliberating for almost 18 hours.

They were remanded in custody for sentencing on November 4.

Professor Alexis Jay's 2014 inquiry, commissioned by Rotherham Borough Council, found at least 1,400 children were subjected to sexual exploitation in the town between 1997 and 2013.