The following cases involve people who have been sentenced during July for crimes committed in Oldham or against Oldhamers.

A man who repeatedly raped a pair of 12-year-old girls, including in his car after buying them McDonald’s and giving them vodka has been jailed for 10 years.

Solomon Asemota, of Queens Grove, Longsight was sentenced at Manchester Crown Court on July 21 after pleading guilty to seven counts of rape of a child under 13 and two counts of making an indecent photograph of a child.

The court heard how Asemota, now 30, had sex with the victims multiple times before his arrest in January 2020.

Judge Rachel Smith described Asemota’s actions as “opportunistic” and “predatory”.

A pair of cousins have been given life sentences for the murder of a Failsworth dad, Ashley Walsh, on January 7 of this year.

Aaron Evitt, 33, of Brentnor Road, Manchester, and Gerrard McGlacken, 45, of Kintore Walk, Manchester both denied murder but pleaded guilty to the prevention of a lawful burial at a trial at Manchester Crown Court.

However, a jury found the pair guilty on July 14 and Judge Justice Goose considered the men “equally culpable”, giving them both a minimum term of 28 years.

After killing Walsh with “repeated hammer blows” and “stab wounds to the chest”, they dismembered his body and put the parts in suitcases which were left in a park.

A man who carried out three separate burglaries in Oldham in the space of a day has been sentenced to prison.

Edward Thomson, of Tensing Street, Oldham, pleaded guilty to two counts of robbery and one count each of burglary, assault occasioning actual bodily harm (ABH), theft and threatening someone with a bladed article.

He burgled houses on Danisher Lane, Hilary Avenue and Schofield Street between December 21 and 22, 2021.

Amongst his victims was an 88-year-old man who had six purses, a watch and jewellery stolen.

He also threatened to stab victims of the first two burglaries with a flick knife he was carrying and threw a rock at a neighbour of the victims on Hilary Avenue, causing ABH.

At Minshull Street Crown Court on Tuesday, July 5, Judge John Edwards told Thomson, who was said to be under the influence of heroin at the time, to "get a grip" of his life as he sentenced him to five years and three months in jail.