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Showing 1 - 10 of 33 results for crime type "Sexual offences" & area "Mersey-Cheshire"

Former children’s nurse jailed for non-recent sexual abuse

An 82-year-old former children’s nurse has been jailed for 25 years for the sexual abuse of four boys during the 1960s and 1970s.

| Press Release , Sexual offences , Mersey-Cheshire News

Man jailed for raping and controlling a woman

A twenty-three year old Cheshire man has been jailed for raping and controlling a woman over a number of months.

| Press Release , Sexual offences , Mersey-Cheshire News

Serial child abuser gets 35-year sentence

A serious and persistent child sex offender has been given a 35-year sentence for a number of non-recent offences against two young boys.

| Press Release , Sexual offences , Mersey-Cheshire News

Man who offered boys money and then sexually assaulted them jailed

A man who offered four boys under 9 money and then sexually assaulted them has been jailed.

| Press Release , Sexual offences , Mersey-Cheshire News

Man who worked with children jailed for 33 child sex offences

A man who worked as a teaching assistant and as a volunteer with a children’s activity group in Cheshire has been jailed for eight years for 33 child sexual abuse offences.

| Press Release , Sexual offences , Mersey-Cheshire News

Man jailed for years of abuse that left a girl traumatised

A man who systematically abused a girl from when she was 10 years old until she was 17 and left her traumatised has been jailed.

| Press Release , Sexual offences , Mersey-Cheshire News

Man jailed for raping teenage customer in a shop

A man has been jailed for nine years for raping a teenage girl who came into the shop where he was working on Merseyside.

| Press Release , Sexual offences , Mersey-Cheshire News

Man who raped and assaulted women while they slept jailed

A Merseyside man has been sentenced for a series of rapes and sexual assaults committed against two women over a period of 15 years.

| Press Release , Sexual offences , Mersey-Cheshire News

Persistent sex offender jailed and deemed "dangerous"

A persistent sex offender whose assaults on four women in St Helens left them shocked and traumatised, has been jailed and deemed as “dangerous”.

| Press Release , Sexual offences , Mersey-Cheshire News

Dangerous predatory paedophile jailed

A Merseyside man who consistently sexually abused a girl from when she was 9 until she was 15 has been given a 16-year custodial sentence in total.

| Press Release , Sexual offences , Mersey-Cheshire News

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