Bodycam footage has shown the chilling moment police caught a man in a hotel room with a teenage girl following a disturbing 999 call.
Cops in Manchester raided a hotel room in Manchester after being tipped off by a concerned member of staff who dialled the emergency services. The staff member had reported a 14-year-old girl was in a room with an ‘over-aged man’.
Body-worn cameras show the officers arriving and banging heavily on the hotel room door shouting for the man inside to open up before bursting in and arresting the pervert.
The disturbing 999 call has also been shared by the local force, in which the staff member can be heard saying: “We’ve got two young ladies from a care home that have shown up, reporting that there’s a man with an underage girl that have managed to gain access to one of our rooms.
“We’ve confirmed that they gained access to the hotel, so there’s a 14-year-old girl with an overage man in the hotel and we need the police to come.”
Dressed in a black t-shirt, the male suspect is then escorted outside into the street before being arrested on suspicion of sexual activity with a child and placed into the back of a police car, reports M.E.N.
The footage has been shared by police after concerning new data emerged revealing how forces have received hundreds of reports of child sexual abuse at hotel chains.
Data, published by the BBC, said 504 offences were recorded in hotels in 2023, with 92 per cent involving physical contact with a child and 40 per cent being recorded as rape incidents.
The broadcaster revealed how youngsters were sexually assaulted, raped and molested in the high street chains across the UK. The National Police Chief’s Council (NPCC) figures revealed that the majority of locations were budget hotel chains.
Phil Ashford, from the NPCC child sexual exploitation taskforce, told the BBC: “Once you’re behind that hotel bedroom door, there’s a degree of privacy that perpetrators often don’t find elsewhere when they commit abuse. We’re talking about some of the most serious contact offending imaginable – the rape and serious sexual abuse of children.”
With guidance provided through training sessions, business owners and employees are trained on how to identify potential victims of child exploitation and alert officers so they can intervene, police said.
Chief Superintendent David Meeney said: “To date, we’ve been able to make significant steps to protect young people in Manchester as a direct result of these training sessions and I would like to thank the local businesses for their commitment in joining our fight against child exploitation. Their support is crucial.
“We endeavour to support employees to identify potential victims, ensuring they report it police so we can effectively safeguard people, improve partnership information sharing, and upskill staff to specifically prevent vulnerable young people from becoming victims in the first place.
“We’re committed to making sure as many people in our communities are aware of the signs of child criminal and sexual exploitation and these case studies highlight the importance of effective partnership working; by having more people alive to the signs of exploitation it means we can effectively safeguard vulnerable people quicker and protect them from harm.”
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