TWO rapists who lured a teenage girl to a pitch dark park before taking it in turns to sexually assault her have each been jailed for 10 years.

Predators Toseef Mahmood and Mohammed Asghar showed no emotion as they were sent down on Monday for their part in the horrific attack in Purley on Fireworks Night 2011.

Reading Crown Court heard the pair, both now 23, and an unidentified third man, lured their 17-year-old victim to Purley Park, kicked the back of her legs to force her onto her knees and made her perform a sex act.

Sentencing the east Reading men - who were wearing matching tracksuits - Judge Stephen John said: “These offences amounted to a gang rape of this 17-year-old girl. This is a very bad case and the sentences I impose would have been greater had you been older.

“You showed no remorse. Each of you displayed in your own evidence an appallingly cynical attitude and you totally failed to acknowledge that your own conduct was morally wrong. The attitude each of you displayed towards women is deplorable and is to be deprecated.”

Their nine-day trial in December heard that they tried to silence the girl with threats before Asghar stole her mobile phone to prevent her calling police.

Judge John said: “I am satisfied that threats were made to throw the girl into the river and by saying she didn’t know what you were capable of. I strongly suspect they were bravado, I am however sure she was terrified that they were not.”

Asghar, of Carnarvon Road and Mahmood, of Cumberland Road, were both found guilty of attempted rape, assault by penetration and aiding and abetting rape. Asghar also admitted stealing the teenager’s phone.

Nadia Chbat, defending Asghar, said: “This is a young man who achieved poor GCSE results and he doesn’t seem to have engaged in employment of any significance. Any sentence you pass cannot take away the shame he has brought upon his family.”

John Simmons, for Mahmood, whose first child is expected in six weeks, said: “He is a young man who has never been convicted before. He comes from a solid working family and the disgrace and humiliation he has heaped upon them is something he’ll have to bear for the rest of his life.”