April 2015

Drunk Sheffield partygoer jailed for attacking baby girl

A drunk dad-of-two who injured a nine-month-old baby girl at a party in Sheffield is now behind bars.

Although nobody saw the assault, the infant screamed out in pain, alerting revellers at the New Year’s Eve party in Gleadless Valley.

Nathan McDonald, aged 26, of Plowright Way, Gleadless Valley, who admitted causing actual bodily harm, initially told police he had thrown the infant up into the air but failed to catch her because he was drunk and she landed on the floor.

He later admitted causing her injuries, but said he could not remember it due to how much he had drunk.

Jailing him for 16 months, Judge Peter Kelson QC said: “She was caused great pain by what you did.

“You have accepted that while under the influence of alcohol you must have deliberately caused her injuries. Those injuries were significant bruising, swelling and redness to her left cheek, her frenulum was torn and she had blood in her nose.”

Neil Coxon, prosecuting, said McDonald was at the party on New Year’s Eve 2013 when he had an argument with his partner because both had drunk a ‘considerable’ amount of alcohol.

McDonald then went to get the girl.

Mr Coxon said: “Nobody saw what happened to the baby or how the injuries were occasioned, but one witness heard her screaming as if she was in pain.”

The court heard McDonald has previous convictions for violence including assault, battery and causing actual bodily harm.

April 2015

Cambridge man spared jail for ‘sexting’ 11-year-old girl

A man who exchanged sexually explicit photos and messages with an 11-year-old girl has been spared jail.

Narayan Le Foll, Davy Road, Cambridge, also caused a 13-year-old girl to watch him perform a sexual act on webcam.

The offences were discovered on February 28, 2013, when the 11-year-old’s mother found sexually explicit texts from Le Foll on her daughter’s phone.

On the phone, there were images of Le Foll’s penis as well as a sexually explicit image of the child.

During the investigation, four indecent images of children were also discovered on Le Foll’s Samsung notepad – including an image of a four year old child.

Cambridge Crown Court heard how the 25-year-old met the 11-year-old on an online chat room called chat-avenue.com.

Their conversations then branched out onto texts, webcam and phone calls during February 2013, the court heard.

Duncan O’Donnell, prosecuting, read out the sexually explicit text messages sent by Le Foll to the child – which showed that the defendant knew she was 11.

Mr O’Donnell said: “He was aware that she was only 11-years-old but he said he thought she acted much older. He knew what he was doing was wrong.”

The court heard how Le Foll also met a 13-year-old girl online on tagged.com.

Le Foll believed he had been in an online relationship with the teenager and said he was “in love with her”, the court heard.

He carried out a sexual act on web cam whilst talking to the 13-year-old – who he claims he thought was 17.

Michael Duffy, defending, highlighted that Le Foll was “extremely vulnerable”.

Le Foll had previously pleaded guilty to one count of enticing a child to engage in a sexual activity, one count of causing a child to watch a sexual act and a further count of possession of indecent images of children.

On Tuesday, he was given a two year custodial sentence suspended for two years.

When sentencing Le Foll, Judge Gareth Hawkesworth said: “You never really had any close friends or any girlfriends.

“You confined your sexual interests to the internet because you were afraid you would be rejected if you contacted girls of your own age.

“You need help and treatment and I am satisfied that if you were sent to prison you would be the victim of bullying.”

During the sentence, Le Foll will require to attend a Sex Offenders Programme.

He was made subject to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order and a restraining order was put in place for the victim who was 13 at the time.

April 2015

Rednal man (62) jailed over sexual assault on eight-year-old girl

A paedophile and career criminal who had over 90 previous convictions has been jailed for 13 and a half years after sexually assaulting an eight-year-old girl.

Twisted Raymond Handley, 62, carried out two indecent assaults on his young victim before subjecting her to a sexual assault.

It took years for his brave victim to report him to the police.

Handley, of Bristol Road South, Rednal, was jailed at Birmingham Crown Court by Judge Roderick Henderson.

He said: “You made threats and lied that she would not be believed, that everyone would think she was a liar. She was extremely young and can be described as suffering severe psychological harm from what you had done.”

Handley denied his crimes but was convicted earlier this year by a jury at the same court.

Niall Skinner, defending, said his client maintained the offences had not happened and said while he had over 90 previous convictions, none were for sex offences. “He is no stranger to prison because of his criminal record. He is in a bit of a different arena now and he is fearful for the future,” Mr Skinner said.

Handley was jailed for 13-and-a-half years for the sexual assault and five years and seven years, to run concurrent, for the two indecent assaults.

He was also made the subject of a Sexual Offences Prevention Order for the rest of his life.

April 2015: Nuttall is now due to be released during the second week of April. 

April 2014

Holywell man jailed for armed sex attack on a teenage girl

A man armed with a knife attacked a  terrified teenage girl in a bathroom and  said he would kill her if anyone came  in.

Jamie Lee Nuttall, 20, tied up his  victim – with whom he wanted a relationship – removed her clothes and  touched her sexually, Mold Crown Court  heard.

He was removing his own clothes  when others alerted by her screams  forced the door open at the Flintshire  hostel where he was staying.

The victim was extremely distressed  and crying. Nuttall left, saying “I said I  was going to do it”.

He then changed his clothes, jumped  out of a bedroom window and ran off.

Nuttall, of High Street in Holywell –  said to have mental health problems –  was jailed for three and a half years and  ordered to register as a sex offender for  life after he admitted sexual assault and  false imprisonment in June of last year.  A charge of attempted rape, which he  denied, was left on the file.

The court heard he had sent her text  messages described as intimidating.  When she went to use the bathroom, he  forced his way in while armed with a  knife and locked the door behind him.

He told her to lie down and not to  make a sound, threatened her with the  knife and she initially thought he was  simply going to scare her.

Prosecuting barrister John Philpotts said: “But things took a turn for the worse. He bound her hands with computer cable, he pushed her to the floor,  put his hand over her mouth and pointed the knife at her.”

She felt it touch her  stomach at one stage.

As she screamed, he pulled her shorts  and underwear down, pressed his hand  on her mouth harder to try and stop her  screaming and menaced her with the  knife.

He indecently assaulted her and was  removing his own clothes when the door  was forced open by a member of staff  and another resident.

Judge Niclas Parry said it was a  disturbing and very serious matter  which took place against a background  of intimidation.

He said Nuttall would receive maximum credit for his early guilty pleas.  While he had a mental disorder the  psychiatric report concluded that it was  not appropriate for him to be detained  in hospital for treatment.

Judge Parry said however that the  defendant’s culpability was reduced by  those mental health difficulties.

The case had a sentencing range of six years to 10, the judge warned, but his  sentence would be reduced and there  would be significant support available  for him on his release.

After the case,  the Amethyst Team –   North Wales Police’s dedicated sexual  offences team – welcomed the sentence, adding it was important to send  out a strong message that North Wales  Police and the courts will not tolerate  offences of this nature. 

Detective Inspector Kelly Isaacs said  this was an horrendous crime.

Amethyst Team provide specialist services to support victims and encourage  anyone who has been the victim of a  sexual offence to come forward.

If a  victim does not feel ready to report to  the police then services can be accessed  through the confidential Amethyst  SARC Helpline on 0808 156 3658.

Note: Although Nuttall’s offences were against a teenager who was aged over 16-years-old, the risk he poses to young girls is so great that we must add him to our database

November 2012

Llanferres man jailed for sexualt assault on teenage girl

A 41-YEAR-OLD man has been jailed after he was convicted of sexually assaulting a teenage girl.

Defendant Derrick Evans of Alexander View in Llanferres, near Mold, denied sexual assault following an incident in the summer of last year.

But a jury convicted him by a majority of 11 to one at Mold Crown Court last month.

Judge Rhys Rowlands yesterday jailed him for six months and said he would be entered onto a list of people who must not work with children or vulnerable adults.

But the six-month sentence meant he did not meet the criteria to be registered with the police as a sex offender.

The victim was not called to give evidence and the prosecution case was based on the defendant’s interview with the police, where she said Evans had removed her top and assaulted her.

Evans said he had taken his shirt off, lay on a bed and told police he tickled her, blew on her stomach and kissed her.

He had described how “one thing led to another” and he had taken her top off and touched her breasts.

At one point he said he saw her naked breasts but later said she was wearing a bra.

The jury had been told they could only convict him if they believed he had deliberately touched her, and not in an accidental way.

Evans said at one stage she had undressed in front of him but then said he took her top off.

Judge Rowlands said Evans had originally faced more serious sexual allegations which had not been pursued.

Peter Barnett, defending, told the court the conviction was based on one incident only and while the case was serious it was at the lower end of seriousness . He suggested a suspended sentence.

April 2015

Dad who hid in bushes to leer at schoolgirls during seven-month stalking nightmare

A stalker terrorised schoolgirl victims by hiding in bushes and alleyways so he could stare at the youngsters on their way to and from school

Victims lived in fear of Robert Emmerson who also followed them, exposed himself, or fiddled with his trousers during the bizarre, seven-month long harassment campaign.

The 30-year-old dad-of-one, of Fern Bank Drive, Wythenshawe, has now been banned from a number of streets in Baguley and ordered to sign the sex offenders’ register after being convicted of aggravated stalking, two charges of stalking and two charges of exposure.

He denied all the offences and still maintains his innocence.

The four victims, aged 14 and 15, were ‘frightened on a regular basis’ by the piercing glare of Emmerson, who worked for a bargain store in Wythenshawe at the time, but has since been let go.

Robert Emmerson hid in bushes and alleyways to stalk the girls

The girls told court that from November 2012 he lay in wait along the route they took to school, staring at them as he appeared to urinate against a wall, staring at them as he followed them, and even hiding in bushes or behind trees so that he could stare at them.

He exposed himself to two of the victims – one of whom was left ‘seriously upset’ by her ordeal.

The court also heard that he would unzip and lower his trousers at schoolgirls, sometimes ‘tutting’ at them as they went past.

His defence said that Emmerson ‘would not cope easily with the rigours of prison’.

Sentencing him to two years, suspended for 18 months, with 200 hours unpaid work, Judge Martin Steiger QC made Emmerson subject to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order banning him from Butcher Lane, Sandy Lane, Timpson Road and Churchstoke Walk, Wythenshawe.

July 2011

Pervert had over 5,000 child abuse pictures

A HAMPSHIRE man has been convicted of possessing more than 5,000 images of child abuse.

When police raided Darren Halliwell’s house in Totton they found his computer contained sickening photographs and video clips some of which were at an “extreme level, Southampton Crown Court heard.

This court was told this included vile images involving a dog and very young children being abused.

Halliwell, 38, of Tides Way, Marchwood, admitted 12 counts of making indecent photographs and two counts of possessing extreme pornographic images.

Rachel Robertson, prosecuting, said: “He said he had been downloading images for two years.

“The crown says they set out the length and breadth of these type of images.

“Some are extremely young ages.”

Sentencing, Judge Peter Ralls, said: “These matters are treated very seriously by the court because at the end of the line there are children who get abused.”

He imposed a three-year community order with a supervision requirement, to undergo a sexual offenders’ programme and 100 hours’ unpaid work.

A ban on using the Internet was also imposed and he was required to sign on to the sexual offenders’ register.

Julia Harry, defending, said her client admitted he had a problem 

April 2015

Horsham man jailed for child sex offences

A Horsham man has been sentenced to 21 months in jail after he was found guilty of sexual assault against two young boys.

Brian Rupert Strotten, 25, of Arthur Road, Horsham, was sentenced at Lewes Crown Court on Friday March 27.

He was also ordered to sign the Sex Offenders’ Register, and a Sexual Offences Prevention Order was put in place.

He was convicted on two counts of sexual assault on a child under 13, but found not guilty on a further four counts, at a crown court trial in January.

The court previously heard that Strotten, known in court by his middle name Rupert, was first arrested hours after a child told his father that Strotten had sexually touched him, and the man called the police.

Strotten, who was under 18 at the time, was not prosecuted but was issued a warning by police officers.

Dianne Chan, prosecuting, said a second incident involving a boy led to Strotten being arrested again and the resurrection of the earlier allegation.

November 1985

Sex fears over head of home ‘ignored’

Lewisham social services department has been accused of a serious failure to act over warnings about the behaviour of the head of one of its children’s homes, since jailed for four years for sex offences with children.

For 17 years, Ronald Cooper, aged 56, had worked at the Leeways children’s home in Orpington.

He was jailed in June 1984, after the court was told he took thousands of “revolting” photographs of naked children, some as young as five.

He had admitted sexually assaulting a boy aged 11.

Cooper was also the official photographer for Lewisham’s fostering and adoption section.

As long ago as 1972, social services staff and others warned senior officers about his behav­iour.

But repeatedly the council failed to act, an independent inquiry has found. Complaints about his paedophile activities were ignored or suppressed.

In 1974, the department was again warned of Cooper’s “unhealthy interest” in the children in his care, but the warning was dismissed as not valid. There were further warnings in 1975 and 1976 on which no effective action was taken. In 1977, five junior staff at Leeways also complained about Cooper’s preference for blond, blue-eyed boys, of his favouritism for them and behaviour.

They were told they had no evidence and had by­passed correct precedures.

All five resigned shortly afterwards.

The report says Cooper “was regarded as having powerful friends, these included the formidable combination of the chair of the social services committee, the social case work division, the trade unions and the visiting psychiatrist”.

Cooper was discovered when police investigating a child prostitute racket in 1984 came across a printer who had developed and exchanged pic­tures with him.

The report says that while the situation in Lewisham has improved, change has not occurred fast enough. “Radical changes in organization and attitudes need to be made to effect any real improvement”

“At almost every point at which collectively or individu­ally the people involved had to choose between making the welfare of the children the first consideration and some con­flicting loyalty or priority, they chose the latter. They did so not from malice, or deliberate wickedness, but because they did not keep in the forefront of their minds their statutory obligations to the children in their care.”

Lewisham social services committee was due to consider the report in closed session last night. The committee’s vice-chairman, Ms Paulette Goudge, said it welcomed the report.

April 2015

Mum allowed convicted child rapist to stay overnight at her home after meeting him on dating site

A convicted child rapist used aliases and spent a night in a mum’s home in the face of a court order meant to protect the public.

The mother let Christopher Bartley stay at her home, where she lived with her two children, after they met on a dating website.

She later said she “felt sick, guilty and scared” when she learned of his past as a child sex offender.

She had been in contact with the 24-year-old, who used the name pucky1990, on the dating site.

He called himself Christopher Puckering, using his mother’s maiden name, Teesside Crown Court heard.

They went out for drinks on September 22 last year and he asked if he could stay at her house for the night as he had nowhere to stay.

She agreed, and left him alone in her home as she went to work the next day.

Police later told her his true identity.

The woman said if she had known he was a registered child sex offender, she would never have allowed him into her home.

Bartley later confessed he did not want her to know his true name, or for her to be able to Google him.

Inquiries revealed he had spoken to another woman on the same site but she declined his repeated requests to meet her.

His stay at the mum’s home and use of the false names, without telling police, flouted the rules of the sex offenders’ register.

Bartley, whose address was recorded in court as Holme House Prison, admitted three counts of failing to comply with notification requirements.

In 2006 he was given an extended 10-year sentence to protect the public, including a five-year custodial term, for a string of sexual offences.

The crimes, which he committed when he was a teenager, included raping an underage girl and boy, and inciting children to engage in sexual activity.

He was released in January 2011, only to be recalled to prison five months later for failing to comply with his licence by failing to tell the Probation Service of a relationship with a woman.

He was let out again in December 2013, and recalled back to his sentence again in September last year for the latest offences.

Now, Bartley is due for release in September this year or January next year.

Christopher McKee, defending, said Bartley accepted he was “extremely foolish” and did not act as he did to have contact with children.

He said Bartley sought refuge with the mother while homeless and adopted his “birth name” because of his embarrassment and shame at his past.

These were his first breaches of this type, eight years after the original sexual offences, and he had not otherwise offended while on licence.

Bartley had a difficult upbringing but had taken positive steps to educate and better himself.

The judge, Recorder Tahir Khan QC, said they were serious offences but they were “not sinister” or meant to lead to offences against young people.

He jailed Bartley for a year.

September 2006

Ten years for attacks on kids

A schoolboy rapist has been locked up for ten years on his 16th birthday for sex attacks on two boys and a girl.

Christopher Bartley, of Briardene Court, Stockton, admitted sex attacks on two boys aged 11 and 13 and raping a 13-year-old girl when he was aged 15.

Prosecutor David Brooke told Teesside Crown Court the rapes took place when Bartley took the youngsters to his home and gave them alcohol while his father was working nights.

The girl was in bed sleeping off a vodka session when she awoke to find Bartley having sex with her.

She screamed and told him to leave her alone but he continued. A fortnight earlier the boys had been forced to perform a sex act on him which under new laws is now also classified as rape.

In total, Bartley pleaded guilty to three charges of rape and four sexual assaults, all committed in January.

He was sentenced to ten years detention – five years extended by five years – and ordered to register as a sex offender for life.

Three psychiatrists told the court Bartley poses a serious risk of harm to others.

Bartley had spent 234 days in custody at Hassockfield Secure Training Centre, near Consett, when he appeared for sentence.

Christine Egerton, defending, said Bartley, who had no previous convictions, had been bullied which had turned him into a bully.

She said: “His behaviour should be viewed in the context of his background and emotional instability.

“Although he does not suffer from any mental illness it is clear he has a special needs education and is a boy who’s had behavioural problems.

“He has had problems obeying rules and problems being bullied. He has had the courage to accept what he has done by his pleas to the court, and he is clearly a young man who has a lot of growing up to do.”

The Recorder of Middlesbrough, Judge Peter Fox QC, told him he had done untold harm to the three youngsters and caused them psychological damage.

He said: “You are 16 years old today. It is greatly to be regretted that on this day I must pass a sentence which both punishes you for your behaviour and which also helps you for a sufficient period of time which, in my judgment, is essential for your training and guidance away from such behaviour as you perpetrated, and to pass such sentence on this day which ensures so far as I am able that you do not do this again.”

* A couple who lied in court for their 15-year-old son at his sex charge trial were blasted by a judge yesterday.

The parents gave the boy a false alibi for when he attacked a 10-year-old girl, but the jury found him guilty.

The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was sentenced to two years detention and training at Teesside Crown Court yesterday for the sexual assault on 20 June last year in Middlesbrough.

The Recorder of Middlesbrough, Judge Peter Fox QC, said that he hoped the youngster would be given the guidance which his parents had failed to give. He told him: “It is to be regretted in the extreme that they should have lied on your behalf, as well as you.”

The boy, from Middlesbrough, must also register as a sex offender for five years.

April 2015

Man says he downloaded indecent images of children because he had “too much time on his hands”

A LATVIAN who came to Boscombe to find work had indecent images of children because he ‘had too much time on his hands’, a court heard.

Danils Bobrovs, 29, was arrested after a police raid at his address in Hamilton Road on February 19 turned up indecent images of children on a computer, involving children as young as five.

Five of the images were in the most serious category.

Prosecutor Stuart Ellacott told Bournemouth Crown Court that the offences were aggravated by the youth of the victims.

Judge Brian Forster QC handed Bobrovs a four month jail term on Friday, March 27. He said: “The children you have seen in these images are the real victims of this crime.

“Any image depicting very young children must be considered a very serious situation by the court.”

The defendant, who had been remanded in custody for one month already, was of previous good character. He admitted four counts of making indecent images of children.

In mitigation, Kevin Hill said his client had moved to the UK three years ago and found work quickly in a call centre and in catering, but had been struggling to find work more recently.

“Mr Bobrovs had been accessing legal pornography – he accepts more than was good for him – whilst he was unfortunately unemployed,” he said.

“As he says, he had too much time on his hands.

“In accessing legal pornography he came to download the images for which he is before the court today.”

He said Bobrovs had not sought the images out but they had been downloaded into a folder alongside other legal images.

“He saw what they were, he did not immediately delete them. He knows he absolutely should have,” said Mr Hill.

He said the father-of-one felt “genuine” remorse for his crimes, and was planning to return to Latvia.

Bobrovs was ordered to sign the sex offenders register for seven years, and a Sexual Harm Prevention Order was imposed for ten years to regulate his internet usage.

April 2015

Church helper had more than 3,000 indecent images of children

A CHURCH helper had more than 3,000 vile images of children being sexually abused on computers at his West Yorkshire home, a court heard.

A court heard the discovery was made after computer equipment was seized from Nigel Holleran’s home on Walton Lane, Sandal, Wakefield, in May last year.

Leeds Crown Court was told Holleran contacted police officers and told them he “wanted to get things of his chest”.

He then admitted that he had been viewing abusive images of children for around five years.

Holleran, 57, later told a probation officer that he believed the children in the images, some as young as nine, had consented to the abuse they were being subjected to and had been paid for appearing in the images.

A judge said his attitude towards his offending was of “great concern.”

Simon Clegg, prosecuting, said some of the images featured children as young as nine being raped. He had also used file sharing platforms, enabling other people to access the illegal material he had downloaded.

Holleran pleaded guilty to six offences of possession of indecent images of children.

The prosecutor said: “He said that he initially began looking at the images and movies out of curiosity to see what bad there was in the world.

“He said he grew complacent and did not realise how serious it was until it was too late.”

Christopher Moran, mitigating, said Holleran had assisted his local church for many years and was supported in court by his friends from the church.

The court heard he also had the support of his wife of 30 years.

The court was handed a character reference from the parish priest who described Holleran as a “quiet personality and a gentle spirit.”

Mr Moran said Holleran was prepared to undergo treatment to prevent him offending in the future.

He was made the subject of a three year community order, during which he must take part in a sex offender treatment programme.

Judge Tom Bayliss, QC, said: “How you could possibly think that all parties involved were consenting when you were watching images of children as young as nine engaging in sexual activity is very concerning.

Those who possess images of this nature, fuel not only their perverted idea but also fuel child abuse. These are not innocent images. They are images of children being physically and sexually abused.”

May 2007

Teacher jailed over child images 

A teacher who downloaded hundreds of indecent images of children has been jailed for two years.

Colin Mark Trory, 32, from Thornhill Parade in east Belfast, was ordered to sign the sex offenders register and banned from working with children.

His activities were uncovered in October 2005 when an IT technician at his school nudged a computer mouse and became concerned at what was revealed.

Trory could be out within a month as he has already served two years on remand.

At Belfast Crown Court he admitted five specimen charges of distributing indecent images and 25 of making indecent images.

Police seized a computer at Castle High School in north Belfast, then searched Mr Trory’s home and found computer equipment, mobile phones and cameras containing “extremely distressing” images.

“I am informed by police that there are literally hundreds of pictures, some of girls as young as five,” the lawyer said.

He said the pictures had been taken from Mr Trory’s bedroom and in a shopping centre.

He said Mr Trory told police he took the pictures because he “appreciated the sense of beauty in young children”.

Her Honour Judge Kennedy told the former high school teacher it was because of people like him that children “are used and abused to obtain gratification for adults”.

April 2015

Perverted choirmaster led a double life in a paedophile ring abusing boys

A PREDATOR at the centre of a North-East paedophile ring is behind bars tonight for what a court heard were “grotesque and horrific” crimes.

To his friends and acquaintances, Allan Brown was a happily married pious choirmaster who helped run a youth club in his spare time.

But in reality Brown had a sinister secret double life at the centre of a sickening paedophile ring involving men and women.

Teesside Crown Court heard how young victims were showered with treats of toys, sweets and crisps. Others were given alcohol to drink and glue to sniff by their sick abusers.

Yesterday, Brown was jailed for five years after one of his victims had the courage to break his silence.

The 72-year-old was arrested after one victim came forward following the notorious cases of Jimmy Saville and other celebrities for molesting children.

Two other boys were traced by police and told how they were abused by Brown and his “boyfriend” – referred to in court only as KE – on an allotment site.

Prosecutor Christine Egerton told the court that the other man ran the County Durham youth club where Brown helped out, and has since died.

Last night the victim who broke his decades-long silence two years ago to reveal to detectives what had happened, said: “I’m so pleased I found the courage to speak out.

“Allan Brown must have known that when these high-profile cases became public knowledge, that it would not be long before a knock came to his door.”

Brown, of Sycamore Grove, West Auckland, County Durham, admitted a series of charges of indecent assault and conspiracy to commit indecent assault at earlier hearings.

Yesterday, he arrived at court on two walking sticks and carrying a bagful of medication, as his lawyer said: “He knows he is going to custody. There is no doubt.”

Robert Mochrie, mitigating, described the crimes as “horrific” and said: “This was a grotesque breach of trust by Mr Brown and the others referred to.”

Miss Egerton said one of the three victims was taken by Brown to a woman’s house in Shildon where she told him what was happening to him was “normal”.

The pervert stood and watched as she abused the boy and forced him to touch her sexually – then cruelly refused him a lift home and gave him a bus fare.

The youngsters – all described as vulnerable – were treated to days out in Brown’s car, and would be molested by him, KE and a third man who was not identified.

On occasions, two of them were taken to public toilets inBishop Auckland where sickening assaults were carried out by the three men, said Miss Egerton.

Mr Mochrie said Brown’s admissions had saved his victims the ordeal of having to give evidence in court, and said: “It would no doubt have been extremely distressing.”

He added: “He brings to court with him today his wife, who is in equally poor health, and she is struggling to make any sense of all of this.

“We now know that in his earlier years, he was seemingly a bisexual man with an interest in both males and females, and his wife was completely in the dark.

“He is a different man now from the man he was. I accept on his behalf, and so that the victims know, he accepts that will he little comfort to them.

“It was a period in his life – a perverse period, admittedly – that he went through, and it is with deep regret that these victims have had to live with that. He apologises.”

Recorder Martin Bethel, QC, also ordered that Brown should sign of the sex offenders’ register for life, as he told him: “You have ruined their lives.”

The judge added: “There was planning, you acted together with others, you used drugs, you targeted vulnerable boys, and there was a significant disparity in age.”

April 2015

‘Hero’ who won bravery award EXPOSED as paedophile and jailed for abusing young girls

A hero who won a national bravery award has been exposed as a paedophile.

Wayne Morrison, aged 56, has been jailed for eleven years for sexually abusing young girls.

In 2005 Morrison, of Millbrook, Stalybridge, won an accolade at a ceremony sponsored by the Association of Chief Police Officers.

At a glitzy event at a Manchester hotel he picked up an award for rugby-tackling a mugger in Stockport town centre.

He was working as a street cleaner when he brought down the thief after seeing him snatch a woman pedestrian’s handbag.

Morrison’s glasses were sent flying as he struggled to detain the thief, who was kicking and punching.

But police arrived within minutes and arrested the man.

Morrison dusted himself down and returned the bag to the victim.

But at the time of the incident he had been abusing young girls for years.

At Manchester’s Minshull Street Crown Court, Morrison, was found guilty of all 12 counts of indecent assault and one of sexual assault on a child under 13.

He had denied all the charges but was convicted after a week-long trial.

The offences took place between 1993 and 2014.

One of his victims said: “I am very happy with the sentence he has got.”

Morrison was arrested in May 2014.

April 2015

Paedophile who abused 6 young children & filmed himself raping an 8 yr old is jailed for 21 years

A ‘DETERMINED and persistent’ paedophile who abused six children over a period of almost two decades has been jailed for 21 years.

Anthony Sutton, 58, filmed himself raping an eight-year-old girl and took photographs of himself molesting a boy aged 12-14.

Sutton, who used to be known as Kevin Gibbs, was yesterday convicted by a jury at Bradford Crown Court of 31 offences, including two counts of rape and multiple charges of indecent assault and indecency with a child.

The abuse took place while he was living at various addresses in Bradford, including in the Fagley and Woodside areas, between 1984 and 2003.

Balding, bespectacled, Sutton, who wore a black leather jacket and black shirt, sat in the dock with his head in his hands after the jury delivered its guilty verdicts.

Judge David Hatton QC told him: “For many years you must have thought you had got away with it, you hadn’t.”

Labelling Sutton a ‘sexual predator” the judge said: “The passage of time since your offending is not a mitigating factor.

“The effect upon these people even now is significant. It is immeasurable.”

Sutton’s first victim was abused when she was aged between seven and 12.

“The childhood that she must have endured beggars belief,” Judge Hatton said.

Sutton went on to molest three more girls and two boys, raping two of them.

Prosecutor Jacob Dyer told the jury during the three week trial that Sutton was aggressive and controlling, targeting children for his own sexual gratification.

His offending came to light when a woman complained to the police in 2010.

Detective Constable Sarah Yates, who was commended by the judge, then began piecing together the case, interviewing previous complainants.

Mr Dyer said Sutton told his first two victims it was ‘their secret’ when he abused them.

He next targeted a boy aged 12, taking photos and videos and raping the child as he screamed for him to get off.

Sutton encouraged the boy to smoke cannabis at a flat in Wibsey and threatened to sexually abuse the loser at a game of darts, involving the youngster and his friend.

He abused a third girl when she was eight, videoing the sexual activity on a camcorder on a tripod.

“The defendant told her if she told anyone he would come and get her and that it was their little secret,” Mr Dyer said.

Sutton went on to rape the girl, leaving her scared, confused and in pain.

His final two victims, a boy and girl, were touched indecently when they were aged eight and six.

Sutton was arrested at his home in Appleton Court, Beeston, Nottingham, in December 2011 and denied any wrongdoing.

But Mr Dyer told the jury the defendant was ‘a determined and persistent paedophile.”

April 2015

Former teacher at King Edward’s School in Bath jailed for historic sex offences against a pupil

A former teacher at King Edward’s School in Bath has been jailed for a string of indecent assaults against a pupil at the school in the 1990s.

Timothy Snowdon, 60, of Trowbridge Road, Bradford on Avon, was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment after pleading guilty to 12 counts of indecent assault in the Bristol Crown Court.

The assaults took place over four years in the 1990s.

Snowdon, bespectacled and grey-haired and grey-bearded, remained impassive throughout the hearing.

Wearing a blue shirt, dark blue jacket and tie, he was taken immediately into custody after sentencing.

The victim attended the hearing accompanied by supporters.

He had contacted police in January 2013 to report a number of historical sexual offences committed by Snowdon in the 1990s, when he was a pupil at King Edward’s School.

Snowdon was arrested the following month and interviewed about the allegations.

Following a full and thorough investigation, Snowdon was charged in November 2013.

Investigating officer Detective Constable Andrew Palmer said: “Timothy Snowdon abused his position of trust and took advantage of this victim after encouraging him to take part in activities after school.

“Snowdon isolated the victim from the other students so he would have numerous opportunities to carry out these crimes.

“This abuse has had a long-lasting impact on the victim with the after-effects continuing into his adult life. He was able to give us an articulate and detailed account of Snowdon’s actions, which ultimately helped secure justice in this case.

“Snowdon had retired from teaching several years before this investigation began, but the school involved has been extremely supportive of our inquiry from the outset.

“I hope this conviction will send out a clear message that we’ll investigate offences no matter who they are committed by, or how long ago they occurred.

“Victims should always feel confident in coming forward to speak to us, secure in the knowledge that they will be believed and supported,” said DC Palmer.

King Edward’s School has released a statement saying: “The school takes its safeguarding and child protection responsibilities very seriously and co-operated fully with the police investigation once this historic allegation came to light.

“We have been appalled to learn of these offences committed and condemn them unreservedly.”

April 2015

Pervert admits possessing indecent images & DVD’s of children 

A man who admitted possessing indecent images of children has been released on bail.

Frank Clifton, 58, appeared at Thames Magistrates last week where he admitted having over 1,000 images of children, 83 DVDs and 405 moving images.

Mr Clifton, of Francis Road in Leyton, pleaded guilty to two charges of possessing pictures and one count of making them.

He has been remanded on bail until April 27.

The court also imposed a condition banning children from being in his home.

May 2013

Judge refers to celebrity sex scandals in sentencing Hartlepool pervert

A JUDGE spoke of celebrity sex scandals when he sentenced a man for indecently assaulting a schoolgirl a decade ago.

Alan Whittingham kissed the youngster over her clothed breast and on the cheek after enticing her upstairs in his Hartlepool home, Teesside Crown Court was told.

The 53-year-old industrial cleaner stopped the assault when the girl pleaded with him, but only after telling her: “I will as long as you don’t tell anyone.”

Whittingham was found guilty of indecent assault after a trial last month, and was given a three-year community order with supervision when he returned to be sentenced.

Judge Howard Crowson said a prison term – in the region of seven months – would not help the public or address any “lingering concerns” there might be.

Explaining why he was sparing the father, the judge said all cases were “factually specific” and should be dealt with in accordance with guidelines.

Acknowledging the difficulties and how people perceive the crimes and punishments, defence barrister David Lamb said: “We as lawyers understand that, but it may be that the general public do not.”

Judge Crowson said: “Even today there are reports in the media with very different facts to this where questions are being asked about sentences.

“The sentences are guided by the guidelines. I cannot send him to prison and expect the work that the Probation Service offer to be done because of limitations.”

He added: “It would be easy to simply send you to prison for a relatively short time, following the guidelines, but I take the view in your case that a more difficult sentence almost which offers greater protection for the public at large is a community order for three years.”

Whittingham, of Carlton Street, Hartlepool, was also ordered to sign on the sex offenders’ register for five years.

April 2015

Company director who downloaded thousands of images of child abuse blamed his behaviour on “pressures of business”

Ian Doig, the director of a recruitment firm for the IT industry, used a file-sharing website to download more than 18,000 still images and hundreds of moving images of teenage girls during a 21-month period.

The 50-year-old also said he had become curious after reading a news article that mentioned a file sharing website.

He had started to view the images when his business struggled in the recent economic depression, Winchester Crown Court heard.

Doig was in the dock for sentence last Thursday having admitted 14 counts of possession of making indecent photographs of children.

Officers called at Doig’s home, in Gaiger Avenue, Sherfield-on-Loddon, in June last year, after gaining information based on his internet use.

After initially denying all knowledge, Doig admitted having the images and was arrested. A laptop, a computer tower unit and two hard disk drives were seized.

Most of the images found were graded category C, the third worst category for such images. Officers also found Doig had used search terms such as “red Lolita” and “Girls 12 YO”.