Sex offender ‘stole the childhoods’ of his victims

A PROLIFIC sex offender who ‘stole childhoods’ by luring young boys into his home with booze and cigarettes has been jailed.

Harry Wolfe, a mechanic, was only known to children who played near his home as ‘Corolla’, after the car he then drove.

During the 1990s and early 2000s he would ply them with alcohol and cigarettes to befriend them.

But once in his home he sexually abused them.

After a seven-day trial at Manchester’s Minshull Street Crown Court, Wolfe, 59, was found guilty of eight serious sexual offences against boys all aged under 13, including rape, attempted rape, and sexual assault.

Wolfe, of Fletcher Close, Oldham, was jailed for 18 years and will remain on the sex offenders’ register indefinitely.

An investigation was launched after one of his victims disclosed the offences in September 2016.

Det Sgt Chris Julien, of GMP’s Oldham Operation Phoenix Team, said: “Wolfe stole the childhood of these men, ripping them away from the normal life they should have been leading and plummeting them into a world of sexual abuse, all for his own disgusting and depraved gratification.”

You can call Greater Manchester Police on 101, or alternatively St Mary’s Sexual Assault Referral Centre on 0161 276 6515, whether or not you want make a police report.

Manchester Rape Crisis is a confidential support service run by women for women and girls who have been raped or sexually abused. The confidential helpline is 0161 273 4500.

Survivors Manchester offers support and counselling for adult male survivors of sexual abuse and rape, regardless of when the event happened. Contact 07919 246 267.