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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Esther Halligan & Abigail Nicholson

Businessman goes on the run as he's found guilty of raping child

A former company director has gone on the run after being found guilty of child sex offences.

Mark Tilley, 60, was charged with multiple counts of raping and indecently assaulting a girl under the age of 14. The offences happened in the 1990s.

Shortly before lunch on Thursday, the jury found Tilley, who was the director of a Warrington-based Instrument Consultant Technical Services Ltd, guilty of all six charges. But the dock at the back of Teesside Crown Court was empty, TeesideLive reports.

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