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Barthimaus Ehiemere Jailed for 22 Years for Grooming and Raping Boys

Detectives are seeking further victims via Operation Teigar after uncovering extensive online grooming tied to content sales.

Overview

  • Snaresbrook Crown Court imposed 18 years in custody plus four years on extended licence, with lifetime sex offender registration and a new Sexual Harm Prevention Order.
  • Ehiemere was convicted of 47 offences involving seven boys aged 12 to 16, including multiple rapes and serious sexual assaults carried out between 2019 and 2023.
  • He targeted children on Snapchat and the Spotafriend app, using gifts and cash to coerce sexual images that he then advertised and sold to others.
  • Police identified about 1,600 indecent images on his devices, roughly half in Category A, and forensically bypassed a locked phone to find evidence of a seventh victim.
  • Judge Timothy Greene described him as a serious danger to boys, while prosecutors cited searches for “young boy rape” and messages boasting that raping a 12-year-old was the “best sex ever.”