#minshull street crown court

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Another day another perverted man trying to hide from being identified as an abuser by hiding behind a pronoun

By Genevieve Gluck. December 9, 2023

A trans-identified male and his partner have been sentenced to a combined total of 16 years and 9 months in prison for their roles in the horrific sexual abuse of a 4 year-old boy. Naomi O’Brien, born Nathan, reportedly encouraged his lover, Jonathan Walker, to sexually abuse the toddler.

content warning - sexual abuse of young children

Walker and O’Brien were arrested earlier this year after a complex, joint investigation undertaken by the Greater Manchester Police and the South Wales Police. The UK authorities had first become aware of the situation after being tipped off by the FBI, who had discovered that Walker was sharing disturbing images of child rape through messaging application Kik.

With O’Brien’s explicit direction, Walker sexually assaulted the young boy and filmed himself performing sex acts in front of the boy. He recorded the sickening abuse and shared the videos with pedophiles online. In addition to raping the toddler, Walker had also been downloading horrific videos of children and babies being abused and raped.

Investigators analyzed chat logs containing messages exchanged between Walker and O’Brien that indicated their sexual interest in children. O’Brien was discovered to have encouraged and aided Walker in sexually abusing the young victim on several occasions in March 2023.

Walker, 33, was found guilty of sexually abusing the 4-year-old boy, along with engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child and possession of indecent images. He was sentenced to 12-and-a-half years in prison, while O’Brien, 31, pleaded guilty to multiple counts including intentionally encouraging and assisting another to commit a sexual assault against a child, intentionally encouraging and assisting another to engage in sexual activity in the presence of a child, and engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child.

For his crimes, O’Brien was sentenced at Manchester’s Minshull Street Crown Court to 4 years and 3 months in prison, with a 4 years and 4 months Sexual Harm Prevention Order and Sex Offender Notification Requirements for life.

Disturbingly, O’Brien was referred to as a “woman” and “female” by police.

“Following a tenacious and lengthy investigation of 1,865 messages, our dedicated team was able to prove that the female suspects’ chats were not simply a case of role play or fantasy – she had knowledge that the male had an interest in sexually abusing a young boy on the direction of her,” said Detective Inspector Zoe Marsden, of the Greater Manchester Police’s Online Child Abuse Investigation Team, while referring to O’Brien as a “female” and using feminine pronouns for him.

“This is a significant result for what is a very vulnerable and innocent 4-year-old child who was subjected to multiple counts of abuse, but also for all other children in the community who could have been subject to similar offending by a predatory female who was inciting others to commit acts of sexual harm against the most vulnerable in society,” Marsden added.

O’Brien frequently posted highly sexualized images of himself on his public social media profiles, where he uses the name Morgan Naomi Clarke, and appeared to work in the sex trade.

Following the announcement of his sentencing, multiple news outlets reporting on the case took lead from the police and referred to O’Brien as a “woman” or as “female.” The BBC labeled O’Brien a “predatory woman,” as has The Oldham Times. The UK Sex Offenders Database has also listed O’Brien as a woman, having used the information that was provided by the Greater Manchester Police to the public.

On Facebook and Instagram, O’Brien had regularly shared photos of himself in women’s lingerie. In some instances, O’Brien can be seen pretending to be a young girl as part of a pornographic schoolgirl aesthetic. One such photo from March 2020 depicts O’Brien in a girl’s school uniform, tagged with the term “ddlgprincess,” a reference to the incestuous fetish subculture known as “Daddy Dom-Little Girl.”

The convicted sex offender also ran an OnlyFans account and sold sex through the website AdultWork under the moniker TS Taboo Goddess. O’Brien shared pornographic content of himself on OnlyFans while using hashtags related to the “age play community,” used to connote adults who have a sexual interest in pretending to be children.

“I am a pro-domme, have been since young and ‘innocent,'” reads O’Brien’s Adult Work bio. “No limits, Daddy. The more debauched, the better.”

On his X account, O’Brien shared a brief video of himself watching pornography that appears to depict minors with another man. The pornography is digitally rendered, and the ages of the characters depicted are unclear. Yet O’Brien tagged the clip with terms such as “teen,” “barely legal” and “no limits.”

In 2015 O’Brien was positively profiled by The Sun for his attempts to win a national beauty pageant, Miss Transgender UK. During the interview, O’Brien stated that he began identifying as transgender at the age of 21.

“It wasn’t until my late teens that I had the opportunity to dress as a girl as often as possible. When I did this I felt more confident and happy, I felt like the person I always wanted to be. It wasn’t until I was 21 that I realized I could live fulfilled this way and gained the bravery to change my body and my life,” O’Brien told the outlet.

O’Brien was similarly spotlighted by Caters TV for his bid to win the beauty pageant in a video produced by the program. In the clip, O’Brien cautioned viewers against discrimination.

Special thank you to Dalton Report for his contribution in bringing this case to light.

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An electrician was shot in the face and doused in acid in revenge for an alleged rape, a court has heard as his murderers were jailed.

Liam Smith, a father-of-two, was lured outside his home and killed in a “brutal and cold-blooded murder” in Wigan on Nov 24 last year.

Rachel Fulstow, 37, from York, and Michael Hillier, 39, from Sheffield, were given life sentences on Thursday after a trial at Manchester’s Minshull Street Crown Court.

Fulstow, who started seeing Hillier in 2021, had previously been on a date with Mr Smith in York in 2019, the court heard.

Hillier told the court she had confided in him in 2022 that she had been “graphically raped” by Mr Smith and that together they decided to “go down the vigilante route” to “seek justice”.

In a statement outside the court, Mr Smith’s family said he was innocent and he had been “denied the chance to publicly clear his name”.

Sentencing the pair, Judge Maurice Greene said whatever happened on the night appeared to be the underlying motive for the attack.

He said: “It was decided between you, you would execute your own vengeance.

“The two of you decided to act as judge, jury and executioner.” He described the murder as “brutal and cold-blooded”.

Addressing Fulstow, a Leeds University graduate, the judge said it was “almost incomprehensible” that she had acted the way she had.

He added: “Whatever happened between you and Liam Smith can never be justification for what you and Michael Hillier did.”

Cannabis dealer Hillier travelled from Sheffield to Wigan three weeks before the murder, and carried out reconnaissance on Mr Smith’s address, the court heard.

Hillier then went back to Sheffield before returning to the house on Nov 24, and waiting for 10 hours in a car with fake number plates, armed with a shotgun.

At about 6.40pm, he lured Mr Smith out of his house and shot him with a modified shotgun before pouring acid and soda crystals over him, the court was told.

Hillier was arrested on suspicion of murder in January 2023 and Fulstow in February 2023.

Fulstow claimed she knew nothing of the attack until Hillier arrived at her house in Andrew Drive, York, and was “petrified” to go to the police.

The court heard that in the days after the killing the couple went on holiday to Jamaica together.

The pair were given life sentences with minimum terms of more than 30 years. Hillier was found guilty of murder and sentenced to 33 years in prison and Fulstow was found guilty of murder and perverting the course of justice. She was sentenced to 30 years.

In a statement read to the court, Mr Smith’s mother, Julia, said he was a “devoted father” to his sons, aged 11 and 14, and a “gentleman”. She told the court: “We are never going to be able to fill this massive void which has been left in our lives.”

Louise Blackwell KC, mitigating for Hillier, said he would not have carried out the attack were it not for his drug addiction and the influence of Fulstow.

She said: “Of course, Mr Hillier took the lead role in the sense that he went and he was the person who carried out the acts but it was under pressure from Fulstow.”

Det Chief Insp Gina Brennand of Greater Manchester Police said: “My thoughts and the thoughts of the investigation team will always remain with Liam’s family. They will never ever get over this tragedy, nor should they be expected to, and the actions of Michael and Rachel were nothing short of despicable.

“On the night of Liam’s murder, police and other emergency services were working incredibly hard to try and ascertain the facts. It was unclear what had happened to Liam that night and it was very concerning for local residents.”

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Man jailed for nine years after raping a girl from Trafford

Following an investigation by Greater Manchester Police (GMP) Trafford Complex Safeguarding Team, a 28-year-old man has been jailed for rape. On February 5 2024, Mohammed Mughal aged 28 was convicted of rape and sexual assault and today (Friday 8 March 2024) he appeared at Minshull Street Crown Court where he was sentenced to nine years in jail. The offences took place in April 2020 against a…

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[ad_1] Adil Iqbal, 22, of Hope Street, Accrington, was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment and disqualified from driving for 14 years at Manchester Minshull Steet Crown Court today (Wednesday) after pleading guilty to causing death by dangerous driving and causing serious injury. Frankie Hough, from Chadderton in Oldham, was in the car with her two sons, Tommy and Rocky, and her nephew, Tobias, on Saturday, May 13 when she was crashed into. The family was taken to hospital by air ambulance but the 38-year-old and her unborn baby girl, Neeve, died two days later. Ms Hough's nine-year-old son, Tommy, and her four-year-old nephew, Tobias Welby, have now left hospital, where they were in critical care, but still require ongoing physiotherapy. In May Tobias' family shared that the four-year-old was placed in an induced coma with a brain injury and a fractured skull. UPDATES FROM COURT - M66 crash: Driver to be sentenced over mum's death At an inquest opening into Ms Hough's death in May, the court heard she pulled into the hard shoulder on the M66. During the hearing at Rochdale Coroner's Court police coroners officer Tracy Bunn said Ms Hough was on the M66 heading towards Manchester when she pulled over to the hard shoulder. PCO Bunn gave the cause of death as "head injuries". Last month a funeral was held at Blackley Crematorium for Frankie and her unborn daughter Neeve. In a public post on social media, Frankie's sister, Becci Welby, announced the special service was being held to "celebrate the life of my beautiful sister Frankie and baby Neeve". Following Frankie's death, tributes and donations to her and her family have poured in, with a GoFundMe page raising more than £50,000 in donations. Her friend, Debbie Wright, who set up the appeal for funds, wrote: "Words cannot express what her family and friends are going through now, not to mention her poor boys who now have to grow up without their mummy and sister they never got to meet. "Frankie touched the lives of so many with her beautiful, kind soul. "Heaven has gained a true angel."     [ad_2]

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Ducie Street, Manchester.

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Rebecca Whitehurst never wants to set foot in a school again.

She also wants all teachers, especially female ones, to wear bodycams, to have CCTV in every classroom and for teachers to operate in pairs. “I think teachers should never be alone with children, there should always be someone else there. I know it is dramatic but I don’t want what happened to me to ever happen to anyone else,” she said.

The views of Whitehurst, who is married with two children and has been a modern languages teacher for more than ten years, have been shaped by what she describes as a “modern horror story”.

Last week the 46-year-old wept as a jury at Manchester’s Minshull Street crown court cleared her of two charges of sexual activity with a child and one of sexual communications. She had been accused of a sexual act with a 15-year-old pupil in the back of her Volvo and of sending him explicit texts, including a photograph of her breasts.

The court heard that the teenager, who had declared he was in love with Whitehurst, became obsessed with her and lied about or faked the messages. The boy, who watched pornography involving older women, assaulted her in her classroom and sent an abusive message to her daughter, the court was told.

The family spent £43,000 fighting the case, which dragged on for three years. If convicted she would have faced up to 14 years’ in jail.

Speaking from her home in Cheshire where her husband, Billy, an accountant, has “been unbelievably supportive”, she said her experience at times felt like a television drama.

It unfolded against the backdrop of a rising number of schoolboys watching online pornography, and pupils’ mental health becoming a frontline problem for many schools.

Last year, an Ofsted report found 90 per cent of girls and 50 per cent of boys polled by the schools inspectorate said they had been sent explicit pictures and messages they did not wish to see. A survey for the British Board of Film Classification last year found that almost half of 16 and 17-year-olds had recently seen pornography. Figures from NHS Digital found that one in six children in England had a probable mental health disorder last year, up from one in nine in 2017.

Whitehurst’s ordeal started in April 2019. The boys’ school where she taught French, German and Spanish had paid for her to attend a three-day course on mindfulness. She was asked to teach the subject — not to lower the stress of high-achieving children in the run-up to exams, which she had suggested, but to children on the inclusion register, who have special educational needs and disabilities. “I said yes because I am that sort of person,” the Sheffield University graduate said, but admitted to being nervous about teaching a “wishy washy” subject to children who may have experienced significant trauma.

In an early session with the group of ten boys the 15-year-old who would go on to accuse her said he was hearing voices in his head telling him to kill someone. “I thought OMG,” she said. “As soon as I could I reported it on our safeguarding system . . . I reported it on there and thought someone would talk to me about it, but no one did.”

As the sessions continued the teenager “latched” onto Whitehurst, who tried to give him “sensible advice” via the school’s email system.

He talked about being in a gang and, in an area of the city linked to the Manchester bomber, Whitehurst also feared he was at risk of getting involved in terrorism. When he started to talk about how he had “this big secret” and she was the only person he could tell it to, she made, she admits, a critical mistake.

“He had said he wants to kill people and is in a gang,” she said. “He was talking about going to the mosque. All these things were adding up in my head. I thought there was a bigger picture and I would find out about it and report it.

“I tried to get him to talk to staff who were better trained in such matters but he said no. He said he did not trust the school email which we were already communicating on. In one email thread he emailed me a ghost emoji and I realised he meant he wanted to tell me the secret on Snapchat. I downloaded Snapchat on purpose because I thought he was going to give me this big secret.”

Whitehurst said the secret was nothing to do with terrorism: “The secret was he was in love with me. I realised I had made an idiot of myself. I told him nothing like that was ever going to happen and there had been a misunderstanding. I told him I had to tell the school. He would say ‘they are not going to believe you’ and that I had made a mistake in giving him my Snapchat username. I should have reported it but I did not and I know now that that was an error.”

A few weeks later the teenager came into Whitehurst’s classroom when she was alone. He tried to force his tongue into her mouth, touched her intimately, slapped her face and spat at her. She tried to push him away, which he told the court he thought was encouragement.

“I do not think he knew how bad it was what he did; I know porn was available to him, he sent me lots of links which I never opened but I have an idea of what he watched,” she said. “I think he thought slapping me and spitting at me was sexy in some way.” Again, she did not report the assault. Whitehurst admits she was scared and also “again I thought I would be held responsible as I am the adult and he is the child”, but from then on things got steadily worse.

Over the coming weeks he gave her a necklace and sent naked images of himself which she deleted. He “begged” her to meet him outside school. Still worried about his state of mind, she met him several times in public places, including at a charity run she was doing in a Manchester park where she thought there was no risk of him “launching himself at her”.

At school Whitehurst volunteered for extra duties to ensure she was not alone. She applied for jobs in other schools.

In September 2019 she broke down in the playground when a colleague asked her if she was OK: “I said no and blurted it all out. She said she would have to take this to the head teacher.”

Whitehurst agreed with the head teacher that the matter would be reported to the police and the local authority safeguarding officer and that she would be suspended pending an inquiry. “My logic was, they will understand,” she said. “They will know he is difficult and that I wanted to help but mismanaged things.”

Whitehurst was shocked in her first police interview, two months later, when she heard that the boy had accused her of having sexual activity with him and sending him photos of her breasts.

The pandemic meant that the investigation dragged on. She did not hear anything until last year when police said they had downloaded data from both the phones, including a screenshot of a fake text conversation in whch she appeared to be suggesting sexual acts with the teenager outdoors.

“I thought, ‘I never sent those’. They did not look right. They were obviously fake. The language did not add up. I did not need a professor of linguistics to say that was not me,” she said.

“It was extraordinary that what he said was believed and I was not. He said it was consensual. And we were in love.

“I kept thinking the police will look at all this properly, tell me this will be dropped and say, ‘You poor woman’.”

As it became clear that the case would go to court Whitehurst switched lawyers. Her new team instructed an expert witness to look at the downloaded data from both phones. His report — which cost the family £8,000 — made clear there was no evidence that a photo of her breasts or a text suggesting outdoor sex acts had been sent by her or received by the teenager. Still the case was not dropped.

A week before court, Whitehurst says “calm descended”. She decided not to wear a face mask or hide her face and be “as brave as I could be”.

By video link the teenager gave contradictory evidence and admitted the assault on Whitehurst. The jury took less than three hours to acquit her.

Whitehurst’s case may be extreme but it is not isolated. There is a website on which teachers share dozens of accounts of false allegations. Teaching unions called last year for pupils who make them to be excluded and for fully funded mental health programmes aimed at boys.

Christian Harbinson of the law firm Thompsons solicitors, which represented Whitehurst, said: “An underfunded criminal justice system is unable to cope and that stretches out the agony for innocent people like Rebecca. It’s taken almost three years, since the allegations were first made, for her to clear her name, during which time Rebecca’s life has been on hold and her family have had to deal with an unimaginable level of stress and worry.”

Asked whether the teenager, now 18, would face an inquiry for possible criminal offences, Greater Manchester police said it had no intention to investigate “the child victim in this case”.

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Law firm worker, 27, weeps as she's told she faces jail over fake rape claims that saw two innocent men locked up and treated like criminals

Laura Hood, 27, insists that she was raped on night out in Manchester in January

She falsely claimed she had been attacked by taxi driver Haroon Yousaf in cab

The taxi driver was arrested by police and forced to provide an intimate sample

A court heard without a tracker on his cab, Mr Yousaf could have faced rape trial

A law firm worker cried in court as she was told she faces jail after her fake rape claims saw two innocent men locked up.

Laura Hood, 27, claimed a taxi driver had sexually assaulted her in the back seat of his cab after giving her a lift home following a night out drinking.

Detectives investigating her claims arrested Haroon Yousaf and also the driver of a different taxi with a similar number plate.

Mr Yousaf, 29, was detained in front of colleagues and spent 20 hours in custody, hanging over samples before he was released without charge.

Police suspected Mr Yousaf had been falsely accused when he shared GPS data which showed his cab went straight to Hood's home without stopping.

There was also no evidence of physical contact between them and Hood gave a statement claiming her attacker was 58.

The other suspect was also cleared of any wrongdoing and Hood, of Stockport, Greater Manchester, was subsequently charged with faking her account.

The court heard she made her false claims after becoming separated from friends which she drinking Prosecco, ciders and vodka shots in Manchester city centre.

In a statement Mr Yousaf, a married father-of-two, said:

 'This still affects me in my day-to-day life and I don't know if I will ever come back fully from this. 'Before this incident I was a strong person. However I'm now negative and worry that things can go wrong.

'I had to take my clothes off in front of a stranger. I had tears in my eyes. 

I don't think this female really understands what she has done and how it has affected my life.'

At Minshull Street Crown Court, Manchester, Hood broke down and wept as she was convicted of perverting the course of justice.

She accepted no rape took place but denied wrongdoing, insisting she had she 'believed' at the time she was sexually assaulted.

Hood, a human resources worker for a law practise, will be sentenced on August 1 following the preparation of pre-sentence reports.

Judge Julie Warburton said: 'That should not give any indication that there will not be a custodial sentence in this case. This is a very serious matter.'

The incident occurred on January 7, 2017 after Hood had been out with friends at Revolution bar to celebrate her best friend's birthday.

Hood told the hearing: 'I wish I could explain why something is so clear in my head but obviously can't be true.

'I accept there's no psychiatric evidence to explain why I believed this to have happened. I went to the psychiatrists on two occasions.

'It was clear as day. What I said in interview is what I believed to have happened. I wish I could explain it.

'I wish the psychiatrist could have helped me. I don't know how something can be so clear in my head but the evidence said it didn't happen.'

sigh”

What do they always say about false accusations, especially those in the workplace? like I can seriously here every bullshit excuse in my head while im reading typing and posting this.

Just behave / respect women and you’ll have nothing to worry about.

If you don’t feel safe around women you have a misogyny problem.

False accusations do no lasting damage.

you’ll scare victims from coming forward.

Always believe women.

it’s rare.

●WHY WOULD A WOMAN LIE ABOUT A FALSE RAPE?

Here’s a thought, maybe because they think they can get away with it and��   they don’t care. 

I mean if anything I think the fact that we do so much to excuse, mock, dismiss and sweep false accusations under the rug just goes to show how much we don’t care about the consequences that comes from false accusations.

People lie for a myriad of reasons but I think at the end of the day nobody cares about the damage a lie can cause.

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Manchester United star, Mason Greenwood appears in court charged with attempted rape, controlling behaviour and assault (photos)

Manchester United star, Mason Greenwood appears in court charged with attempted rape, controlling behaviour and assault (photos)

  Manchester United footballer, Mason Greenwood has appeared at Minshull Street Crown Court to face accusations of attempted rape, assault, and controlling and coercive behaviour.  The 21-year-old striker, who has been capped once for England, was re-bailed until a hearing on February 10 next year. His trial date was set for November 27, 2023, with the case expected to last 10 days. The three…

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Manchester United's Mason Greenwood Faces Attempted Rape Trial Next Year | Football News

Manchester United’s Mason Greenwood Faces Attempted Rape Trial Next Year | Football News

Manchester United footballer Mason Greenwood will face trial next year on charges of attempted rape, controlling and coercive behaviour, and assault, a judge said on Monday. Greenwood, 21, arrived at court in Manchester, northwest England, wearing a hoodie bearing the slogan “Fumer tue” (Smoking kills in French) with a dark suit. At a short hearing at the city’s Minshull Street Crown Court, the…

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Manchester United's Mason Greenwood Faces Attempted Rape Trial Next Year | Football News

Manchester United’s Mason Greenwood Faces Attempted Rape Trial Next Year | Football News

Manchester United footballer Mason Greenwood will face trial next year on charges of attempted rape, controlling and coercive behaviour, and assault, a judge said on Monday. Greenwood, 21, arrived at court in Manchester, northwest England, wearing a hoodie bearing the slogan “Fumer tue” (Smoking kills in French) with a dark suit. At a short hearing at the city’s Minshull Street Crown Court, the…

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Two men jailed after machete attack on a man in Stretford

Two men from Trafford have been jailed after a machete attack on a man in Stretford. On 1 February 2024 Mustapha Kolifa (DOB: 02/02/03) of Totnes Road in Sale and Cameron Healey-Jennings (DOB: 13/09/01) of Lindow Road in Old Trafford were sentenced at Minshull Street Crown Court for a machete attack which took place outside a shop on Chester Road in Stretford. Both men were charged with section…

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Mason Greenwood re-bailed ahead of possible trial next November

Mason Greenwood re-bailed ahead of possible trial next November

Mason Greenwood arrived at Minshull Street Crown Court ahead of his trial (Picture: Getty) Manchester United footballer Mason Greenwood could go on trial as soon as next year after he was re-bailed over attempted rape charges. He has been given bail until a hearing on February 10 next year, with a trial date set for November 27, 2023. The 21-year-old appeared at Manchester’s Minshull Street Crown…

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Mason Greenwood

Mason Greenwood’s court case has been adjourned at Minshull street Crown Court in Manchester until next year. He has been told that he will next need to appear on 10th February and has been told to expect the trial to begin on 27th November 2023.

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Aytoun Street, Manchester.