Their faces obscured by masks, they sit in police interview rooms, quizzed by detectives on crimes they thought they'd got away with.
The trail of destruction left by David Marsh and Anthony Whitehead would soon be laid bare in court. This week, the two men were jailed having groomed 'troubled and vulnerable' young boys with cash, cigarettes and alcohol before committing vile sexual abuse over two decades.
Marsh, 74, and Whitehead, 72, were locked up - for 27 years and seven years respectively - following a four-week trial at Minshull Street Crown Court.
They exploited a string of victims in Rochdale in the 1980s and 1990s. READ MORE: Heinous actions tore their lives apart, but one-by-one their words saw justice finally served The offences came to light in 2019 after Greater Manchester Police received a report that one of the victims confided in a person in authority that he had been sexually abused by two men as a boy.
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