August 2014

“Idiots” who have “neglected their duty to the public”: Judge slams CPS for ‘under-charging’ persistent offender

A judge has blasted the CPS as “idiots” who have “neglected their duty to the public” by preventing him giving a sex offender the sentence he deserves.

Irate Judge Daniel Williams said he was unable to sentence a man who admits being sexually attracted to young boys as severely as he would have liked because the defendant had been “undercharged” in the past.

Phillip Jones, 38, had a string of previous convictions when he appeared at Cardiff Crown Court to admit engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child after being caught pleasuring himself on a mountainside in front of children as young as nine.

Judge Williams said “incompetence” meant the extended sentence needed for public protection could not be passed because of “under-charging” in the past.

He said decisions taken since 2007 on how to prosecute persistent offender Jones, of Hazel Place, Fairwater, Cardiff, had been wrong and he demanded a letter of explanation from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) within seven days detailing why more serious counts had not been brought against him.

In 2007 he was seen performing a sex act in his car and when a parent tried to detain him Jones shut the window on the man’s arm before dragging him down the road.

For that incident he faced charges of exposure and causing actual bodily harm.

In 2011 Jones grabbed a young boy as he walked to school, hoping to persuade the child to engage in sex acts with him, but was charged only with battery.

Last year he was challenged by a father who had witnessed him pleasuring himself in the grounds of Glyn Derw High School, Ely, but Jones escaped – only to weeks later be reported for going into someone’s garden, again in Ely, to let boys playing nearby see him doing the same thing.

Again the charges he faced were simple exposure. Jones admitted he liked to pleasure himself in front of boys to “get attention” because he could not connect with males on any other level.

“He also said his 16-year heterosexual relationship had broken down because of his urges,” prosecutor Nuhu Gobir told the court.

On June 13 this year Jones parked his white van, with an armchair in the back, by a moutainside in Cwmbran where children were playing.

Mr Gobir told the court: “Five boys aged nine to 12 passing it in a lay-by saw its’ sliding door open and Jones sitting, legs stretched out, in the chair in full view performing a sex act on himself.

“He looked up and saw them and carried on and said later just the sound of their voices as they played had aroused him.”

Jones’ registration number was taken by the mother of one who was looking for the young friends and spotted them by the van.

“He drove off at speed,” Mr Gobir said.

“He told police he had been visiting a friend when he heard the boys.”

Jones told officers he had “urges” to touch himself in front of boys and got a “sexual buzz” from it.

Mr Gobir said the police officer involved in this most recent case had been “gobsmacked” to see the charges Jones had faced previously.

The judge agreed. He described it as “incompetence” and added: “It is staggering.”

Judge Williams told the court: “He himself admits he is a risk to young children.

“When he grabbed a schoolboy saying he wanted to persuade him (into a sex act) some idiot decided common assault was the proper charge to bring.

“I want to know who was responsible for charging this man in 2013, 2011 and 2007. I want to know why he has been undercharged.

“Over a period of time a number of people have seriously neglected their duty to the public.”

Defence barrister Robert Render said Jones wanted help.

He had received some assistance last time he was in prison but it ended on release, said Mr Render.

“The length of sentence he gets today is of small importance to him – his overwhelming desire is to address his problem.”

Judge Williams sentenced him to two years and four months in prison after he pleaded guilty to engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child and told him: “You are prepared to have sex with young boys and you are a danger and at high risk of re-offending.

“Because of the way the CPS chose to charge you in the past I cannot now pass the extended sentence which would protect the public from serious harm from you.”

He put Jones on the sex offenders register, imposed a sexual offences prevention order for 10 years and confiscated his white van.

Judge Williams’ accusation of “under-charging” follows recent complaints from other Cardiff judges that those guilty of domestic violence are also facing charges which are too lenient.

March 2011

A paedophile has been ordered never to go near children again

A paedophile has been ordered never to go near children again.

Zachary Plunkett-Mann (35) was jailed six years ago after sexually assaulting two boys and hoarding more than 4,300 child-abuse images on his computer.

He was released in December, 2007, and since then he has been under close police supervision.

Yesterday, he appeared at Leicester Magistrates’ Court because police wanted the court to issue a new sexual offences prevention order to protect the public – particularly young piano students – visiting his mother who he lives with in Clifford Street, Wigston.

During yesterday’s hearing, the court heard Plunkett-Mann had admitted to police that, since his release from prison, he had looked at a teenage girl and an “athletic” teenage boy getting on a bus.

Both incidents happened in 2008.

Plunkett-Mann denied that he was sexually attracted to either.

He told the court: “I had just come out of Sainsbury’s, in Wigston, and was waiting in the bus queue at Church Nook.

“As the bus approached and people were getting on, I noticed the figure of a teenage boy in front of me. I was not sexually attracted to him. I just thought he was athletic.

“And I noticed the girl because of the way that she was walking – it was a very confident, animated gait.”

The magistrates also heard from Plunkett-Mann’s case officer, Detective Constable Sammy McIlroy, who said he thought Plunkett-Mann had been attracted to both teenagers. Det Con McIlroy said: “It raised my eyebrows when he said it.”

Isabel Wilson, representing Plunkett-Mann, said: “Sex offenders are encouraged to be open and Mr Plunkett-Mann has been open.

“There’s been no offending and no complaints about him.”

However, the court ruled that they did believe Plunkett-Mann had been attracted to both.

Jenifer Newcomb, prosecuting, said that there was also an incident in July last year.

She said that police discovered Plunkett-Mann was at home when one of his mother’s pupils, a 10-year-old girl, was in the house.

The court also heard he refused to admit the assaults on boys in the past had not been consensual acts.

He was given the prevention order and told he must not have contact with anyone under 16 unless their parent or guardian, or a police officer, was present.

Magistrates also told him not to stay at home when his mother’s pupils visited without a parent.

The sexual offences prevention order will last indefinitely.

August 2014

Police appeal to find convicted sex offender

Anishbai Patel, 32, was convicted in Preston in 2006 and sentenced to an 8 month suspended sentence for causing or inciting a child under 16 to engage in a sexual act.

He was also given a Sexual Offences Prevention Order for an indefinite period.

Police believe Patel had travelled to India after his conviction but is back in the UK.

He’s applied for permission to remain in the country but has failed to register an address with the police or notify them of his return to the UK.

Anyone with information should contact police on 101 where details can be passed to the DASO (Dangerous and Sexual Offenders’) Unit at Preston, quoting log reference number LC-20140815-0925.

Detective Inspector Jo Dent, of Lancashire Constabulary’s Dangerous and Sexual Offenders’ Unit, said: “Based on Patel’s previous offending we believe he has a high risk of committing further sexual offences and I would urge anyone with information on where he might be to contact us. I would also urge Patel himself, if he sees this appeal, to hand himself in to the police.”

August 2014

Hull man had 5,000 indecent images of children and animals – Spared prison

A MAN who was caught with almost 5,000 indecent images of children and animals has been spared jail.

Christopher Brooks, 49, admitted possessing indecent images of children, extreme pornographic images, and making indecent images and photographs of children.

He avoided a year in jail after being assessed at having a “high chance” of rehabilitation.

Instead, Judge Simon Jack ordered him to complete the Northumbria Sex Offender Group Programme, although warned him he came “very close” to jail.

Sentencing Brooks, of Boothferry Road, Hull, Judge Jack said: “It is not always understood how serious these offences are.

“People who indulge in such offences tend to think they are not harming anyone because they are not doing anything other than looking at pictures.

“The reality is, by your activity, you were encouraging those people to abuse children and use them in order to create these images.

“It may well be, if it were not for the encouragement given by you, those children would not be abused.

“In a very real sense, you were causing these children to be abused.”

Brooks, who is married, was arrested after police swooped on his home following intelligence that illegal images were being downloaded from his computer.

Officers seized his laptop, desktop computer and a storage device, on which they found almost 5,000 images.

Of those, 2,720 fell into the most serious categories. There were also 85 images of bestiality.

Prosecuting, Stephen Welch said: “The defendant was interviewed by police and said he was the owner and sole user of the computers and admitted downloading moving and still images of pornography for a number of years.

“He explained he came across the images originally by accident but accepted he began to look for them specifically and regularly and gained sexual excitement by looking at them.

“There are a number of aggravating features, including the age and vulnerability of the children. Some were between six and seven years old and occasionally, they were babies.

“A large number of images showed children under intoxication or drugged when they were made.”

In mitigation, Paul Norton argued for a community order on the basis Brooks was of low risk of re-offending, referring to new sentencing guidelines made for sex offenders.

He said: “There is a specific provision, new to the sentencing guidelines, where if there is a satisfactory prospect of rehabilitation, a community order with sex offender treatment requirement can be a proper alternative.”

Sentencing Brooks to a three-year supervision order and treatment requirement, Judge Jack said: “When I first looked at the papers, I thought there was no doubt I would be sending you to prison. You came very close indeed.

“There are a number of aggravating features in this case and the sentencing guidelines suggest a year in prison, but there is a specific sentence guideline that says if there is proper chance of rehabilitation then I can, and should, consider a community order.

“That is the only reason I am doing that.”

Brooks was also ordered to sign the sex offenders register for five years and pay £520 costs and a £60 victim surcharge.

June 2011

Sex offender jailed after moving in with new wife

A PAEDOPHILE on the sex offenders’ register who was secretly living with two children has been jailed.

Colin Wake, 56, married a woman last year and then moved in with her and her two children for around six months, Aldershot magistrates heard on Thursday last week.

He was sent to prison for 12 weeks after he admitted failing to keep police informed of where he was living.

Wake, of Kings Road, Fleet, was released from prison in 2007 after serving seven years of a 12-year sentence handed down at Guildford Crown Court in 2000 for sexually abusing children in the mid-1980s, the court heard.

Since his release, he had been required to stay in contact with specialist police officers to monitor where he was living and what he was doing to help protect the public.

As well as signing the sex offenders’ register, he was required to tell police if he stayed at any other address for more than a week each year.

But when officers made contact this month, they discovered he had secretly married a divorcee and had been living with her and her two children in Farnham.

Serena Edwards, prosecuting, said that while Wake had been free to re-marry, the deception of officers about his new relationship showed a high level of deceit that also led him to keep quiet about his living arrangements.

Wake had also lied to UK Border Agency staff last year when he said he was travelling alone, when in fact he was visiting Spain on honeymoon with his new wife, Miss Edwards said.

“There is a deliberate failure to comply with requirements, and a long period of non-compliance,” Miss Edwards said.

“This isn’t just a couple of days over the seven-day maximum. He’s been staying there for a matter of months.”

Police even found a pair of his slippers at the family’s home, the court heard.

In a police interview, Wake admitted that he had been living with the family, despite knowing it was forbidden without getting the green light from police public protection officers.

He said he had kept quiet about the situation because he was serious about his new relationship and did not want to jeopardise it, the court heard.

Jack Beards, defending, said that Wake had had not told police about his new relationship because he was worried it could affect his new wife’s settlement with her ex-husband following their divorce.

It then became even more difficult as time went on to ‘come clean’ to the police, he said.

“There is absolutely no suggestion that he was doing anything wrong in that respect with regards to the children,” Mr Beards said.

“It’s not right, and he knows it wasn’t right, but those were the reasons for it.”

The solicitor said that Wake had told his new partner about his paedophile history right at the start of their relationship.

He added that Wake’s deception of police had lasted ‘quite a long period of time, but not a very lengthy period of time’.

After retiring to consider their sentence, magistrates told Wake that a prison sentence was ‘inevitable’.

Court chairman Jill Ede said that the level of deception was so great that a jail term was the best way to punish him and to protect the public.

Wake was given 12 weeks in prison, reduced from 18 weeks due to his early admission of guilt.

August 2014

Already convicted paedophile who lured children to his Wolverhampton flat jailed for six years

A serial sex offender has been jailed for six years after being found guilty of abducting two children he lured back to his flat.

Judge John Warner told Stephen Geoffrey Yates he was an extremely dangerous man.

He also made Yates, of First Avenue, Low Hill, the subject of an extended licence period of eight years, adding that he must serve at least two-thirds of his sentence before eligible for parole.

Yates, aged 52, had been convicted at an earlier trial of three counts of abducting a child without lawful consent, plus a further charge of enticing a child under the age of 13.

He had denied all the charges, which took place on two separate occasions, in Low Hill.

During his four-day trial, the court heard that the girls went back to Yates’s flat after they had been playing with his Staffordshire Bull Terrier called Bella in nearby Showell Circus. It was alleged that he had offered them chocolate.

The mother of one of the girls had warned Yates to stay away from them and threatened to call the police, the court was told.

But, on January 23 this year, he saw that girl again and asked her why she was out on her own.

He invited her into his flat after she had again been playing with his dog. Once in there, he gave the youngster £2, and asked her ‘do you want to do something rude?’.” The girl ran out of the flat and no assault took place.

Mr Gurdeep Garcia, prosecuting, said Yates had been jailed for five years in 2002 for child abduction and received a similar sentence in 1995 for two counts of indecent assault against children. In 1993, he was jailed for 16 months for three counts of indecency with children, and in 1979 he had been given a conditional discharge for indecent assault.

Mr Oliver Woolhouse, defending, said no actual assault took place.

He said Yates had been at liberty for eight years since his release from prison, and these were the first offences in that time.

Mr Woolhouse said: “There is no excuse for Mr Yates’s behaviour, but he has had a rather difficult upbringing.

“Those experiences he had as a youngster will have played a significant part in creating the man he has today.”

Passing sentence, Judge John Warner told Yates: “You pose a significant risk of serious harm to members of the public, in particular children.

“Your latent tendencies have resurfaced again, and I believe that they will again in future.”

August 2014

Doctor molested schoolgirl on bus in ‘moment of madness’ after drinking, court told

A DOCTOR molested a 15-year-old girl on a bus in Bradford during a “moment of madness” after he had been drinking, a court heard.

Amitabh Kumar was told by magistrates: “You are living proof that reputations built up over years can be destroyed in minutes.”

The bespectacled 45-year-old wept in the dock at Bradford and Keighley Magistrates’ Court yesterday as his case for sexual assault on a the girl was heard .

Kumar, of Thornton Road, Fairweather Green, had pleaded guilty to the charge at an earlier hearing.

Prosecutor Paul Ramsay told the court heard that on April 18 this year, Kumar had rubbed his foot up and down his victim’s leg and rubbed the back of her neck with his hand, while both were on the top deck of a 617 service from Bradford Interchange.

Mr Ramsay said the victim was “very shaken and scared” by what had happened and “shocked that it could happen on public transport”. He added that the teenager was now fearful of seeing Kumar again on a bus.

Mr Ramsay also read from a statement by the teenager in which she said: “I felt I was touched in a way that violated me. I believe he was touching me for sexual gratification. I believe if witnesses had not stepped in he would have gone further and tried to do more.”

The court heard how a male passenger intervened and said ‘what the hell are you doing? She is about 14 or 15′. Mr Ramsay said the man stopped Kumar from leaving the bus and held him until police arrived.

One witness said Kumar was stroking and touching the back of the victim’s neck and that she looked intimidated and uncomfortable.

In police interview, said Mr Ramsay, Kumar denied touching the girl. He claimed he inadvertently touched her when trying to put his hand on a rail and when stretching his leg because of a knee problem.

But when he first appeared in court on the charge of sexual assault on a female, he had pleaded guilty.

In mitigation Paul Fitzpatrick for Kumar, said he had no previous convictions or cautions.

He added: “The impact of two to three minutes of madness, when his inhibitions were loosened as a result of the alcohol he had consumed, the ramifications on the victim, Dr Kumar and his family, are extremely far-reaching.

“Whatever the court does today, it will be little compared to the torment his actions have caused. He has told me how his behaviour will haunt him for the rest of his life.”

Mr Fitzpatrick added: “He is ashamed and embarrassed. Everything he has strived for, everything he has studied for and worked for, in three minutes he has thrown all that away.”

The court heard that Kumar is still on the General Medical Council (GMC) register, but Mr Fitzpatrick said: “Due to the nature of the offences committed, he will probably be struck off the register.”

Dr Kumar, a qualified but not practising doctor who works with vulnerable adults, was sentenced to a community order with supervision for 36 months, 60 hours’ unpaid work and ordered to sign the Sex Offenders’ Register for five years.

He was ordered to pay his victim £300 compensation, as well as £85 court costs and a £60 surcharge.

August 2014

Child abuser who fled to Spain jailed for 16 years

A SEX fiend who repeatedly abused a young boy and girl has been jailed for 16 years, after being brought back from Spain to face justice more than 30 years on.

Burnley Crown Court heard an international arrest warrant was drafted for Allan Jones, 72, from Nelson after the allegations first came to light in 2011.

But it was only in May this year that the former Nelson lorry driver was arrested by Spanish police at his home in the small town of L’Olleria, halfway between Valencia and Benidorm.

He was held in Valencia initially before being transferred to Madrid, where he spent 32 days in prison before he was flown back to the UK, to appear before Blackburn magistrates on June 14, the court heard.

Jones was initially charged with 25 sexual offences, which date between 1977 to 1984.

He admitted seven offences of rape involving a girl, three indecent assault charges and two offences of gross indecency with a child, in relation to the same victim.

Jones also pleaded guilty to seven indecent assaults on the same boy.

He denied six other offences of rape and two charges of cruelty to a child, which were allowed to remain on the file.

Sending him behind bars for 16 years, Judge Andrew Woolman said that the female victim had told the court how the defendant had ‘taken her childhood away’.

Prosecutor Mark Lamberty said that Jones also threatened the girl that she would be taken into care if she told anyone what he had done to her.

The court heard that his male victim had suffered from depression and made attempts on his own life.

Richard Taylor, defending, said his client, who had no previous criminal convictions, was in very poor health and suffered from diabetes.

“Whatever happens he will almost certainly die in prison,” he told the court.

Jones wanted to apologise to his victims and had expressed remorse through his pleas, added Mr Taylor.

November 2012

Sex abuse siblings waive anonymity to encourage other victims to come forward

A brother and sister who were sexually abused by their father as children in Garston have bravely waived their legal anonymity to encourage other victims of abuse to come forward.

Ian and Wendy Roullier suffered years of abuse at the hands of their father Roger during the 1980s, while living in Boundary Way.

The trauma has affected the pair profoundly into their adult lives, but they have said going to the police and seeing their father brought to justice has lifted some of burden.

The abuse of the pair began after their mother left the family home when she separated from Mr Roullier, a lorry driver.

Wendy, who is now 38, the abuse started when she was around nine. It began with her father inappropriately touching her and progressed over the years to rape.

She said: “I just remember crying, feeling like I was screaming inside and wishing it would stop. I thought it was wrong, but did not know if people would believe me.”

The abuse caused her school work at Francis Combe School to suffer and she went from being a bright student with promising grades to one who played truant and dropped out early.

At age 14, Wendy ran away from home and spent a night sleeping under a temporary building in a construction site in Abbots Langley.

She later went to a video shop in the town and the owner called police who collected her and took her to her mother’s home in Berkhamsted.

However, Wendy did not tell the police about the abuse for fear she would not be believed. She later moved permanently in with her mother and her partner, ending the abuse from her father.

Ian, now a 35-year-old freelance music journalist, said he was also abused at around age 11.

The pair first talked about their shared abuse when Wendy was in her late teens and Ian in his mid teens on a family holiday with their mother.

However they both moved away from Watford, Ian now lives in Surbiton near London and Wendy in Milton Keynes. They broke contact with the father.

The issue of disclosing the abuse came up in 2009 when Wendy told her then partner about what her father had done and he went to the police.

At the time she was not ready to face the ordeal, but officers at Hertfordshire Constabulary said the door was open for her and Ian to return when the time was right.

Last year the pair decided to press the case with the police.

On July 6, Roger Roullier, 60, of Gammons Lane, was jailed for eight years at St Albans Crown Court for charges of rape, indecent assault and indecency with child relating to Wendy.

He denied a charge of indecency with a child, relating to Ian. As Mr Roullier had already admitted serious offences in relation to his daughter, the Crown Prosecution Service decided not to take the charge relating to Ian to trial and it has been left to lie on file.

Following the sentencing Ian and Wendy described the sense of relief and release they felt.

Ian said: “The feeling was just one of relief. It is hard to say feeling happy as it is such a horrible thing you wish had never happened. It’s like all this stress that has built up over years and years and years, now at least you can let go and come to terms with it a bit more.”

Wendy said: “It was just a massive release. It was a big, big relief.”

Ian added the pair would encourage other victims of sex abuse not stay silent and go to the police.

He said: “It is no magic wand but it has had a massive effect on mine and my sister’s life as it is like a new start. We don’t have to let this get us down as justice has been done and he is where he belongs.

“I would say, especially in Hertfordshire as they have this unit, go ahead. As daunting and as scary as it maybe, it is definitely worth doing.”

August 2014

Jailed for nine years: Calne pervert, 61, who molested 3 year old girl while on bail

An alcoholic man aged 61 who molested a three-year-old girl while on bail for breaking into a neighbour’s house with intent to commit a sex act has been jailed for nine years.

And Ian Anderson will be on licence for an extra five years after a judge ruled he posed a significant risk of serious harm from future offending.

Anderson, who was jailed at Swindon Crown Court, also has a previous conviction from the 1980s for burglary with intent to commit rape.

Anderson first broke into the home of an elderly woman in Calne in August 2012 and stood over her bed as she slept.

The woman, who has since died, woke to find him standing there and after talking to him, took him downstairs and made him a cup of coffee.

When she spoke to the police she recalled a dream from a few weeks earlier when someone was in her room and realised it must have been him.

Anderson had been arrested, released on bail, and was dues to stand trial on those matters on Monday, October 7, last year.

But that was called off when he was arrested for the second molesting the young child at a neighbouring house on the previous Wednesday.

He went to the family home of the young victim and knocked at the front door asking about the woman across the road.

The little girl’s mum told him she had died but soon afterwards he sneaked back in to the house where he indecently touched the three-year-old girl.

Anderson, of Linden Close, Calne, pleaded not guilty to three counts of trespass with intent to commit a sexual offence and one of sexual touching of a girl under 13.

He was found guilty of the second incident at the old woman’s house and not guilty of the first incident, which she thought was a dream.

The jury also found him guilty of the sexual touching and were not required to reach a verdict on the trespass matter as it was an alternative charge.

At the trial the dead victim’s police interview was played to the jury as evidence.

Speaking after the verdict the mother of the child, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said: “I am so grateful for the help from Wiltshire Police, especially from PCSO Cook, for finding him so quickly and the witness care service have been very informative and incredibly supportive.

“I wouldn’t have been able to handle all of this if it wasn’t for everyone being so supportive and friendly. I am glad it’s finally over and we got justice.”

August 2014

Convicted child abductor tried to enter student flats in Aberdeen

A CHILD abductor has admitted breaching a court order banning him from student accommodation – after he was found drunk and trying to open doors of flats.

Norman Harwood, 61, appeared at Aberdeen Sheriff Court for sentencing after admitting breaching a Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO).

Harwood, who was previously jailed for abducting a child, has a history of snatching in Aberdeen, and has been jailed twice for such offences. He has also previously breached the SOPO.

Court documents stated that Harwood was found at Unite Student Accommodation, in Spring Garden, Aberdeen, on May 28 this year “without reasonable excuse” and was under the influence.

Defence agent Les Green handed a letter to Sheriff William Summers which stated that Harwood’s purpose in being at the student accommodation was “not a sexual one”.

Sheriff Summers deferred sentencing on Harwood, described as a prisoner in HMP Grampian, until next month.

October 2002

Two girls nabbed by loner

A SICK loner, who was on the hunt for a girlfriend, abducted two girls after telling them he had a knife.

Norman Harwood abducted the youngsters – aged 19 and 12 – within hours of one another.

He first approached the older girl at a bus stop, before dragging her to his flat in Aberdeen and ordering her to strip.

When his victim refused, he tried to unzip her jacket but she fled and told police.

Ninety minutes later, he abducted the younger girl as she left a phone box, Aberdeen Sheriff Court heard yesterday.

Depute fiscal Adrian Cottam said: “He said `Look, I have a knife, come with me’. She was scared and felt him press something against her.”

But she pushed him, screamed and ran away.

Harwood, 49, of Nelson Court, Aberdeen, admitted two charges of abduction.

Sentence was deferred by Sheriff Keiran for reports.

August 2014

Convicted paedophile caught with 200 indecent images of children

A PAEDOPHILE was caught with indecent images of children after he asked a police officer to help him set up his web cam.

Paul Richardson, of Medina Way, Bicester, was jailed for 10 months after he admitted making and possessing about 200 of the illegal pictures.

Prosecutor Sarita Basra said the 69-year-old was previously handed a nine-year sentence for 16 sexual offences on January 5, 2006.

She told Judge Zoe Smith that Richardson told police he found the indecent images accidentally while searching for Disney films on the internet.

Miss Basra said they were discovered by an officer making a routine visit to check his computer as part of the requirements of his previous convictions.

The barrister said the defendant asked if he could help him attach a web cam to his desktop computer.

Miss Basra said it was while doing this that the officer saw he had been searching for “naked girl with 14-year-old sister”.

In total there were 213 images featuring children as young as seven found on a desktop computer, a laptop and burned onto 19 disks, she said.

Mark Dixon, defending, said his client had made full admissions of his crimes to police officers during his interview.

He added that Richardson, who used to be an engineer for car company Porsche, saw his life came “grinding to a halt” in 2006.

Judge Smith told the defendant that the images he had downloaded were “appalling”.

She added that in her view the higher level images amounted to no less than “torture” of children.

Richardson was sentenced to 10 months in prison and made subject to a sex offenders’ prevention order.

He will also have to pay a £100 victims’ surcharge.

August 2014

Rapist 21 jailed for child sex attacks

A 21 year-old man from Tidworth has been jailed for five-and-a half years for sex offences against two young girls

Nicky Lee Guy-Davies pictured from Sycamore close was found guilty following a two week trial of sexual activity including rape

The victims were aged 12 and 14 years old at the time of the offences which took place in Tidworth and Ludgershall between March and May last year

Guy-Davies was sentenced to five-and-a half years in prison at Winchester crown court on Friday

August 2014

Man who abused 15-year-old girl jailed

A 41-year-old man who sexually abused a 15-year-old schoolgirl has been jailed for three years and seven months.

Wayne Hampson, of Arnesby Crescent, Leicester, admitted three counts of sexual activity with a child, all committed on one day in August, 2012.

The incidents happened at a house in Leicester when they were alone together on a sofa and inappropriate touching occurred, said Philip Gibbs, prosecuting.

Leicester Crown Court was told that Hampson’s misconduct came to light when the victim’s mother saw incriminating text messages on her daughter’s phone.

Paul Prior, mitigating, said: “He acted inappropriately and admits he felt some flattery by her attention and he didn’t discourage her, which was quite wrong.”

Judge Philip Head said: “She initiated contact by kissing you and you took advantage of the situation.

“It appears she consented, but the whole point of these offences is they’re created to protect young and impressionable girls approaching adulthood.”

A sexual offences prevention order was made banning Hampson from contacting the victim or having unsupervised contact with females under 16

August 2014

Man admits sexually abusing and kidnapping young boys in Spinney Hills

A man has admitted kidnapping and sexually abusing an eight-year-old-boy.

Mohmed Bajiwala (34) also sexually assaulted a 12-year-old boy and attempted to abuse a 10-year-old.

At Leicester Crown Court, Bajiwala, of King Edward Road, Leicester, pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault of a child under 13, between February 1 and March 31, involving the 10-year-old.

He admitted sexually assaulting a child under 13, namely a 12 years old, on March 30.

Bajiwala also pleaded guilty to kidnapping and sexually assaulting the eight-year-old on May 3.

The offences happened in Spinney Hills, Leicester.

At an earlier hearing, city magistrates heard the defendant used the same ruse to trick each of the boys into a car.

He would approach the child and tell them he could not find the keys to his car and asked them to help him search for them under the seats and footwell. The incident involving the eight-year-old was when he was driven from one location to another, and then sexually abused.

Judge Philip Head adjourned the crown court hearing for the preparation of reports.

Bajiwala is due to be sentenced on October 3. He was remanded back into custody.

August 2014

Paedophile jailed for Glastonbury rape and sex attacks on child aged under 13 yrs old

AVON & SOMERSET Police has called a paedophile’s sex crimes in Glastonbury “disgusting” after a man abused a girl over seven years before she turned 13.

John Edward Fouracres, 27, of Woolavington, was found guilty of committing four counts of sexual assault and two counts of rape in the Glastonbury area between 2005 and 2012.

A jury found Fouracres guilty yesterday after a six-day trial at Taunton Crown Court. He was sentenced to serve 11 years in prison.

Investigating officer Det Con Darren Lipscomb said: “The victim first contacted police about the abuse she suffered in summer 2013 after finally being able to speak about the offences to those close to her.

“She’s been extremely courageous in being able to describe what happened to her and she provided compelling evidence which helped to secure justice in this case.

“John Fouracres committed a disgusting series of offences over a long period of time and his actions have had a lasting impact on his victim.

“I hope other victims of sexual abuse can draw strength from this conviction and find the strength to speak to us, no matter how long ago offences were committed.”

August 2014

34-year-old man has avoided jail after he was convicted of carrying out a sexual assault on child aged under 13 yrs old

John Draper, of Whittenham Close, Reading, was found guilty by a jury of committing the offence on August 2 last year against a child under 13 in Wallingford.

He was yesterday handed an 18-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, with 180 hours of unpaid work and two years supervision.

Draper was also made subject to a sexual offences prevention order and will be on the sex offenders’ register for 10 years.

August 2014

Forest ranger avoids jail for sexually assaulting two young boys aged 12

A former volunteer with the Mourne Mountain Rescue team narrowly escaped being sent to jail on Monday after he admitted sexually assaulting two young boys over three decades ago.

One of the victims came forward due to the publicity surrounding the case against Jimmy Savile, while the second complainant admitted he had also been abused after he was initially questioned as a potential witness.

James McEvoy, 58, from Broomfield Close in Castlewellan, admitted three counts of indecent assault against the two boys, who were aged around 12 at the times of the offences. He was handed a 12-month sentence, which was suspended for two years.

Downpatrick Crown Court, sitting in Belfast, heard the offences were committed between 1984 and 1986, when McEvoy – who worked as a ranger for the Forestry Commission – was aged around 30. His defence barrister Eugene Grant QC spoke of a “catastrophic dent” in his client’s reputation.

Crown prosecutor Laura Ivers told the court that at the time of the offending, one of the victims “looked up to” McEvoy due to his position as a local mountain rescue volunteer.

The prosecutor said the victim only reported the matter to police in 2012, following the publicity connected to TV presenter Savile. She also revealed that when police spoke to the victim’s friend as a possible witness, he too said he had been abused by McEvoy.

When he was interviewed by police, McEvoy initially denied the charges but subsequently admitted three counts of indecent assault. The court heard he came before the court with a clear record.

Eugene Grant QC, representing McEvoy, spoke of his client’s many years of service as a volunteer with the Mourne Mountain Rescue Team, adding that in his 30 years service, McEvoy was “involved in many successful missions”. The barrister also spoke of McEvoy’s work record, which included being employed as a ranger in the Mourne Mountains, as well as working for the Mourne Heritage Trust.

Branding the criminality as “two isolated incidents” which occurred 30 years ago, Mr Grant also spoke of McEvoy’s clear record.

Passing sentence, Judge Geoffery Miller QC said McEvoy’s pleas spared his two victims the trauma of giving evidence. Judge Miller told the court it was apparant the incident has had a lasting effect on one of the victims, which has resulted in “a lack of self-confidence and self-worth in his life”.

Judge Miller also spoke of McEvoy’s position as a forestry official at the time, saying there was “undoubtedly” a breach of trust.

He also acknowledged McEvoy’s “worthwhile” employment history, and noted McEvoy “carried out very important voluntary work over a considerable number of years” with the Mourne Mountain Rescue Team.

Handing McEvoy a 12-month sentence, which was suspended for two years, Judge Miller made McEvoy the subject of a Sexual Offences Prevention Order for five years. One of the terms of the order bans him from working with children or vulnerable adults.

August 2014

Droitwich teen pleads guilty to sexual activity with a child

A WORCESTERSHIRE teenager who pressured a 13-year-old girl into having sex by threatening to kill himself has been spared an immediate spell in custody.

Jonathon Blackwell, of Elizabeth Avenue, Droitwich, put pressure on the girl to have sex when they met in a wooded area of Ombersley Road, Droitwich, Michael Aspinall, prosecuting, told Worcester Crown Court, until she finally gave in.

Blackwell, now aged 19, pleaded guilty to four counts of sexual activity with a child.

Timothy Greaves, defending, said Blackwell was of previous good character. He said Blackwell had learning difficulties and had experienced malicious communications at his home. He had been on bail for more than a year.

Recorder Rachel Brand, QC, said he had used “emotional blackmail” over a period of weeks.

“It was very wrong,” she told him.

She accepted Blackwell was immature for his age but he had known the girl was under the age of consent.

She said she had decided to give him a chance and gave him a two-year sentence suspended for two years with supervision. He was also ordered to do 200 hours unpaid work and to have no unsupervised contact with girls under 16 for five years. He was also ordered to register as a sex offender for 10 years.

August 2014

Man groomed schoolboy on Facebook

A pervert groomed a schoolboy on Facebook and got him to creep away from home in the middle of the night for a meeting.

But Adam Brown, 21 – who changed his name to Logan Brown by deed poll – was caught when the distraught mother of his victim turned detective to trap him.

Brown had begun talking to the boy after posting videos of himself online, telling jokes and inviting people to say whether they found them funny.

Cardiff Crown Court heard the mum worked nights and left her son and other children with their grandmother.

But when she returned on July 3 she found the family’s dog behaving oddly – and when she went to check on the family, she discovered the boy’s bed was empty.

She phoned him and he claimed he was just out for a walk.

Prosecutor Gareth James said: “She got back in her car, found him and confiscated his phone and later his computer, insisting he gave her the passwords.

“The conversation she saw online between her son and the defendant made her feel sick.”

Within an hour of them being in touch, after the young teenager had clicked “like” on a posting and Brown replied asking to be his Facebook friend, the talk had turned to sex.

“He told him he was cute and then made a sexual suggestion”, Mr James said.

“Then he said he might commit suicide if he didn’t reply and there was an agreement to meet up in a park.

“The child left his home in the early hours and the defendant met him and gave him a hug.

“The boy thought the whole thing was weird and returned home where his mother immediately contacted Adam Brown and told him to block contact with her son.

“But instead, shortly after, he contacted the boy again, telling him, ‘I have just spoken to your Mum – you are an amazing guy – all I want is for you to be happy’ and following it with ‘you and I are having to have a good chat later, ok Hun?’”

When police arrested him, Brown, of Herman Road, Maesteg, said he had wanted to kiss the boy but wouldn’t have done anything else.

Kevin Seal, defending, said he was troubled and vulnerable and would suffer in prison.

But Recorder Wyn Lloyd Jones said he would be failing in his duty if he didn’t lock him up.

“You preyed on the mind of a young boy, threatening to kill yourself and saying he would responsible for assisting a suicide”, he told him.

“I am still not sure you understand how serious this is.”

Brown, who was jailed for 14 months, will be on the sex offenders’ register and subject to sexual prevention restrictions for 10 years.