A 15-YEAR-OLD boy and a 42-year-old man who “made a game” of raping a teenage girl will spend more than 12 years behind bars.

Teenager Kyle Downey and his accomplice Alfred Thomas took it in turns to rape their 16-year-old victim, as the other held her down.

Liverpool Crown Court heard the duo encouraged each other with a “sick game, each counting the other down”.

Sentencing them, Judge Brian Lewis said despite the age difference, he believed it was Downey, 15, who was most responsible for the attack.

He said: “You have shown no remorse for the victim or for what you did.”

In a victim impact statement, the girl, who is now 17, said she suffered flashbacks, was too afraid to leave her home, and felt she was being targeted by associates of her attackers.

Both men had denied the rape, but were found guilty by a jury.

Judge Lewis jailed married Thomas, who has learning difficulties, for seven years, while Downey was sent to a Young Offenders’ Institute for 5½ years.

Deborah Gould, prosecuting, admitted the victim had slept with both of her attackers on previous occasions, but had rejected their advances on October 1, 2007.

Ms Gould said after the attack Thomas, of Little Heath Road, Speke, had an attack of conscience, saying: “I’m going to the police station ’cos we have just raped her.”