A 55 year old man from Tydesley has been jailed for fifteen years after being found guilty of three counts of rape, three counts of sexual assault by penetration and one count of sexual assault by touching of a child.
The offences occurred between 2006-09 when the survivor was a pupil at a school in Salford that Gary Day-Davies taught at.
The abuse took place both at school and in Day-Davies’ home after he invited the survivor to his house for additional tuition.
Day-Davies then plied the survivor with drugs and alcohol and sexually abused her.
The survivor bravely reported her abuse to police in 2022, which allowed officers to conduct a thorough investigation.
Throughout the investigation Day-Davies denied the offences and at trial provided little explanation as to why these were brought to him. He stated that the charges came as the survivor ‘must have just held a bit of a grudge’ against him.
In a powerful statement read out in court, the survivor said: “Since receiving the news of the guilty verdicts, I feel like an enormous weight was lifted off my shoulders. The emotional trauma bond that I have endured for the last 20 years has finally severed.
“I can eventually breathe and think for myself without constant fear of the consequences. I finally have justice – this is justice not for me as a child but now as an adult too.
“As much as the outcome gives me some form of closure, I have not fully processed the full extent of this situation yet. I know I have a long road ahead of me in terms of recovery and I am very much looking forward to see what the future looks like for me.”
