James Grant ran a “tuckshop” from his home in Harehills, and from his motorbike, along with selling cannabis “spliffs”, in order to get close to two 12-year-old girls, Leeds Crown Court heard. He would insist on hugging them and tried to undo the bra of one. The 42-year-old was found guilty after a trial of four sexual assaults on children under the age 13, one count of supplying cannabis and one of dealing in cannabis. He admitted an offence of possessing an offensive weapon in a private...
The young girl was sexually assaulted by the man between 2017 and 2019
Jury selection is underway in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court for a city man accused of assaulting a young girl over a period of months.
Henderson police released details Thursday on a suspect who apparently tried to lure young women into his truck.
But the profile Robert Burke had singled out had been set up by a paedophile hunter group looking to catch online perverts. The 60-year-old was jailed at Leeds Crown Court this week. Prosecutor Robert Galley said Burke had contacted the Facebook profile in 2022, telling the supposed 14-year-old that she was “gorgeous”. But “within half an hour” of making contact, he began making lewd suggestions about having sex with the girl. He requested pictures of her vagina and sent her a picture of his...
A total of 25 men have been jailed for a collective 346 years over the rape, sexual abuse, and trafficking of young girls in West Yorkshire.
Ahmed Sablu caught the train and had booked a room at Leeds Ibis hotel after targeting what he thought was a child. But the profile was a decoy run by the hunter group, Predator Exposure, who had created the image of the girl using CGI. They confronted Sablu when he arrived at Leeds Railway Station on February 12. The 24-year-old first made contact with the girl on December 30, sending a friend request. They traded hundreds of messages over the following weeks on different platforms, including...
A UK adaptation of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, based on the YA mystery novels by Holly Jackson, has found a Stateside home. Starring Wednesday‘s Emma Myers and originally commissioned to debut in the UK and Ireland on BBC Three and BBC iPlayer, A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder now will also stream in […]
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Father of missing 10-year-old talks about his range of emotions at the discovery of his daughter's remains nearly 24 years after she went missing.
SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A man charged with rape allegedly tried to run from police during his arrest. According to the Scranton Police Department, on April 5 a child informed investigators that a man identified as Paul Rixford, 31, of Scranton, committed inappropriate sexual actions towards the victim. Police say Rixford was brought in []
He also took secret pictures of people in a Leicester tanning salon