July 2015

Flasher who exposed himself to schoolgirl spotted after appearing on Jeremy Kyle Show

A SERIAL flasher, who exposed himself to a teenage girl on her way to school, was recognised and caught because he had appeared on The Jeremy Kyle Show six months before the crimes.

And today the mum of sex offender Mark Yemm stood by her son, saying: “He’s not a bad lad, he’s my baby”.

Now Yemm, his mum Debbie Smith and his sister are moving out of their Westerdale Way home, in Grimsby, following alleged abuse from neighbours in the wake of his conviction.

This week, Yemm was released from prison – he had been on remand awaiting sentence for the flashing incidents.

He appeared via video link as Sheffield Crown Court, where it was heard how he left a woman in a fish and chip shop “disgusted, mortified and greatly offended” – but her colleague recognised him because he had appeared on the Jeremy Kyle television show.

He also left a 14-year-old girl “very upset” after exposing himself to her while she was walking to school, a court heard.

Yemm, 30, admitted exposure on November 29 and February 5.

David Gordon, prosecuting, told the court that the first offence happened outside a fish and chip shop at about 1pm.

Two women were working at the shop in Wingate Parade on the Willows Estate when, through the window, they spotted Yemm standing across the road from the shop.

While they were serving customers, one of the women said to the other: “Is he doing what I think he is doing?”

Yemm was “staring directly at them” and was committing a sex act. He later ran off.

One of the women recognised the man as Yemm because she had seen him on The Jeremy Kyle Show six months earlier.

The other woman had previously served Yemm at the shop several times and he had been “over-familiar with her”.

She was “disgusted, mortified and greatly offended” by Yemm’s behaviour, especially as it was broad daylight and in plain view of others. She was worried that he might follow her.

Yemm was arrested on December 14 and admitted he had appeared on The Jeremy Kyle Show.

The second offence happened just after 8am when a 14-year-old girl was on her way to school.

She saw Yemm walking out of an underpass. She thought something was wrong and feared he might be following her. She photographed him on her mobile phone.

He began walking behind her. He was exposing himself and she ran home and told her mother what had happened.

“She was too upset to go to school that day,” said Mr Gordon.

The girl later went with her mother to town and pointed out Yemm to her. Her mother followed him and called the police.

The teenager had been left “very upset” and the incident would stop her walking to school and going out at the weekend.

Mr Gordon told the court that Yemm had a previous caution in 2009 for outraging public decency, involving a “similar, if not identical, offence”.

Paul O’Shea, mitigating, said Yemm had been in custody for a long time but, when he was released, he needed someone to “keep an eye on him” in the community.

“He needs a lot of assistance,” said Mr O’Shea.

“He has an exceptionally supportive family, his mother especially.”

Yemm was given a three-year supervision order, 40 days’ rehabilitation, with mental health counselling and a Building A Better Life programme.

He was ordered to register as a sex offender for five years and must pay a £60 charge.

Judge Jacqueline Davies told Yemm: “Your best bet is to take the help that’s going to be given to you.”

But yesterday, as he was packing up his belongings at his mum’s, just a few doors away from his own flat, he claimed he was innocent.

“The only reason I admitted it was to get out of prison. I haven’t done the offence,” he claimed.

The 30-year-old said if the case had to go to trial, and he was found guilty, it would have meant six months in prison.

Mum, Debbie claimed: “Mark pleaded guilty to get out of prison. He’s not a bad lad. He’s my baby,” she said.

July 2014

A FORMER part-time firefighter has avoided jail after he admitted breaking his five-month-old daughter’s arm.

Bradley Hookway, of Banbury Road, Kidlington, pleaded guilty to inflicting grievous bodily harm on July 4 this year.

Prosecutor Cathy Olliver said the 25-year-old lost his temper with the infant while she was sitting on his knee and wouldn’t stop crying.

She said: “He bent her arm behind her back the way police officers do in films.

“She screamed and he knew something had gone wrong. He felt her arm go floppy.”

Miss Olliver added although he sought medical help immediately, Hookway told doctors the injury was caused when his older daughter fell on her sister.

Terence Woods, defending, said his client suffered from Asperger’s syndrome and struggled to deal with stressful situations.

Judge Ian Pringle told Hookway: “Your daughter was behaving like a normal five-month old and was crying and difficult to control.

“It happens to every parent who has a young child, but what you did was lose your temper and you broke her arm.

“And it is difficult to think of somebody in a greater degree of responsibility than a parent looking after a young child.”

But the judge added there were mitigating factors in the case, such as the defendant’s clear remorse, his medical problem, his lack of maturity and that the incident had been a one-off.

Judge Pringle told Hookway it would be better for him to serve his sentence in the community rather than serving a short prison term.

He sentenced him to 16 months in prison, suspended for two years, with a supervision requirement, 120 hours of unpaid work and a thinking skills programme.

July 2015

Prison sends wheelchair paedophile home due to lack of facilities

A wheelchair-bound paedophile sentenced to five years for indecent assault was transported to Castlerea Prison – and then brought home again – because he could not be accommodated at the jail this week.

Martin Davoren (61) from Corcullen, Moycullen, Co Galway, remained at home last night despite having been convicted of sexually abusing a young girl at Galway Circuit Criminal Court last week.

Davoren is a wheelchair user who has been paralysed from the waist down since he was involved in a road-traffic accident when he was 22-years old.

He was due to commence a five-year custodial sentence on Tuesday and was transported to Castlerea Prison in a specially adapted vehicle after presenting himself at Galway Courthouse.

He could not be accommodated by prison authorities due to his disability and medical needs, however, and was immediately transported back to his home in Galway again.

The 150km round trip occurred despite Judge Rory McCabe putting a stay on Davoren’s sentence last Friday to afford prison authorities time to prepare for his incarceration.

Davoren had pleaded guilty to 12 sample charges of indecently assaulting a girl on dates between September 1, 1986 and July 31, 1988; when the victim was between 13 and 15 years of age.

June 2014

Man sentenced for sexual offences

A bus driver who repeatedly sexually assaulted a vulnerable teenage boy who he was transporting to a specialist school has been sentenced.

Brent Jason Foster (13/07/1968), of Ivor Street, Rochdale, admitted six counts of sexual activity with a child and three counts of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.

At Minshull Street Crown Court today, Friday 6 June 2014, he was sentenced to two years in prison.

Foster is the owner of Almin Travel and also a driver who would transport children to a specialist school in Rochdale.

He initially started plying the victim, who has autism, with chocolate bars during trips to and from school.

Between 1 March 2013 and 4 February 2014, when he was aged 14 or 15, he repeatedly sexually assaulted the boy.

He also contacted him on social media sites and asked the boy to send him intimate photographs of himself, which he did.

Foster also showed the boy intimate pictures of himself.

Detective Constable April Hopwood, said: “The victim, his parents and the school placed their utmost trust in Foster to transport him safely to and from school.

“Instead he used it as an opportunity to groom and sexually abuse a very vulnerable teenage boy.

“The complex needs of the victim made this investigation a difficult one to progress, but once the offences came to light he and his family as well as the police have been resolute in our determination to ensure justice prevailed, which today it has.”

July 2015

Victim describes paedophile as ‘vile, horrible monster’ for abuse she suffered as a 13-year-old

A child sexual abuse victim who was abused as a schoolgirl has described how she kept her ordeal secret for years before plucking up the courage to tell the police.

Now the paedophile who molested her has at last been jailed.

Steven David Walsh, 44, sexually assaulted the teenager while she slept.

But the tormented pupil kept the crime a secret from all but those closest to her until last year when she finally felt able to pick up the phone and call.

When Walsh, of Kingsleigh Road in Heaton Moor, Stockport, was arrested, he called her up and threatened to kill her if she persisted with her case.

However, the brave young woman gave evidence during a trial just yards away from her abuser in the dock and a jury believed her story.

Walsh, who worked as a car valeter and who has links to Wythenshawe, had denied sex assault and witness intimidation but a jury dismissed his story during a trial at Minshull Street Crown Court.

He was caged for two-and-a-half years for sexual assault and handed a further year behind bars for witness intimidation.

He was also ordered to sign the sex offenders’ register for life and slapped with a ten-year restraining order.

His victim, now a university student, told the MEN: “I don’t think any sentence will ever be enough.

“It’s just good that he’s behind bars and I can get on with my life.”

Describing Walsh as a ‘vile, horrible monster’, she urged other victims of sex crime to go to the police: “Don’t be afraid.

“I know it’s hard but you have to tell someone. I know from personal experience what it does to you to keep it inside and bottled up.

“You battle it every day. It affects you in so many ways.”

She described giving evidence in court as ‘awful’ and that she would have been ‘crushed’ had her abuser been found not guilty.

Speaking out after the sentence, she said: “It was horrible, just knowing he was in the same room even though I was behind a screen.

“His family was there supporting him. I had my dad. In that box you feel so alone.

“There are 12 people (in the jury) sitting there and you just hope they believe you. I don’t know where I would be if I didn’t get that conviction.

“It would have crushed me.”

The woman, who has set up a new life in the south of England, added: “Now it’s over I’m letting this be the fuel to drive me.

” I would never say ‘I’m glad it happened’ but if it didn’t happen, I wouldn’t be the person I am today and I wouldn’t have the morals I have today.

“For years I didn’t tell anyone. He was around for years afterwards but I didn’t say anything. He betrayed my trust.

“I’ve moved out of the area and started a new life and I’m just glad that justice has been served and it’s finally over after all the misery he has caused.”

July 2015

Paedophile jailed for repeatedly raping young girl after victim recorded herself being attacked

A paedophile has been jailed for raping a girl under the age of 13 after his brave victim recorded the attack.

Stephen Marwood, 37, was today sentenced to 16 years and six months in prison after pleading guilty to 11 counts of the rape of a child.

Manchester’s Minshull Street Crown Court heard Marwood, of Dufton Walk in Middleton, raped the girl between February 2012 and January 2015 at an address in Rochdale.

The abuse emerged when the girl recorded it happening and then reported it to police.

Detective Constable Chris Whalley said: “This is a horrific case, where the victim was not old enough to even understand the abuse she was being subjected to.

“The victim and her family are being supported by specially trained officers, who we hope will assist them to come to terms with what has happened.

“This sentence goes some way to demonstrating that we will go to any length possible to punish those who target the innocent for their own gratification.

“Greater Manchester is nationally recognised as a model of good practice in terms of support services available to victims.

“If you, or anybody you know, have been a victim of a rape or sexual assault, we have specialist officers to support you through the justice process.”

July 2015

Serial child abuser found guilty of multiple offences

A former Uckfield deputy principal and lay priest has been convicted of sexual offences against two boys.

Christopher Howarth, of Rocks Park Road, Uckfield, was convicted at Hove Crown Court on Friday (July 17) after a ten-day trial.

The retired 68-year-old was found guilty of 26 offences, all committed in the Uckfield area. He was found not guilty of five offences.

July 2015

Pervert jailed for four years for child sex offences

A man has been jailed for four years for sex offences committed after he showed his two victims pornography.

Leeds Crown Court heard Michael Foley’s activities only came to light years later after the first complainant revealed what had happened to him.

Nick Adlington, prosecuting, said Foley had been drinking with the teenage and suggested they watch some porn DVDs.

The victim, because of the amount he had drunk had only a hazy recollection but remembered Foley began pleasuring himself and then became aware that Foley was actually touching him.

The teenager pulled away and Foley immediately stopped. He did not reveal what had happened for several years but said it had impacted on his life and relationships.

After his allegations were made another complainant said he was 10 or 11 when he was at Foley’s house with a number of other boys of a similar age and Foley had asked them if they wanted to look at porn.

They went to his bedroom where they watched pornography and Foley began perform a sex act in front of them.

Imran Khan, representing Foley, said he had been drinking excessively before the first incident and immediately desisted so the offence was only a “momentary” more than 10 years ago.

The other offence was also years ago and his guilty pleas had saved both boys from giving evidence.

Foley, 39, previously of Whitehall Way, Dewsbury admitted one offence of sexual activity with a child and one of sexual activity in the presence of a child.

Jailing him and ordering him to register for life as a sex offender, Recorder James Baird said by his own admission Foley had also taken some drugs prior to the first offence and had taken advantage of the teenager who had been drinking but stopped as soon as he was pushed away.

In the second incident a number of boys had been at his home when he suggested they watch pornography and then committed the offence.

July 2015

Pervert musician sent obscene messages to an 11-year-old girl – Jailed

An Edinburgh musician who sent obscene messages to an 11-year-old girl over the internet has been jailed for 18 months and branded a danger to the public.

Theatre performer Ryan King, 21, used online messaging service Kik to contact the girl and struck up a number of conversations with her.

King, who plays the saxophone and piano, then sent the youngster a dozen pictures of his private parts over a two-week period last year.

He was caught as part of a UK-wide probe into online child abuse which revealed he had been sharing sick photographs with other users of a messaging service.

Police officers raided his home in Bothwell, Lanarkshire, in August last year and removed his laptop and iPad. They discovered 97 indecent images on the devices and found the messages sent to the young girl by King.

King, who studied music at Edinburgh College, had earlier admitted charges of distributing indecent images and causing an underage girl to look at naked images.

Yesterday at Hamilton Sheriff Court he was jailed for 18 months and ordered to be kept on licence for three and a half years on his release. He was also put on the Sex Offenders’ Register indefinitely.

Defence lawyer Ian Scott had asked for King to be spared jail and said he had been given a letter of support from his parish priest.

He said: “He acknowledges the behaviour is wrong but he has convinced himself that the people involved are not real.

“When he is dealing with people in real life he is a very accomplished person but there may be some removal from reality when he is operating a computer and there would require to be very strict use of electronic devices and he accepts that is inevitable.

“He comes from a very supportive family and some are away on holiday just now. He hopes to join them later if he is able to.

“They are all very concerned and the parish priest has written a letter to vouch for the family and for Mr King.

“He is a very hard working person in the church and devotes a lot of time to his studies.”

Procurator fiscal depute Jason Bell had earlier said: “The police received intelligence from the National Online Child Abuse Prevention department that a device was involved in accessing indecent images of children.

“Officers attended to carry out a search at the accused’s home and a pen drive within a laptop and an iPad were removed.

“An examination was carried out revealed indecent images of children and the accused admitted the images recovered were his.

“In the course of searching the items the police noticed there had been conversations via the Kik messenger application with a child of 11 years of age.”

Sheriff John Miller said: “You sent a number of images to an 11-year-old child and because of the gravity of your offending no other disposal is appropriate.

“You are at a high risk of sexual re-offending and a significant degree of harm was caused to those involved.

“You have not offended previously and come from a stable family background but that does not matter.

“Each child in the images you sent is a victim of sexual abuse and the 11-year-old child is also a victim.

“I am concerned that the general public is protected from significant harm when you are released.”

King’s not guilty pleas to further charges of taking and possessing indecent images and encouraging the girl to engage in sexual activity were accepted by prosecutors.

July 2015

Pervert had more than 70,000 child abuse images

A PERVERT who began amassing a huge collection of disgusting child porn images while still a Wigan schoolboy has been jailed.

A court heard that some of the tens of thousands of appalling images showed babies as young as one being abused and the age range of the innocent victims went up to 15 years old.

Worryingly he had also been taking video recordings of children in a primary school playground.

Christopher Carlton, of Elnup Avenue, Shevington, was told by a judge: “By any measure you are an extremely damaged individual.”

Carlton, now 28, began his obscene collection of more than 73,000 images when he was aged about 14 and Judge Robert Warnock, who sentenced him to two years’ imprisonment, said: “The images are obsessively sorted and categorised.”

Before his sentencing hearing the judge had ordered psychiatric, psychological and probation reports to see how the protection of the public, and particularly children, could best be served.

Liverpool Crown Court heard that the psychologist believed his condition was “unlikely to be susceptible to treatment” and the probation service have assessed him as “presenting a high risk to children.”

Judge Warnock pointed out that the courses in the communty that might benefit Carlton are not available anyway because of funding problems and there are limitations on treatment in prison if the sentence is less than four years.

Jailing him Judge Warnock told him: “You have no insight into the extent of the abuse of the children depicted or your promotion of that abuse.”

He also said that he agreed he presented a risk to children in the light of the pleasure he admitted deriving from videoing children.

“You have distorted and concerning views about sexual boundaries,” he said.

Judge Warnock pointed out that Carlton had a degree of autistic spectrum disorder, is intelligent, having previously excelled academically, and is socially isolated.

Keith Sutton, prosecuting, said that Carlton was arrested as part of the National Crime Agency investigation, Operation Notarise, targeting people distributing images through peer to peer platforms on the internet.

He arrived home during the raid on July 3 last year and admitted the indecent images were his.

Examination showed they were in all three categories of seriousness and there were also extreme porn and prohibited images.

There were so many images discovered on his various computers that experts stopped counting at 73,000.

They also found the video recordings of children playing in the playground, said Mr Sutton.

Carlton pleaded guilty to a total of 22 offences involving possessing and making indecent images and six offences of possessing extreme and prohibited images.

Judge Warnock, who said he was in urgent need of assessment and treatment, ordered him to sign the Sex Offenders Register for life and imposed a Sexual Harm Prevention Order,

July 2015

Learning mentor, 34, jailed after “manipulating and corrupting” schoolgirls

A paedophile who “marred the teenage years” of two girls has been sentenced to more than ten years behind bars.

Mustafa Seyranoglu, 34, of Pinnata Close, Enfield, “manipulated and corrupted” the two, who are 14 and 15, while working as a learning mentor at a school in the borough.

The 34-year-old father changed his plea from not guilty to guilty on nine counts including

Four counts of sexual activity with a girl aged 13 to 15

Three counts of sexual assault on female

One count of causing to incite a girl, aged 13 to 15 to engage in sexual activity

One count of perverting the course of justice.

At the sentencing today at Wood Green Crown Court, prosecution Emma Smith QC told the court that Seyranoglu had sex with the 15-year-old girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, more than ten times at his home, in his car, at her home and at the school.

The pair started a sexual relationship in March 2014 after the 15-year-old went to the learning mentor to discuss relationship issues.

They saw each other until July 2014 when the girl’s sister discovered emails between her and Seyranoglu.

QC Smith said: “The messages on the phone show that it was clear the defendant was telling her to destroy the telephone, say I cannot remember or fake a blackout when questioned by police.”

Three days later the girl revealed the extent of her relationship with the 34-year-old to her aunt and by this stage, Seyranoglu had been put on gardening leave by the school.

The second victim, 14, had earlier approached Seyranoglu with similar relationship issues a month prior to the 15-year-old.

QC Smith added: “She explained he was a learning mentor, she went to him for help. There after she describes how he manipulated the conversation into sexual matters. This lead to her exposing herself to him and him touching her breasts.”

Seyranoglu then forced the 14-year-old to have oral sex with him.

In his sentencing, Judge James Patrick condemned the actions of the mentor and revealed there was just one day between stopping his relations with the 14-year-old and starting his relationship with the second victim.

He said: “The first complainant has diabetes, a condition you both share. You quickly crossed boundaries and manipulated the conversation around sexual matters where you moved to touch her inappropriately and caused her to undress and expose herself to you. This would happen frequently, sometimes daily.

“By then you had already turned your attention to your second victim, she too was referred to you because of relationship problems. Initially your contact was appropriate but later you suggested you were in love with her and said nothing to stop her infatuation with you. You exploited and manipulated it.

“You took her virginity a day after stopping with the first complainant and had sex with her at your home, her home, your car and the school for two months. She was 15 and was a child in your care.”

The Judge also revealed that after Seyranoglu had been bailed with a condition of not to contact either victim, he phoned the 15-year-old girl and “manipulated her and made her feel guilty.”

Judge Patrick added: “I have to sentence you for the sexual corruption of two girls who you knew were both under 16 and committed to your care.

“What you have done to them has marred the teenage years and will no doubt have an effect on their lives for many years to come.”

Along with the 10-and-a-half year sentence for the nine counts, Seyranoglu was given sexual harm prevention order with the conditions: not to be in the company of any child under the age of 16 unless accompanied by an adult who is aware of his conviction not to get in touch with any family members of the children and not to seek to contact or communicate with a child under the age of 16.

July 2015

Paedophile jailed after admitting sexually assaulting young boy

An 84-year-old man has been jailed after he admitted sexually assaulting a young boy.

Northampton Crown Court heard that Ronald Cayless indecently assaulted the boy in the 1980s in Northamptonshire.

The court heard that Cayless told his victim not to tell anyone and “keep it as their secret.”

Dominic Woolard, prosecuting, said Cayless was arrested after the victim contacted police last year.

Cayless pleaded guilty to assaulting a boy aged under 16 year old.

Mr Woolard read a victim impact statement to the court which revealed he had suffered severe psychological problems as a result and felt like his childhood had been “stolen” by Cayless.

Judge Michael Fowler sentenced Cayless, of Arteberry Road, London, to 15 months in prison.

He is likely to serve half before being considered for parole.

July 2015

A man who sexually assaulted a 15 year-old girl has been jailed for four years and placed on the sex offender’s register for life by a judge who said he posed a danger to young women.

Paul Cooper, 43, groomed the vulnerable victim sending her text message asking if could “massage her legs” and went on to sexually assaulted her, Norwich Crown Court heard.

Cooper, of Winfarthing Avenue, King’s Lynn admitted two charges of sexually activity with a child.

William Carter, prosecuting, said that Cooper had a previous conviction for indecent assault on a female under 16.

Gemma Stokes, for Cooper, who has been having treatment for cancer, said : “He is remorseful. He wants to work on his offending behaviour.”

Jailing him for four years and ordering Cooper to be on an extended licence for six years on his release, Judge Katharine Moore told him his offences had a profound effect on the victim, and said: “It is to her very great credit that she has spoken out.”

She added: “It is clear to me that you pose a very real danger to young women.”

However she accepted he was being treated for cancer and added: “It’s clear your time in custody has been very difficult for you.”

She also made Cooper subject to a sexual offences prevention order under which he must not have unsupervised contact with any female under 16.

July 2015

Pervert spared prison for possession of child abuse images

PERVERT Lee Rushton has been spared jail after being found with more than 700 indecent pictures and videos of children.

Police made the discovery after raiding the 41-year-old’s Abbey Hulton home on February 25 last year.

They seized a laptop computer, an external hard-drive and a memory stick, which were later found to contain 749 indecent photographs and videos.

Experts said 15 of these were category A images, which is the most serious classification.

Now Rushton has been handed a three-year community order at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court after pleading guilty to seven offences of making indecent images of children.

Rushton, of Eaveswood Road, was also made subject to a sexual harm prevention order for five years.

The order means he is banned from accessing the internet – unless the device has the capability of storing his search history.

Sentencing him, Judge Paul Glenn said: “This sort of crime is not a victimless crime. These images are of real children being abused by people for the entertainment of people, like you, who choose to resort to that sort of material.

“When you do that, you are encouraging the people who perpetrate the abuse. That’s why this is serious.”

Rushton, who has no previous convictions, was made subject to a three-year supervision requirement and will have to complete a sex offender programme.

He was also ordered to pay £1,200 in costs and a £60 statutory surcharge.

Judge Glenn made an order for the seized computer equipment to be destroyed.

July 2015

Sentence for man who had indecent images of children

A MAN who downloaded indecent images of children was ordered by a judge to rehabilitate in the community with the support of his friends.

Jamie Morrison of Simon House, Paradise Street, Oxford, admitted making 54 images found on a USB stick in April.

Judge Peter Ross postponed sentencing him then in order to get more information from the probation service about how his offending could be managed in the community.

Yesterday, 25-year-old Morrison was back at Oxford Crown Court.

Judge Ross told him: “Those who offend in the way you have offended encourage the abuse of children.

“All over the world there are children who are abused in the most horrific ways, that abuse being photographed or filmed then being distributed to the likes of you. It has to be stamped out.”

He went on: “All the evidence I have read in probation service reports indicated you are engaging with the various services.

“You have a great deal of support available to you and you are making use of that.

“You have also got the support of a circle of friends outside my order and I encourage you to continue to use it because clearly you need to be integrated into the wider community of people who are law-abiding and behaving normally.”

He handed Morrison a three-year community sentence, which means he will have to be supervised by the probation service for three years and will have to complete a 76-day Thames Valley Sexual Offending Treatment Programme.

He was also put on the Sex Offenders Register and ordered to pay a £60 victim surcharge.

July 2015

Dangerous paedophile asked Home Secretary to legalise sex with children

A “DANGEROUS” self-confessed paedophile, who did research on child murder and York schools within days of being released from jail has been given an eight-year extended prison sentence.

Phillip John Kirk, 22, also wrote to the Home Secretary asking for her to make sex with children legal, said Laura Addy, prosecuting at York Crown Court.

Despite being closely monitored by police and probation officers, in less than a month of freedom he downloaded more than 1,000 indecent images of young girls from the internet and got sex toys, including a home made one with young children’s clothes, researched youth clubs and looked on the internet for details about Girl Guides, Brownies and Rainbows, school and police uniforms and a UK police warrant template.

In his letter to the Home Secretary Kirk, formerly of Walmgate, wrote: “I have been a paedophile since the age of 13 and openly a paedophile for the last three years.”

The judge described the letter to the Home Secretary as a “deluded and dangerous plea to decriminalise sex with children.”

He passed an eight-year extended prison sentence of four years in jail and four years’ probation supervision following release. If he reoffends at any time during the sentence, Kirk can be sent back to prison to serve the rest of it behind bars.

Miss Addy said Kirk hid a USB stick from police on which he had illegal pictures of children and did a factory reset of the laptop he did tell police he had.

The court heard he had previous convictions for breaking into a primary school and stealing girls’ PE kit and possessing indecent images of children, and was released on November 14, 2014. He was arrested on December 5.

Detective Inspector Shaun Page, of North Yorkshire Police, said: “Phillip Kirk is one of the most dangerous individuals I am aware of, and I welcome the sentence at court today that will keep children safe.

The Recorder of York, Judge Stephen Ashurst, told Kirk: “Yours is an extremely disturbing case. I must address the danger you pose to the public in general and to children in general.

“It is clear you have a very unhealthy interest in children and despite all your recent experiences, nothing it seems deters you from offending.

“I am quite satisfied there is a strong public interest and I have a public duty to mark society’s revulsion at your behaviour by a sentence which provides effective protection for the public for a long period of time.”

The judge also tightened existing controls on Kirk under a lifelong sexual offences prevention order that now bans him for ever going within 100 metres of any school, youth club or other place where young people gather, working or volunteering with organisations connected to children and having unsupervised contact with anyone under 16, and restricts his use of the internet to a single electronic item under police supervision.

He will be on the sex offenders’ register for life.

Kirk, most recently of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to 21 charges of downloading indecent images of children.

Four charges of breaching an earlier sexual offences prevention order were ordered to lie on file, meaning they are not convictions but will appear on his police record.

His solicitor advocate David Camidge said he had made a “cry for help” to probation officers just before his arrest. He had had a troubled childhood and had been diagnosed as possibly having an “autistic spectrum disorder”, the court was told. He was taking the maximum dosage of an anti-depressant drug and would need a “great deal of work” by the probation service to manage the risk he poses to the public.

April 2012

Teenage paedophile broke into school to steal gym clothing

A TEENAGE paedophile with a fetish for girls’ clothing has been jailed for breaking into a primary school to steal gym kits.

Police found the sportswear in Phillip Kirk’s bedroom, along with a coat he had stuffed with a duvet – with which he simulated sex.

Officers traced Kirk after he left a wallet containing his driving licence at the scene near Northallerton, North Yorkshire, last September.

When his computers were examined, experts found more than 2,500 indecent images of children, Teesside Crown Court heard.

After being questioned and released on bail, the 18-yearold college student bought another laptop and downloaded more indecent pictures.

The court heard that more than 2,000 images – some in the most serious category – had been made before his second arrest two months later.

Tamara Pawson, prosecuting, said: “He said he got sexual gratification from the clothes, as well as the images.”

The court heard that Kirk was convicted in 2010 and last year for possessing indecent images and received a warning in 2009 when he was 15.

Miss Pawson told Judge Peter Fox that, on one occasion, Kirk’s parents called police when they found pictures in his bedroom. When he was 15, Kirk was cautioned for possessing child pornography and trying to access pictures on his school computer system.

Judge Fox told him: “If you go on, you could be spending the rest of your life in prison.”

Kirk, of Fernwood Close, Northallerton, was jailed for three years after he admitted making and possessing indecent photographs and burglary.

The court heard he broke into Brompton Primary School, tried to get onto the computer network and rummaged through gym bags.

His barrister, Carl Swift, said: “There is hope that, with assistance, he will not blight his life forever.”

July 2015

Two teachers banned for sex acts with schoolgirl

Two teachers have been been banned from teaching for life after being found guilty of having sexual relationships with the same teenage girl.

Daniel Cochrane, 38, and Andrew Green, 32, began exchanging sexual texts with the 15-year-old in 2011.

Both men worked at Lord Lawson of Beamish School in Gateshead, but their victim was not one of their pupils.

The National College for Teaching and Leadership conduct panel found them guilty of professional misconduct.

PE teacher Cochrane had taught at the school for 11 years while music teacher Green had taught there for five years.

Both resigned in March 2012.

The panel ruled that Cochrane engaged in a sex act with the girl in his car – knowing that she was 15.

Although Green had sex with her, at the time he thought she was over 16, the panel found.

The girl, who is now 19 and referred to as girl A’ in the report, said that in May 2011 she had sex with Green in his house.

The girl also exchanged sexual messages and pictures with Cochrane but they had only met once, the panel heard.

She said she had performed a sex act on him in his car in May 2011.

Both men were given an indeterminate ban from teaching for life.

December 2014

Pervert spared prison sentence after police found hard drive containing almost 3,000 indecent images of children

A MAN who tried to conceal a hard drive containing indecent images of children while police were waiting outside his house was spared a custodial sentence at court.

But Mark Budgen’s attempt to mislead police failed, and they found the hard drive in a wooded area behind his home in Lawn Gardens, Luton, said prosecutor Philip Misner.

Examination of that and a computer showed he had downloaded 2,727 indecent images of children, some at the most serious level of depravity, a Judge said.

But Judge Stuart Bridge said although the offences deserved a custodial sentence he felt able to suspend it.

He said Budgen had dedicated himself to helping others in recent years, working with charities and in the community.

Budgen, 58, pleaded guilty to seven charges of possessing and downloading indecent images of children.

At Luton Crown Court on Friday he was given a ten month prison sentence suspended for two years, with 200 hours unpaid work.

He must also pay £400 costs, £100 victim surcharge and comply with the requirements of a sexual offences prevention order and the sex offender’s register.

Mr. Misner said police went to his home on Oct 2 last year but he was not in. They contacted him by mobile phone and he said he would come home from Aylesbury and meet them.

But later, while they waited outside his house, they saw a man run from the wooded area into the rear of the property.

They later found the hard drive in the woods.

June 2015

Pervert jailed for indecent assaulting 4-year-old girl

A pervert who indecently assaulted a 4-year-old girl has been jailed for four years

On a pretext at Spurs’ football ground, Brian Terence Maslin, 80 of Brettenham road, Edmonton took out his erect penis and made the small child lick it and suck it.

The offence dates back to 1974

It is believed Maslin may of abused other children

Wood Green crown court heard the child was Maslin’s best friend’s daughter

Maslin threatened the child that if she told anyone then her father would go to prison

Only after the death of her father was she able to report it. The child still suffers nightmares.

The judge gave Maslin no credit for guilty plea. He said your good character entitled you to no mitigation. If you have been prosecuted for rape under 2003 act, you would have been given 14 years imprisonment.

Indecent assault is the only offence available to the Prosection. The maximum sentence is 5 years. I must have regard to the passage of time. There has been a delay but that has been as a result of your own actions. No mitigation in 40 years that you masqueraded as of good character, when you were not.

Full time care, strokes and frailty taken into account. Your incarceration will be a burden on you and others, but the delay comes about because of your threats made to a little girl and you have brought them upon yourself.

I have referred to your age and medical condition and I agree you are not a danger to children any longer. You will serve two thirds of the sentence I pass. You will be on the sex offenders’ register for life. The sentence is four years imprisonment.