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Banti Singh – London

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March 2015

Facebook pervert jailed for grooming Walsall schoolgirl, 14

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A homeless man has been jailed for seven years for grooming a girl aged just 14 after making contact with her through Facebook.

He exploited and controlled her during an eight-month online grooming campaign

Illegal immigrant Banti Singh, who went by the internet name of Velly Boy, travelled up from London to meet the youngster for sex in Walsall.

She was reported missing by her mother on September 4 last year, but returned home only to go missing a week later. She was found outside the Premier Inn in Walsall with a man who fled when approached by her family.

She was interviewed by police and told them she was in a sexual relationship with a man who she knew as Randeep, who contacted her online when she was 13

In October, the girl’s relatives followed her to a train station, and contacted police to raise concerns that she may be meeting the man again.

Police went to the station and arrested Singh, who had travelled to the capital to meet the youngster, on Park Street, Bloxwich.

He denied the relationship, but tried and failed to hide a bag in the police car on his arrest. In it, were toiletries, a piece of paper containing passwords to the teenager’s social media accounts and mobile phone, as well as a fake passport.

Detective Constable Alli Wilkins, from the force’s Public Protection Unit, said: “Singh ultimately controlled this young girl over a period of eight months, from the point when he first made contact on Facebook through to his arrest.

“He took over the girl’s phone, deleted contacts he deemed unsuitable, engaged her in a sexual relationship – despite knowing her to be underage – and invented a false identity, claiming he was two years younger and worked in a restaurant.

“In reality Singh had entered the country illegally, had no known home, visa or job, and claimed he slept in temples in London most of the time.

“Thankfully the girl’s family raised the alarm, allowing a thorough investigation to be launched to identify and detain the man responsible for the girl’s exploitation.”

Singh, of no fixed address, admitted 12 counts of sexual activity with a child and three counts of child abduction.

He was jailed for six years for those offences at Wolverhampton Crown Court.

Singh was also sentenced consecutively to a year for the times he took the child without authority.He will also be placed on the sex offenders register for life.


Chun Man Ho – Edgware

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March 2015

Serial pervert who molested boy on London Underground is jailed

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A pervert who pressed himself up against a schoolboy while travelling on a crowded tube train has been jailed for two years.

Prolific sex offender Chun Man Ho, of Elmer Gardens, Edgware, targeted the 15-year-old boy on a busy District line train during evening rush hour on January 27.

Blackfriars Crown Court heard Ho, a registered sex offender with five previous convictions, pressed up against the boy in the tube carriage.

Ho, 37, moved away as the train pulled into Victoria station and passengers began moving out – which was when the victim noticed “a substance” on his jacket, according to police reports.

The Tube sex pest was caught when this DNA evidence on the coat matched his and revealed that the registered sex offender had struck for the sixth time.

The court heard forensic tests of the boy’s jacket revealed DNA matching Ho’s and he was arrested by British Transport Police Officers on February 18.

Ho admitted sexual assault and breach of a sexual offences prevention order at an earlier court hearing and was sentenced to two years in prison on March 27.

BTP investigators blasted Ho’s actions as “disgusting” and said they caused his victim “considerable distress”.

Detective Inspector Santiage Sende said: “BTP is committed to eliminating all unwanted sexual behaviour from the rail network, and it is pleasing that this case has been brought to such a swift conclusion.

“The victim did the right thing reporting the incident. I would like to commend him, and encourage anyone else who thinks they have been a victim of the unwanted sexual behaviour to tell police.”

Siwan Hayward, Transport for London deputy director of enforcement, said: “The deplorable actions of this individual were inexcusable, and I hope this sentencing reassures our customers that we, alongside our policing partners, take this issue extremely seriously.

“We are determined to completely remove this type of behaviour from our network, and ensure it remains a safe environment for all.”

Gavin Hale – Dundee

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March 2015

32-year-old Dundee student found with hundreds of indecent child images & films

A student found with more than 700 indecent images and 18 videos of children on his computer had sentence deferred until May 8.

Gavin Hale, 32, of Dryburgh Gardens, Dundee told police he liked children aged 14-15 but knew it was “wrong and illegal” while also admitting he looked at images of much younger children.

Depute fiscal Eilidh Robertson previously told Dundee Sheriff Court court that police received a tip-off that Hale was in possession of indecent images.

Ms Robertson said: “As they searched the house the accused told a police officer: “You will find stuff on my computer, I have an illness.”

Ms Robertson said a total of 725 indecent images and 18 videos were found, totalling six hours, 44 minutes and nine seconds of viewing.

The children in the images were aged between three and 15 years and software on the computer showed the accused had searched for indecent images of children.

Sheriff Elizabeth Munro further deferred sentence until May 8 for a psychologist’s report.

Girts Harjo – Telford

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March 2015

Telford man in abduction attempt said girl in school uniform ‘was asking for it’

A Telford man has been jailed after attempting to abduct an 11-year-old Shropshire schoolgirl.

Girts Harjo twice tried to pull the girl away from her family in Telford.

He then told the girl’s mother that the child – who was in school uniform – “asked for it dressed the way she is”.

Harjo, 32, admitted a single charge of attempted child abduction when he appeared before Telford magistrates in November last year and yesterday appeared at Shrewsbury Crown Court for for sentencing.

Miss Cathlyn Orchard, prosecuting, said on June 19 last year at 7pm the schoolgirl was with her mother and other family members outside Drink Stop on The Parade, Donnington.

Miss Orchard said: “The defendant had been in Drink Stop and was drunk at the time, buying more alcohol. He came out and CCTV captures the defendant following the girl.

“As the group walked along they formed lines and the young girl and her cousin were at the back of the group so not visible to the remainder of the group. The mother was in the Drink Stop.

“The girl was wearing school uniform and holding hands with her cousin

“The defendant came from behind and grabbed held of the girl’s hand and tried forcibly to pull her away saying, ‘Do you want some food? Come on’. He used a firm grip but she and her cousin pulled away and said ‘No, leave us alone’ and ran to join the back of the group. The defendant approached her again, and again tried to pull her away.”

The court heard that the girl’s mother saw what was going on and ran over. Miss Orchard said the defendant told the girl’s mother: “She asked for it dressed the way she is. I know she wanted it. She asked for it.”

The police were called and the defendant was later arrested.

Yesterday, Harjo, 32, of Ashlea Drive, Donnington, was jailed for 12 months and placed under a sexual harm prevention order for five years.

Judge Peter Barrie, said: “What you tried to do was to take a young girl of 11 by the hand when she was walking with her family and get her to come away with you. Although you may have talked to her about getting food it is clear in your comments to the mother in your drunken state you had something sexual in mind.

“It would have been a terrifying and distressing episode for the young girl and frightening for the mother. You did do it on the spur of the moment and it was not planned.”

Mr Adrian Roberts, mitigating, said: “This was a spontaneous decision on his behalf, not something he planned or plotted.

“He was watching football and had consumed a large amount of alcohol. He had gone to the shops to buy more and not abduct a child. He thinks he probably wanted to buy her food because he was in a good mood and happy.

“He is embarrassed and ashamed. Those are the words he asked me to use – not prompted.”

Stephen Biddulph – Oldbury

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October 2008

Oldbury sex trespasser caged

A 52-year-old Oldbury divorcee who climbed into the bedroom of a schoolgirl in the early hours to carry out a sex attack has been jailed for two years.

Stephen Biddulph used a ladder from a neigbouring house to gain access to the room where the girl was fast asleep.

Wolverhampton Crown Court heard today how the terrified teenager woke up and she saw Biddulph standing over her bed touching her arm.

Mark Rees, prosecuting, told the court the girl screamed and ran to her parents room. But by the time her father was able to get up and look out of the window, Biddulph was halfway across their back garden making his escape.

Police officers used a dog to follow the scent to Biddulph’s home where he was arrested.

Biddulph, of Abbey Crescent, admitted trespass with intent to commit a sexual offence and he was further ordered to register as a Sex Offender for 10 years.

Judge John Warner told him it must have been a distressing experience for the girl and he ruled only an immediate custodial sentence was appropriate.

Jason Biddulph – Erdington

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June 2012

Man jailed for 14 years for raping a young girl

A MAN who once brought the M6 to a standstill by threatening to hang himself from a gantry has been jailed for 14 years for raping a young girl.

Jason Biddulph put his head in a noose during a four-hour stand-off with police in May 2001.

He had been protesting about a social services case.

Biddulph was jailed at Birmingham Crown Court yesterday, having previously been convicted of four rapes and two serious sexual offences following a trial.

The 39-year-old, of Newman Road, Erdington, was also ordered to register as a sex offender for life.

After the hearing, the family of his victim said he “abused his position of trust”.

In a statement, they added: “We believe justice has been served but we would have preferred not to have found ourselves in this situation. Jason has caused untold devastation to our family.” “We believe Jason is and will remain a danger to all children.

“However, we will try to find within ourselves the strength to forgive, although this will never be forgotten.

“We would like to thank the Child Protection Team, Crown Prosecution Service and Witness Support Service.”

David Munro, defending, said: “He knows he faces a substantial sentence.”

A court heard previously that during the M6 protest Biddulph put his head in a noose and clung to the 50ft gantry by his fingertips.

He was eventually talked down and arrested by police officers.

The protest caused tail backs of between ten and 15 miles.

Biddulph was given a suspended sentence after admitting causing danger to other road users.

David Picken – Biddulph

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August 2009

Man avoids a prison sentence after downloading thousands of child abuse images

David Picken had 7,673 photographs and 31 videos stored on a computer, hard drive and two discs found at his Biddulph home.

Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court was told police raided Picken’s Knowle Road house last year.

Jonathan Veasey-Pugh, prosecuting, said: “When the defendant was seen he said ‘I’m going to prison’.

“More than 90 per cent of the children were under 10, and a significant proportion contained images of babies.”

Picken had previously pleaded guilty to 24 charges of making indecent photographs and movies of a child and one offence of distributing an indecent photograph of a child.

The court heard 56 images and one video were level five, the most serious level.

Alison Downs, defending, said: “It’s very clear there is genuine remorse here. There was a sad cycle in his personal life.”

Judge Paul Glenn said he would not send Picken to jail because he had already been in custody for 89 days and would be released soon.

Instead, he imposed a three-year community order, with a three-year supervision requirement. He must take part in the community sex offenders’ group work programme and is banned from working with children.

Judge Glenn also imposed an indefinite sexual offences prevention order and instructed Picken to pay £4,120 legal costs.

Ryan Moger – Southampton

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March 2015

Man jailed after relationship with 15-year-old girl

A SOUTHAMPTON man who had an illicit relationship with a teenage girl has been jailed for three-and-a-half years.

A judge told Ryan Moger, 22, that he had entered “a no-go area” when he continued seeing the girl, despite a court order and a civil injunction.

The city crown court heard that last July Moger had appeared in court for abducting the 15-year-old and had received a suspended sentence.

Her mother afterwards took out a civil injunction against him to protect her daughter.

However, the pair continued seeing other, said prosecutor Adam Feest.

It was not until police had launched an investigation into another unrelated case of alleged abduction that they discovered the pair had remained in contact and she had been seen in his car, even though he was banned from the road.

After the court hearing, their affair lasted for another four months but then the teenager discovered he had been seeing someone else and she made a detailed statement to the police about their sexual relationship.

Moger, of Vine Road, Southampton, appeared for sentence for having unlawful sexual activity with the girl, abducting her and driving while disqualified and without insurance.

Recorder Stephen Clinie jailed him for three-and-a-half years after part-activating suspended sentences imposed for the earlier offence of abduction as well as burglary, blackmail and attempted fraud.

Moger was also banned from driving for a further two years and made subject to a five-year restraining order preventing him from contacting the girl.

He was placed on the sex offenders’ register and under a sexual harm prevention order, banning him from being alone with any girl under 16. Both will run for ten years.

The judge, who read probation and psychological reports, said: “This was a no-go area which you knew well and it represents a blatant disregard for court orders.

“I accept from the reports you have limited abilities but that is no excuse for your offending.”


Muir Taylor – Kilmarnock

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March 2015

‘High-risk’ rapist jailed for nine years

A man who began raping two young girls when he was 12 has been jailed for nine years after a judge heard he poses a high risk of re-offending.

Muir Taylor was convicted of abusing the girls, who were aged five and 10, at houses in Kilmarnock and Hurlford, East Ayrshire, between 1998 and 2005.

Taylor was also convicted in 2009 at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court of lewd and indecent practices against a seven-year-old girl and was jailed for three years.

Judge Kenneth Maciver told Taylor: “The current and future risk which you pose calls for an extended sentence.”

Taylor, 28, was also placed on the sex offenders’ register.

At the High Court in Edinburgh, judge Maciver pointed out that Taylor had another serious conviction from 2009.

The judge told Taylor he had seen a detailed report prepared on him and added: “It clearly places you at high risk of re-offending.”

Judge Maciver said that, even allowing for Taylor’s young age, a significant period of custody was “inevitable”.

He added: “The current and future risk which you pose calls for an extended sentence.”

The judge told Taylor he would be sentenced to nine years in prison and a further period of three years supervision, during which time he would be returned to jail if he breached the conditions placed on him.

During a previous hearing at the High Court in Glasgow, judge Maciver praised the victims, now aged 23 and 26, for having the courage to come forward.

The older victim said she went to the police in March last year because she wanted to stop Taylor harming others.

Taylor was only 12 when he began his campaign of abuse against his victims.

He told both girls they would get into trouble if they told anyone about the abuse.

Stuart McGhie – Oxford

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October 2010

Sex pest nicknamed ‘Money Man’ jailed for ASBO breach

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A sex pest who tried to attract females by dropping cash with his mobile telephone number scrawled on it in the street has been jailed for 15 months.

Weirdo Stuart McGhie, 41 – nicknamed ‘Money Man’ – also stuffed five and ten pound notes in the flies of his trousers in a bid to attract girls on buses.

Pervy painter and decorator McGhie of Church Cowley Road, Oxford has dropped thousands in cash over the last eight years in numerous failed bids to seduce young females.

McGhie was jailed after he admitted breaching an ASBO five times since it was issued in 2002.

The ASBO banned him from letting bank notes fall to the ground, displaying bank notes to another person, communicating with girls under 18 or causing harassment, alarm or distress.

Oxford Crown Court heard how McGhie earned the nickname ‘Money Man’ by police after his cash-flashing antics.

The court heard McGhie was slapped with the ASBO in July 2002 but broke it just months later in 2003.

In May this year cops arrested McGhie again after he breached his ASBO five times in three weeks.

Each time he used bank notes with his telephone number written on the back.

On each note he had written: ”Congratulations. Text this number for more money.”

McGhie targeted the New Look fashion shop in Reading.

He also taped cash to the back of street signs near his home in Oxford in a bid to attract girls.

Pc Dawn Evans, Thames Valley Police’s ASBO co-ordinator for Oxford, said: ”Leaving the money is not a criminal offence, but it’s the harassment and distress that it can cause some girls that’s a problem.

”Some of the girls went all the way to getting the money which he taped to a Church Cowley Road sign.

”The girls were naive and he has got some gratification from this. It is that element of being ‘had over’ by someone taking his money.”

Pc Evans said McGhie will put on a course of anti-arousal pills when he is released from prison to control his odd fetish.

She added: ”We’re hoping he is going to deal with this behaviour now, because he has now had his liberty taken away.

”They are going to try to put him on anti-arousal drugs for three months. He has identified that he does have a problem now.”

Christian Dray – Bridlington

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November 2005

A CHARITY boss who often appeared on Crimewatch to help find young runaways has been locked up for grooming two schoolboys for sex.

Christian Dray posed as an executive for I’m A Celebrity….Get Me Out Of Here to lure the youngsters who he met through online chatrooms.

He picked up one 15-year-old boy from school in a limousine, plied him with champagne then took him back to his home where he abused him.

His other victim was 14. When police raided former rent boy Dray’s home they found 700 perverted and sado-masochistic images of boys on his computer.

Jailing him for six and a half years, judge John Dowse told him: “You have done some good things in your life but now you have to be sentenced for some very bad things.”

Public-school educated Dray, a former PA to Radio 2 host Paul Gambaccini, helped set up the Missing Persons Helpline. He was a regular guest on the BBC’s Crimewatch and GMTV where he sat alongside hosts Lorraine Kelly and Eamonn Holmes and appealed for missing youngsters to return home.

Dray left the charity in 1995 and descended into a life of drugs and crime. Gambaccini took pity on him and gave him a job.

But he was sacked after just two days for stealing the DJ’s credit cards and running up a bill of £11,479.

Hull crown court heard he then began targeting children.

Dray, from Bridlington, East Yorks, admitted grooming the boys and committing sex acts on them. He had also pleaded guilty to theft of the credit cards and obtaining property by deception.

When told Dray had been locked up, Gambaccini said: “I am shocked to hear he has been jailed for abusing boys.”

Reginald/Sean/Paul Dixon – Leeds

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March 2015

Sex abuse survivor speaks out after father & two sons jailed for 51 years

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When Melanie was taken in by Reginald Dixon and his family in the 1970s, it should have marked a turning point.

Having spent her infancy living in chaotic circumstances with her biological father, she was made a ward of court at about the age of four and placed in the Dixons’ care in Belle Isle, Leeds.

Thought to be distantly related to her own family, the Dixons were meant to provide her with the support and security every child deserves.

Instead, the “hell hole” they lived in became a source of unimaginable torment. Years of systematic sexual abuse would cause the girl, now aged 40 and using her married name of Melanie, lasting damage.

She said: “They have literally destroyed my life and my family’s life. Along the lines they’ve destroyed my kids’ lives as well.

“I won’t let my children go and stay at friends’ houses, I won’t let anyone come and stay here.

“People say I’m over-protective but they don’t understand that I lived in a house where there were boys coming into my bedroom virtually every night.

“I’ve had people telling me I should be grateful that the Dixons took me in, but I say ‘you don’t know what went on in that hell hole’.”

Melanie was sexually abused by Reginald Dixon’s two sons, Sean and Paul, over several years. Both men also abused another girl.

Sean Dixon committed offences against two further victims.

Reginald Dixon repeatedly raped and assaulted a fifth girl over an eight-year period.

Melanie said: “It was something that I experienced from fairly early on. I thought it was a natural thing.”

Despite that corrupted view of normality, the youngster ran away from the house three times before the age of 13 and on the third occasion told the authorities what was happening.

The investigation collapsed, however, after one of the other victims decided she couldn’t face going to court.

It wasn’t until her 38th birthday that – inspired by the publicity surrounding the investigation into Jimmy Savile’s crimes – Melanie resolved to pursue justice once again.

She said: “People were telling me ‘you won’t get anything done’.

“Then when the Jimmy Savile thing happened I thought, wait a minute, if people can get justice from a dead person, why can’t I get justice from people who are still walking the streets?”

It took almost two years for the case to come to court. During the trial, all five victims gave evidence against the three men, leading to their conviction on a combined 52 charges last month.

At one stage Melanie collapsed in the witness box under cross-examination. But she said: “To me it was worth every minute of it because I knew that they had to be found guilty for what they had done.”

Reginald Dixon, now 68, was jailed for 19 years at Leeds Crown Court.

Sean Dixon, 44, and Paul Dixon, 46, were given sentences of 21 and 11 years respectively.

Judge Rodney Jameson QC branded both brothers “dangerous” and told them: “These were serious offences and have had a catastrophic impact.”

Melanie said she was relieved at the length of the sentences and hopes now to be able to move on with her life.

She added: “To me they are the scum of the earth. They’ve been walking around for the last 20 years like they never had a care in the world.

“I’m just glad somebody listened to me this time. It feels good to know that I’ve been proven to be telling the truth.”

Emyr Williams – Queensferry

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March 2015

Cattery owner viewed movies of child sex abuse

A BUSINESSMAN who runs a cattery viewed indecent movies of child sex abuse and bestiality. 

Emyr Williams, of Aston Hill, Queensferry, was told by a crown court judge he should appreciate that what he looked at was actually happening. 

Williams, 65, who runs the cattery with his wife, admitted making and possessing indecent movie images of children and possessing an extreme image of bestiality. 

Judge Niclas Parry said one movie image was of a girl aged just eight being abused by a man.

“That happened to that child,” the judge said. “It happened because people are prepared to view these images.” 

Others involved children being abused and vulnerable women being degraded to perform acts of bestiality. 

“You need to understand that what you were viewing was actually happening,” Judge Parry told him. 

Judge Parry, sitting at Mold Crown Court yesterday, said the films had been viewed over many years. 

He said the children were very young and although Williams had pleaded guilty, it was quite late when he did so. 

However, Williams was a man of no previous convictions who had led a hard-working life. 

He was fortunate to have an extremely loyal and supportive wife of many years, Judge Parry said. 

The reality was that the mitigation reduced significantly the sentence of custody that he “thoroughly deserved”. 

If he was imprisoned he would be released without the issues that needed to be addressed, being addressed. 

Judge Parry said with the protection of children in mind, he was prepared to make a three-year community order. 

He said the order would be a severe restriction of Williams’ liberty with significant and intensive intervention. 

Williams was ordered to register with the police as a sex offender for five years and he was made the subject of a five-year Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO)

which restricted his use of the internet. 

He was not to delete the history of internet use and was to make his equipment available for police examination. 

The SOPO also prevents him from contacting or attempting to contact children under 16. 

It would have been a suspended prison sentence, the judge said, but for the fact that under that there would be a maximum of two years under which he would receive community intervention and support, while he needed a longer period of work allowed under a community order. 

Williams was ordered to pay £1,000 costs. 

Kim Halsall, prosecuting, said police executed a search warrant at Williams’ home at Holly House, Aston Hill, in March 2013. 

Asked if he had accessed any indecent images of children, he said he had not. 

Two laptops were seized and six indecent movies were found, together with an extreme movie involving a horse. 

He was charged in June of last year after the computers had been analysed. 

John Hedgecoe, defending, said Williams and his wife were running a business and he was his wife’s carer. 

The offences which Williams admitted were very much at the bottom end of the sort of cases that came before the crown court, he said. 

Mr Hedgecoe said he would be seeking a suspended sentence but when the judge indicated he had a three-year community order in mind, he said he would not mitigate any further.

Adrian Clifford/Stephen Pexman – Cleethorpes/Grimbsy

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April 2015

Mum warns girls about predators as sex attackers are jailed for 15 years

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A MOTHER whose daughter was nearly raped during a brutal attack by a total stranger has warned other young girls to take extra care when they are out.

The woman, who could not be named for legal reasons, today urged other mothers to make sure their vulnerable children are aware of the risks of sexual predators who may target girls who look older than they are.

She spoke out as her daughter’s attacker – Adrian Clifford, 34, of Suffolk Court, Grimsby – was jailed for eight years.

His sentence came as another man – Stephen Pexman, 56, of Fairview Avenue, Cleethorpes – was jailed for seven years after being convicted of rape in a separate case.

Clifford denied attempted rape on September 21 but was convicted by a jury after a trial. He was cleared at Grimsby Crown Court of three rape offences.

He was ordered to register as a sex offender indefinitely.

The girl’s mother said: “My daughter has gone through a lot. I am happy for her that she has been proved not to be a liar.

“She is still petrified of going out. I just feel like he is not going to be hurting anyone else and doing that to any other young family.”

The woman added that her daughter lost her place in school as a result of the attack and turned to drugs as well as harming herself.

“She tried to take her own life a few times,” said the mother.

“She had turned to drugs but is off that altogether now. Now he has been sentenced, she seems to be going on the right track now, which I wanted, to be honest.

“I don’t think she will ever get this out of her head. The man was a total stranger. Her friend took her down to where it happened in Grimsby.

“She was high on drugs and alcohol. He gave her some beer and that’s how it happened.

“It’s frightening that it was a total stranger. He had no right to do what he did. It was not right but he has got what he deserved. Justice has been served.

“He deserves to be where he belongs. As a mother, I want girls to know who he is and, if they ever see him, not to go near him.

“I am trying to think about other mums with young lasses who might look older than they are. Men target young lasses who look older than they are.

Meanwhile, Pexman was beginning a seven-year jail term

He denied rape between July 1 and August 31, 2013, but was found guilty by a jury at Grimsby Crown Court after a trial.

He was also convicted of a separate offence of assault on September 19, 2014, and was given two months in prison concurrently.

He was ordered to register as a sex offender for life.

Luke Heasmer – Bexhill

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March 2015

Bexhill man imprisoned for sexually exploiting two young girls

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A Bexhill man has been sent to prison for sexually exploiting two young girls.

Luke Heasmer, 35, of Glenburn Close, Bexhill, appeared at Hove Crown Court on Tuesday (31 March) having pleaded guilty at a previous hearing to inciting a girl aged 13 to 15 to engage in sexual activity, two offences of inciting another girl aged between 13 and 17 to engage in prostitution and pornography, and theft of an SD memory card.

He was sentenced to two and a half years imprisonment, will be a Registered Sex Offender for life, and was served with a Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO) for life, severely restricting his access to children and computers.

The prosecution, authorised by the Crown Prosecution Service, followed an investigation by detectives from the Sussex Police Serious Organised Crime Unit into intelligence that Heasmer had been using Facebook to incite the girls into indecent conversation, and was asking them to become involved in prostitution for him.

Detective Constable Danny Swietlik said; “We learned that Heasmer had contacted both girls, engaged in sexually explicit exchanges with them, and asked if they would meet other men for payment.

“Fortunately they declined, and we were then able to intervene and to ensure that he was no longer in a position to carry on with any such contact.

“His guilty pleas also meant that the girls did not have to give evidence against him in court.


Brian Hall – Owlthorpe

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March 2015

Paedophile businessman jailed for sexually abusing 3-year-old girl & filming it

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A paedophile businessman has been jailed for five years after sexually assaulting a three-year-old toddler.

Former company chief executive Brian Hall videoed himself touching the tot and saved the sickening films onto his laptop.

He also had online chats with other perverts, pretending to be a 13-year-old girl.

Hall’s home at Moorthorpe Rise, Owlthorpe, was raided by police in 2014 after detectives got a tip-off from the National Crime Agency that a computer at that address was being used to access and distribute indecent images.

A laptop and other items were seized. An analysis revealed the devices contained a total of over 600 indecent images of children.

The laptop contained the video of Hall, former chief executive of an engineering firm, sexually assaulting the three-year-old.

Giles Bridge, prosecuting at Sheffield Crown Court said: “I have spoken to her family. She has no recollection of the events and hasn’t been told of them.

“The family themselves are very upset about what has happened but they have moved on as best they can.”

Detectives also found 101 emails Hall sent pretending to be a 13-year-old girl.

Mr Bridge said: “He was interviewed and asked about his use of filesharing software. He said he used it to download indecent images of children and had been doing it for five to six years.

“He said he was disgusted at what he had done and was waiting for the police to come.”

Andrew Swaby, defending, said Hall had sought assistance from a therapist and was suffering with mental health problems.

He said: “He had never previously come to the attention of the police.

“Mr Hall has had great difficulties in speaking openly about his offending. He accepts full responsibility.

“There’s another side to this gentleman. There are a number of professional references that speak of him in glowing terms.

“He can’t offer any real explanation as to how this started. He knows it is unacceptable, it’s appalling what he has done.

“He has lost the faith of family and friends.”

Sentencing him to five years in prison, Judge Michael Murphy said: “Your family has broken down and you have no doubt lost your position in society.

“It must have been a sickening experience for the family of the three-year-old child. I don’t know what effect it’s going to have on that family in terms of trusting anyone in the future. What you did to her was inexcusable.

“To distribute this kind of filth encourages and perpetrates the worst kind of child abuse one can possibly imagine.”

Hall admitted sexual assault on a child under 13, and possession and distribution of indecent images.

Richard Dutch – Barry

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Pervert jailed after admitting sharing and swapping indecent images of children

A pervert, who admitted sharing and swapping indecent images of children, posed as a young girl on a teenage chat website.

Cardiff Crown Court heard security guard Richard Dutch, 45, had indecent photos of young girls and persuaded them two girls to kiss while he photographed them.

The court was told police were alerted by the girls’ concerned families as well from the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) which discovered Dutch had created the online profile of himself.

Dutch admitted sharing and swapping pictures with others and downloading indecent images of children from the internet.

Gareth James, prosecuting, said: “CEOP traced a telephone number which was linked to him and South Wales Police obtained a warrant from magistrates to search his home and seized his mobile phone and computer.

“On the mobile were pictures of the young girls. On his computer were indecent images and movies of children, some in the most serious category A.”

Tim Hartland, defending, said although Dutch, of Barry Road, Barry, admitted swapping pictures with others he also said he had only done it a few times.

He told the court: “His main mitigation is his guilty pleas to five charges.

“As a result, his 15-year career as a security guard is over – he was dismissed and will not get work like that again.

“Some of his family have also turned their backs on him and his mother, although supportive, is in shock.”

Dutch pleaded guilty to three charges of possessing indecent images and one of distributing images and also admitted being in possession of extreme pornography.

Recorder of Cardiff Judge Eleri Rees jailed Dutch for 16 months. She said: “Each child in the images is a victim and a trail of emotional harm is left behind.

“A Sexual Harm Prevention Order will be put in place, not only restricting your use of the internet but also prohibiting unsupervised contact with any person under the age of 16.”

The order and the registering of his details on the sex offenders’ register will last for 10 years.

Richard Fac – York

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A YORK man who admitted exposing himself to teenage girls has avoided a prison sentence.

Richard Fac, 52, of Nunnery Lane, admitted exposing himself to a group of girls in North Street, York, on February 11.

The girl, who was under 18 at the time, was with friends in a garden close to North Street, at about 7pm on February 11.

At about 8.30pm, they decided to walk into town, and but saw Fac with his back to them and his tracksuit bottoms around his knees.

Martin Butterworth, prosecuting, said Fac had “appeared to be drunk or on drugs”, and the girls felt “scared and disgusted” after the incident.

Officers arrived shortly afterwards and found Fac admitted exposing himself to the girls during a police interview.

Richard Minion, mitigating, said Fac “was not planning to engage in this sort of behaviour”, and “thought he was secluded” from the girls when he began committing the indecent act.

He said: “Clearly he is a man with some difficulties, mental health problems and physical problems, and has been in and out of prison in the past.

He was walking through the area on his way home and came to the point he felt the urge to behave in that manner. He felt he was in the part of the park away from the females and that seems to be borne out by their statement.”

Fac was previously jailed for three years in 1993 after committing an act of gross indecency with a man then threatening to tell his friends about it.

He was also jailed in 1996 for ten years for blackmailing a wealthy retired businessman and his brother out of more than £124,000, and in 2006 was jailed for five years after admitting blackmailing an elderly pensioner.

Mr Minion said Fac told him “this was a one-off occasion, rather than a return to previous behaviour”, and worried that if he were to be sent to prison again, he would be homeless and suffering from mental health issues on release.

Magistrate Bernard Everitt said: “It is over 20 years since you have offended in a similar way, and we have taken that into account. As a direct alternative to a custodial sentence, we are making a 24-month community order.”

Fac was also put on the sex offender’s register, issued with a six-month curfew, and ordered to pay costs and a victim surcharge totalling £145.

Mark Wyatt – Newquay

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Newquay man caught grooming schoolgirl online escapes jail sentence

A 39-YEAR-OLD Newquay man who was caught in a sting operation while attempting to meet a 15-year-old girl he had groomed over the internet has been spared a jail sentence.

Mark Wyatt, of Higher Tower Road, Newquay, had believed he was meeting teenager “Holly Stephens” at a hotel on January 19, 2015, but was instead confronted by an undercover police officer.

Wyatt contacted a fake profile set up by the police and arranged to meet a girl he knew was under age, Truro Crown Court heard on Friday: but on his way to meet her at a Premier Inn hotel miles away from his home, he was arrested by officers.

He was later charged with attempting to meet a child after sexual grooming.

Wyatt admitted the offence and was jailed for 15 months, suspended for two years.

He was also put on the Sex Offenders’ Register, given a two-year supervision order, and ordered to complete the Thames Valley Sex Offender Programme.

Elaine Hobson, for the prosecution, said Wyatt, who has a previous conviction for a historic sexual offence, contacted “Holly” on Facebook and continued to do so after being told she was only 15.

He claimed to be 27, telling her: “Age is just a number.”

The court heard Wyatt exchanged a number of messages with Holly in which he made explicit sexual references, sent intimate photographs of himself, offered her gifts and arranged to meet.

Wyatt told Holly he dreamed about kissing and undressing her and wanted to teach her about sex, called her his “wifey” and talked about marriage.

Defence barrister Michael Gregson said: “Mr Wyatt has fallen for a sting operation and he has accepted that and pleaded guilty at the first opportunity.

“There was no real person here; it was an attempt, and there was an absence of harm that could have followed for this offence.”

However, in passing sentence Judge Simon Carr said Wyatt presented “a risk to children for the rest of his life,” telling him: “you were targeted in a very professional police undercover operation and you started a conversation with a girl who made it perfectly clear that she was only 15.

“You lied about your age and said you were 27, when you are in fact 39, and sexually groomed the girl.

“It was extremely complex grooming over a long period of time, which resulted in you driving a very considerable distance to meet her.

“You are not to have unsupervised contact with any child under 16, and you are not to use any device capable of connecting to the internet unless your browsing history can be displayed.”

Detective Superintendent Jim Colwell, who was involved in the covert operation, said: “When we receive intelligence or evidence that leads us to suspect there are individuals engaged in this kind of activity there are a number of tactics at our disposal, [from] analysis of Facebook and other online social media to what we’ve seen in this case, which was a slightly more involved tactic to allow the offender to provide us with additional evidence of his unlawful intent.

“We respond to specific information that comes in to us. We don’t go on fishing trips, targeting innocent people on social media; we have to rely on specific intelligence that comes to us.”

Detective Superintendent Colwell said he was satisfied with the outcome of the sting operation.

“It really is satisfying,” he said. “Quite often it doesn’t come to fruition and we come away thinking, ‘Have we missed an opportunity there?’ There’s an awful lot of effort and planning that goes into them, so results like this are particularly satisfying.

“It really sends out a strong message to those individuals intent on using the internet and social media for criminal purposes that the likelihood is they may not be engaging with a victim [but] with a police officer, and will eventually find themselves in court and possibly facing a conviction.”

Jayjay McMullen – Manchester

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Serial sex offender jailed for groping schoolgirl he met on Facebook

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A man molested a schoolgirl he met on Facebook after being spared jail for two earlier child sex offences.

Back in 2011 Jayjay McMullen was convicted of distributing a lewd image of a 13-year-old girl and sending indecent texts to another youngster.

He was spared jail for the offences, first at South Tyneside Magistrates Court, and then Bolton Crown Court, and was barred from contacting young girls by a court order.

But, last November, within days of police visiting him to remind him of the terms of the ban, McMullen began targeting a schoolgirl on Facebook, Manchester Evening News reported .

The teenage girl, who was under 16, ended up being lured to a park where she was intimately groped by McMullen, who asked her for sex.

McMullen, 23, from Manchester, has now finally been jailed – for two years and eight months – after admitting breaching a sexual offences prevention order and sexual activity with a child.

Manchester Crown Court heard McMullen sent the girl a friendship request on Facebook before telling her she was ‘gorgeous’ and asking if she had a boyfriend.

The girl told him how old she was, but McMullen went on to tell her he ‘loved’ her.

The contact continued to the point where they met up, and she believed she had ‘fallen in love’.

The contact continued even after McMullen told the youngster he was on the sex offenders’ register.

The sexual activity took place after they met for a second time in Salford, Greater Manchester.

In January, after a friend told a staff member at their school, the girl was spoken to by police.

She admitted the contact and lied that McMullen had believed her to be 16.

He urged her to retract her statement, but she instead admitted that McMullen had known her real age.

Prosecutor Tim Greenald said of the victim: “She says she’s been left very confused by all this. She wants to know, ‘did Jay love me, or was he just using me because I was 14 when we met?’”

Describing him as a ‘prisoner of his own personality’, Nick Clarke, defending, said McMullen was ‘immature’, had a ‘dependent personality disorder’ which drew him to relationships with younger people, and needed help rather than a jail sentence.

Sending him down, Judge Martin Rudland told McMullen: “You were not just seeking emotional support from a younger person with whom you could empathise…you knew of the existence of the order preventing you from contacting teenage girls.

“You caused her to engage on sexual activity – and sought an escalation of the situation.”

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