Locked up
Company boss sexually abused 14-year-old he met on 'snog, marry, avoid' site
A company managing director subjected a schoolgirl to four years of sexual abuse after he met her at the age of 14 through a social media website which urges its teenage users to 'snog, marry or avoid'.
Web designer Gareth Hughes, then 36, lied about his age to groom the besotted girl after she began communicating with him when she logged onto the rating site Snog.fm.
Between 2012 and 2016 Hughes, from Reddish, Stockport, would routinely pick the girl up from school in his Mazda 6 car, shower her with gifts and would take her back to his apartment for sex and film it.
He had hundreds of images of her stored on his computer in a file labelled ‘filth’.
At the time was expecting a child with his regular girlfriend.
At Minshull Street Crown Cour this week Hughes, now 43, was jailed for six years and eight months after he pleaded guilty to five counts of sexual activity with a child, two counts of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, eight counts of making an indecent image of a child, two counts of distributing an indecent photo of a child and one count of possessing an extreme pornographic image.
Astonishing footage recovered by police who smashed £20m cocaine gang
Smiling drug dealers kick back and count up their cash on a sofa.
The astonishing mobile phone footage helped secure the convictions of a gang who conspired to flood the streets of Manchester with cocaine.
The footage shows Jamie Oldroyd, 29 and Taulant Paja, 22, sitting around a coffee table covered in bundles of banknotes.
Cash is shown being taken out of plastic bags ready for a counting machine.
Oldroyd - who controlled one of two separate organised crime groups smashed by police - was observed by detectives driving 17 different cars as part of a 14-month covert investigation.
Put together, police said the drugs seized from both gangs represented the largest ever inland haul of cocaine in the north of England and the largest ever in Cheshire.
The second gang, headed by Jamie Simpson, loaded cocaine worth £20m into a van in Kent to be transported north to Warrington.
Surveillance footage recorded by a police helicopter captured the moment police interceptors swooped to stop the van and a car on the M6 motorway near Knutsford last August.
The man being handcuffed on the floor wearing white and grey is Jamie Simpson, 31, Cheshire Police said.
Both vehicles were searched and officers discovered the cocaine hidden inside.
The van had been adapted to conceal drugs packed and placed into large metal draws hidden underneath a false floor.
Together Simpson and four other members of the gang - Clare Smith, Andrew Daniels, Dean Brettle and Jamie Winterburn - have now been jailed for a total of almost 35 years.
Simpson, who admitted conspiracy to supply cocaine, was locked up for 11 years and six months.
Oldroyd and other men have also been jailed.
He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply cocaine and was jailed for 14 years and three months.
Four other men who belonged to Oldroyd's gang are due to be sentenced in court on later dates.
