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Showing 21 - 24 of 24 results for crime type "Sexual offences" & area "North West"

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Former high school teacher jailed for child sexual offences against pupils

A former teacher has been jailed for sexual offences against two pupils at the school where she worked.Rebecca Joynes, 30, who taught at a Manchester high school, claimed there was no sexual contact between her and the first schoolboy and claimed sexual contact did not take place with the second…
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High school teacher guilty of child sex offences against pupils

A teacher has today been found guilty of child sex offences against two pupils at the school where she worked.Rebecca Joynes, 30, who taught at a Manchester high school, claimed there was no sexual contact between her and the first schoolboy and claimed sexual contact did not take place with the…
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Man jailed for life after raping two females in Oldham

A man has been jailed for life after raping a teenager and a woman in June and November 2022.On 28 March 2024, Paul Creedy, 31, from Manchester, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 13 years and four months.On 11 June 2022, Creedy invited a 15-year-old girl to a house in Oldham.He gave her…
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Blackpool child sex offender jailed

A man from Blackpool has been jailed for 21 sexual offences against children, including two counts of rape.Daniel Pritchard, 44, was sentenced today at Preston Crown Court to 26 years in prison with a two-year extended licence and given a sexual harm prevention order for life.Pritchard was…
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