A man who pretended to be an Uber driver so he could carry out sex attacks on young women has been jailed for 18 years, extended for a further five years.

Graham Head sexually assaulted a 19-year-old woman in a Brighton park, who managed to message a friend saying she was being raped. When her friend called back, the man ran off before her friend came to collect her. 

A man has been sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment for grooming and raping a schoolgirl in Rotherham 20 years ago.

The Crown Prosecution Service’s (CPS) dedicated Organised Child Sexual Abuse Unit prosecuted Paul Richardson, 63, following an investigation by the National Crime Agency (NCA) under Operation Stovewood.

Following a trial, Richardson was found guilty of four counts of rape and one count of attempted rape following a trial at Sheffield Crown Court. He was sentenced today at the same court.

A former ordained Church of England priest has been found guilty of multiple counts of indecent assaults on nine women in Sheffield in the 1980s and 1990s.

Chris Brain, 68, has been found guilty of 17 counts of indecent assault at Inner London Crown Court on 20 August 2025. He was cleared of a further 15 counts of the same offence. 

Brain became involved in a religious community in the 1980s of which he was considered a leader.

It was at this time that Brain used his position to assault females associated with the religious group.