A former ice hockey star and TV soap extra has been jailed for the rape and sexual assault of eight victims, including a child as young as Philip Hamer was found guilty of 33 rape and assault charges over a year spree between and , in which he groomed and manipulated girls in their early-to-mid teens using social media apps. Hamer, of Birchfield Drive in Worsley, sent unsolicited pictures to his victims and tracked their movements, and over a period of seven years he incited his victims to send hundreds of pictures and videos.
Victims clapped the judge and burst into tears in the public gallery at Manchester Crown Court as the was jailed for 41 sexual offences. He took away my spark and gave me so much anxiety. But I am no longer going to let him have a hold on my life like he once did. His sexual desires involved his victims wearing school uniforms.
The year-old was a professional ice hockey player for Manchester Phoenix in the Elite Ice Hockey League and represented Great Britain in inline hockey at seven world championships, having played for the national team since youth level. Hamer also worked as a TV extra on British soap programmes. One of his victims was an actor on the set of a show he was working on. Officers also found pictures and videos Hamer had taken of people in changing rooms who were not aware they were being filmed.
Hamer would send unsolicited pictures and incited his victims to send him hundreds of pictures and videos, his sexual desires often involving school uniforms, his trial heard. He groomed the victims and survivors at the centre of their case, instilled fear, and exploited their vulnerabilities. This opened up the whole case and resulted in us obtaining evidence that Hamer was a prolific sex offender.
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