2016: RAPIST JAILED FOR ATTACK ON 15-YEAR-OLD GIRL
A perpetrator of sexual offenses against minors has been sentenced to nearly eleven years in prison.Uwayenwen Osagie, aged 32 and originally from Nigeria, was found guilty at Bolton Crown Court of attacking a 15-year-old girl and later assaulting a second teenage girl.
Court proceedings revealed that Osagie, who used the nickname Prince, deliberately targeted young girls for sexual abuse.
His first victim, a 15-year-old girl who was intoxicated after drinking with a friend, encountered Osagie in a Bolton town center takeaway on November 29, 2013.
He invited her and her male friend to his home on Derby Road.
Prosecutor Sarah Johnston explained that Osagie stopped their taxi at a petrol station to buy more alcohol and cigarettes.
The judge told the court that the victim appeared heavily intoxicated and was manipulated by Osagie, who falsely promised her safety inside his home.
When her friends left to buy cigarettes, Osagie took his opportunity, taking her on a tour of his house before forcing her onto his bed and raping her.
Despite her crying and resistance, he covered her mouth and continued, ignoring knocking from her friends.
More than a year later, on January 24, 2015, Osagie assaulted another girl, this time 16, who was also vulnerable.
He approached her at the L and B Afro Caribbean restaurant in Bolton while she was accompanied by a friend.
Osagie was noted to be persistent, and when he found out that she and her friends had missed their bus, he invited her to meet him again the next day, promising to pay for their taxi.
However, he managed to isolate her at the restaurant and sexually touched her over her clothes, making her visibly frightened and crying.
Police traced Osagie through WhatsApp messages.
He admitted to the charges of rape and sexual assault on the day his trial was scheduled to begin.
During sentencing, Judge Clayson issued a lengthy public protection sentence, emphasizing Osagie’s significant risk to others.
Osagie, residing on Holmeswood Road in Great Lever, was told he would only be eligible for parole after serving two-thirds of his sentence, which amounts to 10 years and nine months, with an additional three-year license period afterward.
A sexual harm prevention order was also issued, and he will stay on the sex offenders' register for life.
The court further indicated that Osagie is likely to face automatic deportation once he finishes his incarceration.
