British Airways pilot jailed eight years for raping groomed minor

By Emmanuel Okogba
A former British Airways pilot has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison after grooming and sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl he met online.
Kwame Yeboah, 30, a Ghana-born ex-England youth basketball player, contacted the victim through video chat site Omegle before continuing explicit conversations on Instagram. He later drove from Berkshire to Merseyside, where he twice raped the girl in his car after checking into a hotel.
Liverpool Crown Court heard Yeboah emotionally manipulated the child, persuading her to meet him despite clear signs of her young age, including references to school tests and images in uniform. He admitted three counts of rape ...