Youngsters would had to have been "devious and deceitful" to make up claims they were alleged victims of a child sex ring, a court heard.

Prosecutors on Tuesday began closing speeches in the trial of seven men and four women at the High Court in Glasgow.

The group deny a series of charges alleged to have occurred in the city between January 2010 and October 2020.

The accusations involve four children with allegations including rape, other sex offences and attempted murder.

Prosecutor Kath Harper spoke to jurors following the end of evidence in the trial, which started in early September.

The court earlier heard pre-recorded testimony and police interviews from a number of the children.

Referring to the account given by one girl, Miss Harper said: "She was describing, as was the boy, her normal.

"Not a few days, weeks or months, but a significant part of her short life."

The boy was said to have become "desensitised" to what allegedly occurred. The children were also described as having been subjected to a "scary and confusing world".

Miss Harper later stated any suggestion of the claims of physical and sexual abuse being untrue meant there had been "collusion" and "fabrication" of allegations of the "most monstrous kind".

She added it would have been "off the scale devious and deceitful" as well as "highly organised".

Over the next few days, jurors will go on to hear speeches from the 11 defence lawyers before judge Lord Beckett give them his legal directions.

Iain Owens, 45, Elaine Lannery, 39, Lesley Williams, 41, Paul Brannan, 41, Marianne Gallagher, 38, Scott Forbes, 50, Barry Watson, 47, Mark Carr, 50, Richard Gachagan, 45, Leona Laing, 51, and John Clark, 47, deny the accusations they face.

The trial continues.