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Men guilty of raping boy, 14, in Manchester Debenhams | Men guilty of raping boy, 14, in Manchester Debenhams |
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Two men have been found guilty of raping a 14-year-old boy in a city centre department store's toilets. | Two men have been found guilty of raping a 14-year-old boy in a city centre department store's toilets. |
Alex Wilson-Fletcher, 42, of Oldham Street, Manchester, and Abdelkader El-Janabi, 55, of Artillery Court, Ardwick, attacked the boy in Debenhams on Manchester's Market Street in June. | |
The men approached the boy in the nearby Arndale Centre before leading him to the Debenhams store. | The men approached the boy in the nearby Arndale Centre before leading him to the Debenhams store. |
They were convicted at Manchester Crown Court and will be sentenced on 6 June. | |
In court, the boy said the pair had approached him in the toilets of the Arndale Centre on 2 June and El-Janabi had grabbed his arm and told him to follow him. | |
He said El-Janabi had then led him out of the shopping centre and across the road to the Debenhams store, where he walked him to the third floor toilets, followed by Wilson-Fletcher. | |
Once inside, El-Janabi and Wilson-Fletcher both touched him before El-Janabi raped him. | |
He managed to escape the pair and fled the toilets, doing up his trousers as he ran, and reported the incident to police later that night. | |
Substantial sentences | |
In defence, Wilson-Fletcher said he had been in both the Arndale and Debenhams toilets at the time of the incident, but had not seen or done anything, while El-Janabi denied being at the scene at all. | |
CCTV placed both men in the shopping centre and the department store and also captured the moment the boy ran from the toilets after the rape had taken place. | |
Images of the pair taken from CCTV were released to the media, which led Wilson-Fletcher to hand himself in to police. | |
El-Janabi was identified by the caretaker of the block of flats where he lived and by a man who had previously played football against him. | |
Both men were warned by the judge to expect substantial prison sentences. |
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