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Michael Hall – Selby

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October 2014

Pervert with history of sex offending pleads guilty to allowing a child to watch a sex act

A SEX offender has pleaded guilty to allowing a child to watch a sex act.

York Crown Court heard that Michael John Hall was seen by three schoolgirls at Selby Railway Station on November 16.

Aisha Wadoodi, prosecuting, said: “The girls approached a member of the public. He told them to contact the police and that the defendant often behaved in this manner.”

Hall, 54, has a history of indecent exposure and other sexual convictions starting in the 1970s but has never been sent to prison.

Recorder Mark Hill QC said successive courts may have been concerned that his disabilities would make him very vulnerable and liable to being exploited in prison.

Defence solicitor Julian Tanikal said Hall was awaiting an appointment with a local psychiatrist in the hope he would be prescribed medicine to suppress his urges.

Hall, of Dixon Gardens, Selby, pleaded guilty to allowing a child to watch a sexual act.

The judge gave Hall a community order with 18 months’ supervision by the probation service and a three-month nightly curfew from 8pm to 6am and made him subject to a sexual offences prevention order banning him from having unsupervised contact with a girl under 16 or living in the same house as a girl under 16.

Mr Tanikal said Hall had managed to stay out of trouble between 1991 and 2001 when he was on medication, and between 2001 and 2013 when he managed to stay off alcohol.


Bradford/Sheffield paedophile grooming gang jailed

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October 2014

Paedophile gang jailed for total of 28 years for trafficking girl, 13, for sex

FIVE men, including four from Bradford, have been jailed for a total of more than 28 years for trafficking a 13-year-old girl for sex.

Shakeal Rehman, 26, of Haworth Road, Bradford, was found guilty of rape and trafficking the girl, who was taken to Bradford after running away from her home in Sheffield

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He was jailed for 12 years today by Judge Jonathan Durham-Hall at the end of a four-week long trial.

Yaseen Amini, 37, of Broadway, Bradford, and Mohammed Shapal, 22, also of Haworth Road, Bradford, were both found guilty of sexual activity with a child and trafficking.

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Amini was sentenced to five-and-a-half years and Shapal to four years.

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Usman Ali, 21, of St Mary’s Road, Manningham, was found guilty of sexual activity with a child and the judge sentenced him to three years in prison.

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The fifth man Bekir Rasheed, 36, of Ulverston Road, Woodseats, Sheffield, was found guilty of trafficking and jailed for four years.

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During the trial at Sheffield Crown Court, the jury heard the offences took place in Bradford over a period of eight days in August 2013.

The girl, who had just turned 13, was moved to several different addresses by the group, including a city centre hotel where she was raped by Rehman before she was abandoned and found by police in the centre of Bradford.

After the case, Detective Inspector Helen Tate, who led the investigation, described the offences as vile and criticised the men for putting the girl through the ordeal of a trial by deny the charges against them.

“What happened to the victim has had a huge and profound impact on her life and the lives of her family,” said Det Insp Tate.

“I cannot put into words what this child experienced at the hands of these men.

“To be the victim of any sexual offence is horrendous but to then have to engage in a process where you have to relive that ordeal and disclose in detail the intricacies of the painful event is hard to comprehend.

“It’s bad enough for an adult, but we are talking about a 13-year-old child who has had to engage with people in authority and retell her story as part of the judicial process.

“I can only hope the verdicts reached today will give the victim and her family some small degree of comfort in knowing those responsible are behind bars.

“This is just the start of a long process for the family to try to put this horrendous ordeal behind them.

“This kind of criminality can only be addressed by partnership working and with the help of communities as a whole to stand up and not accept this abuse.”

Mohammed Bajiwala – Leicester

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October 2014

Kidnapper jailed for sexually abusing 8-year-old in his car in Leicester

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A kidnapper who abducted a terrified eight-year-old boy off the street, and sexually abused him in his car, was jailed for six years and four months.

Mohammed Irfan Bajiwala, a married father-of-two, also behaved indecently towards two other schoolboys, aged 10 and 12.

Judge Simon Hammond said: “What happened to these three boys is every parents’ worst nightmare.

“These boys will never forget what happened.

Bajiwala (35) used the same ruse when preying on the victims during the day on Leicester’s streets – by asking them to help him find ‘lost’ keys in his black Vauxhall Astra.

The eight-year-old was walking along Mere Road, Highfields, en route to meet his grandfather, at 1.30pm on Saturday May 3 this year.

Neil Bannister, prosecuting, told Leicester Crown Court: “The defendant called the boy over and asked him to look for keys in his car.

“He placed him in the rear of his car, where the boy recalls seeing a child’s seat and a book of football stickers.

“He tried to get out but the child locks were operating and he couldn’t.”

Bajiwala drove off with the boy a short distance to a nearby pub car park, at the Charny Inn, Spinney Hill Road.

The defendant got out and by chance saw a man he knew and they had a brief chat.

Mr Bannister said: “The boy tried to signal for help but the man left.”

Bajiwala got in the car and told the child to lie down on the back seat, before unsuccessfully trying to remove his trousers.

He then simulated sex with the clothed child, before dropping him off in the vicinity of Hartington Road, near Spinney Hill Park – and giving him the book of football stickers.

In a victim impact statement, the boy’s father said his son was “frightened and upset” and is now wary of strangers and reluctant to go out.

Bajiwala left his DNA on the boy’s trousers which led to his arrest.

Police linked the defendant to two similar earlier incidents.

At 1pm on Sunday March 30, a 12-year-old boy in Constance Road, north Evington, was approached by the defendant, who asked him to help him look for keys inside his car.

As the boy bent over on all fours leaning, in through a rear passenger door, the defendant exposed himself and began simulating sex, rubbing himself against the boy’s buttocks.

The victim ran off..

Some days earlier, a 10-year-old making his way home from school along Mornington Street, off Uppingham Road, was also stopped and asked to help look for keys.

On this occasion the defendant had his young daughter in the back of his car, and told her to get out and she remained nearby.

As the boy bent over to search under the driver’s seat he felt a “nudge-like push to his back.”

He backed away and went home to tell his mother.

Sentencing, Judge Hammond said Bajiwala presented a risk of danger to the public.

He said: “He targeted young and vulnerable children because they were on the street alone.

“A significant degree of planning was involved and he used the same system.”

Bajiwala, of King Edward Road, off Uppingham Road, Leicester, had an additional seven years extended onto his licence period, following his release.

The court heard that although he had no previous convictions, Bajiwala received a police caution in 2008 for common assault upon an 11-year-old boy, whilst on duty as a bus driver in London.

He got out of the cab and sat next to the boy – his only passenger – and kissed his cheek, before making an excuse to go on the top deck, where he asked the child to sit on his knee, but the boy refused.

Stephen Lowne, mitigating, said it was “a tragedy” he was not prosecuted for a sexual offence in relation to the boy in 2008, instead of being cautioned for a lesser offence, as he may have received treatment “and we might not be here today.”

He said Bajiwala was a victim of sexual abuse as a child, at a boarding school in India.

Judge Hammond said Bajiwala may have been a victim as a child, but said: “It doesn’t mean he has to go and do it to someone else years later.”

Mr Lowne said the kidnap offence was of a short duration, no violence was used, and the boy was returned to a familiar street afterwards.

He said: “He apologises for what he’s done and acknowledges he’s got a problem and has done wrong.

“He’s amenable to treatment to prevent anything like this happening again.

“He’s ashamed and embarrassed.

“He knew what he was doing but felt unable to help himself at the time.”

The defendant admitted sexual assault and kidnapping the eight-year-old, sexually assaulting the 12-year-old and attempted sexual assault of the 10-year-old.

Bajiwala will have to enlist on a sex offender register for life and was made the subject of a sexual offences prevention order, banning future unsupervised contact with children under 16.

Afterwards, Det Sgt Dave Speight said: “Understandably, these incidents left the victim’s extremely upset and shaken.

“Bajiwala went out and purposely targeted young children on several occasions.

“By pleading guilty he spared the victims the ordeal of giving evidence in court.

“There is a possibility that there are other victims out there who have not come forward and spoken to police. I would encourage anyone who believes they, or a member of their family, have been a victim to come forward and contact us.

“It’s not always easy to come forward and report such crimes but please be assured that your concerns will be taken seriously. We have specialist officers and access to a number of agencies who can guide and support you throughout the process.”

David Cole – Llanddarog

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October 2014

Child rapist told his 15-year jail term was not excessive

A pervert who raped a little girl and sexually abused a young boy has been told by top judges that his 15-year jail term was not a day too long.

David John Cole, 68, committed the offences four decades ago but was only recently brought to justice.

Cole, of Cae Person, Llanddarog, Carmarthen, Dyfed, was caged at Swansea Crown Court in May last year.

He was convicted of two rapes and other sexual offences against an underage girl, plus further sex crimes against a little boy.

On Friday, he asked London’s Appeal Court to slash his sentence, arguing it was much too tough.

But Mrs Justice Simler, sitting with Lord Justice Fulford and Mr Justice Wyn Williams, rejected his complaints.

The judge said: “This was a campaign of sexual abuse of two young children, which included rape and caused significant psychological trauma and impact.

“This sentence was not manifestly excessive.”

Justin Hayward – Shrewsbury

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October 2014

Shropshire family praised by judge after child sex photos shock

Justin Hayward, from Heathfield Close, Shrewsbury, was arrested in August 2013 after his brother found the images on the hard drive after asking to borrow it.

This May, the 24-year-old admitted three counts of making indecent images of children and two of possessing them.

Hayward was given a three-year community order and told to attend a community sex offender’s programme.

He will also be the subject of a sexual offences prevention order for five years and must pay £370 costs. The forfeiture and destruction of the laptop and hard drive was also ordered.

Yesterday, Shrewsbury Crown Court heard that at the time of the incident Hayward was living at home with his parents while on long-term sick leave from the Royal Navy.

Mr Timothy Harrington, prosecuting, said Hayward’s parents contacted the Royal Navy Police when they heard about the images and he was arrested by West Mercia Police.

He said Hayward’s brother asked to borrow his hard drive.

“On opening the hard drive, he found a folder named private and opened it. In the folder he saw a clip showing indecent images of children,” said Mr Harrington.

“He quickly closed the file and clicked on another to see if it was of the same nature – it was.

“As it was the defendant’s birthday his brother decided to tell his parents two days later.

“His parents were alarmed to hear the news and contacted the Royal Navy Police.”

Mr Brendan Reedy, for Hayward, said he was of previous good character and had a troubled childhood. Mr Reedy said: “He has physiological issues and was on long-term sick leave from the Navy prior to this incident. This is a young man with a future ahead of him. He is in a new relationship and wants to move on.”

Judge Robin Onions, sentencing, said: “The family should be commended on their actions. They acted entirely properly. It must have been something which made them very anxious.”

Ian Clark – Arbroath

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October 2014

Angus grandad downloaded indecent child images for 11 years

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An Angus grandfather found in possession of a large haul of indecent images of children has been spared jail.

Ian Thomas Clark, 67, of Howard Street, Arbroath, had 10,220 images on discs which were collected over an 11-year period.

Clark appeared at Forfar before Sheriff Pino Di Emidio and was placed on probation for three years.

He admitted that between January 2001 and December 2012, at Howard Street, he had indecent photographs or pseudo-photographs of children.

The sheriff said: “You have pleaded guilty to very serious offences.

“Although the bulk of these images would be classified at the lower end of the guidelines, there are a significant number at a higher level of seriousness which would merit a custodial sentence.

“However, having taken into account what has been said, I will impose a three-year probation order.”

Clark must also attend the Tay Project, have no unsupervised contact with children under 17.

Keith Rogers – Droitwich

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October 2014

Pensioner who had collection of more than 100,000 indecent pictures of children jailed

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A 77-year-old pensioner with a collection of more than 100,000 indecent pictures of children on his computers has been jailed for 12 months at Worcester Crown Court.

The sentence would bring ignominy and humiliation on Keith Rogers, said Judge Robert Juckes QC, and the offences reflected a dark side in the life of a man who had been married nearly 60 years.

Rogers, of Birch Coppice, Droitwich, pleaded guilty to six offences of making indecent images of children and to two offences of distributing them.

He was arrested by police in February this year in Operation Spade, which was a crack-down on people obtaining images from Canada. They found four lap-top computers, two hidden in a loft, and a variety of other electronic gadgets.

They later discovered that he was renting a mail box address in Worcester and they found two DVDs containing indecent pictures.

Michael Aspinall, prosecuting, said Rogers had a total of 100,303 stills and 120 moving images of children. More than 86,000 were in category C, not the most serious level, and it was 24 samples of these which had been distributed between July and September 2011.

Rogers had confessed to a predilection for young boys, mainly between the ages of seven and 10. One picture showed a young boy kneeling, gagged and bound with leather straps

Mr Aspinall said Rogers was fined £2,500 in September 2003 on two charges of possessing indecent images of children.

Charles Hamer, mitigating, said the fine had been paid and his computer seized. He had signed the sex offenders register and for some years the conviction had a salutary effect. But he now accepted he had an emotional problem, an addiction. He had taken steps to try and cure it.

The judge said it was sad to see a man of Rogers’s age standing in the dock. The previous conviction should have been a warning. The aggravating factor was not only the possession of indecent material but the distribution of it.

Custody was inevitable but he had reduced the sentence from two years to 12 months because of the guilty plea. He would serve half and spend the remainder on licence.

He made a sexual offences prevention order for ten years with a similar time to be spent on the sex offenders register. The judge awarded £340 prosecution costs with a victim impact surcharge of £100.

Speaking after the case, DC Mark Churchill said: “Rogers was convicted as part of a major, nationwide investigation which saw us working with the National Crime Agency, forces across the country and other agencies.

“We targeted offenders accessing child abuse images from online sites. Children are victimised not only when they are abused and an image is first taken, they are victimised repeatedly every time that image is viewed.

“Child abusers need to know that the internet is not a safe space for them to operate. They leave a digital footprint and we will find it.”

James Bodenham – Croydon/South Norwood

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October 2014

Man jailed for raping 11-year-old girl in Croydon

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A 26-year-old man has been jailed for more than eight years after raping an 11-year-old girl in Croydon he had befriended as she went to visit a relative.

James Albert Bodenham was identified and arrested after he was recognised in CCTV footage by a local officer who happened to have stopped him a few weeks before the offence took place on March 1 this year.

A spokesman for the Met said they were contacted by the girl’s parents when she was late returning home after visiting a relative.

The girl returned home soon after, but was in a distressed state.

The spokesman said: “Following delicate enquiries carried out by officers, they managed to find out that she had been sexually assaulted in the Addiscombe area by a man she had met and befriended only that day.

“A full investigation was carried out by officers from the Met’s Sexual Offences, Exploitation and Child Abuse Command and detectives soon identified CCTV footage from the area showing a man who matched the description given by the girl.”

Images of the man were circulated to officers in Croydon and PC Garcia recognised him as James Bodenham, as he had stopped him while riding a bike in the area a few weeks beforehand.

He was arrested at his home in St Luke’s Close, South Norwood, with officers seizing clothing that matched the description given to them by the victim, comparing DNA with samples taken from the victim.

The 26-year-old was charged on March 19 with two counts of rape, with Bodenham eventually pleading guilty to one count of rape, with the other to lay on file.

Today he was sentenced at the Central Criminal Court to eight years and six months imprisonment, and was also given a sexual offenders prevention order (SOPO).

Detective Constable David Bendall, from the Sexual Offences Exploitation & Child Abuse Command, said: “Bodenham targeted an extremely young and vulnerable girl, who will have to live with the consequences of his actions for the rest of her life.

“The victim and her family have shown tremendous strength and courage throughout the entire investigation.

“I hope that by bringing Bodenham to justice will in some way help them to move on from this terrible ordeal.”


Steven Scrivener – Strensall/Acomb

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January 2007

Sex menace Steven Scrivener cries in dock

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A SEX menace who twice evaded police surveillance by going on the run has narrowly escaped an immediate trip to jail.

Steven Kevin Scrivener, 25, also ducked out of a compulsory sex offenders’ rehabilitation programme aimed at ending his attacks on females.

He cried in the dock at York Crown Court at the thought of returning to jail and told Recorder Gary Burrell QC that, before the morning hearing he “had just a little drink, to calm my nerves, because I was scared of being here”.

He has already served 30 months for raping and indecently assaulting two schoolgirls in Strensall and was on a probation order for molesting a shopworker in Market Weighton.

“He is just not coming to terms with the fact that he has a sexual problem,” the judge said.

He gave Scrivener a 12-month prison sentence suspended for 18 months on condition he does the programme.

The judge told him: “You put barriers in the way because you simply don’t want to take this programme and your lack of determination is confirmed by your unwillingness to comply with the notification requirements (of the sex offenders’ register).”

Scrivener, of Tudor Road, Acomb, York, is on the register for life because of the Strensall sex attacks.

He pleaded guilty to failing to tell police he had left his parents’ home on April 6, failure to do the probation order including the rehabilitation programme, imposed for the Market Weighton attack, and deception.

Prosecutor David Garner said Scrivener used his father’s bank account illegally to buy two mobile phones worth £300.

He had a previous conviction for failing to tell police of a change of address in 2001, shortly after he was released from the 30-month jail term.

Scrivener’s barrister, Geraldine Kelly, said her client put his head in the sand and started drinking instead of getting new accommodation when his parents told him they were moving house and he could not live at their new home. He bought and sold the phones to raise cash.

The court was told after he had to leave the family home, Scrivener did not want to go to probation because they would find out he had not told police where he was.

But since his arrest, he had attended probation appointments.

The court heard he now had a stable address and a job.

Imran Khan – Blackburn

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September 2014

Child rapist who abducted schoolgirls jailed for 17 years 

A ‘PREDATORY’ sex abuser has been jailed for abducting two schoolgirls and sexually assaulting one of them.

There were dramatic scenes in court as the father of one of the victims stood up during the hearing and shouted: “He has destroyed my family.”

A judge heard how Zhaid Mohmmed planned to force himself on the 14-year-old after he and Imran Khan spotted the two youngsters walking late at night in Blackburn.

After picking them up in his silver Honda, the girls were taken back to Mohmmed’s house in Chester Street, where Khan raped the other girl who was 15.

While she was being attacked upstairs, Mohmmed, 44, ‘took advantage’ of the other youngster in the kitchen by attempting to kiss her and putting his hand down her pants.

Imran Khan, 36, of Tenby Close, Blackburn was found guilty of one count of rape and to counts of child abduction and was jailed for 17 years

The court heard how the girls got into the car after being asked if they wanted a lift because it was cold.

Once inside, the men spoke in their ‘own language’ and the girls were told to keep their heads down so they could not be seen by police.

The pair asked how old the girls were and if they were virgins.

The teenagers were then taken to Mohmmed’s house, where Khan asked if he could use one of the bedrooms.

Father-of-three Mohmmed showed him to one and the older of the two girls was taken inside.

During the trial, the court heard how the youngsters were offered drink and drugs.

They left after the 14-year-old asked Mohmmed to help her get her friend.

Ken Hind, defending, admitted it was not the first time Mohmmed had been involved in an abduction.

He told the court that when the defendant was 15, he was part of a gang that took a girl from a house she was staying in to Blackburn before she was eventually taken on to Birmingham by others.

Sentencing Mohmmed to three-and-a-half years in prison, Judge Lloyd told him: “The circumstances of the victims’ abduction and sexual assault represent sexual exploitation by older men. Sadly, this type of offence is not uncommon.

Nicholas Turnock – Bletchley

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June 2001

Child sex predator jailed for abusing two schoolgirls 

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Turnock pictured above in 2013

Lorry driver Nicholas Wayne Turnock, 31 years old of Bletchley, Milton Keynes was found guilty of sexually abusing two schoolgirls over a period of several years

Turnock received five years imprisonment for two counts of sexual intercourse with a female child aged under 13 years old

He received 16 months imprisonment concurrent for three counts of indecent assault on a child aged 14,15 and 16 years old

And he also received 16 months imprisonment concurrent for three counts of sexual intercourse with a child aged between 13 – 16 years old

Mohammed Khan – Watford

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April 2001

Man jailed for sexual assault on schoolgirl

A 21-YEAR-OLD Watford man has been jailed for three-and-a-half years for indecently assaulting a 14-year-old girl he met a May fair in Cassiobury Park.

Mohammed Khan, of Hodges Way, Watford, was 19 at the time of the attack and had only recently been released from detention for previous offences.

Judge Daniel Rodwell QC said at Aylesbury Crown Court on Tuesday that Khan had escaped a much stiffer sentence because he had spared his victim from having to give evidence by pleading guilty.

Khan admitted indecently assaulting the girl on May 31, 1999, and denied a charge of rape. The judge entered a not guilty verdict on the rape allegation.

Miss Rosa Dean, prosecuting, said the defendant’s plea was on the basis that the victim was non-consensual to being indecently assaulted.

The court heard the victim, from South Oxhey, and a friend had gone to the fair in Cassiobury Park and met the defendant with another man. The girls had already been drinking and the 14-year-old was rather “tipsy”, the court was told.

They bought more alcohol and went off in a car belonging to Khan’s friend.

Counsel said they drove for several hours. When they got to Aylesbury, they stopped and the girl, who was by this stage very drunk got out to go to the toilet in the bushes.

The prosecutor said the defendant followed her and when she got back to the car she was distressed and crying hysterically to her friend. She told her: “I pushed him away. He really hurt me.”

Miss Dean said the victim was in pain for the next few days and had bruising to her legs. Since the incident she had been depressed and withdrawn, her mother said.

Khan was not arrested until July last year after returning from a trip to Pakistan. Miss Dean said that although he was not picked out at an identification parade, he was linked to the offence through DNA profiling.

Paul Wakerley, defending, said although Khan had previous convictions for violence and had been released from custody in February 1999, he had never previously committed any sexual offences. Mr Wakerley told the court Khan was not psychiatrically considered to be a risk for re-offending in such a manner.

Mr Wakerley added Khan was shocked to learn how young his victim was.

Passing sentence, Judge Rodwell said: “This was a disgraceful episode. You knew perfectly well the state this young girl was in and when she got out of the car to go to the lavatory you went and assaulted her and, as you have accepted, that was against her will.”

Nigel Hesmondhalgh – Accrington

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January 2011

Accrington BNP neighbour from hell jailed for child abuse images

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A NEIGHBOUR from hell who launched a four-year ‘race hate’ campaign against a family has now been jailed for possessing child porn.

Nigel Hesmondhalgh, 37, is beginning a nine-month sentence after a series of degrading photos and videos of children were found on his home computer.

Detectives have welcomed the punishment, imposed by Judge Simon Newell at Burnley Crown Court, on Hesmondhalgh, of Stanley Street, Accrington.

The judge also ordered him to sign the sex offenders’ register for 10 years.

Hesmondhalgh was only released from a 30-week jail sentence in November when police swooped on his Hyndburn home.

His computer was seized within a fortnight and was found to contain no fewer than 29 indecent images of children, and 11 similar videos.

Four of the pictures, and three of the videos, were graded at level four, the second most serious category of child pornography.

After the case, Detective Inspector Claire Holbrook said: “I hope this case will serve as a warning to those who view such material that we will find them out, arrest them and do everything with- in our power to prosecute them.

“In downloading this material the viewers indirectly cause these horrific offences and images to continue to be produced.”

Hesmondhalgh was jailed at the Burnley court in March for an offence of racially-aggravated harassment.

Police obtained a two-year Anti-Social Behaviour Order against him, before his release, to prevent him from throwing dog dirt into his neighbours’ garden, or using racist language towards an Asian family.

Lea Mulrooney – Bolton/Tonge Moor

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October 2014

Paedophile who downloaded ‘extreme’ indecent images of children as young as four jailed

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A PAEDOPHILE who downloaded extreme indecent/abusive images of children as young as four is beginning a two-year jail sentence.

Bolton Crown Court heard how Lea Mulrooney claimed he had downloaded the images and put them in a shared file on the GigaTribe internet service while affected by medication for mental problems.

When the drugs wore off he realised what he had done and deleted the files, he said.

Jane Dagnall, prosecuting, said 42-year-old Mulrooney’s then home in Radcliffe was raided by police in July last year by officers investigating the use of GigaTribe by paedophiles.

They confiscated his laptop and although the images had been deleted, police experts were able to recover 239 illegal images.

Mulrooney, of Glaisdale Street, Tonge Moor, pleaded guilty to one count of possessing indecent images of children and 19 counts of making indecent photographs.

Michael Lea, defending, told the court Mulrooney’s actions had had consequences for him.

“His drunken and drug-fuelled excursions into the dark net have brought him to court,” he said, adding that he has now lost contact with his family.

Judge Peter Davies sentenced Mulrooney to two years in jail and ordered him to be placed on the sex offenders’ register.

Steven Wilson – Newton Aycliffe

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October 2014

Man who sexually abused young girl with learning difficulties jailed for 14 years

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A MAN who sexually assaulted a young teenage girl with learning difficulties, later denied having any attraction to the victim.

It was discovered, however, that Steven James Wilson had searched for material on the internet relating to such abuse of girls of that age, but tried to wipe clean his computer hard drive before police were informed of the allegations.

When his activities began to surface Wilson tried to commit suicide by taking a concoction of drugs, with a bottle of whisky.

Durham Crown Court heard he was found slumped alongside a pile of vomit on a busy road in Newton Aycliffe, with an imitation firearm and large kitchen knife recovered nearby.

Wilson, 36, formerly of Honister Place, Newton Aycliffe, spent time in hospital recovering, and subsequently in a mental health unit, before being remanded in custody having admitted two charges of sexual assault by penetration and one of rape, at a previous hearing.

He also admitted possessing an offensive weapon and imitation firearm in public.

The court was told the “very vulnerable victim” of his activities has suffered, “extreme psychological difficulties” as a result and has self harmed.

Jailing him for 14 years, Judge Christopher Prince also made Wilson subject of a sexual offences prevention order, and registration as a sex offender, for life.


Douglas Slade – Aylesbury

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October 2014

‘Vilest man in Britain’ Douglas Slade arrested on string of child-sex charges in the Philippines

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A paedo campaigner who was once ­branded the vilest man in Britain by the Sunday People is facing a string of child-sex ­charges in the Philippines.

Ex-navy chef Douglas Slade – who helped mastermind the sickening Paedophile Information Exchange – was arrested for allegedly abusing Filipino youngsters for as little as £2 a time.

Cops said they also found depraved images of boys on the 74-year-old’s laptop.

Police raided his home in the red-light district of Angeles City after a tip-off he was photographing children there.

Cops claim Slade – who has cooked for the Queen – lured poverty-stricken kids with offers of food or by ­paying them between £2 and £3.50 to pose for lurid pictures.

Three of the boys – all under 12 and one of them only nine – claim he also molested them, a crime carrying a jail ­sentence of up to 20 years.

Slade was first publicly shamed for his evil appetites in 1975 when we revealed he was one of three ringleaders of PIE, which campaigned to legalise child-sex.

The group was backed by the National Council for Civil Liberties, led by Patricia Hewitt – later a Cabinet minister under Tony Blair.

We sent undercover reporters to infiltrate PIE after Slade published an explicit guide on how and where to pick up ­vulnerable kids in the group’s ­news-letter Palaver.

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Exposed: Douglas Slade was first publicly shamed for his evil appetites in 1975

Our damning report sparked a national outcry against PIE – and forced the ­organisation to disband.

Slade, originally from Aylesbury, Bucks, moved to the Philippines in the 1990s and was arrested twice on suspicion of abusing kids. But he was never charged.

Last night Shay Cullen, a Catholic priest and child-welfare worker in the Asian archipelago, said many perverts escaped ­justice by paying hush-money to the children and their families.

He said: “Lots of British paedophiles are coming over here.

“They treat children as sex-toys for their ­gratification and buy them for the price of a hamburger. But they will be caught.

“We are doing all we can to see that justice is done and to prevent victims and their parents being paid off.”

Slade’s most recent arrest came after he sent his laptop to be repaired.

A technician spotted indecent images and tipped off cops at the National Bureau of Investigation.

Slade was charged with having child pornography and given bail.

Parents of three children at a school near his home then came forward to ­accuse Slade of sex abuse.

Marlyn Capio, a legal officer for local children’s victim support group Preda, told the Sunday People: “They say it is their children in some of the photographs that have been found on his laptop.

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“They all allege the children were lured into his house with toys so he could abuse them and take pictures of them nude.

“It is easy for children to get to his house as it is next to the school and this is how he was able to entice them in.”

Capio added: “The children say they were physically abused by him while he made them pose for pictures.”

Slade was first arrested in the Philippines on suspicion of molesting boys as young as 11 in 1995.

He was dubbed the Pork Pie Paedophile because he had set up a firm selling Western food to expats.

Court reports claimed he had abused the youngsters after offering them free swimming lessons in the pool at his luxury house in Angeles.

But Slade said in a defence statement: “If I ever gave the children a kiss on their cheeks it was more grandfatherly than malicious.”

He added the charges were “trumped up” and claimed he was merely letting deprived kids use his pool.

He was arrested again in 2006 over similar claims.

But according to Father Cullen, neither case led to a prosecution.

The Philippines is one of the world’s top producers of child porn.

Sickos can even watch kids being abused live on the internet.

A Unicef report warns up to 600,000 street-children are at risk from paedos.

As part of a massive crackdown on the activities of perverts, the government has banned anyone who is a registered sex offender in their home country from entering the Philippines.

Christopher O’Malley – Clayton

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May 2005

Judge jails ‘sexual predator’ for 11 years

A MAN who repeatedly abused a young girl has been jailed for 11 years after a judge described him as a “sexual predator”.

Christopher O’Malley, 41, was also ordered to sign the Sex Offenders Register for life, after a jury at Manchester Crown court convicted him of charges of rape, attempted rape and indecent assault.

O’Malley of Beswick Street, Clayton, was told by Judge Clement Goldstone: “You treated her as a sexual object and have shown no remorse.

“The sentence must be severe to punish you and deter other like-minded sexual predators of which, I have no doubt, you are one.”

Karl Barrie – Runcorn

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July 2010

Karl Barrie, of Halton YMCA sexually abused young girls for years

A 21-YEAR-OLD man who admitted raping a girl aged under 13 and sexually assaulting two young female children was jailed for eight years yesterday, at Warrington Crown Court.

Karl Barrie, of Halton YMCA, Halton Lodge Avenue, Runcorn, admitted 19 counts of indecently and sexually assaulting two girls aged under 13 and sexual activity with a 15-year-old girl.

Matthew Dunford QC, prosecuting, said the offences dated back to 2005, when the victims were aged seven and nine.

The crimes only came to light on July 15, last year, when the younger victim, now aged 12, told a teaching assistant at school.

The older victim, now aged 14, burst into tears when her mother asked her if she had been sexually assaulted.

The police were informed and both girls were interviewed on video.

They described a catalogue of sexual abuse.

Barrie was arrested on the day the offences were revealed.

He denied abusing the youngest victim but admitted sexual activity with a 15-year-old girl.

He later admitted all offences.

Daniel Dennis, QC, defending, said: “He pleaded guilty at the first available opportunity, saving the victims from giving evidence.

“He is a young man of good character. He is intelligent and polite to all of those dealing with him professionally.

“He acquired 10 GCSEs and should have a better understanding and know how to behave.”

Sentencing him, Judge David Hale, said: “A rape is a most serious offence.

“You are now almost 22. You have, over a number of years, abused two young girls.

“You are an intelligent man. Why you deviated, I don’t know. Clearly, you have the ability to work your way out of difficulties and will receive the treatment you need when you are in prison to redress your offending behaviour.”

A sexual offences prevention order was made for 10 years and Barrie was disqualified from working with children.

He was given a life ban on being in the presence of any child under 16, unless supervised by their parent.

Benjamin Heath – Madeley

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October 2014

Madeley man jailed after police find 7,230 indecent images of children on laptop

PERVERT Benjamin Heath is behind bars after he downloaded thousands of indecent images of children.

The 38-year-old, who has a previous conviction for making indecent images, was arrested last July after  he failed to comply with the sex offender notification requirements.

Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court heard police seized his computer equipment and found a total of 7,230 images of children on his computer, hard drive and laptop.

Now Heath has been jailed for 14 months.

Prosecutor Heather Chamberlin said Heath was a registered sex offender after being convicted of similar offences in 2007.

But he was arrested in July, 2013 after he was in breach of the sex offender notification requirements.

His computers and other devices were analysed and were found to contain images of children.

He was re-arrested in February when police seized more equipment and found further indecent images.

Police found 834 category A images which were downloaded between 2007 and 2009; 790 category B images; and 5,370 category C images.

They found a further five movies at levels A, B, and C, along with 51 level C images downloaded in 2010. The investigation also found and 33 level A; 24 level B and 123 level C images downloaded on his laptop between 2011 and 2014.

Heath, of Riverlea, Madeley, pleaded guilty to eight offences of making indecent images of children.

He admitted the pleas placed him in breach of a suspended sentence he received in 2007.

Peter McCartney, mitigating, said Heath’s partner has accepted what he has done in the past.

Mr McCartney said: “She seems to have got over the shock.

“She is prepared to live with him and work with him to prevent any further relapse in his offending.”

Judge Paul Glenn said it was a significant aggravating feature that the offences were committed while Heath was the subject of a suspended jail sentence.

He jailed Heath for 14 months and placed him on the sex offenders’ register for 10 years.

Heath also was made the subject of a 10 year sexual offences prevention order (SOPO) and will be barred from a range of activities involving children and vulnerable adults.

Judge Glenn said: “These are real children being abused for the entertainment of people like you who access this disgusting and disgraceful behaviour.

“It is quite plain that you have an ongoing interest in indecent images of children.

“You are plainly sexually attracted to children.

“You have already undergone a sexual offenders treatment programme but you continued to offend while subject to that programme.

Stephen Wilson – Hebburn/Billingham

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Caretaker gets 12 years

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A caretaker at one of the most prestigious schools in the North-East has been jailed for raping a schoolgirl.

Stephen Wilson repeatedly abused the 14-year-old in his car and at his former home.

The attacks took place between 1995 and 1999 – but the victim kept silent for eight years. Two years after the first offence, he secured a job at the £2,600-a-term Royal Grammar School (RGS) in Newcastle, where bosses were oblivious to his past.

Wilson continued to work at the 1,100-pupil RGS for eight years until his victim broke down and finally found the courage to describe her ordeal to a relative in March last year.

The 49-year-old denied the allegations, claiming the girl was lying, but was jailed for 12 years last week after a jury found him guilty of four rapes and four indecent assaults.

Parents at the private school last night told of their concern that Wilson, who had moved from Billingham, Teesside, to Lilac Walk in Hebburn, South Tyneside, had been around their children without anybody knowing of his past.

He had no previous convictions or historical behaviour to indicate he was a risk when he was hired at the RGS, and in recent years was even granted a county court residency order to look after a young female relative.

The former Army sergeant of 21 years was immediately suspended by the Jesmond school after the girl told police of the offences, and he resigned in June.

RGS headteacher James Miller last night said there had never been any suggestion Wilson had posed a threat to children.

Mr Miller was told of the allegations by social workers on March 29 last year after police were contacted by the victim, and senior school staff visited Wilson at home that evening asking him not to come to the school until further notice.

A statement from the RGS added: “Mr Wilson was also asked to surrender his school keys, and never returned to work at the RGS. Following confidential discussions between the school and various agencies involved in the case, Mr Wilson was asked by the school to consider his position, and he resigned from the school in June.

“During Mr Wilson’s period of employment at the RGS there was no indication of any inappropriate conduct with any RGS pupil of either sex.”

Wilson has now been banned for life from contact with children and must also register as a sex offender for life.

One mother of two RGS pupils, who asked not to be named, said she was horrified that a sex offender had been working near her children.

She said: “There doesn’t seem to be much that anyone could have done to stop this man working there if he had no record. But it’s absolutely terrifying to think that this man had access to my children and their friends.

“Thankfully it came to light before anything happened and thankfully he’s now behind bars.”

The RGS said all of its staff have now passed criminal checks that go beyond the guidelines issued by the Department for Education and Skills.

The school statement added: “At the time Mr Wilson was asked to take leave, the school had substantially completed Criminal Records Bureau Disclosure checks for all RGS employees.

“All current members of RGS teaching and support staff have now received satisfactory disclosure reports.”

Judge told former soldier admits responsibility for attack on teenager

A judge heard that Wilson, who denied all the charges against him, now accepts that his victim was telling the truth.

Judge David Bryant, sitting at Teesside Crown Court on Friday, was told that the former soldier attacked the girl in his car near his Billingham home after she excitedly told him about her first-ever boyfriend.

Sentencing Wilson to 12 years in jail, he told him: “I take into consideration the fact that you have now accepted your responsibility for these offences.

“That is an important step, because it is the first step toward therapy for your distorted views.”

Paul Currer, defending, said: “The fact that he now admits the offences is perhaps a welcome feature and the first stage to him receiving treatment. The offences happened when he was separated from his wife. He is now a broken man as a result of his own actions. His relationship with his wife is now completely at an end, and he is assessed by the probation service as providing a low risk of re-conviction.”

Sgt Mark Haworth, of the Stockton Child Abuse Investigation Unit, said: “This should encourage victims that if they come forward and make a report they will be listened to sympathetically and action will be taken. The length of the sentence also sends out a strong message to those minded to act in a same way.”

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