by Keith Hunt

Three men who laughed as they gang raped a teenage girl at a party have been warned to expect lengthy jail sentences.

Benjamin Millen, 23, Max Parker, 27, and Ryan King, 20, all claimed the victim consented to sex in a bedroom at a house in Dartford.

But a jury of six men and six women convicted them of rape by a 10-2 majority.

Millen, known as Mush, of Holywell Lane, Upchurch, Sittingbourne, King, known as Doom, of Moore Close, Dartford, and Parker, of Fleetdale Parade, Dartford, were refused bail and remanded in custody until sentence next month.

Maidstone Crown Court heard the girl went to the party in September last year with her boyfriend but he left after he was attacked by another guest.

She confronted the man she described as "a bit of a psycho". Soon afterwards, she was taken into the bedroom by one of the rapists.

Millen, Parker and King then took turns to have unprotected sex with the intoxicated teenager as she kept her eyes shut.

Prosecutor Catherine Donnelly said the victim did not move or scream or say anything. She could hear the men laughing and saying: "Let me have a go."

Soon after the sex attack, a girl came into the room and shouted: "Get off of her, you are f------ disgusting."

The men responded: "What, we haven’t done anything."

The girl who barged into the room earlier heard voices say to another youth she knew to be a virgin: "Come and lose your V plates."

Adjourning sentence until November 1, Judge Philip St John-Stevens told the three men: "You must appreciate a substantial period of imprisonment must follow."