Two Hull Fair workers charged with multiple child sex offences

While Edgar and Phillips-Dawson were working at the fair, they struck up a conversation with two young girls, exchanged phone numbers and encouraged the girls to befriend them.

Edgar, of Park Street, Hull, asked the girls to send him nude pictures and convinced them both to return to his flat with him and Phillips-Dawson, of Topcliffe Garth, Hull.

The girls were reported missing, but were later found in Edgar’s apartment, hidden in the bedroom, after he lied that they were not there.

The men were arrested on suspicion of rape.

It was later discovered that Edgar took one of the girls into his bedroom, grabbed and raped her, while Phillips-Dawson sexually assaulted the second girl downstairs.

Both men also assaulted the girls and forced them to take cocaine.