Police in Wigan are involved in a campaign to target rape and sexual abuse during the Christmas period.
Greater Manchester Police is launching a Rape Awareness Week to reduce incidents of rape and sexual abuse while increasing the reporting of incidents.
The are concerned about people who drink large quantities of alcohol on a night out in the run up to Christmas and leave themselves vulnerable to crimes such as rape.
Between April 1 and October 31, 526 rapes and attempted rapes were reported in Greater Manchester.
Austin Powers Actor Gets Life in Prison in Horrific Christmas Rape-Torture Case
Joseph Hyungmin Son, the actor who played Dr. Evil's Oddjob-inspired henchman in the first Austin Powers movie, was sentenced to life in prison for his role in a
1990 Christmas Eve gang rape and torture of a woman.
Orange County Superior Court Judge Francisco Briseno meted out the life term after hearing from the woman he was convicted of torturing on Dec. 24, 1990, as she was out walking her dog.
She gave a victim impact statement to the court that asked for the harshest punishment possible, saying the crime not only left her with post-traumatic stress but forever destroyed the spirit of Christmas.
"My twenties were stripped from my life as I relearned how to walk, see, hear and cope with the outside world again," testified the woman who wished to remain anonymous. "Joseph Son not only cost me my job at my salon but also my college savings...not to mention the impact it's made on celebrating Christmas year after year."
Son and another man, Santiago Gaitan, ambushed the woman in Huntington Beach, Calif., after she left a friend's place where she was looking at Christmas lights. They raped her repeatedly at gunpoint, sodomized her and forced her to give them oral sex.
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