British Airways pilot gets 8 years for sexual assault

A British Airways pilot has been sentenced to eight years and four months in prison for sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl he groomed online. Kwame Yeboah, 30, was sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court on Wednesday, June 24, after pleading guilty in April to three counts of rape and one count of sexual assault.

Yeboah, a first officer based at Heathrow Airport, initiated contact with the victim on the video chat platform Omegle in late 2025. The girl initially claimed to be 17, but prosecutors said subsequent conversations about school and photographs of her in uniform made her true age clear. Yeboah continued the contact on Instagram, sending explicit images and making frequent phone calls to groom her and create a false sense of a caring relationship.

In February 2026, Yeboah drove approximately 200 miles from his home in Reading, Berkshire, to Merseyside to meet the girl. He took her to an isolated location where he raped her three times. The assaults were uncovered days later when the victim's friend told her mother, who then contacted police. An investigation by Merseyside Police quickly identified Yeboah using details he had provided online.