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Edwin Kirk – Montrose

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December 2014

Angus man caught with over 100,000 indecent images of children said he was in ‘fantasy bubble’

An 53-year-old caught with over 100,000 indecent images of children said he was in a “fantasy bubble”, a court heard.

Edwin Kirk amassed the horde, which also included almost a week’s worth of child abuse videos over a decade at his Montrose home.

Kirk, who has a similar previous conviction, told police he was interested in “beautiful children being naked and sexually available” but denied ever directly molesting any youngsters.

He was told by Sheriff Alastair Brown that “every sentencing avenue” was being considered for his “criminal and depraved” behaviour ahead of his next court appearance in January.


Michael Paterson – Lancing/North Leigh

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December 2014

Indecent images engineer escapes jail sentence

AN ENGINEER who admitted having indecent photos and cartoons of children on his computer has avoided jail.

Michael Paterson, now of Orchard Avenue, Lancing, West Sussex, was living in Oak Tree Close, North Leigh, when he committed the offences between 2008 and 2013.

Charles Ward-Jackson, prosecuting, yesterday told Judge Ian Pringle the 32-year-old was found to have a total of 512 indecent photographs on three hard drives.

Richard Lindsay, defending yesterday at Oxford Crown Court, said: “Mr Paterson is greatly remorseful for what he has done.’’ Judge Ian Pringle sentenced him to 12 months in prison, suspended for two years.

Derek Martin – South Armagh

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December 2014

Newry police welcome child abuser’s 20 year prison sentence

Police in E District’s Child Abuse Unit have welcomed a sentence handed down at Newry Crown Court today.

48 year old Derek Martin was sentenced to a total of 20 years imprisonment after being found guilty of two counts of rape, seven counts of indecent assault, three counts of gross indecency and one count of threats to damage property.

The offences related to incidents which occurred in the South Armagh area between 1991 and 2006 against three females, two of whom were children at the time of the offences.

Constable Karen Cole said, “We are pleased to see this sentence handed down today and hope that it brings some form of closure for the three victims. The victims have been on a long journey for justice and the process has been harrowing at times.

“I would like to pay tribute to the bravery and strength they have shown, not only during court proceedings but from the start to the end of the criminal justice process.

“This perpetrator preyed on young and vulnerable females and I hope that this sentence sends a clear message that crimes like this will not be tolerated in our society. We believe there may be other victims and we hope that this conviction will encourage people to come forward and make contact with us.

Constable Cole added, “We can be contacted in the Child Abuse Unit by phoning the 101 number.”

Johnathan Beech – Cleckheaton

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December 2014

‘Dangerous’ teen jailed for Cleckheaton sex attacks

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A teenager has been branded dangerous by a judge who heard he attacked a woman walking her dog in Cleckheaton the day after he molested a schoolgirl in an alley.

Johnathan James Beech, 18, only stopped his attack on the woman when her pet intervened.

Beech was sent to a young offender institution for a total of eight years with a further extended four years on licence after Judge Robert Bartfield said at Leeds Crown Court on Monday he had to protect women from him “for the foreseeable future.”

Beech, of South Parade, Cleckheaton, admitted one charge of sexual activity with a child and one of sexual assault.

Richard Clews, prosecuting, told the court Beech approached the 33-year-old-woman walking her dog on waste ground on July 14.

She thought he was drunk or on drugs and he told her he had been “on the vodka.”

Initially he engaged her in “small talk” but then tried to touch her.

She told him to stop but he ignored her asking if he could have sex. She told him “certainly not” but that just made him “turn nasty.”

He told her: “You won’t have a choice in a minute.”

He was trying to pin her down while she was shouting “get off, get off.”

She was terrified. But the dog, thinking they were play-fighting, joined in, jumping on Beech and that distracted him. He got up and took her cigarettes from her bag before leaving.

He was arrested later that day. By then he was also wanted for the offence against a schoolgirl on July 13.

Mr Clews said he had first spoken to the girl in the street when she was just 12. He had called at her house but her father told Beech he was not welcome.

However on the day of the offence she was on her own when he spotted her in an alley and asked if she wanted to smoke cannabis with him.

She told him she did not do that and he then tried to kiss her. When she pushed him away he was not deterred and grabbed her, pushing her against a wall.

It was only when someone else walked into the alley he pretended he had been playing and she managed to escape. Both his victims described being scared to go out alone after their ordeal.

Gillian Batts representing Beech said his guilty pleas “are the acceptance of his wrongdoing.”

The reports about him indicated there was work which could be done with him and his abuse of alcohol and substances.

Sentencing, Beech Judge Bartfield said he knew the schoolgirl was not interested in his advances but that had not deterred him. The day after she was the victim he attacked the woman walking her dog who was “understandably petrified”. It may be she was in fact saved by the reaction of her dog. I conclude you are a dangerous individual.”

Michael Evans – Grantham/Margate

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December 2014

Grantham paedophile finally caught living in Kent after evading justice for 25 years

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A sex offender who fled his home in Grantham and evaded justice for 25 years after stealing the identity of his lover’s husband is finally behind bars.

Michael Evans fled May 1988 just days before he was due to stand trial at Lincoln Crown Court accused of sexually assaulting a young girl.

A warrant was issued for his arrest when he failed to appear in court but it was a quarter of a century before he was finally tracked down.

Evans,then known as Michael Kime, left his then partner Elaine to run off with his friend Martyn Foster’s wife Susan. The couple initially lived in a tent and did farm work for cash in hand.

He used Martyn Foster’s birth and marriage certificates to obtain a passport that enabled him to travel to Greece to pick olives at the end of the English land work season.

And then, when he was back in England, he needed a licence to allow him to drive tractors as part of his farm work.

He sat his driving test using Mr Foster’s name and so then had a licence under his assumed name.

After Evans was arrested, his victim made a fresh statement detailing how she was abused by him from the age of eight.

Jolyon Robertson, prosecuting, told Lincoln Crown Court that the couple settled in Kent and changed their names by deed poll to Evans.

But the scam came crashing down in 2012 when police carried out a cold case review into the disappearance of Susan Foster, as she then was, who still remained on the missing persons list from 1988.

As a result they tracked down Susan and then discovered the man she was living with was on the run.

The original sex case was re-opened but the court papers including the original statements had been lost.

Officers were able to track down the complainant, by then in her late 30s, and she gave a fresh interview confirming her original allegation that she had been abused a number of times starting when she was just eight years old.

By the time he resurfaced, Evans had been removed from the wanted list on the Police National Computer although the warrant for his arrest was still in place.

He was finally detained in December 2013 and after being remanded in custody faced trial in front of a jury at Lincoln Crown Court.

Evans, 61, who originally lived in Hornsby Road, Grantham, and last in the Margate area of Kent, was convicted of two charges of attempted rape, six charges of indecent assault and two charges of indecency with a child. He denied all the charges.

Before the start of the trial Evans and his wife Susan Evans, also 61, each admitted conspiracy to pervert the course of justice between 1988 and December 2013 by doing a series of acts to assist Michael Evans evade arrest and prosecution.

Both will be sentenced in January. Michael Evans was remanded in custody after Recorder Gareth Evans told him “It has got to be prison. There is no alternative.”

Susan Evans, who was of previous good character, was granted bail.

Joao de Sousa – Cirencester

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November 2014 

Cirencester dad avoids prison after repeatedly groping girl and buying her a sex toy for 14th birthday

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A FATHER who repeatedly groped a teenage girl and bought her a sex toy for her 14th birthday has avoided prison.

Joao de Sousa, of St Michael’s Road in Cirencester, wept as the judge sentenced him to 18 months in prison, suspended for two years, with supervision for a year.

Gloucester Crown Court had heard that 42-year-old de Sousa, from Portugal, had regularly touched the girl from Cirencester when he saw her.

He was found guilty of five offences of sexual activity with the girl when she was 13 years old, between May 2011 and June 2012, and another five when she was 14 the following year.

De Sousa had denied the charges but was found guilty by a jury after a trial last month.

He claimed he only touched the girl once when she was concerned she might have a lump on her breast, but the victim told the jury de Sousa would grope her both under and over her clothing whenever he had the opportunity.

She said he also bought her a sex toy for her 14th birthday and made various inappropriate remarks to her.

After hearing a statement from the victim, Judge William Hart told de Sousa the assaults had “undoubtedly had a very damaging effect on that young girl”.

Sentencing de Sousa today, Judge Hart said he did not find the decision on whether to jail him at all easy.

“I take the general approach that if I am uncertain as to whether immediate custody has to be imposed or whether it should be suspended, I should come down in favour of suspending the sentence,” he said.

“I have just been persuaded in your case that I do not need to send you to prison today.”

The judge also imposed a 20 week curfew for 10pm to 6am and ordered de Sousa to do 100 hours of unpaid work, as well as making a sexual offences prevention order against him and ordering him to pay £500 costs.

De Sousa’s barrister, Nicholas Syfret QC, argued that the seriousness of the offences did not pass the custody threshold.

He handed in four references for de Sousa including one from his daughter.

He said de Sousa, who has no other convictions, came across during his trial as a “warm-hearted man who was anxious to be friendly and generous towards pretty well everyone he came across”.

Mr Syfret added: “In many respects, I would submit, he is a thoroughly decent and pleasant man.”

Judge Hart told de Sousa: “For 40 years before these offences you led an honest crime-free life and I bear very much in mind that in the two years since these things happened you have committed no further offences either.

“This has shown me you can put this offending behind you and carry on leading the life you had led for forty years.”

Burhan Abdulrahman – Plymouth

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November 2014

A pervert has been convicted of assaulting a 12-year-old girl

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Burhan Abdulrahman, aged 34, from Plymouth was found guilty of indecently touching the youngster following a trial at Plymouth Crown Court.

He had denied sexual assault between February and May last year but was convicted by a jury.

The victim, appearing over the video-link, told the court that Abdulrahman had touched her indecently as they sat on a sofa in a shared house in the city.

The court heard she had been visiting a family friend – who was also friends with Abdulrahman.

The girl said he told her to stop, but he carried on touching her.

She added that she then told the family friend, who threw Abdulrahman, also known as “Biggy”, out of the house.

The girl said she did not tell the police what happened until a few weeks later.

Another girl, who was also in the room at the time, said that she saw Abdulrahman touching the complainant’s thigh as they sat on the sofa.

Kelly Scrivener, opening the case for the Crown Prosecution Service, said that the defendant had reacted angrily when he was arrested.

She added: “He said in front of the custody sergeant when he was aware of the complaint: “I will rape her next time”.

Abdulrahman, of Mount Gould Road, admitted being in the room with the girls but denied touching the complainant indecently.

The court heard that he had previously been in trouble with the police but had no convictions for sexual offences.

Judge Assistant Advocate General Alan Large adjourned the case for a probation report on a date to be set next year.

Abdulrahman was released on bail.

He said: “You may well go to prison. I will need to look at the risk you pose and look at alternatives to a custodial sentence.”

Mark Ward – Netherton

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December 2014

Prolific paedophile jailed as Merseyside Police praise ‘brave’ victims for stepping forward

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A Merseyside paedophile was jailed for 17 and a half years for sexually abusing two boys.

Mark Ward pleaded guilty to 20 counts of sexual abuse, which took place between 1979 and 1982 –  and 1992 and 1995 – and included indecent assault and other sex acts against two young boys.

Judge Graham Morrow at Liverpool Crown Court opted not to impose a life sentence on Ward and gave consecutive sentences of 10 and seven-and-a-half years for the most serious offences, of raping the two boys when they were 12-years-old.

Sentences for the other offences, ranging from four to nine years, will run concurrently.

Ward, from Netherton, has multiple previous convictions for abuse and has been in custody since 2007 for the rape of a young man in Warrington, for which he was sentenced by the same judge to imprisonment for public protection in 2009.

The judge did not impose another imprisonment for public protection, noting that Ward would have to be judged safe to re-enter society before being released under the previous order.

The 53-year-old – who also used the names Peter Catterall, Peter Johnson and Peter King before switching his name to Mark Ward – has previously served prison time for the indecent assault of three boys aged under 14 and the sexual assault of a boy in the early and mid 1990s.

Charges in the most recent case came in 2011 after the two young men, who had been abused as children, had told their loved ones about their childhood abuse by Ward.

Ward would offer one young boy cigarettes and beer and the other toys to keep quiet as the years of abuse unfolded for both children, the court was told.

A personal statement said that one victim felt the man he knew as Mr Catterall was still “controlling me as he did when I was a child.”

Judge Morrow said that he cut Ward’s 20-year sentence by two-and-a-half year for his guilty plea, which was entered on the day of trial in July.

The judge said he viewed Ward’s remorse as genuine, but added that another factor influencing the guilty plea was that Ward’s victims had the “pressure and anxiety associated with the expectation that they had to give evidence” before the plea was entered.

Detective Paul Jones, who led the investigation into Ward, said: “The victims in this case suffered terribly at the hands of Ward both at the time he carried out his crimes against them and in the many years since.”

He said the victims had shown “incredible bravery and courage in coming forward.”

The court also imposed an additional sexual offences prevention order on Ward in addition to the one given in 2009, prohibiting Ward from contacting the victims or contacting, being alone with or residing under the same roof as any males under age 18.

He is also prohibited from going by any name other than Mark Ward.


John Hayford – Stanmore

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December 2014

Prolific paedophile found guilty of historical assault on seven-year-old girl

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A prolific paedophile has been found guilty of historical allegations of indecent assault against a seven-year-old girl.

John Hayford, 84, who lived in Stanmore at the time of the offence more than 20 years ago, was charged with indecent assault against the girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, after the jury heard evidence from the victim – who spoke from behind a curtain – about how he performed oral sex on her while she was sleeping.

Hayford denied the historical allegations, which also included a charge of attempted rape and indecent assault on another woman, which he was found not guilty of by a jury at Harrow Crown Court today.

The man provided no evidence, but in police interviews claimed there was a ‘conspiracy’ against him.

The conviction comes only months after Hayford was found guilty of sexually assaulting a girl aged nine in a supermarket in The Broadway, Stanmore, in 2012.

Hayford’s daughter saw a television appeal on BBC’s Crimewatch, which used footage of him in the store, and got in touch with her father to persuade him to hand himself in to police.

The elderly man now suffers from dementia and Alzheimer’s, and did not speak during today’s hearing.

Upon being found guilty, Judge Alan Greenwood, addressing Haywood, said: “You have been convicted of a very serious offence but because of your medical condition and of your age, sentencing will be a complicated process.”

The verdict comes after a 14 year investigation from officers.

Hayford will be sentenced on January 16.

August 2013

Man receives suspended sentence for sexual assault on a child

John Hayford, 83 years, 19.11.1930 of the Dorset area was sentenced to a two year suspended sentence of 21 months at Harrow Crown Court on Monday 12 August after pleading guilty to a sexual assault on a child under 13.

On Sunday 25 March 2012 the victim, a nine-year-old girl, and her friend were shopping with their parents in a supermarket in Stanmore when they were approached by Hayford who was also shopping at the time.

Both girls were in a separate aisle from their mothers, when Hayford engaged them in conversation asking for their names and how old they were. He asked the girls if they were ticklish and then touched the victim in the groin area underneath her dress. The victim told Hayford she had to go and immediately went and found her mother to tell her what had happened. Her mother informed security of the incident before reporting it to police.

The CCTV footage was viewed straight away which showed the incident happening and in store security officers conducted a search of the store for the suspect but there was no trace of him.

Investigating officers from Harrow CID, circulated CCTV stills of the suspect in the local press,
And following an appeal on BBC’s Crimewatch on 31 May 2012, Hayford handed himself into Harrow Police Station.

Hayford was arrested and initially denied the incident. He was charged and remanded in custody. He pleaded guilty at Hendon Magistrates Court on Saturday 2 June 2012.

Detective Constable Janine Stevenson of Harrow CID said:

“This was a serious crime committed on a young child in a busy public place. I would like to pay tribute to the victim and her family for the strength they have shown during the legal process.

“Following the success of the appeal on Crimewatch several anonymous calls were made to the incident room and I am now appealing to those callers and any others who have been victims of similar offences to report these to police on 101 or via Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111″.

Robert Brown – Northwich

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December 2014

Northwich teenager jailed for sex offences against children

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A Northwich man has been jailed for offences against children, including six counts of sexual activity with a child.

19 year old Robert Brown, of Lime Avenue, has been sentenced to 7 years behind bars after also pleading guilty to one count of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, one count of taking indecent photographs of a child, and one count of abducting a child.

The offences were carried out against two victims aged 14 and under between January and July 2014, and the court heard today how Brown had manipulated and exploited them for his own gratification.

They also heard how Brown had given his victims gifts, money and taken them on trips, in order to flatter them and win their trust.

Cheshire Police began to investigate Brown when concerned parents contacted them regarding a change in their children’s behaviour.

Sergeant John Lyons, Vale Royal CID, said: “Brown completely manipulated his young victims for his own sexual gratification. He flattered them and provided lavish gifts in order to gain their trust and used this to sexually exploit them.

“The image he presented was that of an entrepreneur and business man with a gift for information technology. He used his apparent wealth to flatter his victims and their peers, all the while with the ultimate motive of satisfying his sexual interests.

“Browns victims have been left feeling angry and hurt by his actions. It will have a lasting effect upon them as they and their families come to terms with how they have been lured and betrayed by this dangerous and predatory sexual offender.

“This case is a shocking one which shows the lengths that offenders will go to in order to sexually exploit a child. The victims have been left angry and hurt by Brown’s actions, and today’s sentencing has seen him be brought to justice for his actions.

“Cheshire Police do not tolerate Child Sexual Exploitation and I would personally like to urge any parents or victims who think they are being exploited to contact us.”

Jeremy Gliddon – Merthyr Tydfil

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December 2014

Paedophile, 51, who preyed on frightened 14-year-old boy claimed he ‘fell in love with the wrong person’

A 51-year-old paedophile who has been jailed for preying on a frightened 14-year-old boy told police he had “fallen in love with the wrong person”.

Jeremy Peter Gliddon admitted eight counts of sexual activity with a child and taking and possessing indecent photos of a child – six videos and 273 images.

The offences took place during a prolonged period of grooming.

Rachel Knight, prosecuting at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court, said the boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was in his early teens when Gliddon started a sexual relationship with him.

He had already taken intimate photographs of him but started sexual contact started when the boy was 14.

The court heard Gliddon, described as a loner, would prey on the boy as he showed him pornography.

“He was too frightened to refuse,” said Ms Knight.

“The defendant would tell him that if they were partners he could have everything. That must be evidence of the defendant’s manipulation.”

The matters came to light when the boy confided in a family member in May this year and the police were brought in.

Ms Knight said the boy had stopped seeing Gliddon. She told the court: “The teenager had become angry and had problems in school and had resorted to taking drugs.”

In interview, he told police the sexual relationship was consensual and had started when the boy had come to him with his fears over having sex with girls.

“I fell in love with him. I simply fell in love with the wrong person,” he told them.

John Ryan, defending Gliddon, of the Tredegar Arms, Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil, said Gliddon’s belief that he was in a relationship with the boy was genuine but “distorted”.

“The stress and shame of the case has no doubt contributed to the heart attack he suffered,” Mr Ryan said.

“He gave no thought to the damage he was causing. He said he never meant to hurt him. He just loved him.”

Judge Richard Twomlow jailed Gliddon for six years and four months and told him: “He said that he did not want to do it but was scared to any no and did not say no because he thought something bad would happen to him.”

Gliddon was made the subject of a restraining order and Sexual Offences Prevention Order, both indefinitely, and will have to sign as a sex offender for life.

He will also have to pay a £120 victim surcharge.

Kenneth Coenan – Sawbridgeworth

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December 2014

Sawbridgeworth man with throat cancer caught with over 250 extreme indecent images of women with dogs

A SAWBRIDGEWORTH man with throat cancer was caught with more than 250 extreme indecent images of women with dogs.

In view of the nature of the offences, Chelmsford magistrates today (Friday) declined jurisdiction in the case and sent Kenneth Coenan, 62, to the city’s Crown court to be sentenced on December 22.

The justices of the peace said their powers of sentencing were insufficient.

Coenan, of Bell Street, admitted having 33 movies and 238 still images at Quickbury Cottages in Hatfield Heath Road, Sawbridgeworth, on April 29.

Coenan, formerly of Ash Groves, Sawbridgeworth, was caught after Essex Police, armed with a warrant, went to Quickbury Cottages, where they found him and another man.

Prosecutor Angela Mahadeo said that he was taken to Harlow police station, where he was interviewed and admitted using his laptop to download bestiality images of females and animals.

“He said he didn’t realise they were illegal,” said Miss Mahadeo.

She added that he had also said he did not realise the E-Mule account on his computer could be shared by other E-Mule account users.

Describing the content, Miss Mahadeo said of the images : “Most of them were dogs with females.”

Andrew Clowser, mitigating, said his client, who is of previous good character, suffers from throat cancer.

He added: “None of the images involve children, but inevitably the Crown court will deal with it.”

Peter Hodgson – Middlesbrough

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December 2014

Sex offender escapes jail after accidentally turning himself in

A MAN unwittingly handed himself in to police for a sex offence he committed 23 years before.

Peter Hodgson, 38, became concerned last year when gossip about him raping a girl years ago spread in the East Durham village in which he was living.

Durham Crown Court was told Hodgson went to police saying he was feeling harassed by the talk and told officers the incident involved consensual sex with a girl when he was a teenager.

Police traced the girl and calculated she would have been a schoolgirl.

Hodgson pleaded not guilty to rape, but admitted sexual intercourse with a child under 13 years. A jury acquitted him of rape after a trial earlier this year.

The court was told Hodgson was playing truant from school in Peterlee when he met the girl by chance and they had sex.

Judge Christopher Prince sentenced Hodgson to eight months in prison, suspended for two years.

The judge told him: “You went to the police about this, not out of any sense of remorse, but more out of self-preservation.

“It was clear at the time you first spoke to the officers you didn’t believe you had committed any offence.

“You were acquitted of rape, so must be sentenced on your account that this was consensual. I have to have regard to the seriousness of the offence, but also to the passage of time.

“Even if you had been dealt with at the time, I think it unlikely a youth court would have sentenced you to immediate detention.”

Hodgson, of Park Road North, Middlesbrough, must register as a sex offender for 10 years.

Nathan Ainsworth – Somercotes

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December 2014

Pervert sent sinister messages to young boys on Facebook

A TEENAGER used “emotional blackmail” to get under-age boys to send him explicit photographs of themselves to him over Facebook.

Nathan Ainsworth befriended the boys on-line and, once he had gained their trust, talked them into sending the pictures.

Once he had received the images, he threatened the two teenage boys that if they did not send him more he would post them for all to see on social media.

A court heard how the now 18-year-old was snared when a friend of the youngest victim saw some of the Facebook messages and talked him into going to the police.

In victim impact statements read out in court, the youngest victim told how he felt “degraded, angry and felt he had ruined his own life”.

The other victim said he would “physically shake” when he saw Ainsworth out and would “constantly check his messages” to see if Ainsworth had carried out his threats to put them online.

Grace Hale, prosecuting, told Derby Crown Court, sitting at Southern Derbyshire Magistrates’ Court: “In her statement, the mother of the younger victim said ‘this has caused devastation, not just to my son but to the whole family’.

“She says her son is no longer the happy, carefree child he was. She says he now suffers from anger issues and that she suffers anxiety and depression because of what the defendant did to her son.”

A court order means the victims cannot be identified but Ainsworth, of Tower Close, Somercotes, can be because he has turned 18.

Miss Hale said the offending started in 2012 when Ainsworth communicated with the youngest victim first over Blackberry Messenger and then over Facebook. She said he gained their trust and talked them into sending messages, saying he would delete them but then he would send other messages saying he had kept them and if they didn’t send him more he would put them all over Facebook. It was emotional blackmail.

“He sent the youngest victim messages saying ‘the things I can do are endless, I can do whatever I want’.”

Ainsworth was arrested after the youngest victim gave a statement to police through the help of a friend. He pleaded guilty to six sexual offence charges, including inciting children to indulge in sexual acts and making indecent photographs.

Clive Stockwell, for Ainsworth, said: “He suffered quite chronic bullying himself for years which lead to him becoming isolated and he withdrew to his computer and he spent too much time on social networking.”

Recorder David Mason QC handed Ainsworth a sexual offences prevention order until further notice and gave him a three-year youth referral order

Ansar Sadiq – Rochdale/Walsall

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December 2014

Pervert jailed for grooming and having sex with underage girl

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A man from Rochdale has been jailed for grooming and having sex with an under age girl.

Ansar Sadiq (born 28/09/1986) was found guilty of engaging in sexual activity with a child at Minshull Street Crown Court on Friday 5 December 2014.

Sadiq, now of Alumwell Road West, Walsall, was jailed for 43 months, made the subject of a Sexual Offences Prevention order and forced to sign the sex offenders register.

The court heard how during the summer of 2012, the victim, who was 15 at the time, met a man she knew as ‘Kash’ through a mutual friend.

This man was Ansar Sadiq.

Over the following six weeks, the victim and two friends would spend time at Sadiq’s flat in Mitchell Hey, Falinge, where they would drink vodka bought for them by Sadiq.

The girls described how Sadiq would keep the door of the flat locked, even when he went out and left the girls inside.

On several occasions the girls would sleep over at the flat, pretending to their parents that they were sleeping over at another girl’s house.

It was during these nights that Sadiq engaged in penetrative sexual activity with the victim, with this taking place several times over the course of the six-week school summer holidays.

Detective Constable Ben Harris of The Sunrise Team – Rochdale’s multi-agency child sexual exploitation team – said: “Sadiq exhibited all the classic characteristics of someone who grooms young people for sex.

“He flattered the victim, bought her alcohol and allowed her to live a lifestyle that her parents would never have allowed, in order to trick her into letting her guard down.

“He was fully aware of how old she was, he knew the girls were on school holidays and that she was under age, but he could not have cared less.

“I would like to commend the bravery of this girl, for her to come forward, disclose and relive the assaults that he committed against her must have been extremely hard.

“I hope now that this sentence goes some way to helping her to resolve what has been an exceptionally difficult time, and that now she and her parents can start rebuilding their lives.”


David Warner – Chelmsford

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December 2014

Man jailed after Didcot boy was abused

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A MAN who groomed and sexually abused a 14-year-old boy from Didcot has been jailed for two years and eight months by a judge at Oxford Crown Court.

David Warner, from Chelmsford in Essex, admitted three counts of engaging in sexual activity with a child under 13 and one count of meeting a child following sexual grooming.

Prosecutor Charles Ward-Jackson said the 35-year-old met up with his victim in Barton, Oxford, on October 11 last year after chatting to him on social networking site Skype.

He told Judge Ian Pringle the pair spent a weekend together having sex three times and performing a sex act on one another.

Mr Ward-Jackson said after they went their separate ways, the teenager told his mum what had happened, as well as a student protection officer at his school, which led to the defendant’s arrest.

Peter Du Feu, defending, said: “What the defendant did was to succumb to the temptation of meeting up with a boy who wanted to meet him, but clearly was far too young for him.

“Having done that he really did realise that it was entirely wrong.’’ Judge Pringle said to Warner: “People may have different views about the age of consent in this country, but the fact is the law is the law.

“You should not have been having sex with him.’’ Warner broke down in tears as he was sentenced to 32 months in prison and made subject to a sexual offences prevention order, which bans him from unsupervised contact with children or use of social networking sites.

Michael Ireland – Northampton

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August 1995

‘Riding Hood’ killer is freed

A rehabilitation group and probation officers yesterday defended the parole system after complaints that a child killer had been released from jail after serving 18 years.

The controversy was caused by the disclosure that Michael Ireland – jailed for life after the 1976 “Little Red Hiding Hood” case – had been freed.

Ireland sexually abused and battered to death Susan Giles, aged 10, after accosting the girl, dressed as the nursery rhyme character, on the way to a friend’s birthday party.

Her body, covered in bite marks, was found by her parents after Ireland tried to set her ablaze in a garage in Northampton.

The Prison Service yesterday confirmed that Ireland, 42, had been freed after his case was considered by a parole board panel, but would not comment on reports that he was released last October.

At his trial, Ireland admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility and was sentenced to life.

Sir Ivan Lawrence, chairman of the all-party home affairs committee, said yesterday that it was a “matter of concern” that someone like Ireland should be walking the streets.

Most people would feel that in the circumstances of a case like his, the killer should have to serve life, he added. But the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders, said the Parole Board would have gone through “an extremely complex and detailed process containing many safeguards” before reaching its decision to free Ireland.

The board considers reports from medical experts and the prison governor and must be sure that the criminal shows remorse and there is no danger to the public.

Helen Edwards, a NACRO spokeswoman, added: “They have to report regularly to probation and are subject to immediate recall to prison if their behaviour gives any grounds for concern.”

A spokesman for the National Association of Probation Officers said the organisation had “faith” in the procedures.

Offenders who received discretionary life sentences – for manslaughter, serious sexual offence and violence – and were freed from 1983 to 1988, remained in jail on average for 10.5 years.

The average time spent in prison for discretionary lifers released in 1993 rose to 14.5 years.

The judge at Ireland’s trial, Mr Justice Forbes, described the case as “the most horrible I have ever encountered” and is believed to have recommended a minimum prison term of 14 years.

William ‘Bill’ Waite – London

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Paedophile Bill Waite confessed to a prison psychologist that he wanted to kill a child – but he was still released back into the community. 

Like many other convicted child molesters Waite, 35, even changed his name to Jason Smith at one stage to prevent neighbours finding out who he really was. 

He dyed his distinctive red hair black and started wearing glasses. 

Waite was jailed for 11 years in 1988 for gross indecency against two boys aged seven and eight. It was his second lengthy spell in prison for sex offences involving children. 

He told the psychologist treating him that he would re-offend once he was free, that he fantasised about hurting or even killing a child and that he “did not see anything wrong with having sex with children.”

A former inmate said: “He made it quite plain to everyone he would commit other offences if let out. He had to be segregated for his sick views.” 

Despite that, he was released in 1994 after serving only two-thirds of his sentence. His mother Joan says: “He is sick. He’ll soon be back behind bars.” 

Today unemployed Waite lives in a second- floor council flat in South London. 

Next to it is a busy supermarket with a car park where children play football. 

Bespectacled Waite often wanders to a nearby shopping precinct full of families with young children. On one of the second-floor balconies next to his flat is a child’s toy bike. 

One of his neighbours said: “I didn’t know this. I’ll be getting straight on to the council to see if we can get him moved.”

Bill Middleditch – Chadwell Heath

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April 1997

Former cabbie Bill Middleditch lives a normal life with his wife and 19-year-old son. 

But neighbours in Chadwell Heath, Essex, will be horrified to learn what sort of man the 56-year-old, 16-stone pervert really is.

He has served jail sentences for raping a 12-year-old girl, indecently assaulting two young sisters and taking explicit pictures of children. 

In 1978 Middleditch was jailed for eight years after a four-day trial at Ipswich Crown Court heard sickening details of his terrifying sex attack on a young girl. 

And he was given a five-year jail sentence at Snaresbrook Crown Court in November 1989 after he admitted indecently assaulting and taking indecent photographs of an eight-year-old girl and her sister, aged six. 

Middleditch’s name will not go on the paedophile register unless he volunteers it because his crimes were committed before the new law. 

He says his life would be made a misery if his name was on the register. 

“I just want to live a normal life,” he says. “If my name went on the register it would stop me trying to make amends for what I have done. 

“I would be driven out anywhere I moved, and that would just make it harder for me to live like a normal person. 

“I made mistakes and paid for them. Now I have a right to start again.” 

“I try to keep myself to myself. I say hello to the kids in the street and they say hello to me.

But I never go out alone.

My wife is always with me so I can’t be accused of doing anything wrong. 

Lounging in a filthy dressing gown and puffing on a cigarette, he said: “I have a gun and I’ll shoot anyone who tries to hurt my wife and son.”

Hugh O’Neill – Tasburgh

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December 2014

Former Norfolk doctor admits sex offences against two young girls

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A Horsford doctor has been warned he faces a substantial term of imprisonment after he admitted sexual offences involving two girls under 16.

Hugh Blaise O’Neill, 61, from Tasburgh, South Norfolk, pleaded guilty to rape and gross indecency charges relating to one victim under 16 and one charge of gross indecency involving a second girl under 16.

The charges date from the early 1990s to early 2000 and do not relate to his professional role . However he has been suspended from general practice by local NHS managers.

O’Neill, who was casually dressed in a blue jumper and striped shirt, spoke only to confirm his name and pleas during yesterday’s plea and case management hearing at Norwich Crown Court.

The case was adjourned for full reports and he is due to be sentenced on January 30.

Judge Anthony Bate said that with his guilty pleas O’Neill must now sign on as a sex offender.

He also warned him that he faced a “substantial term of imprisonment.”

After the hearing former patients of the doctor, who worked at a practice in Horsford, spoke of their shock at his conviction.

One man, who did not want to be named said O’Neill was a brilliant doctor who was very popular, but now faced disgrace.

“Everyone is shocked and it is sad that his career has come to an end in this way.”

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