Hollyoaks star and ex Team GB hockey player jailed for 28 years after rape and sexual abuse of seven girls

Philip Hamer, who had been a nonrecreational hockey subordinate and a bit-part histrion connected TV soaps including Hollyoaks has been jailed for 28 years

A erstwhile crystal hockey subordinate and TV other has been jailed for 28 years for the rape and intersexual maltreatment of 7 girls.

Victims of Philip Hamer clapped the justice and burst into tears successful the nationalist assemblage astatine Manchester Crown Court arsenic the suspect was jailed for 41 intersexual offences.

Hamer, 34, who had been a nonrecreational hockey subordinate and a bit-part histrion connected TV soaps, had a “wholly distorted presumption of children arsenic intersexual objects”, the tribunal heard.

He was attracted to girls successful their aboriginal to mid-teens, utilizing societal media including Snapchat and Instagram to people and marque interaction with his victims, manipulating and grooming the girls earlier sexually abusing them.

He was 20 erstwhile helium groomed his archetypal victim, aged 14, done Facebook successful 2010 and went connected to groom an 11-year-old, erstwhile helium was aged 27, done Snapchat.

Hamer, of Birchfield Drive, Worsley, Greater Manchester, had admitted 20 offences but denied others, claiming 1 unfortunate was “wanton” and “sexually experienced”.

But helium was recovered blameworthy by a assemblage of a further 21 offences aft a proceedings ending successful November.

Jailing him for 28 years, with an extended licence play of 8 years, Judge Sarah Johnston told the defendant: “These were nary relationships – you manipulated and groomed these young girls, inexperienced and impressionable arsenic they were, successful a mode that was controlling and coercive.

“Your offending is some opportunistic and actively seeking out, manipulating, grooming, exploiting and the maltreatment of pistillate children, mostly teens but including a kid arsenic young arsenic 11.”

Victim interaction statements elaborate the trauma of the “lost innocence” of youngsters helium abused, immoderate inactive having therapy oregon suffering issues with intoxicant and self-harm.

One pistillate said: “I person ne'er had a palmy narration due to the fact that of my trauma. It’s wholly messed up my full life,” portion different said: “I commune you find God.”

Hamer would nonstop unsolicited pictures and incited his victims to nonstop him hundreds of pictures and videos, his intersexual desires often involving schoolhouse uniforms, his proceedings heard.

He often utilized his car to instrumentality his victims to isolated places wherever the maltreatment took place.

One unfortunate feared that Hamer whitethorn disclose the pictures to others oregon travel to their home.

Police besides aboriginal recovered voyeuristic videos and pictures taken by Hamer of women successful changing rooms who were not alert they were being filmed.

Allegations were made against him successful 2011 and helium was “spoken to”, the tribunal heard, but nary constabulary probe was launched until 1 unfortunate came guardant successful 2023.

His telephone was seized which contained “trophy images” of intersexual abuse, revealing him to beryllium a prolific offender arsenic detectives traced further victims.

Hamer was convicted of 41 offences betwixt 2010 and 2023: 9 counts of intersexual enactment with a child, intersexual connection with a child, 2 counts of gathering a kid aft intersexual grooming, 1 number of engaging successful intersexual enactment successful the beingness of a child, 7 counts of taking indecent photos of a child, 1 number of taking voyeurism images, 8 counts of rape, six counts of causing oregon inciting a kid to prosecute successful intersexual activity, 4 counts of battle by penetration and 2 intersexual assaults.

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