March 2014
Former Scout leader jailed for sexual offences
An ex-Scout leader has been sentenced to 2 years and 3 months in jail for historical sexual offences against a child.
Peter Halliwell, 77 from Cheadle Hulme, Stockport pleaded guilty on the day of his trial to three counts of indecent assault in the mid 1960s against a boy when he was 9 or 10 years old.
The charges related to a cub scout who was nine or ten at the time, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.
At the Manchester Crown Court hearing, he was also ordered to sign the sex offenders register for ten years.
Steve Hoolohan, from the CPS, said: “Halliwell used his role as a scout leader to target a young boy in his care.
“This was a gross abuse of his position of trust in the Scouts and in the local community, whereby he persistently exploited the boy for his own gratification.”
March 2013
Ex-scoutmaster Peter Halliwell on Cheadle Hulme sex attack charges
A man has been charged with indecently assaulting a child while working as a scoutmaster, Greater Manchester Police have said.
Peter Halliwell, 76, of Sherwood Avenue, Cheadle Hulme, is charged with 14 counts of indecent assault.
He is due to appear at Stockport Magistrates’ Court on 7 March.
The charges relate to alleged offences between 1965 and 1967, while the victim was a cub scout with the 6th Cheadle Hulme scout troop, police said.
