Steven Mays – Irvine
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Adam Arthurs – Lancing
Update: Adam Arthurs walked free from court with a suspended sentence. He was also made subject of the sex offenders register
June 2014
Sussex man pleads guilty to sex crimes involving schoolgirl
Adam Roger Arthurs, aged 51, of Sylvan Road, Sompting, Lancing, pleaded guilty to inciting a 15-year-old girl to photograph herself naked and send the pictures to him.
He will be sentenced at a future date.
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Stephen Stonehouse – Chester-le-Street
August 2014
Voyeur covertly filmed schoolboys and young men in “private situations”
A VOYEUR secretly filmed boys and young men for his own sexual gratification, a court was told.
Stephen Andrew Stonehouse’s recording of males, either bathing or using toilets, only emerged after his covertly-placed camera phones were spotted.
Durham Crown Court heard that among his “targets” were boys, aged 14 and 15, bathing, on separate occasions. Both noticed phones, one placed in a box containing a cut-out hole.
Neil Moore, prosecuting, said one said nothing while the other questioned Stonehouse, who claimed the phone was there, “by mistake”.
A further case involved a 14-year-old boy using a public toilet at a workingmen’s club.
He looked up to see a mobile phone being placed on top of the cubicle.
Mr Moore said the teenager told his mother what happened and Stonehouse was confronted but denied any knowledge of what took place.
Another victim informed his father two years later and a complaint was made to police, who arrested Stonehouse, in May 2013.
Officers seized a lap-top computer, which, when examined, revealed a number of recordings of men and boys using toilets, bathing or showering.
Several of those featured on the footage were identified and contacted. None said they had consented.
When interviewed, Stonehouse tried to explain away his activities, but did concede filming one man in a shower.
Stonehouse, aged 28, of John Street, Sacriston, near Chester-le-Street, admitted eight counts of voyeurism at his first crown court appearance.
Lewis Kerr, mitigating, said the defendant concedes the recordings were for his own sexual gratification, but he now understood the “criminality” of his actions.
Mr Kerr added that Stonehouse has had to move out of his home area, fearing for his own safety.
Judge Penny Moreland told Stonehouse: “This was an intrusion of the victims’ privacy and distressing for them to discover they were being recorded while in private situations, in a bathroom or lavatory.
She imposed an eight-month prison sentence, suspended for two years during which Stonehouse will be subject to probation supervision, to include engaging in a sex offender treatment programme.
He will also be subject to restrictions under a sexual offences prevention order and registration as a sex offender, both for seven years.
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Andrew Lothian – Port Seton
August 2014
Pervert who sexually assaulted schoolboy in his care has been ordered to carry out unpaid work in the community
Andrew Lothian preyed on the 14-year-old boy while he supervised him during what was to be a fun sleep-over at the man’s home.
Lothian, who had drunk a half bottle of vodka before attacking the schoolboy, was told his evidence during a trial last month was largely “made up as he went along” , after his DNA was found on the boy’s underwear.
The teenager, who was staying at Lothian’s home with another schoolboy in Port Seton, East Lothian, woke up at about 1am to find the 53-year-old attacking him as he slept on a mattress next to his friend’s bed.
The terrified youngster immediately packed up his belongings and fled the house in tears in the middle of the night.
Following a three-day trial at Haddington Sheriff Court in June, Lothian was found guilty of assaulting the boy at his home on 9 December 2012.
Lothian was placed on the Sex Offenders Register, ordered to carry out 275 hours of unpaid work in the community and told he would be placed under supervision for three years when he appeared for sentencing.
The court had previously heard from Police Scotland forensic scientist Mandy Bath, who said she found Lothian’s DNA on the outside and inside of the boy’s underwear.
Ms Bath, who said there was a one-in-a-billion chance that DNA profile was not Lothian’s, said: “On the information provided to us we would not expect to find a DNA profile matching Andrew Lothian’s on the underpants if there had been no sexual contact between them.”
June 2014
Andrew Lothian guilty of sex assault on teen boy
A MAN has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a teenage boy while he slept at his home.
Andrew Lothian, 53, preyed on the 14-year-old while he was attending a sleep-over with a child in his care.
The teenager woke up to find Lothian, 53, touching him as he slept on a mattress next to his friend’s bed.
The victim immediately packed up his belongings and fled the house in tears in the middle of the night.
Following a three-day trial at Haddington Sheriff Court, Lothian was found guilty of assaulting the boy during the incident at an address in Port Seton, East Lothian, on December 9, 2012.
Sheriff Peter Braid said he believed Lothian’s evidence was largely “made up as he went along” and found him guilty of the assault. Lothian was placed on the sex offenders register for a term still to be decided.
The court had previously heard from Police Scotland forensic scientist Mandy Bath who said she found Lothian’s DNA on the outside and inside of the boy’s underwear.
Ms Bath, who said there was a one-in-a-billion chance that DNA profile was not Lothian’s, said: “On the information provided to us we would not expect to find a DNA profile matching Andrew Lothian’s on the underpants if there had been no sexual contact between them.”
The boy had gone to visit a boy in Lothian’s care. The boys were sleeping in the same room as Lothian despite a second bedroom lying empty.
Lothian, of Port Seton, East Lothian, claimed he woke around 1am to find the youngster putting his clothes on saying “he wanted to go home” for no apparent reason.
Lothian then claimed he let the boy leave his property and make his own way home despite not knowing where the boy lived or how far he had to travel.
But the court found the boy had been forced to leave the two-bedroom home after waking to find Lothian – who admitted he had drunk a half bottle of vodka that evening – touching him.
The 14-year-old’s mother, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told the court she found the boy “upset and quite agitated” when he got home and the lad soon burst into tears after admitting to her he had woken to find Lothian sexually assaulting him.
The police were contacted the following day and Lothian was subsequently interviewed and arrested.
Yesterday, Sheriff Braid said he found the boy’s evidence, which was given to a closed court, and that of the police forensic scientist Ms Bath, to be “credible and reliable” while Lothian’s version of events was dismissed as “unreliable”.
Sheriff Braid added: “I believe the complainer was assaulted by the accused as set out in the charge and there is corroboration in that DNA was found in the underwear, particularly on the inside.”
Lothian has been placed on the sex offenders register while sentence was deferred for reports.
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Edward Adams – Horbury/Wakefield
August 2014
Child rapist jailed for 11 years
A pensioner who raped a 12-year-old girl on trips to remote locations has been jailed for 11 years.
Edward Adams, 76, first abused the schoolgirl in a secluded wood in Wakefield.
Judge Geoffrey Marson, passing sentence, said: “There was an element of grooming in that you began by telling her stories of a sexual nature.
“The assaults began in a secluded area, in a wood, where for perfectly understandable reasons she felt trapped because she had no sensible means of escape and getting back home.”
Adams, of John Carr Avenue, Horbury, was found guilty after a trial of two offences of rape on a child under 13, three of sexual assault and two of inciting a child under 13 to commit a sexual offence.
Leeds Crown Court heard how Adams was trusted by the girl’s family to take her on trips.
But he kept the trips secret from his wife and asked the girl to duck down in his car whenever they went anywhere near the houses of his relatives.
The judge said: “Over a period of weeks you used these visits to sexually assault her repeatedly in a serious way.”
The court heard how Adams told the “scared and confused” girl she would get into more trouble than he would if she complained and that she would not be believed.
She later told her mum she no longer wanted to go on trips with Adams and told her about some of the abuse. Her mum went to the police.
Adams denied the offences but was convicted after a trial earlier this summer.
But the court heard Adams has since made “limited admissions” of sexual offences against the girl and now was highly motivated to change.
Judge Marson added: “It’s a great pity you didn’t make these admissions before the trial began.”
The court heard, in a victim impact statement, how the girl gets flashbacks when she starts to shake and cry.
The judge said: “These offences will have had a profound psychological effect on her and I doubt she will ever be able to put these matters behind her.”
Matthew Harding, mitigating, said: “He is 76 years of age, while he doesn’t have any serious health problems, clearly custody will not be easy for a man of his age, of hitherto good character.”
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Christopher Bishop – Malmesbury
August 2014
Bail for Malmesbury man who sexually abused two young girls for five years
A Malmesbury man who sexually abused two young girls for five years has been released on bail by a judge.
Christopher Bishop, 41, admitted two counts of sexual activity with girls aged 12 or 13 when he appeared at Swindon Crown Court on Friday.
And Bishop also admitted causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.
Bishop, who will now have to register as a sex offender, was warned that he could be facing the prospect of jail term.
He admitted sexual activity with one girl between mid July and September last year and inciting her to engage in a sex act on Sunday, September 8.
He also admitted sexual activity with a girl between late November 2008 and the end of 2010.
Judge Douglas Field adjourned the case to Friday, September 12, and released Bishop, of no fixed abode, on conditional bail.
Releasing him from the dock, the judge said: “The fact that I am granting you bail should not be taken as any indication of the final outcome of your case.”
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Dean Lewis – Lupset
May 2009
Sentence cut for sex abuse babysitter
A BABYSITTER who sexually abused a seven-year-old girl has had his jail sentence slashed.
Dean Frederick Lewis, 39, of Manor Road, Lupset, was jailed for four years last November for molesting the youngster while her mum was out.
But this week the Court of Appeal reduced his sentence to three years.
Mr Justice Hedley, sitting in the Court of Appeal on Wednesday, said Lewis appeared emotionally unstable and had a personality disorder, which was ‘not treatable’.
But despite the grave offence he committed, the court ruled the original jail term was too long for someone with no previous convictions for sex crimes. The Court of Appeal substituted a three-year term.
The victim’s mum yesterday blasted that decision, saying: “It’s disgusting. I don’t understand how it can be reduced. I don’t understand, it’s wrong. He should have got more, not less.”
The mother, who cannot be identified, said the shock news had brought the events flooding back.
After Lewis was jailed late last year, the mum hoped he would ‘rot in hell’ for his betrayal of trust. But now she is worried that Lewis may get early release from jail and fears her family may encounter him in the street.
She added: “I think I will bump into him. He won’t go away from Wakefield.”
The victim of the sex assault has still not spoken at home about what happened to her.
Lewis is still protesting his innocence. He was prosecuted after the girl complained to her family.
The victim was in bed when Lewis came in and molested her.
Prosecutor Ben Crossland told the trial: “She told him to go away. He said ‘I’m only looking after you’. She realised clearly he wasn’t.”
A search soon after the incident revealed he had an item of her underwear in his jeans pocket. He denied the girl’s claims and said his possession of her underwear was as a result of ‘high-spirited acts’, but he was convicted of sexual assault after a trial at Leeds Crown Court.
Sam Andrews, mitigating at the trial, said: “For almost 40 years he has lived a life that hasn’t involved him coming to court.”
Trial Judge Shaun Spencer QC, passing sentence on Lewis last November, said “There is a breach of trust that he was left to babysit while the family were out.”
November 2008
Babysitter gets four years for sexual abuse
A BABYSITTER who sexually abused a seven year-old girl has been jailed for four years
Dean Frederick Lewis, 39, molested the girl in her bed last November after her mum had nipped out for an hour.
When she returned her daughter was distressed and made allegations against Lewis, the court heard.
Lewis of Manor Road, Lupset, denied sexual assault but was convicted by a jury at Leeds Crown Court.
Sam Andrews, defending, said Lewis had no previous convictions but continues to deny this offence.
Judge Shaun Spencer QC said: “There is a breach of trust given that he was left to babysit while the family were out.”
He said Lewis must be on the sex offender’s register for the rest of his life and barred him from having unsupervised contact with children under the age of 13.
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Matthew Jankowskyj – Morecambe/Milnthorpe
August 2014: Now living in Milnthorpe
August 2010
Man had 60,000 images of children on laptops
A man who had over 60,000 indecent images of children stored on computers at his home has been spared jail.
When police raided the home of Matthew Jankowskyj, 24, in Albert Road, Morecambe on April 27, they discovered two laptops, a hard drive, a contract written by Jankowskyj relating to an inflatable doll and two cannabis plants which were being grown in the wardrobe.
Jankowskyj, who has a previous conviction for possessing indecent images dating back to 2005, was arrested and admitted downloading and possessing the images.
He told police he would view around 100 a week to satisfy his sexual urges.
Constable Carter, of Lancashire Constabulary, analysed the computers and discovered 25 folders containing hundreds of imaging, ranging in severity from level one to the most serious level five pictures. The folders had been labelled to give an indication of their contents with titles such as “Naked Baby Girl” and “Baby 1-3 years”.
Jankowskyj admitted making and posessing indecent images of children and asked for a further 63,000 images to be taken into consideration – including almost 200 level five images – at the top end of the scale.
However, the court heard he had not been involved in distributing the images or committed any “contact” sexual offences.
Following his arrest he spent four months on remand before appearing at Preston Crown Court for sentencing.
Judge Robert Brown said: “It is not only in the interests of society at large but also in your interests that rather than simply return you to prison for a few months more where there is no opportunity for you to undergo any kind of therapeutic program it would be better to hold over you for the next two years the prospect of a prison sentence while at the same time offering you all the assistance you need.”
He sentenced the man to a 12 month prison sentence suspended for two years and placed him under the supervision of the Probation Service for the duration.
He also ruled Jankowksyj must take part in any sexual offending programs as directed by his supervising officer.
He made a Sexual Offences prevention Order (SOPO) banning him from unsupervised contact with children under 16 and disqualified him from working with children indefinitely. He also ordered the hard drive and cannabis plants be forfeited and destroyed although he ruled the laptops should be returned once the images had been removed.
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Christopher Birch – Gosport
August 2014
Waterlooville daughter tells of mother’s rape horror
DEVASTATED Sophie has said she can finally rest now her step-father has been jailed for raping her mother after he spent three years on the run.
Christopher Birch, 34, (pictured), formerly of Gosport, fled to Spain while on bail charged with raping mother Louise and making daughter Sophie look at sexual images when she was a child when he sent her pictures of his genitalia.
He was brought back to this country last month and thrown into prison after a European arrest warrant was issued earlier this year.
Sophie, of Waterlooville, wants her story to be published in The News now Birch has been caught.
For the full report please click this link to original source
Birch was arrested and charged with five counts of rape and two charges of causing a child to look at an image of sexual activity between 2004 and 2010.
But police were forced to launch a manhunt after he was spotted fleeing the country on a Calais-bound ferry from Dover in May 2011. He had been due to appear at Portsmouth Crown Court and was on bail.
Flasher turned rapist
IT WAS a crime that left women and girls scared to walk alone and sparked an undercover police operation.
Christopher Birch had previously exposed himself to schoolgirls, jumping out of bushes with his pants around his ankles while performing a sex act.
Birch, 34, formerly of Walker Place, Bridgemary, was even branded the ‘Gosport Flasher’ at the time.
Police launched an undercover operation, with eight plain-clothes officers patrolling trying to catch him.
Birch was found guilty of indecent exposure and given 180 hours’ community service in April 2005.
He was convicted of three counts of outraging public decency and three counts of indecent exposure between April 1 and June 16 in 2004.
He had admitted the offences in police interview but then tried to claim he was just urinating.
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Rotherham child abuse scandal: 1,400 children exploited
At least 1,400 children were subjected to “appalling” sexual exploitation in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013, a report has found.
Children as young as 11 were raped by multiple perpetrators, abducted, trafficked to other cities in England, beaten and intimidated it said.
The report, commissioned by Rotherham Borough Council in 2013, revealed there had been three previous inquiries.
Five men from the town were jailed for sexual offences against girls in 2010.
Professor Alexis Jay, who wrote the latest report, said there had been “blatant” collective failures by the council’s leadership, senior managers had “underplayed” the scale of the problem and South Yorkshire Police had failed to prioritise the issue.
Prof Jay said police “regarded many child victims with contempt”.
She also found the majority of perpetrators were of Pakistani heritage.
Revealing details of the inquiry’s findings, Prof Jay said: “It is hard to describe the appalling nature of the abuse that child victims suffered.”
She said she found examples of “children who had been doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight, threatened with guns, made to witness brutally violent rapes and threatened they would be next if they told anyone”.
She said the failures happened despite three reports between 2002 and 2006 which both the council and police were aware of and “which could not have been clearer in the description of the situation in Rotherham”.
She said the first of these reports was “effectively suppressed” because senior officers did not believe the data. The other two were ignored, she said.
Click for ‘Sexual predators': Gang of Asian men weep as they are jailed for total of 32 years for abusing white girls as young as 12
Mohsin Khan, 21, left (jailed for four years) and Razwan Razaq, 30 (jailed for 11 years) were convicted of a string of sexually related offences against girls as young as 12
Umar Razaq, 24, left (jailed for four and a half years) and Zafran Ramzan, 21 (jailed for nine years), prowled the streets looking for girls, attacking them in parks and in the back of their cars
Adil Hussain, 20, was jailed for four and a half years
September 2012
Police turned a blind eye to sex grooming gangs for more than a decade, confidential files reveal
Problem: Confidential documents have revealed the scale of sexual exploitation of young white girls in Rotherham, South Yorkshire
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Documents reveal scale of sexual exploitation of girls in South Yorkshire
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Vulnerable white girl, known to have been abused from the age of 12, was offered Urdu and Punjabi lessons by Rotherham Council to ‘educate her’
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Papers reveal catalogue of alleged crimes which have not been prosecuted
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Rotherham MP Denis MacShane: ‘We need clear leadership from government to eradicate this evil’
Police turned a blind eye to allegations of sexual abuse of white girls by gangs of largely Pakistani men for more than a decade, it was claimed yesterday.
Research, reports and case files also revealed that council officials were desperate to cover up any racial link to the abuse of young girls.
The research shows that a string of warnings dating back as far as 2000 were ignored by the authorities. In many cases, police action was taken only against the victims.
Among the alleged crimes for which no one was prosecuted were:
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A 14-year-old girl being forced to perform sex acts on five men – four Pakistanis and an Iraqi Kurd asylum seeker;
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A British Pakistani man was found in a car with a bottle of vodka and a 12-year-old. Both were arrested on suspicion of stealing the car. Police also found pornographic images of the girl on the 22-year-old’s phone;
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A 14-year-old girl missing for a week was found under the influence of drugs in a car with a man 20 years older. They had had sex but he was arrested only for drug possession;
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A 13-year-old girl was found drunk at 3am in a derelict house with a ‘large group of adult males’ who had plied her with vodka. She was arrested for a public order offence while the men walked away.
According to previously confidential documents seen by The Times, police in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, found evidence of thousands of similar crimes and described ‘networks of Asian males exploiting young white females’.
The groups were reported to have trafficked victims to cities including Bristol, Manchester and Birmingham.
Despite this, just two prosecutions of groups of men for sexual abuse have taken place in South Yorkshire since 1996.
In 2002, Home Office-funded research criticised officers for treating young victims as ‘deviant and promiscuous’ while ‘the men they were found with were never questioned or investigated’.
Revealing the fears over the racial element to the abuse, a 2010 report from the Rotherham Safeguarding Children Board said the crimes had ‘cultural characteristics … which are locally sensitive in terms of diversity’, but warned of ‘sensitivities of ethnicity with potential to endanger the harmony of community relationships’.
Denis MacShane, MP for Rotherham, said: ‘There’s a culture here of denial and cover-up and a refusal to accept the reality that we have men living in the Rotherham community who treat young girls as objects for their sexual pleasure. It’s time to tell the truth. We must root out this evil.’
The revelations come only three months after it emerged that social services in Rotherham had known for six years that a teenage mother, murdered for bringing shame on the families of two men who had used her for sex, was at clear risk from predatory gangs.
Laura Wilson, 17, had been groomed by a string of men before she was stabbed and thrown into a canal to die for informing her abusers’ families of the sexual relationships.
Her killer Ashtiaq Asghar, who was 18 at the time, was given a life sentence and will serve a minimum of 17-and-a-half years after he pleaded guilty to murdering Laura in October 2010.
But it emerged in June that Rotherham Council’s social services were well aware she was at risk and had received information about certain adults suspected of targeting her from the age of 11.
A serious case review report confirmed that Laura had dealings with 15 agencies and identified ‘numerous missed opportunities’ to protect her.
It stated that she eventually became ‘almost invisible’ to care professional.
Rotherham Council’s Cabinet member for services for children, young people and families, Councillor Paul Lakin, said: ‘There is no question that we will do whatever we can to protect our young people from harm in whatever form that threat takes.
‘The Council has already acknowledged publicly that there have been lessons learnt from previous work, cases and investigations and that the support offered to a small number of vulnerable young people has not always reached the high standards we always look to provide.
‘From that learning, improvements have been made and new services introduced and those developments will continue.
‘Following the recommendations from a serious case review, inspections and our own learning on other cases, the sexual exploitation team has recently evolved from the original youth service
project into the new multi-agency service to improve preventative and support work along with boosting efforts to investigate cases and bring people to justice.
‘We are also maintaining our major investment in protecting children at a time when public sector budgets are under increasing pressure.
‘We have pledged our commitment by prioritising the amount of money being put into safeguarding services along with prevention and early help work with families to help ensure they get the support they need.
‘Sexual predators do come from different sections of the community and are criminals who need to be brought to justice regardless of their background.
‘We have worked closely with communities and community leaders across Rotherham in recent years to enlist their support in helping to tackle some of these issues and to educate people about sexual exploitation.
‘The response has been very positive and our commitment to continue to tackle this issue is shared by local agencies and our communities.’
A South Yorkshire Police spokesman said any suggestion that it ‘and its partners have been reluctant to tackle child sexual abuse is wrong’. He added that safeguarding children was not just about prosecuting individuals.
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Peter Burns – Alresford
August 2014
Alresford rapist jailed for 15 years
AN Alresford man has been jailed for 15 years for tying down and raping a girl in one of a string of serious sexual attacks on her.
Yet when his victim rounded on Peter Burns, telling him he was a monster, he said he didn’t care, a court heard.
A Winchester Crown Court jury heard how the 47-year-old assaulted his victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, in a number of locations in the town including in his car and a shed.
Burns, formerly of Windsor Road, Alresford, was convicted by a majority of 11-1 for two counts of rape and a sexual assault, 10-2 on another count of rape and inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.
He was cleared of three sexual assault charges.
Judge Keith Cutler, Recorder of Winchester, said he would be on the sex offenders register for life.
Sentencing, the judge said: “You were able to target her and develop your sexual interest in her. You enjoyed the power that gave you. You did not have any concerns about what that was doing to her; she was just an object of your lust.
“She was trapped. She contemplated suicide and self-harm, didn’t know where to turn but felt she had to go along with what you wanted.”
Summing up Judge Cutler read out the victim’s evidence, part off which had been presented via video.
“I felt powerless, there has nothing I could do,” she had said. “I’d close my eyes and pretend I was somewhere else. He told me if I was loud he’d make it hurt. He told me if I didn’t go along with it he’d make it painful. It would bring me to the brink of insanity and back. It felt like it was never going to end. He said I wasn’t allowed to say no. It was a dangerous secret. It was just something I’d grown to live with. I did not flirt with him and allow a relationship to develop. I did not freely agree; he wanted it to happen so it would happen.”
Burns claimed the sex had been consensual and had only occurred after she had turned 16.
He said: “I did not threaten her or tie her up. I regret the affair. We both said it shouldn’t happen but it did happen.”
Giving evidence, the youngster said that she had wept throughout Burns’ attacks, which had left her depressed and suicidal.
“I was scared, I didn’t want to sleep at night. It would drive me to the brink on insanity.”
Of the last occasion when he shackled her, she said: “I said he was a monster. I cried, I told him to stop. I said I hated him.”
But prosecuting counsel Stephen Parish said that Burns hadn’t cared when he was branded a monster: “He (Burns) said ‘it didn’t matter, you can hate me as much as you like’,” he added.
Dismissing the assertion that the sex had been consensual as “absolute fantasy”, Mr Parish said: “Why on earth would she be interested in him? I don’t want to be offensive but you might think that the defendant doesn’t come over as God’s gift to women.”
Defence counsel Marie Spenwyn summed up: “We’re not here to judge how people look, we’re here to judge whether or not this happened.
“When you distil it down I suggest it’s the word of one person against the other.
“I would ask you to consider that alarm bells must be ringing about the lack of other evidence.”
The court heard that Burns has previous convictions for burglary, theft and selling false charity lottery tickets.
Ms Spenwyn said she was unable to forward any strong arguments for mitigation.
“It’s very difficult for me to put forward any mitigating factors,” she said. “There have been no other concerns raised about any other potential victims.”
After the hearing Detective Constable Tim McSpadden said: “We have worked closely with the victim to support her throughout this case and the trial itself. I would like to thank her for demonstrating such bravery in coming forward to report these offences and for her continued courage throughout.
“I am pleased that this case has now come to a close and that justice has been served. I hope that the victim and her family can now begin to move forward with their lives.”
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William Mailer – Falkirk/Dalkeith/Bonnyrigg/Edinburgh
August 2014
Ex-milkman sexually abused girls – Guilty
A FORMER milkman who subjected three girls to sexual abuse more than 20 years ago was warned he faces a jail sentence.
William Mailer, 71, raped two of his underage victims, one of whom he had plied with drink, and attempted to rape the third.
Mailer, of Castings House, Castings Avenue, Falkirk, in Stirlingshire, had denied six charges of indecent assault and rape but was found guilty of them all at the High Court in Glasgow.
His first victim was aged 12 or 13 when she was attacked in a car at Holyrood Park, in Edinburgh, after she was given drink.
Mailer exposed himself and grabbed her by the neck and tried to get her to carry out a sex act during the incident between 1976 and 1978.
He assaulted the girl again and tried to rape her at his then home in Woodburn Street, Dalkeith, in Midlothian, after keeping her school bag after committing the initial crime.
The girl was induced to attend at his house to collect the bag but was pushed into a bedroom and onto a bed during the assault.
During the same period he raped another girl who was aged 11 or 12 at the house in Dalkeith.
The youngster was plied with alcohol and while she was intoxicated and asleep he removed clothing and had sex with her. He continued to rape her after she awoke.
Mailer indecently assaulted and twice raped another underage girl during the 1980s.
The victim, now 42, told his trial that she would come to Scotland from her home in England to stay for holidays with her grandmother.
But Mailer, who she said was a “touchy, touchy, feely, feely person”, preyed on the girl at a house in Bonnyrigg, in Midlothian.
The woman, who said Mailer worked as a milk man or delivery driver, estimated that she was aged about 11 when he had sex with her.
“He just used to say things like he loved me, that I was a special little girl,” she said.
“Because he told me that was what was supposed to happen I believed him,” she told the court.
The woman said Mailer had carried out other sex acts with her as a child.
On one occasion he had taken her and other children to Portobello. The others were told to get out of the car to pick flowers and she was made to carry out a sex act on him.
The woman told the court: “Once I realised it was wrong I felt guilty and ashamed.”
She told advocate depute Keith Stewart QC that it stopped when she was 13.
The mother-of-two told the court: “I am not in a relationship now. I can’t hold down a relationship.”
Mr Stewart said that Mailer, a first offender, had a number of health problems including a heart condition.
Lord Glennie thanked the jury at Mailer’s trial and said: “It is particularly difficult in a case like this where it is of a sexual nature and it is harrowing for some of the witnesses.”
The judge deferred sentence on Mailer and placed him on the sex offenders’ register.
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Justin Ward – Knutsford
August 2014
PROLIFIC paedophile from Knutsford faces more than 11 years behind bars after admitting sexual abuse against young boys
A PROLIFIC paedophile from Knutsford has been sentenced to more than 11 years behind bars for sexually abusing young boys and distributing indecent images.
Justin Ward, 48, of Northwich Road, was sentenced to 11 years and eight months at Chester Crown Court today, August 26, after pleading guilty to charges.
The investigation was triggered in 2011 when a young boy in Knutsford disclosed that he had been a victim of a sexual abuse by Ward.
As a result of his complaint, Ward was arrested and his computers seized by the police. When the computers were examined, Ward was found to be in possession of indecent images of children that he was also distributing.
Numerous chat logs were also discovered that showed Ward was grooming children online and a disc was discovered that showed pictures of Ward abusing boys when he was working in Germany in the 1990s.
He was charged with the abuse of two boys from Germany and pleaded guilty to those offences.
In July 2013, Ward was charged with 29 offences, including indecent assault on a child, taking indecent images of a child, causing or inciting a child to commit sexual activity, sexual activity with a child and the possession, making and distribution of indecent images of children.
Ward pleaded guilty to 24 offences and five were allowed to lie on file.
DC Richard Deakin said: “Justin Ward is a paedophile who for years has been grooming young boys and sexually abusing them. This investigation was started when one of those boys had the courage to tell somebody about the abuse and support was given to him to help him through the process.
“I would like to thank them for helping bring this man to justice. We would encourage young victims of sexual abuse to tell somebody they can trust such as their parents, a teacher, or the police so we can stop it happening to them and other young people.”
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Leo Ng – Cambridge
August 2014
Law student Leo Ng found with 21,622 child abuse images obsessively downloaded to ‘feed his sexual fantasies’
A law student downloaded more than 21,000 pictures and videos of children being abused – including dozens of the most depraved category.
Leo Ng’s family home in Cambridge was raided by police on October 22 last year where they found a vast collection of disgusting images of children on a computer hard drive.
More than 60 of the images found were categorised as level five, the most serious which involves extreme abuse such as sadism and bestiality.
When arrested later that month in Canterbury, where he was studying, the 23-year-old was found with a laptop with hundreds more abuse images.
Ng, of Spalding Way, Queen Edith’s, was given a one-year prison sentence suspended for two years with supervision and must go on an internet sex offenders programme after admitting two counts of making indecent images.
Michael Procter, prosecuting, said Ng’s collection of 21,622 pictures and videos included 20,409 at level one, the least serious category, 72 at level two, 418 at level three, 659 at level four and 64 at level five.
He added: “It would seem the defendant’s interest is of white and Asian pre-pubescent females. That is the description which covers the general nature of the images found.”
Michael Forward, mitigating, said his client lived an “isolated life” in Cambridge and had features of Asperger’s Syndrome, including a “collection instinct and not knowing where to draw the line”.
He said: “That would explain the vast number of images stored.”
Judge Jonathan Haworth said there was no evidence of distribution or attempting contact with children, but said the offences were aggravated by the “sheer volume” of the images.
He said it would not make sense to send him to prison, where he would not get treatment.
He told Ng: “You are a man of previous good character who became obsessed with downloading these images to feed your sexual fantasies.
“I think addressing that [with the programme] is far more likely to prevent a reoccurrence of those offences than a few months in prison.”
As well as the suspended sentence and programme, he was given internet restrictions and will be on the sex offenders register for 10 years.
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Daniel Hughes – Kidsgrove
August 2014
Kidsgrove sex offender, 25, used fake birth certificate to groom schoolgirl after meeting her on Facebook
SEX offender Daniel Hughes produced a fake birth certificate while grooming an under-age schoolgirl.
The 26-year-old met his victim on Facebook and told her mother he was 16 when she raised concerns about his age.
About a week later he took the girl to his home, despite knowing how old she was, and she was found naked in his bed after her mum called in police.
Hughes was yesterday spared an immediate prison sentence but was placed on the sex offenders’ register for 10 years and made the subject of a sexual offences prevention order (SOPO) for the same period.
Prosecutor Stefan Kolodynski told Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court that Hughes met his victim on Facebook in December 2012.
She told him her age but he said it was ‘only a number’.
The victim told her mother she was seeing a boy and her mother wanted to know his age.
Hughes took the mother a falsified birth certificate which showed he was 16. This reassured her and she allowed her daughter to continue to see the defendant.
Six days later he took the girl to Wolverhampton before returning to her home.
However at 9pm the girl’s mum said he would have to leave but she allowed the teenager to go outside and say goodnight.
But she did not return and her frantic mother called the police.
Inquiries led officers to Hughes’s address in Third Avenue, Kidsgrove, and they found the victim naked in bed.
Mr Kolodynski said: “The crown says he should have known better. He was much older and he produced a false birth certificate to reassure the mother.
“There was planning and an element of grooming.”
Hughes pleaded guilty to sexual activity with a child.
Graeme Simpson, mitigating, said Hughes was ‘immature’ but had been able to hold down a job at Tesco.
Mr Simpson conceded the offence passed the custody threshold but asked Judge David Fletcher to suspend it.
The judge sentenced Hughes to 18 months, suspended for two years, with supervision and a requirement to complete a ‘Facing Forward’ programme.
The SOPO prevents the defendant contacting anyone under 16 over the internet and social media except with the consent of the child’s parent.
Judge Fletcher told Hughes: “You pleaded guilty to sexual activity with a child. The clue is in the wording, because however old or mature the child appears to be, she was and is a child.
“Under no circumstances can you get yourself involved in a situation like this again with someone under the age of 16 because the law says that person cannot agree to do anything of a sexual nature with you.
“You need to get that single, very important, feature absolutely clear in your mind.
” There was no doubt a degree of planning and a degree of grooming.
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Kay Richardson – Newton Aycliffe
August 2014
Woman jailed for sexual activity with schoolboy
A woman who admitted sexual activity with a teenage boy has been jailed for a year.
Durham Crown Court heard that Kay Elizabeth Richardson, 22, made no reply to initial police questioning when she was arrested.
But she admitted two counts of sexual activity with a child when she first appeared at crown court, earlier this month.
Chris Baker, prosecuting, told the court that the incidents badly affected the victim, who felt pressured into taking part.
Peter Kilgour, mitigating, conceded there was “a small element of grooming”, but said the offences were confined to two brief encounters.
He added that Richardson, of Stargate Close, Newton Aycliffe, has never previously been in trouble with police.
Jailing her, Judge Penny Moreland told Richardson: “What you did caused harm.
“It’s not for an adult to behave like that to a child who is too immature to respond to such behaviour.”
Judge Moreland also made Richardson subject to a sexual offences prevention order and registration as a sex offender, both for five years.
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Paul Tandy – Longton
August 2014
Longton benefit cheat and sex offender claimed £17,000 – while working as a bus driver
BENEFIT cheat Paul Tandy claimed more than £17,000 he was not entitled to – while working as a bus driver.
The 59-year-old began receiving handouts after he was seriously injured when struck by a lorry while working as a milkman.
But his claims became illegal when his levels of mobility improved, Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court heard yesterday.
Now Tandy has been jailed for 18 weeks – to run consecutively to a four-year jail term he received in June for sexual offences against a child.
Prosecutor Philip Bradley said Tandy’s claims were legitimate from the outset.
He said: “He was entitled to benefits when he first claimed disability living allowance because of the various aliments he suffered.
“There was some concern about his continued entitlement to that benefit.
“Following information received it was found out that he was working as a bus driver.
“He was seen on various occasions walking far better than he had ever described being able to.”
Tandy, previously of Wolstern Road, Longton, pleaded guilty to dishonestly failing to notify the Department for Works and Pensions (DWP) that his capability had improved.
The defendant’s plea was on a basis he claimed just under £17,500 disability living allowance he was not entitled to between late 2008 and November 2012.
Paul Cliff, mitigating, said Tandy was in full-time work from leaving school and suffered a serious injury below his knee when driving a milk float struck by a HGV.
Mr Cliff said: “By 2008 he had learnt to manage his pain and his mobility levels increased. He accepts his claims became dishonest.
“He was not living the high life on benefits.”
Judge David Fletcher sentenced Tandy to 18 weeks in jail to run consecutive to his four year sentence.
He told the defendant: “You are 59 and your life has come crashing down around you. You are now serving a four-year sentence.
“That is the first involvement with the criminal justice system you have had.
“Your claims were not fraudulent from the outset but were over a significant period of time and you defrauded £17,000.”
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Paul Falconer/Mohammed Farooq – Prestonpans
August 2008
Paedophile changes name and converts to Islam in jail
A PAEDOPHILE has converted to Islam and changed his name behind bars.
Paul Falconer, 40, now insists bosses at Peterhead prison call him Mohammed Farooq instead.
Falconer’s case made legal history when his five-year-old victim gave evidence by video link to a court 40 miles away to ease her ordeal.
He was jailed for almost eight years for sexually abusing her and another girl. His ex-wife was last night shocked at his identity swap.
Mum-of-two Melanie, raged: “Paul should not be allowed to go by any other name. People should be warned about this in case he tries to hide his past when he gets out.”
He committed attacks on the girl in Prestonpans, East Lothian, in 2004 and a second girl, two years older.
Now Falconer claims he has found Allah while locked up at the Aberdeenshire jail. He faces Mecca to pray five times a day and enjoys a specially prepared halal diet.
A jail source said: “He is now living life as a Muslim and he refused to respond to his Scottish name when he was called over by a prison warden.
Other inmates think it is an early attempt to convince parole bosses he’s a changed man.”
A spokesman for the Scottish Prison Service said that in cases where prisoners changed their names, both names were kept on record by the SPS and are registered by authorities on release.
Muslim leaders welcomed Falconer’s switch to Islam.
Chairman of the Scottish Islamic Foundation Osama Saeed said: “People have more time for contemplation and reflection in jail and there are many reasons why they would decide to convert.
“But they have to do their time and change their ways.”
Falconer is not the first Scots prisoner to convert to Islam. Rapist George Clark, 46, is now known as Yusuf Ansari. After finding his faith he advertised for a wife on the internet from jail.
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Michael Jackson – Killinchy
August 2014
Killinchy man gets probation for child abuse images
A man who admitted downloading 258 indecent images of children has been placed on probation for three years.
Michael Stuart Jackson, 37, of Craigarusky Road in Killinchy, County Down, will also undergo an internet sex offenders treatment programme.
The images, some of which were extreme, were found in February 2013 by police who had seized his laptop computer in a file called ‘Michael’s downloads’.
His wife and two children also had access to the computer.
They have since moved overseas, the court heard.
A prosecution lawyer told Downpatrick Crown Court, sitting in Belfast, that Jackson had told police he had been browsing pornographic websites when images popped up from other sites he would not normally visit.
He admitted some of the images that “inadvertently” popped up were of children as young as 10, the court was told.
The court heard that when Jackson was interviewed a second time last August, he claimed he had been under the influence of drugs during the first interview and had given “incorrect answers to police”.
However, he accepted that he had viewed images of children on the internet.
Jackson – who worked for his family’s furniture business – subsequently pleaded guilty to seven counts of making indecent photographs of children, two counts of possessing indecent photographs of children and three counts of possessing an extreme pornographic image.
A defence lawyer told the court that while on the surface, Jackson had a good family background, he had “issues” with his father that led to his “issues about control”, especially concerning his wife and children.
He said that the pop-up images had “intrigued” Jackson, who “acknowledged thereafter that he searched for other images”.
“He felt this gave him an element of control in that he could look at whatever he wished,” the lawyer added.
He said Jackson had looked at the images after taking legal highs, and said his client’s actions had “clear implications” for him and his family.
“He is far from proud at what he had done,” the lawyer added.
Passing sentence, the judge said he accepted Jackson had displayed both a level of victim empathy and also embarrassment and remorse for his actions, and acknowledged his clear criminal record.
However, he said Jackson had “contributed” to the perpetuation of child sexual abuse where youngsters were subjected to acts of violence and depravity.
Placing him on probation, the judge said: “It is clearly apparent from your background and from the reports I have that programmes that exist are of a necessity for you to fulfil, in order that the underlying deviancy within your character which has led to these offences being committed needs to be addressed.”
Jackson was also made the subject of a five-year sexual offences prevention order.
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Stuart Cassie – Forfar/Fraserburgh
August 2014
Man raped 13-year-old girl he met on Facebook and sent ‘naked selfies’
A man who raped a 13-year-old girl and also sent her naked selfies has been jailed for almost five years.
Stuart Cassie, 21, had sex with the youngster having earlier met her on Facebook. A judge heard how Cassie preyed on the schoolgirl at the home he shared with his family.
The first offender is now behind bars after he pled guilty to charges of rape and communicating indecently with the youngster.
Lady Rae jailed him for a total of four years and nine months at the High Court in Glasgow. The electrician was also placed on the sex offenders list.
The court heard how Cassie was first in contact with the girl in September 2011 via Facebook.
Cassie said he was 18 at that time while the youngster told how she was only 12. They remained in touch before he eventually met the girl in January 2012.
He drove her to a quiet area near Brechin, Angus and it was there he first sexually assaulted the child in his car.
Cassie then in December 2012 took the girl, who was now 13, to his home in Forfar and raped her. He also had sex with her there months later.
The 21-year-old who has connections to Fraserburgh was caught after the girl went to a clinic in July 2013 and admitted she previously had sexual contact with Cassie.
Police later examined the youngster’s laptop and mobile and also took a computer and two iPhones from Cassie’s home.
These revealed “sexual communications” between the pair. Cassie had also sent naked photos of himself and received similar pictures of the girl.
Cassie was later charged and broke down in tears after being quizzed by police. Matthew Jackson, defending, said Cassie had brought “shame” to himself and his family.
Mr Jackson added: “He has said to me: ‘I was the adult – I should have known better’.”
The court heard, despite the girl being “legally incapable of consenting”, she agreed to what went on.
But, in sentencing, Lady Rae said what happened should not go on “between an adult and a child”.
She told Cassie: “These are very serious charges and what makes it worse is that you as an adult maintained contact with a person in the full knowledge she was 12.”
The judge said he “clearly intended” to have sex with the girl and that a social work report appeared to show he “minimized” what went on.
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