May 2023 Stockport man receives a 10-year jail sentence Paul Collier-Woods (25/05/1944) (previously known by the surname of Higginbotham) of the Stockport area, was jailed at Manchester Crown Court for multiple sex offences against a woman, which took place when she was a young child. The court heard how 78-year-old Collier-Woods had systematically abused her throughout the 1970s and early 1980’s – which began when she was just five years of age. Charged with nine counts of indecent assault of a child, one count of committing indecency of a child and three counts of rape, Collier-Woods pleaded to all counts, except those of rape. He initially admitted to the abuse, but only for a period of six months – and blamed it on a medication he was taking at the time for a back injury. His account was disputed by a Pharmacy Professional Advisor for NHS England, who could not find a link between opiates leading “to the generation of new ideation”, which, in this case, would be sexual offences.