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Showing 11 - 20 of 32 results for crime type "Sexual offences" & area "North West"
A sexual predator who raped lone women at knifepoint in Manchester City Centre has been jailed.Stuart Thomson, 34, was jailed for life with an 18-year minimum term at Manchester Crown Court today after being found guilty of raping three women and attempting to rape a fourth.Joanne Lovick, Senior…
A GP from Salford has been jailed after being found guilty of sexually assaulting women whilst examining them.Dr Wayne Davis, 69, was jailed for eight years at Manchester Crown Court on 13 January 2025, after conducting unnecessary, intimate examinations and procedures on two women between 1995 and…
A police officer who assaulted a vulnerable young girl while on duty and superimposed his face onto child abuse images has been jailed for nine years.Dean Dempster, 35, who was a response officer for Greater Manchester Police (GMP) based in Oldham at the time, sexually touched the child while…
Three brothers have been found guilty of non-recent child sex offences in Barrow and Leeds.Shaha Amran Miah, 48, Shaha Alman Miah, 47, and Shaha Joman Miah, 38, were convicted of child sex offences that occurred between 1996 and 2010.Amran Miah sexually abused three children and faced 16 sexual…
A predatory sex offender who targeted students in a secluded Manchester underpass has been found guilty of twelve sexual offences – following a successful prosecution by the Crown Prosecution Service.Robert Emmerson, 40, claimed he had been mistakenly identified as the perpetrator, but following a…
A care worker from Greater Manchester has been jailed after admitting sexual offences against a teenager.Shaun Vincent, 36, was jailed for 21 months on 9 September 2024 at Bolton Crown Court and was made the subject of a 10-year sexual harm prevention order.Vincent admitted some lesser offences but…
A Wythenshawe man has been jailed for attempting to abduct a 14-year-old boy in Stockport in March last year.At 4.30pm on 20th March 2023, a 14-year-old boy was walking along Jacksons Lane, Hazel Grove, Stockport when he saw an orange and black Mini parked in a layby on the opposite side of the…
A man has been jailed for 17 years for raping three women between 2021 and 2023 in Preston and Darwen.In the early hours of 3 October 2021, Nazim Asmal, 35, from Blackburn, approached a 23-year-old woman, who had lost her friends during a night out in Preston city centre, in his Audi Coupe. He…
A man who filmed himself raping unconscious women and sexually abusing children has been jailed for a string of offences including prostitution and modern slavery.Nicholas Moxham, 52, was deemed dangerous at the sentence hearing today before Manchester Crown Court and jailed for life with a minimum…
A man from Oswaldtwistle was jailed today at Preston Crown Court for 44 sexual offences.Peter Barnes, 57, was deemed a dangerous offender at the sentence hearing and jailed for 24 years with a six-year extended licence period. He was given a lifetime sexual harm prevention order and was…
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To ensure greater openness in the reporting of criminal proceedings, the CPS, the police and media representatives developed a joint protocol for working together. We are currently in the process of updating the protocol.
