June 2015

44-year-old man guilty but not jailed for sex offences against schoolgirl

A 44-YEAR-OLD Yeovil man has been sentenced for having sex with a minor and will undergo a 60 day sex offender treatment programme.

Richard Jason Riley of Lyde Road came before the judge at Taunton Crown Court on Friday.

He was charged with four separate counts dated between July and November 2014 of intentionally touching a girl aged 15 while not reasonably believing she was 16 or over.

Each incident took place in Yeovil, with the touching being sexual and involving penetration.

He was sentenced to a community order for three years with a supervision requirement also for three years.

He will further have to complete a 60 sex offender treatment programme, while a restraining order was put in place preventing him from contacting the victim and their family for life.

He will remain on the sex offenders register for seven years and has been banned from working with children.

He was further ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £60 and costs of £250.

June 2015

Sex offender lied to woman about previous conviction

A SEX offender who kept his conviction hidden from a woman whose house he slept at has been given a suspended jail sentence.

Craig Thorpe slept over at the woman’s house four times without alerting police to his movements, Teesside Crown Court heard.

He was also in contact with her children on a number of occasions.

February 2012

Paedophile pensioner jailed for abusing females at a Bexleyheath care home

A caretaker who sexually abused dementia sufferers at a home where he worked will now probably die in hospital.

Churchgoer Edward Fitzgerald, 73, from Whitehill Road, Dartford told police about the offences and has been sentenced to 12 years in prison

The married father admitted abusing three women in their seventies and eighties between May 2004 and September 2008.

Fitzgerald already had a conviction for molestiung an eight-year-old girl, and  admitted at the Inner London Crown Court that he indecently assaulted a teenage girl in the 1970s.

The court heard he recently told a probation officer he believed he was trying to give his sexual assault victims pleasure.

Pamela Brain, defending, said he should be given credit for his honesty.

“He is 73, in reasonably good health.

“But it may be a sentence where he doesn’t come out of prison.”

Judge Patricia Lees said Fitzgerald sought “pure sexual gratification for himself”.

She said: “He didn’t meet them just once. He was the maintenance man.”

She told Fitzgerald: “You took advantage of three of the most vulnerable members of society who were there as residents of that home.

“Each of them suffered from advanced form of dementia.”

June 2015

Man admits child sexual offences

A 52-year-old man has appeared at Doncaster Magistrates Court for a string of sexual offences against children

Christopher Dixon of Victoria road, Edlington pleaded guilty to four sexual offences including sexually touching a girl aged under 13 years old.

Dixon was remanded in custody, and will appear in Crown Court later this month.

August 2001

Brothers relive childhood hell to see abuser jailed

Michael and Jim gaze out across a countryside scene which would lift most people’s spirits.

But the Scots beauty spot stirs only memories of a childhood destroyed by years of abuse by school bus driver Patrick Reilly.

His sex attacks began when the twins were just eight years and continued until they were 16.

Only now, after putting their rapist behind bars, can their lives move on.

Reilly, 60, from Greenock Road, Paisley, was sentenced to 12 years in jail for the attacks on Jim and Michael.

It took the pair, now 38, more than 20 years to find the courage to go to the police.

Jim said: “We told no-one. And because of that, we suffered for years.”

They now devote their lives to encouraging others not to suffer in silence.

Born in Paisley, the boys’ nightmare began when their family moved to Ferguslie Park where a man called Paddy was trusted and played with the children.

But it was the friendly mask of a twisted monster, who slyly abused children in the street.

Michael recalls the day 30 years ago when Reilly led him to his bedroom. He was forced into a sex act and thrown face down on the bed.

Michael said: “When he raped me, I screamed, but he pushed a pillow over my head. I’ve never experienced agony like it, and it seemed to go on forever.”

Reilly made it clear that if Michael told anyone, he would kill him, his brothers and their parents.

With tears streaming down his face, the broken little boy staggered home.

Reilly began abusing Jim before finally raping him.

Jim said:”He had his arm wrapped tightly around my throat and I thought he was going to kill me.”

Their childhood was spent being abused or living in dread of it – fearing the end of the school day and the start of another round of abuse.

They say their education was wrecked because they could not concentrate in class.

There was no escape, even after Reilly married and moved away. He would drive back to prey on the brothers.

Jim tried to commit suicide by downing a bottle of pills but they did not work.

Even when they moved to Kilwinning, in Ayrshire, Reilly hunted them down.

He drove Michael into the country and tied him up in woods where he threatened to kill him then attacked him.

The family moved back to Paisley where Reilly turned out to be their school bus driver. The horror only ended when he lost interest in them.

One day in 1998, Michael went to the police to report an unrelated crime, and found himself blurting out his story of abuse.

The police suspected Reilly of abusing other youngsters and Jim told his story to finally see the fiend caged.

Last December he was sentenced to 12 years in prison.

The brothers now devote their lives to helping others, Michael as a care assistant and Jim as a counsellor.

They have shared their harrowing experiences to tell others not to suffer in silence – the theme of campaigns by the NSPCC Children 1st.

March 1986

Three life sentences for rapist and child abuser

Labourer Patrick Reilly cleared on Monday of the sex killing of 7-year-old Leonie Darnley by a jury who did not know he was a self confessed rapist, has received three life sentences.

Eleven members of the jury that acquitted him returned to the Old Bailey to hear Mr Justice pain brand Reilly “an appalling danger to the public”

They sat beside the dock as details of the catalogue of brutal sex attacks Reilly carried out were revealed for the first time.

As well as the three rapes – which he received the full three life sentences – Reilly of Tufnell park, North London also admitted attempted rape and two indecent assaults.

He was further sentenced to:

1. Five years for the attempted rape

2. Five years for one of the indecent assaults

3. Two years for the second indecent assault

As he was led away he shouted at the judge: “I am thankful you have given me this”

After sentencing 24-year-old Reilly, the judge launched an attack on certain press headlines which criticised the jury for acquitting Reilly of the 7-year-old girls murder.

Reilly had pleaded guilty to:

1. Raping a 21-year-old woman at knifepoint

2. Raping a 22-year-old housewife at knifepoint just 5 days later

3. Raping a 15-year-old girl

4. Attempting to rape a 15-year-old girl

5. Indecently assaulting an41-year-old woman

6. Indecently assaulting an 11-year-old girl

The court heard that the attacks were planned with near-military precision with Reilly going to great lengths to ensure no clues were left at the scene of the offences.

He often stripped naked before an assault to prevent fluff or fibres from his clothes adhering to his victims

December 2003

Brutal killer of 14-year-old jailed

THE SON of a Burton police officer was today beginning a life sentence for the murder of a 14-year-old boy.

Matthew Welsh, 19, was described as a ‘psychopath’ with ‘sadistic tendencies’ by the judge after deciding that he was the main instigator in the prolonged torture and murder of schoolboy Adam Morrell.

Mr Justice Morland recommended that Welsh, who until recently lived in Hargate Road in Brizlincote Valley, Stapenhill, is kept in prison for at least 20 years before consideration is given as to whether he can be released.

Welsh, whose father, Paul, is a constable based at Burton Police Station, was described by the judge at Nottingham Crown Court as the ‘prime mover’ in the murder.

The former pupil at Paulet High School was one of a gang of three friends who battered and tortured the youngster for up to three hours.

Although Welsh’s friend, Nathan Barnett, 27, admitted that he eventually strangled and dismembered Adam, the judge said that he was satisfied that it was Welsh who ‘called the shots’.

He said: “Welsh has been subject to disturbances of one kind or another since the early years. He had tendencies to violence, truancy and impossible behaviour.

“I am satisfied he is a very dangerous young man and he was the prime mover and instigator of the initial decision to kill and beat Adam Morrell and to conspire to pervert the course of justice.

“I am satisfied that you, Welsh, although not yet 19 years old, were the dominant person in the group that frequented Havelock Street.

“You, Welsh, called the shots. You decided that Barnett, then aged 26 but mentally abnormal, would strangle Adam Morrell. Barnett is infatuated by you and did as he was told.

“No doubt to some extent the callous selfishness of all four of you can be part explained from your dysfunctional family background and by the drink and drugs that you took during this time.

“Welsh, I believe that since the early part of your life you have had sadistic tendencies, a personality disorder and are a psychopath.

“But you are still a very young man and a human being and as such capable of rehabilitation.”

(Top) Nathan Barnett(l), Daniel Biggs (bottom) Matthew Welsh, Sarah Morris

Welsh was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder, eight years for inflicting grievous bodily harm and four years for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, all of which will run concurrently.

Barnett, who suffers from Asperger’s syndrome, was ordered to be kept in a secure unit ‘indefinitely’ after the court heard that his condition left him ‘unable to empathise’ and was easily led.

Welsh’s girlfriend at the time of the murder, Sarah Morris, 17, was sentenced to four years for inflicting grievous bodily harm and conspiring to pervert the course of justice.

Another teenager, Daniel Biggs, 19, who was cleared by the jury of murder or any part in the sustained assault, was sentenced to two years in prison for conspiring to pervert the course of justice.

Adam suffered more than 280 injuries to his body after he was punched, kicked, stamped on and scalded at the gang’s house in Havelock Street, Loughborough. He was so badly beaten that he was described in court as ‘looking like an alien’.

On the night of the attack the group had been taking ecstasy, smoking cannabis and drinking and started to attack Adam simply because he began ‘whingeing’ about his girlfriend.

Welsh admitted punching Adam first, after which they took it in turns to beat him as he cried out in pain.

Welsh, Barnett and Morris continued to torture the youngster as he drifted in and out of consciousness. As they grew tired they rested and let the others carry on the attack.
The next day Barnett left the house and returned with black plastic bags and tape, announcing he was going to kill Adam.

Morris turned the music up to drown out the noise as Adam was choked to death. Barnett then put the body in the bath and began cutting it up with two saws.

As he deposited parts of Adam’s body around the town, Welsh and Morris cleared up the mess that he had made.

December 2003

Teenager guilty of ‘body parts’ murder

A teenager has been found guilty of murdering a 14-year-old schooboy whose chopped up body parts were found scattered around a Midlands town

And a teenage girl has been convicted of carrying out a savage attack on the boy.

Nottingham Crown Court heard how Matthew Welsh, 19, was the dominant figure in a gang of three friends who tortured schoolboy Adam Morrell for up to three hours.

His girlfriend, 17-year-old Sarah Morris, was found guilty of deliberately assaulting the youngster but cleared of his murder.

Another teenager, Daniel Biggs, 19, was cleared by the jury at Nottingham Crown Court of murder or any part in the sustained attack on the schoolboy.

During the trial, the jury was told that Adam Morrell, 14, suffered more than 280 injuries to his body during an assault that lasted hours in November 2002.

Manslaughter plea

He was then killed and his body chopped up and wrapped in plastic bags. The bags were found scattered around Loughborough in Leicestershire.

Morris, Welsh and Biggs had all denied murdering the schoolboy.

A fourth person, 27-year-old Nathan Barnett, pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility at an earlier hearing.

All four pleaded guilty to conspiring to pervert the course of justice.

A jury at Nottingham Crown Court has heard that the friends had been drinking and taking ecstasy before the attack.

Morris testified that Adam was kicked and punched over a period of several hours after he threatened to report their drug-taking to police.

He was kicked “like a football” and his injuries were so severe that “he looked like an alien”, the court heard.

Barnett admitted at a separate hearing that he strangled the boy and cut up his body up with a saw.

Biggs denied taking part in the attack or killing of Adam.

All four will be sentenced on 17 December.

The judge has ordered pre-sentence reports to be prepared.

After the verdict Detective Superintendent Bob Small, of Leicestershire Police, said: “This was a particularly gruesome crime and I don’t think it would be too strong to call it the prolonged torture of a 14-year-old boy over a period of many hours.

“The injuries he suffered were absolutely horrific and he would have been in a great deal of pain.

“At the moment Adam’s parents are shell-shocked and it has not sunk in yet but they have conducted themselves with the utmost dignity throughout this trial.”

December 2003

Adam endured ‘hours of torture’

Teenager Adam Morrell died from head injuries and strangulation after being beaten and tortured for at least three hours, the trial in Nottingham was told.

A pathologist said the 14-year-old suffered a total of 280 injuries.

One of the defendants told police he looked “like an alien” after being kicked like a football.

Another said he was completely unrecognisable.

Finally, the music was turned up at the house in Loughborough to cover the sound of his body being sawn into pieces.

Three days after the schoolboy’s death, a group walking by the Grand Union Canal in the town found a black plastic bag wrapped in silver tape, floating in the water.

When they fished out the package, they saw what looked like fingers.

The bag was found to contain a severed arm.

Other body parts turned up around Loughborough over the next few days.

A woman found legs in another plastic bag.

A bag of clothes was discovered by police at an electricity sub-station.

The boy’s head was found by police divers at the bottom of the canal.

The last Adam’s family had heard from him was when he phoned his father, days before his death, to say he was staying with friends.

Those friends were: Matthew Welsh, 19; Welsh’s girlfriend Sarah Morris, 17; former soldier Daniel Biggs, 19; and Nathan Barnett, 27.

On Wednesday, 19-year-old Matthew Welsh was convicted of murdering the schoolboy, while his girlfriend Sarah Morris was found guilty of assaulting the youngster.

Another teenager, Daniel Biggs, 19, was cleared by the jury of murder or of any part in the assault.

Nathan Barnett pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.

Welsh, the son of a Burton on Trent policeman, had told Leicestershire Police that they were drinking beer and whisky, smoking cannabis and taking ecstasy at the house in Havelock Street on the evening of 14 November, 2002.

Welsh said events took a turn for the worse when Adam threatened to tell police about their drug use.

The court had been told that all four of them kicked and attacked Adam.

He curled up in a ball and wept as he was savagely beaten.

Welsh told police that Barnett had later scalded Adam with a combination of boiling water and sugar.

Barnett testified during the trial that Biggs helped him by putting his foot on Adam to squeeze the life out of the youngster.

He told a jury that he had played the children’s game paper, scissors, stone with Biggs to decide who would kill Adam.

Biggs denied joining in the assault and said he had gone to a homeless persons’ hostel.

He said Barnett, who pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility, had killed Adam on his own.

All four pleaded guilty to conspiring to pervert the course of justice.

Sarah Morris told police she joined in the attack on Adam and said he looked “like an alien” after being kicked “like a football”.

Morris said Adam had started moaning after a drink-and-drugs session and was told to shut up.

He was kicked because he was “bringing us down”, she said.

The three others hit and kicked Adam and urged her to do the same, so she punched him in the head, chest and legs as well as in the face.

“The assault lasted about three hours, possibly slightly longer,” Morris said.

Frances Oldham, defending Morris, said the teenage girl was the only member of the gang who had ever shown any remorse for what had happened.

June 2015

Farmworker jailed for 12 years after being found guilty of child sex offences

A Suffolk farmworker has been jailed for a string of offences in which he preyed on a teenage girl over a period of around five years.

Gordon Davies-Morris, 46, of Kirton Road in Trimley St Martin, near Felixstowe, was found guilty on May 6 of:

1. Five offences of sexual activity with a child

2. One offence of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity

3. Sexually assaulting a teenager in a tractor

4. Having intercourse with a child in a barn

Appearing at Ipswich Crown Court yesterday, Davies-Morris was sentenced to 12 years in prison, as well as being issued with a Sexual Harm Prevention Order prohibiting him to come into contact with any female aged 16 or under, except in instances where it is inadvertent or not reasonably avoidable, and put on the sex offenders register for life.

During his trial, the court heard that Davies-Morris touched the victim inappropriately when she was 13, before getting her to masturbate him and then having sex with her.

He was convicted of six child offences, serving a prison sentence for each concurrently for a total of 12 years imprisonment.

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June 2015

49-year-old Teacher jailed after grooming and having sex with schoolgirl

A teacher has been jailed after he groomed a 15-year-old schoolgirl and lured her into sneaking out of her home at night to meet him for sex.

Craig Cleveland, aged 49, knew the girl who was a pupil at his school ‘Brixham Community College’ and started grooming her with a Facebook message a week before the start of the new academic year.

He started seeing her at school and they exchanged secret messages on Snapchat and had an agreement to delete all their Facebook contacts to ensure nobody found out about their relationship.

Cleveland picked up the teenager near her home in Devon late at night after she had slipped out without her mother knowing and they went to his house for sex, Exeter Crown Court was told.

He took her virginity and went on to have sex with her three times before she confided in a school friend who alerted her mother.

Another girl said she had been asked out by Cleveland when she was 15.

Unmarried Cleveland had been an inspirational science teacher at the South Devon school for 20 years but has now been banned from working with children after being jailed for three and a half years.

Cleveland admitted three offences of sexual activity with a child and was jailed for 42 months by Assistant Judge Advocate Alan Large.

He told him:”You had a long career as a respected and popular teacher but you are here for sentence for sexual activity with a pupil at the school where you taught.

“She had problems and you were approachable and somebody she trusted and confided in. You could not prevent yourself taking the relationship further.

“There was grooming. She wanted to see you and you met at your house and had sex with her. You took her virginity.

“There was an element of infatuation and you talked to her about a loving relationship, marriage and a future together. You know from your experience as a teacher that offences of this kind are very serious.

“There are significant factors which increase culpability. There was planning, grooming, abuse of trust and the targeting of a vulnerable child, or at least taking advantage of her vulnerability.”

Miss Emily Pitts, prosecuting, said Cleveland contacted the girl on Facebook before the start of the new term last September and started meeting her in his room at the school.

She had problems at home and at school and he offered her ‘a listening ear’ but then started inviting her back to his home.

The first sexual contact happened when she went to his house after school and he kissed her while they were watching television and then took her upstairs where they undressed and he took her virginity.

On another occasion he picked her up near her home at 11 pm and returned her at 4 am. He told her he was in love with her and they discussed getting married when she was older.

Miss Pitts said:”The prosecution case is that there was planning, the use of false names, deleting messages, and the grooming of a young student who he had known for several years in obvious breach of trust.

“There was a significant disparity in their ages and she was vulnerable because she was having a difficult time at home. She was seeking support from someone who should have offered pastoral care. Instead she got abuse.”

She said that since his arrest another former pupil had come forward but no charges have resulted. She added:”He is a man who over the years has shown an interest in teenage girls

June 2015

Stockton man caught with almost 10,000 indecent pictures of children

An international investigation led police to the door of a man caught with almost 10,000 indecent pictures of children.

Christopher Whelan, 31, has been ordered to undergo a sex offender treatment programme after police discovered 9,964 illegal images of children on his computers.

Officers found 9,881 of the pictures on a hard drive and another 83 on a laptop seized from his Stockton home.

He said in interview he thought the images were “art” and it appeared to him the children involved were consenting.

Whelan, of Durham Road, Stockton, admitted two charges of making indecent photographs of children and one of possessing prohibited images of children.

He had no previous convictions and appeared upset and tearful in the dock as he faced sentence today.

Kelleigh Lodge, defending, said: “He is genuinely sorry for this behaviour.

“He does accept that clearly there is an issue that he does have and he does need to address and he should seek help in that area.

“He is willing and motivated to address the issues and abide by any order of the court.

“He was in employment but unfortunately as a result of these offences taking place he lost that employment he’d had for 11 years since he left college.”

She said he was candid, honest and cooperative and had the support of his parents, with whom he lived.

She added the case hung over his head for more than a year since the police search on January 28 last year.

Judge Tony Briggs told Whelan: “You were in possession of a lot of indecent images but it’s right to say that most of them were in a relatively modest category.

“Whatever category they are, they’re always distressing and upsetting.

“In your favour, you’re of hitherto good character, you seem to be expressing remorse for your behaviour and you are willing to make an effort to change.

“All those matters are important matters and entitle me to suspend the sentence.”

Whelan was given a six-month prison term suspended for two years with supervision and a sex offenders’ treatment programme.

He was given a sexual harm prevention order and will be on the sex offenders’ register, each for seven years.

October 2013

Northallerton man jailed for sexually exploiting teenage girl

A man who sexually exploited a teenage girl he met over the internet has been jailed for two years.

Jonathan Baines, 30, of Ashland Court, Northallerton, was one of 30 men who made contact with the 13-year-old.

Ten men have already been jailed over their interactions with the girl.

Baines previously admitted attempting to arrange the commission of a child sex offence, inciting child pornography and possession of an indecent photo of a child at Teesside Crown Court.

All his offences were committed between 8 and 19 April 2012.

The ten men previously sentenced were jailed for a variety of offences, including sexual grooming of a child and possessing indecent photographs. Another man was given a community sentence.

An additional 18 men were investigated and found to have had contact with the girl but no court action was taken.

Speaking earlier this month, North Yorkshire Police’s Det Ch Supt Simon Mason said the men were involved in the “large-scale exploitation of a child for the sexual gratification”.

June 2009

Man who indecently assaulted two girls jailed

A WINDOW cleaner has been jailed for indecently assaulting two girls.

David Walter Howe, 41, of Stephen Street, Taunton, attacked his first victim about 23 years ago and assaulted the other ten to 14 years ago, Taunton Crown Court heard.

Both victims had been too afraid to report Howe at the time and police only discovered his crimes when they were investigating another matter.

Howe has maintained his innocence throughout, but he was found guilty at trial of four counts of indecent assault.

He was this week sentenced to three 18 months sentences and one of 12 months – all to run concurrently.

Referring to the first attack on a 12-year-old in 1986, Ian Fenny, prosecuting, said: “He effectively chased her round a house where she was babysitting.”

Howe then pinned the girl to the floor and groped her over her clothes.

The court heard that during a later period, Howe sat the other young girl on his knee and touched her under her clothes on a number of occasions.

Malcolm Galloway, defending, said Howe, who was “acquitted of more serious offences”, stopped when the second victim asked and was a man of good character.

Jailing Howe, Judge Graham Hume Jones told him he had shown “an abuse of trust” because he had known his victims through friends.

Howe, who shook his head as he was sentenced, was ordered to sign the Sex Offenders’ Register for ten years.

As he was taken down, a number of people in the public gallery shouted abuse at him.

June 2015

Paedophile school inspector faces prison

A top schools inspector is facing jail for downloading dozens of child-abuse videos and grooming a teenage boy online, it can be revealed.

Adam Higgins was caught by police with almost 100 sick images of assaults on children on his home computer. They discovered he had also propositioned an under-15-year-old using a webcam.

After the 48-year-old pleaded guilty in court last week, education watchdog Ofsted contacted dozens of horrified headteachers to admit that a paedophile had visited their schools.

He appeared at Chelmsford Crown Court last Monday and pleaded guilty to three child sex offences.

Case papers show that he admitted two counts of making indecent photographs of children.

On one count he admitted having downloaded from the internet 89 ‘movies’ – 39 of which were of the worst type of sexual abuse, and in the second count he admitted having a single still photograph.

Higgins also admitted trying to ‘incite a child under the age of 16 to engage in sexual activity’ between June 2013 and September 2014 – the period when he was working as a school inspector.

He was released on bail ahead of sentencing next month.

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June 2015

42-year-old Pervert made profiles of young girls for use on chat rooms

A father who has admitted four offences of downloading indecent images of children will be sentenced next month.

Gavin Murphy, 42, of Currock Park Avenue, Currock, Carlisle, had been due to be sentenced at Carlisle Crown Court yesterday but lawyers said they needed more time to prepare the case.

The court heard how the defendant had made internet profiles of young girls for use on chat rooms and prosecutor Kim Whittlestone said additional time was needed to explore that aspect of the case.

Judge Peter Hughes QC adjourned the case to July 10.

Murphy was granted bail with conditions including that he should have no unsupervised access with anyone aged under 18.

June 2015

Pervert jailed for 14 years for sex assaults on young girl

A REFORMED alcoholic has been jailed for 14 years for a series of sexual assaults on an underage girl in the 1990s.

The offences Andrew Green carried out on his victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, left her “devastated” and were so serious they would be charged as rape under current law, Truro Crown Court heard on Thursday.

The 45-year-old, of Chyvelah Road, Threemilestone, was living at St Newlyn East at the time of the offences in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

He went on trial last week accused of a series of charges of indecent assault and indecency with a child in relation to the girl, who is now an adult.

Sean Brunton, for the Crown Prosecution Service, said that Green was a heavy drinker at the time.

The girl was aged under 13 when Green kissed her sexually and forced her to perform sexual acts on him on a number of occasions, the court heard.

Mr Brunton said she reported the matter to the police in 2013 after revealing the events of her childhood to her mother.

Green denied six counts of indecent assault and four of indecency with a child. He was found not guilty of two of the indecent assault charges by direction of the judge after the girl gave evidence and the court heard the dates in those charges did not match her account.

He was found guilty by the jury of the remaining counts.

Jeremy Leaning, for the defence, said Green had no history of similar offending before or after these offences.

“He tells me he had conquered his alcoholism and was looking forward to returning to employment,” said Mr Leaning of his client prior to the trial.

Judge Simon Carr said Green had started by kissing the girl as it could be easily denied and explained as the misinterpretation of an innocent act.

He then moved on to more serious sexual assaults when he was confident she would not tell on him.

“The effect on her has been devastating,” said Judge Carr.

“Those that suffer abuse of this sort pay the price for the whole of their lives.

“It is something that keeps coming back into their memories.”

Judge Carr added that Green showed no remorse, sentencing him to a total of 14 years in jail and ordering him to sign the sex offenders’ register for life.

He will also be barred from ever working with children.

August 2012

Man, 61, jailed for sex abuse and indecent images

A 61-year-old man has been sentenced to 22 months in prison for indecently assaulting a girl and for possessing indecent images.

David Davies, formerly of Barry Avenue, Windsor, was handed the sentence at Reading Crown Court, sitting at Reading Magistrates’ Court, this afternoon.

He had entered an early guilty plea for three counts of assaulting the girl in the early 1980s in Winchester.

She is believed to have been aged under 10 when the abuse took place.

He also pleaded guilty to two counts of possessing 239 indecent images between January 1, 2008, and October 25, 2011, at an address in Pococks Lane, Eton.

Davies – a former employee of Eton College – has been living on a barge in Marlow since his arrest.

He will also be subject to a Sexual Offences Prevention Order for 10 years, and will be registered as a sex offender.

January 2003

Man admits downloading child abuse images

Suffolk man David Davies, 53, pleaded guilty to 14 offences of possessing indecent images of children.

Ipswich Crown Court heard that Davies’ offences came to light after he handed his home computer over for repairs.

The indecent images were discovered on the hard drive and the police were alerted.

Davies, who was said to have had an “exemplary” 25 years in the RAF admitted possessing 70 sheets of A4 paper containing indecent images, to downloading 2,000 images of young boys and to deleting a further 2,000 images of young boys.

He also subscribed to several of the sites and used search engines to look for pictures of children

Davies, of Spruce Drive, Brandon admitted that he had paid to view many of the images.

The court heard that Davies, who is of previous good character, was “shocked” at the amount of pornography that he had collected and “embarrassed” by his activities.

After hearing that Davies, a TNT delivery driver, did not have the “inclinations of a classic paedophile” and was not a risk to the public, Judge John Devaux sentenced him to a three year community rehabilitation order.

Three months ago, said Judge John Devaux, Davies would have been sent to prison but a recent Court of Appeal ruling paved the way for more lenient sentencing.

He also told him to take part in the sex offenders treatment programme, sign the sex offenders register for five years and pay £250 towards court costs.

August 2013

Exeter youth worker had images of child abuse and women having sex with animals

A youth worker was found with child abuse images on his computer after contacting a 14-year-old girl on the internet.

Steven Griffin, aged 41, was tracked down by police after the teenager sent him a naked picture of herself and officers then found the vile images and movies.

He has been banned from working with children after telling a probation officer he had a sexual interest in girls aged 12 to 16.

Griffin, of Windermere Close, Exeter, pleaded guilty to seven charges of making or possessing indecent images of children and one of having 71 extreme images which showed adult women having sex with animals.

He was jailed for six months, suspended for two years and ordered to attend a sex offenders’ course as a part of a two year supervision order by Judge Erik Salomonsen at Exeter Crown Court.

The judge also imposed a Sexual Offences Prevention Order which restricts his contact with children and will prevent him working with them in the future. He has already lost his job in the care sector.

The Judge told him:” As a result of what was thought to be inappropriate behaviour involving a child the police came to your home and seized your computer equipment and found these images.

“You admitted to the police and probation officers you had an interest in children and say you have set about obtaining treatment.

“It is inevitable you will be barred from working with children and you will also be required to sign on the sex offenders’ register.”

Mr Gordon Richings, prosecuting, said police examined his computers after a complaint about his online contact with a 14-year-old girl who allegedly sent him a naked photo of herself.

The original inquiry did not result in any charges but police experts found 21 images or movies of children of which 13 showed adults having sex with girls.

He said:”He told the writer of the pre sentence report he had an interest in female children aged 12 to 16 and was sexually aroused by images of them.

“He also said he had started receiving counselling from a psychotherapist in Paignton. He was originally interviewed by the police in relation to his contacting a 14-year-old female on the internet.

Mr Nick Bradley, defending, said Griffin recognises he needs help for his problems and has already sought it voluntarily and is said by his counsellor to be making progress.

He said:”At the time the employment he had involved helping young people and there is no suggestion he acted inappropriately in relation to these duties.

“The police visited him because there was some suggestion there was something inappropriate going on with his contact with a girl on the internet”

June 2015

Police are asking for the public’s help in locating a wanted sex offender from Burnley

Francis Patrick Doherty (61) is wanted for breaching his notification requirements by not informing police of his current address. As a result, his licence has been revoked and he is now being recalled to prison.

Doherty’s last conviction was in 2014, also for failing to inform police of his address.

He was originally sentenced in relation to the sexual assault of a boy at Burnley Crown Court in 2005.

DC Andy Ashworth, from the East Dangerous and Sexual Offenders Unit, said: “We take any breach of notification requirements very seriously and as a result of Doherty failing to tell us of his current whereabouts, we are trying to trace him.

“I would also urge Doherty himself, if he sees this appeal, to hand himself in to the police.”

Doherty was last sighted in Manchester City Centre on the last Bank Holiday Monday, May 25th.

He has links to Accrington, Bacup and Haslingden and is known to move around sleeping on friend’s sofas.

He is described as white, around 5ft. 8in. tall, with blue eyes, of proportionate build and speaks with a north west accent.

Anyone with information about his whereabouts can contact DC Ashworth on 01254 353851. Alternatively, they can call police on 101.

April 2015

Ian Anderson, aged 36, of Adnitt Road, Northampton has pleaded guilty to possessing pornographic images of a person committing intercourse with a live or dead animal and Indecent photographs of a child.

Anderson has been sent to Northampton Crown Court for sentencing.