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Geoffrey Thompson – Tipton/Stourbridge

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Update: Geoffrey Thompson was p;laced on the sex offenders register for 5 years. He was given a 3 year community order and banned from working with children and vulnerable adults for life

June 2011

Jail warning for Stourbridge sex attacker

A 29-year-old man who committed a string of serious sex attacks on a schoolgirl in Stourbridge in the 1990′s has been warned he is facing a “significant” time behind bars.

Geoffrey Thompson had denied six charges of indecent assault and another of attempted rape committed in Lye between March 1994 and March 2000.

But an eight man-four woman jury, after retiring for just under eight hours to consider the evidence at the end of his trial, convicted him on unanimous verdicts.

Thompson, now living in Laburnum Road, Tipton, was remanded in custody until August 4 for the preparation of a pre-sentence report at Wolverhampton Crown Court.

Judge Martin Walsh warned him: “On any view custody is almost inevitable and for a significant period of time.”

Jas Mann, defending Thompson, told the court a report was necessary before the case could be finalised and added: “There are clearly a number of issues that need to be explored.”

The trial had been told the charges all related to the time when the victim was a schoolgirl in the Stourbridge area.

 


Andrew Lyons – Doncaster

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July 2014

Paedophile jailed for ‘ghastly sex offences’ on three-year-old girl

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A PAEDOPHILE has been jailed for seven years for “ghastly” sex offences against a three-year-old girl that so distressed her mother she suffered hair loss.

Andrew Lyons, 59, admitted two counts of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and one of making indecent images.

Hull Crown Court heard Lyons committed the offences in an East Riding town earlier this year.

A judge said he may have got away with it had he not taken photographs of what he was doing on his mobile phone.

There were gasps in the public gallery when graphic details of the offences were given to the court by prosecution barrister John Thackray.

Reading a victim impact statement given by the girl’s mother, Mr Thackray said: “This has had a devastating effect on the whole family.”

Mr Thackray said the mother was being treated for depression and had “suffered alopecia from the worry”.

Christopher Dickens, defending, told Judge Michael Mettyear, Honorary Recorder of Hull and the East Riding: “Your honour, these are particularly repellent offences and the defendant knows he is going to receive a substantial custodial sentence.”

Mr Dickens said the only things in Lyons’s favour were his lack of previous convictions and his early guilty plea, although the court heard he had denied the offences in his first police interview, when he was not represented by a solicitor.

Lyons had told officers he had “done no more than blow raspberries on her thighs”.

He admitted his crimes, however, in a second interview with a solicitor present after the photographs were found on his Nokia mobile phone.

But he said he “deleted them straight away” and drew no sexual gratification from them.

Mr Dickens said: “The harm that it’s probably done to this little child will not be known for some time, because she’s far too young to be properly assessed at this stage.

“The impact on the family is severe.”

Jailing Lyons for seven years, Judge Mettyear said: “It’s always somewhat sad to a see a man, or a woman for that matter, of 59, with no previous convictions, appear in the dock of the crown court, particularly so when the offences bringing that person into the dock are as serious as this.

“These offences were serious and ghastly. You let down yourself and this three-year-old child.

“If the actual abuse wasn’t bad enough, you photographed what you were doing and the only reason for that can be that you wanted to revisit in the future the abuse that you carried out.”

Lyons interrupted the judge at this point, saying: “No, I deleted it within minutes of taking it.”

“I don’t believe you,” the judge said.

Lyons, of Highfield Road, Doncaster, was also made subject to a ten-year sexual offences prevention order.

Judge Mettyear told him: “It was disgraceful, disgusting behaviour and you ought to be ashamed of yourself.”

 

 

Wayne Ault – Dudley

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June 2014

Judge tells Dudley man grooming led to sex attacks on vulnerable girl

A DUDLEY man has been told his behaviour included elements of grooming which led to sex attacks on vulnerable girl.

Wayne Ault, who also showed sickening pornographic films to another young schoolgirl, carried out a number of sex attacks on his young victim.

At Wolverhampton Crown Court, where Ault was jailed for four-and-a-half-years, Judge Robin Onions told him it was accepted the crimes were an “aberration.”

The judge said it was clear there was nothing on his record to “indicate a propensity to commit sexual offences.”

Ault, aged 36, of Corporation Street, had denied three charges of sexual assault on a girl aged under 13 and three charges of causing a child to watch a sexual act for the purposes of sexual gratification.

But a five man-seven woman jury, after retiring to consider the evidence for just over two hours at the end of his trial, returned unanimous guilty verdicts on all six charges.

The judge told Ault he had access to pornography and it was something he viewed from time to time but after he had been drinking he caused the one victim to watch the films.

In evidence to the jury Ault had maintained the girl had simply seen the cover of one of his pornographic films but the judge added: “That was blatantly wrong because she was able to describe in considerable detail what was on it.”

He said Ault had also taken the opportunity to carry out the sex attacks on his other victim and he went on: “You maintained your denial in the face of the clearest possible evidence.”

The judge further barred Ault from ever working with children, ruled he must have no unsupervised contact with a child under 16 and told him he must also register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.

He described the girl who had been sexually touched and kissed by Ault as vulnerable.

Ault had maintained to the jury the girl had been telling lies about the sexual assaults and Simon Hanns, defending, underlined the fact he had no relevant previous convictions.

Daniel Schofield – Bradford/Keighley

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July 2014

Man, 26, found guilty of raping schoolgirl at house party

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A 26-year-old man has been found guilty of raping a 14-year-old schoolgirl at a party.

Daniel Schofield was convicted by a jury today, by a majority of 10-2, of two counts of raping the girl at a house in Keighley in September 2012, when he was aged 24.

Schofield, of Lynfield Drive, Chellow Grange, Bradford, was also found guilty of attempted rape and a charge of sexual activity with a child, both by a majority of 10-2, and assault occasioning actual bodily harm, by a majority of 11-1, after a seven-day trial.

He was convicted unanimously of further charges of causing a child to engage in sexual activity, and having a bladed article.

But the jury unanimously found Schofield not guilty of three charges of raping another 14-year-old schoolgirl and two of sexual activity with a child.

The jury of eight women and four men will continue its deliberations tomorrow on one further charge of rape. It has been considering its verdicts for more than 12 hours.

Schofield had denied all those charges. He had previously pleaded guilty to three additional charges of sexual activity with a child.

During the trial prosecutor Philip Standfast had told the jury Schofield had invited three 14-year-old girls to the party in Keighley. He paid their bus fares and bought vodka and lager which they drank on the way.

Mr Standfast said the defendant knew the girls’ ages and told them to say they were 16 when they got to the party.

The court heard that two of the girls were drunk when they arrived at the party and one took cannabis at the house.

Schofield then raped one of the girls in a bedroom at the house. When he was confronted by others at the house about the allegations he became aggressive, armed himself with a knife and left the house with it.

He later admitted he had consensual sex with one of the girls.

Giving evidence Schofield said he took one girl, who was drunk, to a bedroom, sat her on the edge of the bed, and went downstairs.

He said that when he went back upstairs to use the toilet she was waiting for him outside the bathroom and they had consensual sex in the bedroom.

He told the jury he shared a double bed with the other girl but did not have sex with her.

The trial continues.

Clive Gay – South Oxhey

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July 2014

South Oxhey paedophile who committed sex offences on a baby given prison sentence of 14 years

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An evil pervert who committed sex offences on a baby girl has been given an extended prison sentence of 14 years.

Warped Clive Gay sexually assaulted the infant and photographed himself in the act.

The photos were found on the paedophile’s computer among a hoard of child pornography that was so disturbing some police officers had needed counselling after seeing it.

Passing sentence on Monday, Judge Andrew Bright QC told Gay: “This material is so graphic and so horrible that I understand some of the police officers who had to watch and catalogue the material needed to have counselling afterwards.”

The material was found on a computer at his home in South Oxhey, when police raided the property in April last year.

St Albans crown court was told that Gay, 45, had downloaded hundreds of sickening still images and movie clips complete with soundtracks featuring babies and toddlers.

Also found were a set of photos taken on his own camera of a baby being sexually assaulted.

After making enquiries officers were able to trace the family of the child who, when told what had happened, were shocked and stunned.

They had looked on Gay as a friend who’d been entrusted to look after the child on a number of occasions.

The judge told Gay: “The extent to which you breached the trust they placed in you is one of the most shocking aspects of this case.”

Gay, of Leven Close, South Oxhey, Watford, pleaded guilty to two counts of assault on a child under 13, one count of sexual assault on a child under 13 and one count of taking indecent photographs of a child.

He also admitted 11 offences of making indecent photographs of a child, two counts of possessing indecent photographs of a child and one count of possessing 38 extreme pornographic images.

A pre-sentence report called for by the judge had found that Gay posed a “high risk of serious harm to children”.

The judge said: “Given the circumstances of this case, it is difficult to see how anyone could argue with that conclusion.”

Carle Woolfe, defending, said “He needs substantial assistance to deal with the thoughts and feelings he has for children. He knows he faces a lengthy custodial sentence.

“He wishes to express his remorse and disgust as to how he has behaved and the hurt and upset he has caused.”

The judge sentenced Gay to an extended prison sentence of 14 years, explaining to him that the custodial period behind bars will be ten-and-a-half years in prison and he will then be on licence for three-and-a-half years.

His name was also added to the sex offenders register and he was made the subject of a sexual offences prevention order.

Detective Constable Emma O’Keeffe from the specialist Child Online Safeguarding Team (COST) said: “This sentence fully reflects the seriousness of the offences committed by Clive Gay.

“I would like to thank the victim’s family for showing extreme courage throughout the case and I hope the fact that this man will be in prison for some considerable time will offer them some comfort.”

Jay Williams – Wolverhampton

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July 2014

Teenage child rapist loses sentence appeal bid

A child rapist who claimed his offences were committed by a ‘dark alter ego’ he called Charlie has lost an appeal against his prison sentence.

Jay Williams, aged 18, was jailed in August last year after he pleaded guilty at Wolverhampton Crown Court to raping a boy under the age of 13.

The offences occurred when he was living in Wolverhampton.

Williams was given an extended sentence, comprising seven years’ custody, with another four to serve on licence after release.

He appealed to top judges against the term, but saw his case thrown out of the Court of Appeal in London.

The court heard Williams, of no fixed address, was a deeply troubled youth with a difficult family background.

He came forward of his own accord in 2011 and admitted the offences.

Williams said he had attacked the boy when he himself had been in his mid-teens, but appeared to show little remorse for what he had done.

While on a programme for abusers he claimed that a malevolent dark entity, who he called Charlie, had taken control of him and was behind the attacks.

However during later assessments Williams said Charlie was actually more like his conscience.

He said he attacked the boy because he hated children and anyone intellectually inferior to him, and admitted he was still sexually interested in children.

Appealing against the sentence handed down, lawyers argued that the seven-year custodial portion of the sentence was ‘manifestly excessive’.

They said the term did not properly reflect the fact he had come forward and admitted what he did, or his young age at the time of the abuse.

Williams still claimed the existence of Charlie, saying he thought the manifestation may occur for around 20 per cent of the time.

But Lord Justice Treacy said a bleak picture had been painted of Williams’ future by a series of reports by experts.

He said Williams could have been looking at a sentence of nearly 20 years if he had been an adult.

He added: “The sentence imposed by the judge cannot be described as manifestly excessive and, accordingly, this appeal must be dismissed.”

Stephen Casey – Leigh

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July 2014

Child molester fails to clear name at appeal court

A pervert has failed in his bid to have this clear his name by having his convictions quashed.

Stephen Casey, aged 46, forced himself on a school girl, molesting her and pushing her into sex during the attacks, which took place when he was in his 30s.

Casey, of Platt Street, Leigh, was jailed for nine years at Liverpool Crown Court in October, 2008 after he was found guilty of five counts of indecent assault and one of rape.

His conviction was challenged at London’s Appeal Court today but it was thrown out by three senior judges who claimed it was not even “arguable” that he did not receive a fair trial.

Mr Justice Hamblen said Casey repeatedly touched his victim in an inappropriate and sexual way before having intercourse with her during the historic offences.

The victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, kept the crimes to herself for years until blurting out the details to her friends. Her friends told her mother. The police were called and Casey was arrested in April, 2008. He denied any wrongdoing.

Casey, who had previous convictions for dishonesty and drivingoffences, theft and for obstructing the police, was disbelieved by a jury and found guilty of the sex offences by majority verdicts.

Applying to appeal, David Emanuel, representing Casey, argued that the trial judge failed to properly direct jurors on the evidence and on his lack of previous convictions for sexual offences, thereby prejudicing his defence.

But Mr Justice Hamblen, sitting with Lord Justice Davis and Judge Martyn Zeidman QC, disagreed, saying: “We are not satisfied that these convictions are arguably unsafe.”

He said that, in any event, the appeal had been submitted five years and four months beyond the usual deadline and an application for an extension of time, without a proper excuse, had to be rebuffed by the court.

Gerard Morgan – Catford

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July 2014

Catford shopkeeper jailed after grooming, sex abuse and attempted rape of 14-year-old girl

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A Catford shopkeeper has been jailed after befriending, grooming and attempting to rape a 14-year-old girl who visited his store.

Gerard Morgan has been described as “every parent’s nightmare” after sexually abusing his young victim and offering her presents and compliments.

The 46-year-old, of Sandhurst Road, ran a shop that sold baseball caps in Sandhurst Road and first befriended the girl after she came to look at some of the caps in autumn 2012.

Morgan was sentenced at Woolwich Crown Court on June 30 to five years in prison for attempted rape, four years for grooming a child, and six months for sexual assault, to run concurrently.

The court heard how Morgan started offering the victim lifts in his car where he sexually abused her and bought her presents including an iPad mini.

Police were alerted to the abuse after she was taken to an address in Blackheath in January last year and offered an orange juice drink.

She passed out and woke hours later to find her clothes dishevelled and told someone who alerted officers.

Morgan was arrested in February last year and denied the allegations but his phone showed he had contacted the victim hundreds of times in the short period they had known each other.

He was charged in December last year and found guilty of all charges on June 30.

Detective Constable Ken Tran of the sexual offences, exploitation and child abuse command (SOECA), who led the investigation, said: “Gerard Morgan is a dangerous offender who exploited a very vulnerable child for his own sexual needs.

“The victim has shown courage in reporting Morgan, who has now been convicted and will go to prison for a long time, safeguarding other children.

“On release he will be monitored as a registered sex offender.”

Detective Chief Inspector Pete Thomas, also of SOECA, added: “Gerard Morgan is every parent’s nightmare, a sex offender who targets children and tries to beguile them with presents and compliments.

“I believe there will be other victims and I urge them to tell us about what has happened.

“I would also encourage anyone who has been a victim of sexual exploitation or grooming, or someone who may have information about offenders targeting children, to call us, so we can protect other children.”

Anyone with information about Gerard Morgan is asked to contact SOECA via police non-emergency number 101 or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.


Richard Ferguson-Robe – Sittingbourne

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July 2014

Pervert jailed after filming up schoolgirls’ skirts and arranging to meet young girls

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A pervert with a fetish for schoolgirls who groomed a vulnerable teenager for sex and filmed up skirts has been jailed for seven years and eight months.

Richard Ferguson-Robe was handed an extended sentence after a judge decided he posed a danger in future.

He will have to serve two thirds of the term before he will be considered for release and will be on licence for a further five years.

Ferguson-Robe was 21 but claimed he was 17 when he contacted a 15-year-old girl in an internet chatroom.

She became obsessed with him and he had sex with her after she travelled from the West Midlands to his home in Sittingbourne.

After Ferguson-Robe, now 25, was arrested child sex abuse images were found on his laptop computer.

While on police bail he continued to offend by filming up the skirts of schoolgirls on the streets and in supermarkets in the town on his mobile phone.

Ferguson-Robe, of Dalewood, Sittingbourne, admitted three offences of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, four of outraging public decency, two of making indecent photographs of a child and four of possessing indecent photographs of a child.

Maidstone Crown Court heard the girl wanted to find a boyfriend and started to chat to Ferguson-Robe in a chatroom.

While using a webcam he asked her if it was all right to perform a sex act. She agreed because she felt appreciated.

“She described that routine happening more and more frequently,” said prosecutor Louise Oakley.

“She came home from school in her uniform and went on webcam, where he was waiting for her.

Ferguson-Robe also asked the girl to remove clothes and carry out various sex acts.

He progressed to having “phone sex” with her, although she just wanted a normal conversation. “I simply gave in,” she was to tell police.

She ran up a £650 phone bill talking to him. She decided to go to see Ferguson-Robe in March 2011 and was found walking along the M40. She took an overdose.

Miss Oakley said the next month the girl travelled to Sittingbourne. Ferguson-Robe told her to wear her school uniform.

He took her to parks close to where he lived and ogled schoolgirls in short skirts.

Ferguson-Robe arranged to meet a 14-year-old girl. He did so but nothing sexual happened. The other girl saw a conversation between them on his Facebook page

He was arrested in October 2012 and indecent film clips of the older girl were found on his laptop, as well as images of other children.

The girl’s father told police Ferguson-Robe had “turned her life upside down”.

He added: “I feel he has brainwashed her to make her feel she is nothing without him.”

He started a relationship with a woman in September 2012 and while looking at his PlayStation she saw indecent images of children. She contacted the police.

Miss Oakley said several clips of films up schoolgirls’ skirts were found on his mobile phone.

A bag of girls’ knickers was discovered at his home.

A sexual offences prevention order was made and Ferguson-Robe’s name will appear on the sex offenders’ register for life.

Michael Smith – Haverfordwest

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July 2014

Former youth worker jailed for abuse of male child aged under 13

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A former Pembrokeshire youth worker abused the son of a couple supporting him after he was sacked from his job.

Michael Smith, 49, from Haverfordwest was jailed for six years at Swansea Crown Court on Tuesday for child sex offences.

Pembrokeshire council said Smith was not working for it at the time of the offences and an inquiry did not uncover any other allegations.

The alarm was raised when the boy’s parents became concerned.

Smith, known locally as Mik Smith, admitted sexually assaulting a child under the age of 13, inciting the child to engage in sexual activity and taking indecent photographs of the child.

He also admitted possessing 1,136 indecent images of children.

Brian Simpson, prosecuting, said all the offences, apart from the last, related to the same boy.

He said Smith had worked for Pembrokeshire Youth Service and later Pembrokeshire Youth Action Service until he was dismissed in 2012 after children complained about the ways he touched them.

Mr Simpson said some people continued to support Smith but his response was to “groom” the son of one of the couples for his own sexual gratification.

After the hearing, Pembrokeshire County Council said “justice has been achieved for a vulnerable young person”.

In a statement, the authority explained a further joint investigation with police had not found any allegations that Smith abused children while employed as a youth worker.

The council said: “It is a matter of fact that there were significant failings in the disciplinary standards within the council’s education directorate in 2005 when Mr Smith was the subject of various allegations about inappropriate behaviour.

“A joint investigation by the council and Dyfed-Powys Police at that time revealed no criminal activity or allegations of abuse.

“The significant failings in the council’s disciplinary processes was brought to the authority’s attention by the national inspectorates in 2011, leading to formal intervention – intervention the authority has accepted and acted on.

“Since that time the council has completely changed its procedures and management of the education department and is confident that the failings of nine years ago would not be repeated now.”

The council said even though an investigation found no evidence that Smith abused other children while working for it, anyone with concerns has been urged to contact officials on 01437 776444 or the police on 101.

Stephen Hines – Hull

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July 2014

Suspect in abduction and murder of Hull schoolboy Christopher Laverack admits child abuse

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A MAN who was a suspect in the region’s most notorious child murder has admitted abusing children.

Stephen Hines was arrested three times during the high-profile investigation into the abduction, sexual assault and murder of nine-year-old Christopher Laverack, but was never charged.

He was Christopher’s brother-in-law and the last person to see him alive before the schoolboy disappeared on Friday, March 9, 1984, from the house in Harpham Grove, east Hull, that Hines shared with Christopher’s sister, Kim.

In July 2008, Humberside Police revealed Christopher’s uncle Melvyn Read was the prime suspect for the murder.

He was never charged with the offence and had died earlier that year.

However, detectives believed predatory paedophile Read did not act alone and had an accomplice.

Hines has now admitted sexually assaulting two children aged eight and ten and is due to be sentenced at Hull Crown Court on Friday.

Now 60, he has threatened to kill himself if he is sent to prison. At an earlier hearing, Hines, of Orchard Park Road, Orchard Park, Hull, claimed through his barrister he was at “death’s door” because of a variety of health problems.

Defence barrister Paul Genney said: “He says he doesn’t have much longer.”

He asked for sentencing to be adjourned until Friday for the completion of a medical report.

Judge Mark Bury told Hines’s barrister: “My assessment is this defendant is simply putting off the inevitable.”

Some of Hines’s ailments were read to the court, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, diabetes, hypertension, insomnia, heart problems and claustrophobia. Mr Genney said he had been admitted to hospital the night before the hearing after a “seizure”.

Referring to a completed pre-sentence report, the judge asked: “Where in this report does it say you are so ill that you may not have long left to live?”

He continued: “That said, there has been a doctor’s report commissioned and paid for and it isn’t your fault that the report is not at hand today, and it may – I say may – have some bearing on the length of the sentence you must serve.

“It seems to me you will have to serve a custodial sentence.”

The judge ordered Hines to be remanded in custody and said in light of his threat to kill himself: “The prison service are to be aware this man is vulnerable and will be monitored.”

Six years ago, Hines told the Mail his life had been ruined by his association with the murder, and claimed he was Christopher’s “hero”.

Christopher, of Anlaby, had been staying with his older sister Kim and her then-husband Hines.

At 7.50pm, Kim left to go to work at the Crown Hotel in Marfleet Lane.

Hines said he watched television with Christopher until 9.15pm, when he left Christopher and his 18-month-old son in the house to get some crisps from the Crown.

He stayed for a couple of drinks and returned to the house at 10.25pm to find Christopher missing.

Christopher was found two days later after a dog walker saw his body floating in Beverley Beck.

He had been sexually assaulted and beaten to death with a blunt object before being dumped in the beck in a carpet bag.

Read, who died from cancer in Hull Prison aged 64 in February 2008, remains the police’s main suspect.

Officers believe Read – the brother of Christopher’s mother Pamela Cawley – had been abusing the youngster over a period of time before abducting and killing him.

A spokesman for Humberside Police said: “We are satisfied Melvyn Read was the prime suspect in the Christopher Laverack inquiry. However, we always welcome any new information in connection with an investigation and even when a case is solved, we will always investigate any fresh details which may come to light.”

 

Paul Jolly – Burnley

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July 2014

Burnley paedophile who repeatedly raped schoolgirl who was under 13 years old faces jail

A PERVERT who repeatedly raped a Burnley schoolgirl and also sexually attacked her friend several times, is facing a long jail term.

Paul Jolly was ‘pretty crafty’ – picking times when he knew nobody would be about so he could force himself on the schoolgirl. The other abuse victim froze when Jolly performed sex acts on her and was to tell the police she had been scared, Burnley Crown Court had heard.

Jolly, now 28, of Parkinson Street, Burnley, had denied four specimen allegations – three of assault of a child under 13 by penetration and one of sexual assault on a child under 13, against one alleged victim, and three charges of rape, one of sexual assault, two counts of sexual activity with a child and two specimen allegations of causing a child to engage in sexual activity, against the other girl.

He claimed none of it happened, but yesterday he was convicted of all the offences by a jury. Judge Jonathan Gibson remanded him in custody for reports and he will be sentenced at Preston Crown Court, on September 1. The offences took place at several addresses in Burnley.

Carl Jenkins – Burton

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July 2014

Burton man escapes jail despite being caught with large haul of child abuse images

A BURTON man who was found with one of the largest collections of child abuse images ever uncovered in the county of Staffordshire has escaped jailed.

Stafford Crown Court heard how jobless Carl Jenkins downloaded more than 70,000 indecent pictures and movies of children from the internet and would stay up most of the night putting the illicit material on to his laptop.

However, despite the 44-year-old, of Tutbury Road, Burton, admitting 10 charges of making indecent images of children, one charge of distributing four images and one charge of possessing extreme pornography he still was not caged.

He was given a three year community order with a condition of undergoing a sex offender treatment programme, ordered to register as a sex offender for five years and banned from working with children indefinitely.

Neil Ahuja, prosecuting, said it was one of the largest collections of child porn found in the county.

After officers from the child protection unit raided his home and seized his computer they also found 30 images of adults performing vile acts of bestiality.

Judge Mark Eades told him: “In the privacy of your own house, probably in a private room with the curtains drawn, looking at pornography on your computer seems a harmless exercise. It is easy to persuade yourself what you are doing is victimless.

“The more people like you viewing this, the more children will be harmed. You must understand what you did isn’t some private matter, it impacts on many people, particularly children.”

Mr Ahuja said Jenkins was arrested on 30 June last year.

The images on his computer showed children, mainly girls, from toddlers up to the age of 18.

When questioned he said he had an interest in images of children, but not a physical attraction. He had been in internet chat rooms and exchanged images with others via email.

“His addiction developed about five or six years ago and he found it difficult to control – he would find himself staying up late in to the night downloading images.

Rashad Mohammed, defending, said Jenkins had been a viewer of regular adult porn, but found ‘pop-ups’ coming on to his screen.

“That’s what led him to view images of children.

“One thing led to another and before he knew it, he was downloading large quantities of images. He is willing to address his addiction.”

 

Colin Kenton – Broughton

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Broughton man jailed for six years for child sex offences

A MAN was jailed for six years after he was branded a danger to children.

Colin Kenton, 27, denied charges of indecent assault and sexual assault on a young girl, but was convicted by a jury at Mold Crown Court.

The defendant, of Warren Drive, Broughton was back in the dock for sentence last week before Judge Philip Hughes.

He was also made the subject of an indefinite Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO) which bans him from having unsupervised access to children after his release from prison.

Kenton was told his offending was aggravated by previous convictions – a sexual assault on a boy in 1999 and an indecent assault on a very young girl in 1997.

The present allegations involved a young girl aged under 10 over a three-year period, the court heard.

Judge Hughes said he considered Kenton ‘a dangerous offender – a significant risk to members of the public, particularly children’.

Oliver King, defending, said the defendant had led a productive life, holding down several jobs.

He had been with his present employer for six years and his job was being held open for him.

Simon Mills, prosecuting, said the Probation Service regarded Kenton as a high risk of physical, sexual, emotional and psychological harm to children, particularly to pre-pubescent females.

WANTED: Pervert Abdelouaheb Delhoum on the run

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June 2014

Police appeal for help to find missing child rapist – three WEEKS after he went on the run

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A CONVICTED paedophile living in Headington is being hunted by police after failing to go to court.

Abdelouaheb Delhoum, 45, was convicted of two counts of sexual assault on a child under 13, three counts of inciting a child under 13 to engage in sexual activity and one count of rape of a child under 13 years at a hearing in May.

The charges relate to offences which took place in the Swindon area.

Delhoum was convicted at Swindon Crown Court on May 1 and was released on conditional bail until June 13, but he has not returned or made contact with police since.

Delhoum is described as Middle Eastern, approximately 5ft 9in, of a medium build and with a shaven head.

Anyone with information on Delhoum’s whereabouts is asked to contact Wiltshire Police on 101 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111.


Robin Sinclair – Bishops Stortford

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July 2014

Stortford paedophile who had 1,700 indecent images told police he preferred fatless children to ugly adults

A BISHOP’S Stortford man with an interest in naturism who was caught with nearly 1,700 indecent images of children on his computers has been spared prison.

Police raided Robin Sinclair’s cul-de-sac home on July 6 last year and seized three computers – two laptops and a PC – from an office in his loft.

The 40-year-old told officers, “I don’t want to say anything except in the presence of a lawyer,” St Albans Crown Court heard today (Wednesday, July 2).

Prosecutor Colin Banham said the computers were found to contain 1,692 indecent images of children. Of these, 274 were at category A, the highest level, 304 at category B and 1,114 at category C, the lowest level. There were also three indecent videos, one at each level.

Sinclair had used internet search terms such as “ch7ld (correct) sex pic”, “sex pedo (correct)” and “mum and son”.

In a police interview he said he was interested in naturism and preferred looking at images of children because most adults are ugly and children have a lack of fat.

He pleaded guilty to five counts of making, or downloading, indecent images of children and one of possessing indecent images of children.

Carl Woolf, defending, said: “He has expressed deep remorse for his behaviour. He understands the children portrayed in these images are victims. He also understands that by downloading these images he encourages the production of these images.”

He said Sinclair accepted he needed treatment and had contacted the Lucy Faithfull Foundation, a charity that helps internet sex offenders break their habit.

Although his wife has left him, he said he had support from other members of his family.

The offending lasted for eight months from October 2012 to June last year, he said.

Judge Marie Catterson imposed a two-year community order with two years’ supervision. Sinclair must attend the internet sex offender treatment programme. He must abide by a sex offender prevention order, which means he should not delete any internet browsing history. He must sign on the sex offender register for five years and pay £320 costs.

Shawn Frazer – Welshpool

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Shawn Anthony Frazer had 10,000 abuse images on phone

A teenager has been jailed for four years after having 10,000 child sex abuse images on his mobile phone and carrying out sex attacks.

Shawn Anthony Frazer, 19, was caught after taking his phone to be repaired at a shop in Newtown, Powys.

Mold Crown Court heard shop staff had found images on the phone and called the police who discovered thousands, including some of the worst kind.

Frazer, from Welshpool, used an app to download and distribute the images.

As police investigations continued, it emerged that not only had Frazer been looking at images of sex abuse but he had also sexually assaulted or engaged in sexual activity with four children himself.

Frazer admitted 20 charges of making and distributed indecent images, and 15 charges of sexual assault, sexual activity with a child and inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.

Simon Rogers, prosecuting, said forensic analyses of the phone revealed discussions and descriptions of the images with other men in the most graphic of detail.

He was said to have been in conversation with a number of other men, including one in America.

Interviewed, Frazer said that he had tried to delete the images but they re-appeared.

He said that he was shocked at the huge number found on his phone.

John Hedgecoe, defending, said Frazer, who had been in care from a young age, had realised that what he was doing was wrong and had been seeking counselling before the police became involved.

Sentencing Frazer to four years youth detention, Judge Rhys Rowlands said the defendant’s behaviour had been “worrying and very, very wrong indeed.”

Frazer was ordered to sign on the sex register for life and an indefinite sexual offences prevention order was made to curb his future activities

George Noel – Yeovil

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Yeovil nursery worker admits sexually abusing six-year-old boy

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A YEOVIL nursery worker who admitted sexually abusing a six year old boy has been warned he could face prison.

George Frederick Noel, 19, appeared in court on Friday to admit the attacks – the most recent of which happened last week.

The court heard that when the victim told his mother what had happened she confronted Noel who confessed what he had done and said that it had also occurred on two other occasions this year.

Noel’s mother drove him away from Yeovil to “take the heat out of the situation” and they were eventually located by police in the Basingstoke area.

When he was arrested and interviewed he told the police he found children aged three years and upwards “attractive” adding that he could have conversations with them and relate to them.

This week the authorities have stressed that the offences are not linked to the nursery in Dorset where Noel was a trainee – and an enquiry into safeguarding measures there has been carried out.

Noel, of Preston Grove, Yeovil, pleaded guilty that between January 1 and June 26 this year at Yeovil he intentionally caused or incited a boy under the age of 13 to engage in sexual activity of a non-penetrative nature.

Courtney Daley, prosecuting, told Somerset Magistrates, sitting at Yeovil, that the most recent attack happened on the morning of June 24.

She said the alarm was raised when the victim told his mother his stomach hurt.

She said: “When asked why he said that Noel had asked him to lie on top of him while he was in bed and made him touch him. Noel’s mother collected him from his employment and took him home where he admitted to her that he had touched the boy on previous occasions as well.”

After the defendant admitted to the boy’s mother what he had done his own mother drove him away from the area and the matter was reported to the police who found them in the Basingstoke area.

Miss Daley said: “Noel was taken to Yeovil police station and there were full admissions made that he had sexually touched the boy on three occasions. He said that after the child’s mother had found out his mother took him for a drive and they were on their way back to Yeovil when they got stopped by the police.He said he was disgusted by his behaviour and said he found children of three years and upwards attractive. He liked them because he could hold a conversation with them and relate to them.”

Defending solicitor Ray Peters said Noel did not have any previous convictions or warnings from the police and had been “open, candid and honest” with them and fully admitted what happened.

“Going away with his mother was not an attempt to abscond but was done to take the heat out of what was a fairly volatile situation,” he said.

“He is genuinely remorseful and has pleaded guilty to allay any concerns by any parties and this will hopefully lay to rest any other concerns.”

The magistrates said the case was so serious that Noel should be sent to Taunton Crown Court to be sentenced.

They adjourned the case until July 25 and also ordered him to sign on the national Sex Offenders Register on an interim basis.

They agreed with an application by the prosecution for Noel to be remanded in custody until sentencing and rejected an application for bail by the defence.

A Dorset Police spokeswoman said: “Specialist officers from Dorset Police have conducted a safeguarding investigation at a nursery in Dorset after an Avon and Somerset court case into offences by 19-year-old George Noel.

“Noel was a trainee at the nursery. However, the offences do not relate to the nursery and the enquiries were purely made as a safeguarding measure.

“Following a thorough investigation at the nursery, officers have established that the nursery has very robust policies and procedures in place which prevent a single member of staff being left alone with children – these rules are even more stringent for trainee staff. Officers are reassured that as a trainee George Noel would not have been left unsupervised at any time and no offences have been disclosed.”

A Dorset County Council spokeswoman said: “This is not a Dorset County Council nursery. However, we understand that when this kind of behaviour is uncovered it can cause stress and anxiety for parents. We have trained and experienced professionals who will be providing advice, guidance and ongoing support to staff and parents.”

 

Ian Mather – Watford/Ruislip

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Former Watford Council officer spared jail over child abuse images

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A former council officer who worked at Watford Town Hall downloaded thousands of indecent images and movies of children onto his home computers.

Ian Mather, of Stanmore Road, Watford, downloaded thousands of perverted material onto his home computers.

The 54-year-old ex-council officer had also been looking at images of extreme pornography involving bestiality, St Albans crown court heard on Wednesday.

Prosecutor Colin Banham said that officers with a search warrant went to his home at 8.30am on April 16 last year. He was not in, so they went to the town hall, where they asked for him at reception.

He identified himself and went out to the police car, where he was cautioned. Computers were seized from his home and from his parents’ home in Ruislip.

When they were examined, the police found 2,171 indecent images – 206 in Category A, the most serious category, 172 at Category B, and 1,794 at Category C, the least serious. There were 197 movies – 72 at Category A, 45 at Category B and 80 at Category C and 134 images of extreme pornography.

Mather had used search terms such as: “Lolita,” “Pedo”, and “Preteen”, said Mr Banham.

When questioned he said he had been searching for adult pornography 

Mather pleaded guilty to seven charges of making [downloading] indecent images, two of possessing indecent images and one of possessing extreme pornography. He was a man of previous good character.

Defence Andrew Campbell said Mather had voluntarily attended the Lucy Faithfull Foundation, a charity that aim to help people to stop viewing indecent images.

“He has co-operated with the police from the outset. He was arrested at work. That was the first humiliation. He pleaded guilty at the first opportunity. He was working in a government-type position and was offered redundancy in December last year. He took it,” said Mr Campbell.

At the time of his arrest he said he was trying to sort out the estate of his late mother at the Ruislip address. His father, he said, suffers from Alzheimer’s and is in a home.

Judge Marie Catterson passed a two year Community Order with 18 months’ supervision.

The judge banned him from accessing any pornography for the length of the order, saying: “It will do you no harm at all.” He must have a device on his computer that records and retains his browsing history.

In addition he must register as a Sex Offender for five years and pay £340 costs.

 

Craig Coy – Redbourne

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July 2014

Jail for soldier who used internet to groom seven schoolgirls

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A WARNING on the dangers of social media has been sounded after a North Lincolnshire man was jailed for eight years after targeting teenage girls online.

Craig Coy, 26, of Carr Lane, Redbourne, admitted 20 charges of committing sexual offences against seven girls aged 15 and under.

Coy, who was a soldier but has now been dishonourably discharged from the Army, contacted girls via the internet while he was home on leave, Grimsby Crown Court heard.

He paid for some of the girls to perform acts with him and incited others to do the same, as well as asking them to find other girls willing to participate in acts with him.

After seizing Coy’s computer, police found more than 22,000 messages between him and the girls, sent over a 13-month period.

Speaking after the case, the police officer who led the investigation into Coy said she thought parents and children needed to be aware of internet safety.

Detective Constable Katie Mann, from Humberside Police’s protecting vulnerable people unit at Scunthorpe, said: “It is definitely a warning to parents because not one of the parents had a clue their child was a victim until the day we knocked on their front door.

“The fact that these offences have been committed while those children are at home is the scary bit.

“It is not just on a computer, it is a phone or a tablet. It seems 24 hours a day, they can be subject to such risk.”

DC Mann said although rare, cases of this type were becoming more prevalent and she gave advice to parents and youngsters.

She said: “Speak to children about internet safety.

“For children, if there is someone sending inappropriate messages, speak to an adult or parent to put the right blocks on those messages.

“A lot of people accept anyone who has given them a friend request and at the end of the day, Coy is not a stereotypical predator.

“He was a good-looking lad and the girls were taken in by that initially.

“We get a number of low-level jobs we can nip in the bud straight away, but this one has targeted a number of girls who all fell victim to him.

“The majority of them didn’t recognise they were victims for such a long time.”

DC Mann said police became aware of Coy’s offending after a friend of one of his victims expressed concerns.

She said: “A friend became concerned and told her mum.

“She was present when one of the offences happened.

“It came in initially through social services and we did a joint investigation, but it was only when we got the computer we realised how many girls he had been contacting.

“It was clear when he was on leave he would spend eight hours a day bombarding these girls with messages.

“They didn’t make any complaints until we knocked on their door and said we knew this guy had been in contact with them.

“Once we had the computer, it identified the girls we needed to speak to and they all did interviews on a DVD.

“Once we did that, he did start to admit to all this offending.

“There are a lot of investigations going on, but this is certainly one of the worst in Scunthorpe but unfortunately it won’t be the last, I’m sure.”

Coy was sentenced to eight years in prison, as well as being made subject to a sexual offences prevention order.

DC Mann said: “I would have liked a little bit more, but because he pleaded guilty, eight years is a good sentence and the girls haven’t had to come and give evidence, which is the most important thing.”

And she urged anybody subject to a similar type of abuse to speak out.

She said: “We would urge any young people subject to this type of message, threatening or abuse to confide in an adult, a teacher or anyone they feel safe to do so.

“These were young girls and there is an embarrassment factor or shame that they feel they are to blame for this.

“A lot of our jobs are done through teachers and we will see the girls or boys at school.

“We can go with them to see their parents because a big barrier is they don’t want their parents to know.

“Some of the girls didn’t know how to stop because there had been an element of encouragement and they didn’t know how to put an end to it.”

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