Two shop worker brothers who groomed young girls with free sweets and mobile phone top-ups have been jailed for years of abuse.
Ilvarasan and Vinothan Rajenthiram groomed nine girls before plying them with alcohol and assaulting them.
Ilvarasan, 26 from Wirral, was sentenced to 22 and a half years in prison, while Vinothan, 27 of Wigan, received 18 and a half years. They were found guilty of a total of 30 charges spanning more than five years.
Sentencing them at Liverpool Crown Court, Judge Norman Wright said "both abused their position in the shops to target teenage girls".
The grooming happened at convenience stores the brothers worked in at Birkenhead, Walton and Garston between 2010 and January 2016.
