Depraved ice hockey player asked victim to wear school uniform when he abused her

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: Victims of Philip Hamer, recovered blameworthy of 21 charges, including 8 counts of rape and 7 counts of intersexual assault, spoke astatine a sentencing proceeding this week

A depraved ex-ice hockey subordinate recovered blameworthy of a fig of sick intersexual offences against children told 1 of his victims to deterioration her schoolhouse azygous erstwhile helium abused her.

Philip Hamer was recovered blameworthy of 21 charges, including 8 counts of rape and 7 counts of intersexual battle astatine Manchester Crown Court past year. A erstwhile crystal hockey subordinate and TV extra, helium had already admitted to a big of intersexual offences against children and connected Thursday appeared astatine Manchester Crown Court for a sentencing hearing, Liverpool Echo reported.

One subsister said: "Phillip Hamer convinced maine I was successful a superior relationship. I spot this wasn't genuinely a relationship.

“He collected maine from parties with my schoolhouse friends. He would besides often bargain intoxicant for me.

"I felt a immense magnitude of guilt connected my shoulders, I knew this was the close happening to do. I consciousness a immense magnitude of guilt to person not brought it to proceedings sooner.

“I conscionable cried due to the fact that I didn't privation to beryllium there. I was a virgin erstwhile I met him. I volition ne'er hide helium was the archetypal idiosyncratic to instrumentality this precise intimate portion of me. He asked maine to deterioration my schoolhouse azygous erstwhile we had intersexual relations."

Many of his victims were underage astatine the clip Hamer, of Birchfield Drive, Worsley, abused them. Some helium attacked once, but for others their ordeal lasted for months, sometimes adjacent years.

Hamer was recovered blameworthy of 33 charges by a assemblage astatine a proceedings which concluded astatine Manchester Crown Court connected November 29, 2024. Detectives recovered helium utilized societal media apps to people and marque interaction with his victims by manipulating and grooming them.

Another unfortunate said she had been a "young and blessed small miss who had large relationships with her family" earlier the maltreatment began. She continued: "Little did I cognize each that was astir to change.

“Phillip wounded maine that nighttime successful ways nary kid should ever person to. I was a virgin and that nighttime I had each innocence taken distant from me. It ended up affecting each facet of my life. I couldn't permission the location for days connected end.

"My quality to spot men was wholly non-existent owed to reasoning immoderate antheral who came adjacent maine would wounded me. Trauma is thing that volition past a lifetime."

Hamer would nonstop unsolicited pictures to his victims and besides tracked their movements. He incited his victims to nonstop him hundreds of pictures and videos implicit a play of 7 years. One unfortunate was successful fearfulness that Hamer whitethorn disclose the pictures to others oregon travel to their address.

Officers from Greater Manchester Police aboriginal recovered voyeuristic videos and pictures Hamer had taken of radical successful changing rooms who were not alert they were being filmed. Taking to the stand, 1 pistillate fiercely confronted Hamer successful the dock.

Speaking straight to him, she accused him of exploiting the nonaccomplishment of his dada arsenic a mode to mitigate his behaviour. She told him: "How situation you exploit the nonaccomplishment of a household member. How situation you. Many radical suffer their parents astatine a young age. They ne'er usage their symptom arsenic a crushed to inflict pain.

“What you person done is truthful painful. You person breached my trust, ripped apart. You took vantage of me. This is not the extremity of our symptom and suffering."

Hamer faces sentencing implicit a full of 48 counts, and is expected to person a dense sentence. Judge Sarah Johnston adjourned the last handing down of Hamer's condemnation to adjacent week and remanded him successful custody.