Victims of Philip Hamer also burst into tears in the public gallery he was jailed for 41 sexual offences.
A former ice hockey player and TV extra has been jailed for 28 years for the rape and sexual abuse of seven girls. Victims of Philip Hamer clapped the judge and burst into tears in the public gallery at Manchester Crown Court as the defendant was jailed for 41 sexual offences.
“Your offending is both opportunistic and actively seeking out, manipulating, grooming, exploiting and the abuse of female children, mostly teens but including a child as young as 11.” Allegations were made against him in 2011 and he was “spoken to”, the court heard, but no police investigation was launched until one victim came forward in 2023.
The survivor went on to describe that her abuse at the hands of Hamer as a child meant she had gone on to seek out abusive relationships later in life. "I often found some comfort in these types of relationships", she told the court. Hamer was convicted of 41 offences between 2010 and 2023: nine counts of sexual activity with a child, sexual communication with a child, two counts of meeting a child after sexual grooming, one count of engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child, seven counts of taking indecent photos of a child, one count of taking voyeurism images, eight counts of rape, six counts of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, four counts of assault by penetration and two sexual...
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