A man who groomed a 13-year-old girl using Snapchat so he could sexually abuse her and encourage her to self-harm has been jailed for 20 years at Manchester Crown Court with a five year extended licence – in one of the first cases to be prosecuted under a new offence created by the Online Safety Act.

A former teacher has been sentenced for sexually assaulting three former pupils at Portsmouth Crown Court today (17 October 2025). Leo Norman, 46, was sentenced on three charges of conducting sexual activity with a child by a person of trust. The charges relate to offences which took place between September 2014 and June 2019 at St Anne’s School – a Catholic school and 6th form college in Southampton.

Norman was sentenced to 14 months imprisonment. He has also been handed a Sexual Harm Prevention Order and was made to sign the sex offenders register for ten years.

The Crown Prosecution Service has today announced Khondaker Fuad Hasan, Liu Xu Hopkins and Benjamin Hopkins have been charged with the following offences:

The Crown Prosecution Service has today announced Jose Vicente Leiva-Modahl AKA Vicente Modahl has been charged with sexual offences.

Mr Leiva-Modahl, 65, has been charged with:

•    5 counts of sexual assault on a child
•    2 counts of sexual assault on a female
•    2 counts of causing a child to engage in sexual activity
•    1 count of causing a female to engage in sexual activity
•    2 counts of rape of a child