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Showing 21 - 30 of 32 results for crime type "Sexual offences" & area "North West"
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…
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…
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…
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…
A prominent businessman has been jailed for raping two women in Manchester 30 years ago and sexually assaulting another 10 years ago.
Former UKFast CEO Lawrence Jones, 55, was jailed for 15 years at Manchester Crown Court on 1 December 2023 for the rapes and for a sexual assault against a third…
A man has been jailed for sexual offences against three women, including drugging and raping a woman.
He was sentenced to a 32 year extended sentence, including 24 years in prison and 8 years extended licence at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court on 30 November 2023.
Steven Evans, 33, of…
A prominent businessman has been found guilty of raping two women in Manchester 30 years ago.
Former UKFast CEO Lawrence Jones, 55, denied both offences, claiming the sexual contact had been consensual with one of the women and that he had never met the other woman.
The prosecution case was…
Five men have been jailed for child sex offences in Rochdale over a four-year period.
Between 2002 and 2006 Mohammed Ghani, 38, Insar Hussain, 38, Jahn Shahid Ghani, 50, Martin Rhodes, 39, and Ali Razza Hussain Kazmi, 35, abused and sexually exploited two teenage girls.
They were all…
Two men have been found guilty following the rape of a woman in Manchester city centre in May 2021.
Brian Jalo, 25, from Salford, and Juan Quinones, 24, from Rochdale, raped a woman in an alleyway near Piccadilly Gardens on 16 May 2021.
During the evening of 15 May, Jalo and Quinones…
A dangerous predator has been found guilty of attempted rape and ABH after violently attacking two women.
Mohammed Hussain, 26, attacked the women in Cheetham Hill, Greater Manchester, in the early hours of 10 August 2022.
Shortly after 3am, Hussain approached the first woman on the street,…
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