EMMANUEL IGWEBUIKE WHO WAS FOUND GUILTY OF SEXUALLY ABUSING SEVEN TEENAGE BOYS
The 35-year-old was also given a lifetime sexual herm prevention order and will be on the Sex Offenders Register for the rest of his life. According to reports from the United Kingdom, he was sentenced by the Inner London Crown Court after the same court found him guilty in April of 22 counts of sexual assault following a five-week trial.
His victims were between the ages of 14 and 18 when the crimes were committed between June 2019 and April 2021. Sexual assaults were allegedly committed at his former addresses in Lambeth and Putney, as well as at a hotel in Birmingham.
On June 15, 2021, a number of allegations indicting the Nigerian were made to police, 15 days before he was apprehended by officers from a multifaceted investigation team and the central specialist crime command. According to the Metropolitan Police, Igwebuike was working as a self-appointed football coach in his own football academy in South London's Stockwell and Putney.
Igwebuike, who was not affiliated with the English Football Association (FA) or any local football club, is said to have committed the assault after establishing a trusting relationship with the boys and promising to help them further their football careers and provide them with football opportunities. According to police, at the time of the offenses, none of the boys were aware of the other boys' presence and believed they were the only ones being sexually assaulted.
Despite being charged with assaulting seven boys, police said that when the allegations were made against him, the names of other possible victims and witnesses to Igwebuike's crimes were mentioned. Police are now urging any other victims to come forward.
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