{"id":144771,"date":"2025-05-30T18:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T18:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/144771\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T18:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T18:27:09","slug":"oldbury-man-jailed-for-16-years-for-truly-horrific-crimes-against-a-woman-including-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/144771\/","title":{"rendered":"Oldbury man jailed for 16 years for &#8216;truly horrific&#8217; crimes against a woman &#8211; including rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Hollingsworth, from Pinkney Place,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/sandwell\/oldbury\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Oldbury<\/a>, was arrested shortly after the woman came forward.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old was subsequently charged with two counts of rape, two counts of sexual assault, and controlling and coercive behaviour.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/a0128590-f13a-4af7-80e4-f8c7f65c1cca.jpeg\"   alt=\"James Hollingsworth\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>James Hollingsworth<\/p>\n<p>Despite denying the offences, Hollingsworth was convicted following a trial at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.find-court-tribunal.service.gov.uk\/courts\/wolverhampton-combined-court-centre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wolverhampton Crown Court<\/a>, and sentenced to 16 years in prison on Friday (May 23).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He has also been put on the sex offenders register for life and was given a restraining order.<\/p>\n<p>Investigating officer, PC Nathan Lawrence from our Public Protection Unit, said: \u201cThe woman who came forward to tell us about Hollingsworth has shown immense courage after suffering a truly horrific ordeal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom her initial report, through to the trial, our expert officers have tried their best to support her, and we commend her bravery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe encourage anyone who has suffered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abuse<\/a> to speak to us \u2013 you will be supported and believed, and I hope this case shows how seriously it will be taken.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Hollingsworth, from Pinkney Place, Oldbury, was arrested shortly after the woman came forward. The 29-year-old was subsequently&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,188,393,4884,379,12,705,12608,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-144771","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-local-hubs","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-oldbury","16":"tag-sandwell","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114598198892095457","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}