{"id":657169,"date":"2026-06-25T08:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T08:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/657169\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T08:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T08:18:11","slug":"british-airways-pilot-jailed-for-raping-schoolgirl-12-who-he-groomed-and-drove-to-isolated-location-to-carry-out-sex-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/657169\/","title":{"rendered":"British Airways pilot jailed for raping schoolgirl, 12, who he groomed and drove to isolated location to carry out sex attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

A British Airways pilot has been jailed for raping a 12-year-old girl after grooming her online before driving to an isolated location to carry out his vile attack. <\/p>\n

Kwame Yeboah, 30, had been employed by BA for three years, spending two years as a Heathrow-based first officer pilot. <\/p>\n

But his career in the skies came to an end after he pleaded guilty to three counts of rape and one count of sexual assault in April. <\/p>\n

The paedophile was taken into custody by Merseyside Police officers following a probe into claims he had raped a child he groomed on social media in February. <\/p>\n

Jurors heard the 30-year-old first contacted the schoolgirl on Instagram in 2025, with the girl initially telling him that she was 17 years old. <\/p>\n

By her appearance, it was “obvious” that the girl was clearly a young child, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.<\/p>\n

The pilot proceeded to send explicit images of himself to the 12-year-old and engaged in sexual conversations. <\/p>\n

Yeboah would call the child roughly twice a week to trick her into believing she was special to him, the CPS revealed.<\/p>\n

\"Kwame<\/p>\n

Kwame Yeboah pleaded guilty to three counts of rape and one count of sexual assault in April<\/p>\n

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In February, the paedophile made the four-hour drive from his home in Reading up to Liverpool to meet her face-to-face.<\/p>\n

After picking her up, Yeboah drove the girl to an isolated location in Merseyside before raping her three times.<\/p>\n

Shortly after the sex attack, a friend of the victim informed her mother about the incident, who promptly contacted the police. <\/p>\n

The 30-year-old was able to be identified by officers based on information he had revealed to the girl. <\/p>\n

\"Kwame<\/p>\n

The paedophile had been employed by British Airways for three years<\/p>\n

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After being taken into custody, Yeboah gave a “no comment” resoibse to all questions put to him during a police interview. <\/p>\n

He was subsequently jailed for nine years and four months at Liverpool Crown Court. <\/p>\n

Following Yeboah’s sentencing, Senior Crown Prosecutor Thomas Hanlon said: \u201cKwame Yeboah would have known early on in his contact with this child that she was not the age she initially claimed to be.<\/p>\n

“She spoke about school and sent images of herself in school uniform.<\/p>\n

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He was subsequently jailed for nine years and four months at Liverpool Crown Court<\/p>\n

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“When he met her in person, it would have been obvious that she was a very young child.<\/p>\n

\u201cDespite this, Yeboah deliberately took her to an isolated location where he raped her three times.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe groomed the victim into believing she was in a relationship with someone who cared about her.<\/p>\n

“In reality, he was an adult man who abused his position and exploited her for his own sexual gratification.\u201d<\/p>\n

A spokesman for British Airways said: \u201cWe\u2019ve been sickened to hear of the despicable actions of this individual and we can only imagine the pain he has inflicted.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of our thoughts are and will remain with the young person and their family as they try to repair the unthinkable damage and hurt they have suffered.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A British Airways pilot has been jailed for raping a 12-year-old girl after grooming her online before driving…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[35884,924,49,50,65089,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-657169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-across-the-uk","tag-crime","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-north-west-of-england","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}