Trafford man jailed for catalogue of sex offences

A Trafford man who subjected children to a catalogue of sexual abuse has been jailed. 

John Sleith, 70, formally of Rothiemay Road, Urmston was sentenced at Minshull Street Crown Court on Wednesday 31 January.

He pleaded guilty to a total of 18 counts of non-recent sexual offences including rape, touching and arranging for one of the children to meet other men for the commission of sexual offences. 

The court heard how the abuse spanned from 2004 until 2012. The victims – a boy and a girl - were aged under 12 at the time of the offences. 

Sleith was jailed for 19 years.

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