Hotel resident pleads not guilty to Wigan town centre rape

A Wigan hotel resident has pleaded not guilty to raping a woman in the town centre.
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Ablolom Okbazge, 26, of the Britannia Hotel, Almond Brook Road, Standish, was making his second appearance before a Bolton Crown Court, another hearing in January having already provisionally set a trial date.

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And at a brief second hearing on Tuesday March 1, Okbazge entered a not guilty plea to the charge that he seriously sexually assaulted a woman in Wigan on December 18.

Bolton Crown CourtBolton Crown Court
Bolton Crown Court

In the meanwhile, Okbazge remains in custody.

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