A former teacher has been jailed for 15 years after being convicted of rape and other sexual offences against a pupil in Salford.
Gary Day-Davies, of Tyldesley, was sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court on Monday 8 June 2026 after being found guilty of three counts of rape, three counts of sexual assault by penetration and one count of sexual assault by touching of a child.
The offences took place between 2006 and 2009 when the survivor was a pupil at a school where Day-Davies taught.
The court heard that the abuse happened both at school and at Day-Davies’ home after he invited the survivor there for additional tuition. He then gave her drugs and alcohol before sexually abusing her.
The survivor reported the abuse to police in 2022, leading to an investigation.
Throughout the case, Day-Davies denied the offences. During the trial, he claimed the survivor must have “held a bit of a grudge” against him.
In a victim statement read to the court, the survivor said the guilty verdicts had lifted an enormous weight from her shoulders.
She said: “Since receiving the news of the guilty verdicts, I feel like an enormous weight was lifted off my shoulders. The emotional trauma bond that I have endured for the last 20 years has finally severed.
“I can eventually breathe and think for myself without constant fear of the consequences. I finally have justice – this is justice not for me as a child but now as an adult too.”
She added that while the verdict gave her some closure, she had not yet fully processed the full extent of what had happened and still faced a long road to recovery.
Inspector Dave Ogden, of Greater Manchester Police’s Criminal Investigation Department in Salford, said Day-Davies had abused the survivor both at his home and inside the school, including in a library and a classroom store cupboard.
He said police would continue to investigate sexual abuse cases regardless of how long ago they occurred and urged victims to come forward, saying they would be listened to and treated with dignity and respect.