Teenagers sentenced for Wigan rape

Tyquante Reid, 18, and a 16-year-old boy have been sentenced to six years eight months and six years six months detention respectively for raping an 18-year-old woman in Wigan in April 2022.

In the early hours of 18 April, the woman, who had become separated from her friends, had been refused entry in to Popworld in Wigan as she was drunk.

The two defendants, Reid being 17 years old at the time, approached her and ushered her into a taxi. She thought she was going home, but they took her to a flat in Aspull, Wigan, an area she did not know, where they took it in turns to rape her.

She begged to be allowed to go home, but they told her she could only leave after she performed oral sex on them. At 01.55am she called 911 on the pretext of taking a call from a taxi. She had been in the flat for 45 minutes.

She reported that she had been raped by two men and had no idea where she was. The operator advised her to leave the flat and knock on a door for help. A neighbour took her inside and waited with her until the police arrived.

When the defendants saw the police car arrive from the flat window, they quickly left the flat, and got a taxi out of the area.

Following a trial in October this year Tyquante Reid was found guilty of two counts of rape and the 16-year-old was found guilty of two counts of rape and one count of assault by penetration.

Wendy Chappell Senior Crown Prosecutor for CPS North West said: “These two young men showed disturbing predatory behaviour when they targeted a woman who was clearly incapable of consent through drink, in order to rape her.

“They put the woman through the further traumatic ordeal of having to relive her experience by testifying against them at a trial.

“I would like to commend this extremely brave young woman for her quick thinking in reporting it to the police and seeking safety. Her courageous actions have undoubtedly saved other woman from harm at the hands of these dangerous sexual predators.”