Two members of a girl gang who performed a bizarre sex ritual on an amateur footballer, recording the footage on a mobile phone, have been jailed.

Brogan Gillard, 26, Paige Cunningham, 22, and Shannon Jones, 20, danced around their naked victim, as Gillard chopped vegetables over him and cut his clothes and hair with scissors.

The trio then posed for trophy photos with their victim in the kitchen at Gillard’s house, posting them on Snapchat - one with the caption “Terrorised!”

Judge Graham Knowles, sentencing Gillard and Cunningham, asked members of the public to leave the court when the “sensitive” mobile phone footage was played.

Sitting beside her co-defendants in the dock, Gillard buried her head in her hands, sobbing and gasping ‘oh no’ repeatedly as the film was played.

Ringleader Gillard is seen touching the man's bottom inappropriately, while holding a pair of scissors, while another woman is heard off camera squealing encouragements at her to put the scissors into him.

The victim’s mother, who was trying to contact her son, overheard ‘girly screams’ at the other end of the line, but was not able to speak to him.

Gillard, Cunningham and Jones pleaded guilty to sexual assault and appeared at Preston Crown Court to be sentenced.

The court heard the women had picked up the young footballer in Healey’s Bar, Barrow, where he had been out with his girlfriend on November 28.

The trio plied their victim with vodka before taking him home to Gillard’s house in Keith Street - where they performed the bizarre and humiliating sex attack. Judge Knowles said: “He was at their mercy. They had none.”

Francis McEntee, prosecuting, said: “This was overall an offence of demeaning and humiliating the victim and the means of doing that was by means of sexually abusing him and recording it, terrorising him.”

Their victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was found on his doorstep by his mother, at 5.30am, wearing only the shreds of a pair of trousers and with clumps of his hair cut off.

He was dazed and confused, shouting: “Get them off me... I want to go home.”

Police went to Gillard’s house, where she claimed two gay men had been at her house, making her feel uncomfortable.

She later admitted she had lied, and said she had cut the man’s hair and told officers it was a practical joke - something she had seen in films and at parties.

Sharon Watson, defending, said Gillard was “genuinely disgusted and appalled with herself” and said the incident was “unplanned and opportunistic.”

Cunningham’s lawyer, Mike Brady, said: “There was a complete and utter lack of appreciation at the time of how serious the behaviour was. She can’t quite bring herself to believe she acted in this way.”

Judge Knowles said: “The purpose of the defendants is to demean and humiliate for their own entertainment at the time. They found it amusing, as the video clearly shows."

Following the attack the victim suffered flashbacks and was unable to sleep. He had to shave his hair to try and cover the patches left by Gillard.

Gillard, now of Brown Street, Barrow, was sentenced to 31 months behind bars and Cunningham, of Robert Street, Barrow to 10 months. Jones, of Brown Street, Barrow, will be sentenced at a later date.