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Quote:Two men who groomed, exploited and raped teenage girls have been jailed for a total of 37 yearsThe Lancashire Telegraph:
'Two men have been jailed following a complex investigation into the grooming, exploitation and rape
of vulnerable young women. In 2019 police launched an operation following numerous reports of sexual
assaults on a number of girls.
On Friday, Amos Ocheng, 51, of Winckley Square, Preston, was convicted of the rape of three girls,
three trafficking offences and three counts of supplying drugs, following a trial.
All the victims were girls aged between 14 and 19 at the time of the offences.
Ocheng’s friend Dickson Ngaunde, 27, of Stanford Avenue, Brighton, Sussex was convicted at the same
trial of the rape of one girl aged 19. Footage was recovered from Ngaunde’s mobile phone of him having
sex with the girl who was clearly unconscious at the time.
Amos Ocheng and Dickson Ngaunde.
The offences were all committed in Preston in 2019. Ocheng was sentenced to a total of 27 years and
Ngaunde for ten years. Ocheng was also classed as a dangerous offender.
The victims have all described the traumatic impact of what Ocheng, who also uses the names Max and
Tyrese, and Ngaunde, who used the aliases DJ Dickson and Jimmy Rowen, did on their lives, including
one of them attempting suicide and another being made homeless.
Detective Chief Inspector Steve Holgate, who led Operation Command, said: “There was a pattern of
behaviour indulged in by both these men where young, vulnerable females are befriended for one
singular purpose, their own sexual gratification.
“I would like to commend first and foremost the bravery of the young women who have reported these
offences and gone through the trial process – it cannot have been an easy experience to relive what
was done to them but these convictions would not have been possible without them and I am grateful
for what they have done.
“I am grateful too for the work the Crown Prosecution Service and counsel have done in securing these
convictions and to the trial jury who carefully considered the evidence and delivered the guilty verdicts.
“We would encourage anyone who has been a victim of a sexual assault to come forward.
"The decision to report an assault is a hugely personal one, but we want to reassure people that all reports
to us are taken very seriously and we will investigate in a sensitive and supportive way.
"We offer support and working with you to ensure that you have the right help from the appropriate services.”..'
Quote:Farmer finds body dumped on Yorkshire moor 18 miles from where gang with machetesThe Sun:
and iron bars attacked man in street
'A farmer found a body dumped on a Yorkshire moor 18 miles from where a gang wielding machetes
and iron bars attacked a man in the street. The countryman made the grim discovery while checking
his lambs in Rishworth, Calderdale, at around 6.40am on May 13.
Rishworth, Calderdale.
He flagged down a local police woman who was driving to work to start her shift.
A post mortem revealed the victim, believed to be in his 20s from the Moss Side area of Manchester,
suffered serious head injuries after being struck with a weapon.
The death is thought to be linked to a gang revenge attack near a church in Crumpsall, Manchester,
at around 3.40am on the same day. One witness claimed a gang armed with metal bars chased the
man near St Matthew with St Mary.
The mum-of-two, who was too scared to give her name, told The Sun Online: "I was woken up by a van
screeching. I looked out of my window and saw five or six men waving metal bars in the air, chasing
after a white man.
They were smashing the van with machetes. The driver managed to drive off but two men were hanging
on to the sides. "I was so scared. I haven't been able to sleep since."
Police have been going door to door asking residents if they heard or saw anything.
Greg Hill, 45, said: "There were lots of detectives in the street yesterday. And I saw a woman police officer
searching for clues in the church grounds. But I didn't see anything."
Dog walker Sam Johnson, 55, said: "There are a lot of gangs selling drugs around here. When there is trouble,
they ring each other and descend on mass."
Detectives are checking CCTV from the nearby Turnpike By Maya bar and restaurant which overlooks the
Booth Wood Reservoir. The suspects would have driven past it after leaving the M62, probably at Junction 22.
They would then have driven up the small Pike End Road and taken the dirt track which used to be a main
route over the Pennine Hills between West Yorkshire and Lancashire. The old turnpike is now only used by hikers,
dog walkers and residents of the hamlet Little London, which is just 100 yards from where the body was dumped.
One resident, a retired former West Yorkshire Police officer, said: "The gang must have come off the motorway
looking for somewhere quiet to dispose of the body. They have driven up this private road and seen the houses
and panicked and then dumped the body and run."
"They have made no effort to hide it, by pushing it over the wall, for example, and just left it by the old turnpike
milestone. The farmer sorting out his flock has found it in the morning. A police lady, who lives nearby, was going
to work and the farmer flagged her down."
"Police then arrived and cordoned off the road whilst forensics worked. It was lifted after two days. Poor bloke,
he could be somebody’s dad and will be someone’s son."
No arrests have been made yet but police are urging people with information to come forward....'
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