darts world champion Ted Hankey has been jailed for sexual assault.The victim reported the offence on September 2021. Hankey, 54, from Stoke-on-Trent, was arrested the same day.
He initially denied the assault on April 14 but later pleaded guilty. Hankey was given an immediate two-year jail term and has been placed on the Sexual Offenders Register for the next ten years.District Crown Prosecutor Brian Forshaw, a specialist lawyer with CPS Mersey Cheshire’s Rape and Serious Sexual Offences (RASSO) unit, said: “The Crown Prosecution Service and Cheshire Police had damning evidence of this assault and Mr Hankey thankfully pleaded guilty at an early stage.
He has now been sentenced.“The CPS would like to thank the victim for her help and courage in bringing this prosecution and we have worked to support her.
The evidence she secured of the assault was crucial to this case and no doubt led to Mr Hankey’s guilty plea.“Mr Hankey is now a convicted sex offender and this case may have prevented further offending.
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