British Airways pilot Kwame Yeboah, who travelled hundreds of miles to meet and rape a 12-year-old girl he met on Instagram, has been jailed.
Kwame Yeboah, 30, first made contact with the child in late 2025. She initially told him she was 17, and he travelled from his home in Reading to Wirral, Merseyside, in February, BBC reports.
The Crown Prosecution Service said it would have been “obvious” to Yeboah, a UK national and British Airways employee, that the victim was a very young child.
Yeboah pleaded guilty to rape and sexual assault and was sentenced to eight years and four months in jail. He was also given a 15-year restraining order.
Yeboah has been working for British Airways since 2023 as a First Officer, according to his LinkedIn profile.
He also spent more than 17 years playing basketball and refereeing at Basketball England.
After he first messaged the victim,
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