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A young girl allegedly plied with drugs and repeatedly raped by three men was filmed laughing and demanding cannabis as she sat in a car with one of her abusers.
The footage, recorded on Kevin Horvath's phone, was played to jurors at Canterbury Crown Court, where he and co-defendants Ivan Turtak and Ernest Gunar are on trial accused of multiple sex offences.
The three men are alleged to have "targeted and exploited" the schoolgirl after spotting her in an Asda supermarket car park last year.
At the start of their trial, the court heard they were "complete strangers" to the youngster and, having been "encouraged" into Horvath's car with the promise of a cigarette, she was taken to Turtak's flat in Dover and then Gunar's caravan in Folkestone, given illicit substances and subjected to rape and other sexual acts.
Following his arrest, Horvath, who lives in Dover, revealed the existence of the video he had filmed following the alleged abuse, telling officers he thought it would "save" him.
It had been taken by him as he and the girl, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, were sat in his parked Skoda.
Sitting in the front passenger seat, she repeatedly asks for a joint, only to be refused by Horvath, and also talks about wanting to die.
When she demands he unlocks the door, saying she is going for a walk, Horvath can be heard saying "No walk, not going nowhere. I won't let you out. I won't let you nowhere".
Then, once the door has been opened, she complies with his request to close it.
The girl then tells him she is thinking about "dying", prompting him to reply: "Dying, why? It's not time to die."
She then sarcastically responds "Funny", to which Horvath answers "It's not funny", before asking her how many times she had "try to die".
Having been told "About nine", he then tells her, laughing: "See! And it didn't happen. Nine times and still alive."
The sound of a passing train in the background leads to the youngster asking how far to a station, to be told by Horvath it was a six-hour walk.
Her reply of "Whatever" was then repeated several times by him in a seemingly mocking tone, prompting the girl to ask several more times for a joint.
During the footage she also asks for alcohol but is again refused. Horvath can then be heard asking the girl a series of basic sums, such as two plus two, and four plus four.
She answers the first three correctly but, when she says she does not know the answer to the fourth, Horvath expresses mock horror before she and Horvath start laughing.
The youngster then continues to ask for cannabis and, as Horvath repeatedly says no, she seems to light-heartedly threaten "I will punch you" before imploring "I want a joint. Let me have a joint."
The conversation also includes her asking if she can drive his car - again refused - as well as further requests for "a fag, joints and alcohol".
At one stage Horvath is heard to ask her to "stop banging your head" before he tickles her in her ribs.
As well as watching that recording last week, the court has also been shown CCTV footage of Horvath, Gunar and the young girl swimming in a Kent hotel pool over the two-days it is alleged she was subjected to her rape ordeal.
It showed her waiting outside the hotel alone before walking in a few seconds behind Gunar and ahead of Horvath.
Several members of the public were present in both the lobby area and pool, and at the end of the swim session all three could be seen apparently laughing and joking with a receptionist before leaving.
The girl later told police that during her alleged ordeal, threats had been made to kill her if she tried to run or raise the alarm.
Subsequent tests revealed traces of crystal meth and THC - the breakdown product of cannabis - in her system.
The jury has been told that Turtak, 38, denies rape of a child but has admitted taking an indecent photo of the girl as she stood naked in his bath after it is alleged she had been forced to perform a sex act on him.
The image was classed as level C - the least serious of categorisation levels - by police.
Horvath, 25, has pleaded not guilty to sexual assault of a child but admitted three charges of rape and one of assault by penetration.
Gunar, 27, denies assault of a child by penetration, sexual assault of a child, and two offences of rape. He has pleaded guilty to one charge of rape.
It is the prosecution case that all three targeted the youngster and gave her drugs to "facilitate her compliance" with their sexual desires.
"We say that she was passed around and treated effectively as a receptacle for their own sexual gratification and the defendants' conduct, in the Crown's case, was callous, degrading and it was entirely exploitative," said prosecutor Hannah Llewellyn-Waters.
Following his arrest and while being booked into custody, Horvath told officers he had had sex with the girl but that she had said she was 20 years old.
He also said: "I didn't kidnap no one, I didn't rape no one."
When formally interviewed, Horvath replied 'No comment' to most of the questions asked but again denied he had raped the girl and maintained he had not given her drugs and alcohol.
Ms Llewellyn-Waters told the jury it was the prosecution case that in the video-recording the schoolgirl appeared to be shaky, was voicing her desire to get out and to die and, in asking her to do simple sums, Horvath was "determining the levels of her intoxication".
When his Skoda was searched, police found the girl's phone and a bottle of Jack Daniel's.
Jurors have been told that the rape offence involving Turtak is alleged to have occurred at his flat and it is accepted by the prosecution that he was never at the caravan with his co-defendants.
The trial continues.