A former British Airways pilot has been jailed for r@ping a 12-year-old girl after meeting and grooming her on social media.
In February 2026, Kwame Yeboah, 30, a former England youth basketballer from Reading in Berkshire, travelled about 200 miles from Reading to Merseyside to meet the child late in the evening. He then drove her around before taking her to an isolated location and r@ped her three times.
He first made contact with the child online in late 2025, Liverpool Crown Court heard yesterday, Wednesday June 24. She initially told him she was 17 and their conversations began ordinarily. However, the nature of later messages and her appearance when they met in person would have made it clear to him that she was much younger and could not consent to any s£xual activity with him.
Yeboah sent the 12-year-old intimate images of himself and the conversations became increasingly s£xual. He called her around two times a week making her believe she was important to him and that he cared about her.
