{"id":67064,"date":"2025-05-02T00:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T00:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/67064\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T00:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T00:48:10","slug":"the-dangerous-man-who-will-be-spending-years-longer-in-jail-after-lenient-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/67064\/","title":{"rendered":"The dangerous man who will be spending years longer in jail after ‘lenient’ sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert Emmerson will be spending longer in jail<\/p>\n

19:05, 01 May 2025Updated 19:18, 01 May 2025<\/p>\n

Robert Emmerson will now be locked away for longer after the Court of Appeal found his first sentence ‘unduly lenient'(Image: Manchester Evening News)<\/p>\n

A vile pervert will spend longer in jail after his ‘unduly lenient’ sentence was extended.<\/p>\n

Robert Emmerson was first arrested for exposure and stalking in 2015<\/a>, and was banned from Baguley, but was not given a prison sentence when he appeared before courts.<\/p>\n

In the years following, however, he then carried out a spate of traumatising sexual assaults on university students.<\/p>\n

Emmerson attacked students by chasing them down, grabbing them from behind in a ‘bear hug’, before pinning them down to the ground and groping them. He \u2018smiled\u2019, \u2018laughed\u2019, and said \u2018ooh, yeah\u2019 as he committed his repulsive crimes. Many of the attacks happened in an underpass on the Mancunian Way to students aged between only 18 and 24, who have been left traumatised by their experiences.<\/p>\n

The 40-year-old also exposed himself to young women and schoolgirls who had been on their way to university and school classes.<\/p>\n

He was eventually caught and, before judges at Manchester Crown Court earlier this year, he was first sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison earlier in 2025 at Manchester Crown Court.<\/p>\n

But today (May 1), the Court of Appeal quashed Emmerson\u2019s first sentence and put him behind bars for longer, with judges branding his first sentence as \u2018too lenient\u2019 as he poses a serious \u2018danger to the public\u2019. The new sentence comes after an appeal from prosecutor Gemma White, and locks him away for seven years.<\/p>\n

As Emmerson waited for the judges to arrive for his Court of Appeal hearing, he uttered \u2018f*** sake\u2019 while sitting before a camera in a room in HMP Risley.<\/p>\n

\"RobertRobert Emmerson was initially jailed for four years and six months(Image: GMP)<\/p>\n

Emmerson also exposed himself and masturbated to schoolgirls, aged as young as 13 and 16, in Wythenshawe<\/a>, close to the perpetrator\u2019s home.<\/p>\n

First jailed for four years<\/p>\n

In January, Emmerson was jailed for targeting the 11 women and girls<\/a> in a string of offending between November 2023 and April 2024. The court heard how Emmerson had violently grabbed or pushed the women, aggressively rubbed himself on them, and touched them inappropriately over their clothes.<\/p>\n

Despite overwhelming evidence against him following an investigation by Greater Manchester Police<\/a>, Emmerson, formerly of Lancaster Court, Manchester, pleaded not guilty and forced victims to relive their trauma in a trial.<\/p>\n

A jury subsequently found him unanimously guilty of five counts of sexual assault and seven counts of indecent exposure, including to underage girls.<\/p>\n

Robert Emmerson was branded as a ‘danger to the public'(Image: Manchester Evening News)<\/p>\n

Recorder Geoffrey Lowe sentenced him to four years and six months in prison. This included four years for the assaults and six months for the exposure to the schoolgirls, as well as a nine month sentence for the other exposures to be served concurrently.<\/p>\n

He was also ordered to sign the sex offenders register for life.<\/p>\n

But today, the sentence was quashed by the Court of Appeal for being \u2018unduly lenient\u2019 given his dark history and \u2018delusional denial\u2019 of his guilt.<\/p>\n

The offences were said to have involved \u2018significant violence\u2019 carried out at a \u2018location specifically chosen because of its suitability for that purpose\u2019 of cornering young women and not being caught by the public, said the judges.<\/p>\n

The judges continued that the offences spiralling from stalking and exposure to \u2018dangerous\u2019 assaults demonstrate \u2018obsessive behaviour\u2019. The judges explained this can \u2018be a marker of escalating risk of sexual offences that has proved to be the case\u2019 for Emmerson.<\/p>\n

The judge said the sickening pervert had a \u2018profound sexual occupation and the inability to express sexual thoughts in a pro-social way\u2019.<\/p>\n

The court heard how Emmerson remains \u2018high risk of sexual harm to children, specifically female teenage children and young women aged 18-30 that were the targets\u2019 of his crimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robert Emmerson will be spending longer in jail 19:05, 01 May 2025Updated 19:18, 01 May 2025 Robert Emmerson…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[33996,748,30,393,4884,2465,8086,13393,33995,16,15,2313],"class_list":{"0":"post-67064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-baguley","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-courts","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-manchester","14":"tag-manchester-city-centre","15":"tag-manchester-crown-court","16":"tag-mancunian-way-a635m","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-wythenshawe"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114435490336536816","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67064","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=67064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}