Predatory 'pimp' pleads GUILTY to inciting teenage girls into sex work

A predatory 'pimp' has pleaded guilty to encouraging two teenage girls to go into 'sex work' using 'drugs, coercion and violence'.

Christopher Oates 'wooed them, charmed them, gave them cannabis, ecstasy and cocaine and introduced them to Manchester’s red-light district where they joined the desperate women selling themselves on street corners', prosecutors previously told Manchester Crown Court.

The 44-year-old, from Stockport, initially denied seven charges including sexual activity with a child and inciting child prostitution concerning two 'vulnerable' teenage girls. After three days of the trial, he has today, March 6, changed his plea to guilty to offences of causing or inciting child prostitution, possessing a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence in respect one one victim and causing or inciting prostitution for gain in respect of a second victim.

Previously opening the case, prosecutor Gwen Henshaw told a jury that Oates, also known as ‘Nails ’because he could scoop cocaine with his 'pinkie' finger, is a ‘predatory man’ who used drugs, coercion and violence to sexually exploit and ‘pimp’ the two girls.

One of the victims was homeless and then living in care and was 'besotted' with the defendant as she thought he was her 'boyfriend'. The second was doing bar work and hanging out in bars despite being underage', the jurors were told. His accusers, now adults who cannot be named for legal reasons, had 'both had a difficult childhood'.

Ms Henshaw said: "Christopher Oates identified their vulnerability. He took the opportunity to use them for his own purposes. He wooed them, charmed them, gave them cannabis, ecstasy and cocaine and introduced them to Manchester’s red-light district where they joined the