Detective speaks out after inestigating one of the testing cases in his 17 year career in the police.
A dirty mattress sprawls across the floor of a living room with garish purple walls. Pillows are scattered haphazardly, and litter surrounds the makeshift bed. A duvet lies in a heap at the foot of an armchair. Earlier, a terrified, malnourished, and pale woman was found hiding under the lurid bedcovers.
Speaking to the Manchester Evening News, Detective Sergeant Lee Attenborough revealed more details about the harrowing case and the ordeals of the women Moxham exploited. Earlier, as the police arrived, Moxham desperately threw a hard drive out of his bedroom window in an attempt to dispose of evidence. Despite this, officers found numerous storage devices and spy-hole cameras. "It took us several months to sift through and examine," DS Attenborough explained. "The content of his devices was deeply disturbing. There were lots of photos, lots of videos, many of them of a sexual nature.
"They were sex workers," DS Attenborough said. "A lot of them had drug and alcohol dependencies for many years and many of them were homeless. They were in really challenging circumstances, which made them perfect for exploitation. It was just those vulnerabilities that Nicholas Moxham sought to exploit.
"They had nowhere to stay, they had drug habits to fund, they really were in dire straits and Moxham saw those vulnerabilities escalating and offered himself up as a bit of a knight in shining armour... and incentivised them with offers of somewhere to stay, access to money and access to drugs. Speaking about crimes committed' in the shadows', but 'under people's noses and behind closed doors', DS Attenborough said: "This is a prime example of that - on the face of it, Moxham was a respectable, upstanding member of the community... a business owner; well-educated; eloquent in the way he spoke; he could be quite charming and quite engaging; and living on a very normal, suburban street.
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