Cornwall 2026-10-02

Philip Hares 41

Grooming and repeatedly engaging in sexual activity with a teenage girl.

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Offender ID: O-9717

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Trevelyan Road, Illogan, Redruth, Cornwall, TR15

Description

A man was handed a five-year prison sentence after being convicted of grooming and repeatedly engaging in sexual activity with a teenage girl.

Philip Hares, 41, of Trevelyan Road in Cornwall, was sentenced at Ipswich Crown Court on September 25.

The court heard the offences involved a girl aged between 14 and 15 in Lowestoft.

Hares had denied the offences but was convicted following a trial.

Jurors found him guilty of two counts of engaging in penetrative sexual activity with a child aged 13 to 15 and meeting a child following sexual grooming.

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