Former world darts champion Ted Hankey, 54, jailed two years for sexual assaulting teenage girl

Former darts world champion Ted Hankey has been jailed for two years after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting a teenage girl. 

Hankey, 54, pinned the young woman down and, with an ‘air of entitlement’, sexually assaulted his victim, Chester Crown Court heard.

The attack occurred in Crewe, Cheshire, on September 10 last year, and the court previously heard that the victim was aged between 16 and 18.

Jailing him, Judge Steven Everett, Recorder of Chester, said Hankey would have ‘denied it to the bitter end’ if the attack had not been caught on film.

The footage was played to the judge after the courtroom had been cleared of public and press.

During questioning,…