Kenneth Cooper – Leighton Buzzard

July 22, 2015, 1:17 am

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July 2015

Convicted Paedophile Caught With More Explicit Photos

A convicted paedophile from Leighton Buzzard, released early from jail, has been caught with hundreds of indecent images and sent back to prison.

Kenneth Cooper, of Magnon Court, shared over 500 child abuse pictures and videos with other people, after already being convicted of similar offences.

The 60-year-old’s been put back inside for 3 years, four months and will serve another three years on license.

After hearing that Cooper had also been convicted of having indecent images of children in 2004, Judge David Farrell QC said that he regarded him as posing a significant risk of causing sexual harm to children.

He passed an extended sentence of 7 years. Cooper received a jail sentence of 3 years and 4 months with a further 3 years 8 months when he will be on licence and liable to be recalled to prison.

Prosecutor Daniel Siong said the police raided Cooper’s flat on 12 March this year.

There was a delay before Cooper opened the door. He had hidden a computer, called Ken’s Notebook, in cellophane and towels.

After a search police found the computer. It was analysed and found to contain over 400 Category A images – the most serious level. There were more than 1300 at Level B and more than 13,000 at Level C.

531 of the images had been placed on a file server by Cooper so he could share them with other paedophiles.

Mr Siong said at the time of his arrest, Cooper was coming off the licence from the 3sentence he received in 2012 for abusing the girl.

Cooper of Magnon Court, Leighton Buzzard pleaded guilty to six charges: distributing indecent images, three charges of downloading Category A, B and C images, and two of possessing indecent images.

Andrew Morton, defending, said Cooper was in ‘isolated individual’ who had not engaged with probation officers when he was released on licence from his previous sentence.

Cooper must also register as a Sex Offender and abide by the terms of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order indefinitely.

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Nicholas Eaton – Sompting

July 22, 2015, 1:21 am

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July 2015

A SOMPTING man has been sent to prison for possessing almost 1,000 indecent images of children.

Nicholas Eaton, 51, of Nelson Close, Sompting, was sentenced to six months’ in prison at Brighton Crown Court on Friday (July 17), police announced today.

It comes after a previous hearing where he admitted to making and possessing more than 950 images, including several videos, some in the most serious category, showing indecent images of children

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Simon Robbin – Nelson

July 22, 2015, 1:29 am

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July 2015

A sex offender spared jail over a stash of nearly 5,000 sickening child abuse pictures, has now been caught with indecent images on his mobile phone.

Burnley Magistrates’ Court heard how Simon Lee Robbin (27) lied to police, telling them he had thrown the phone in a reservoir, but then owned up and told them it was in his mattress.

Robbin is currently on the sexual offenders’ register, after he was placed on it for five years in 2011.

Burnley Crown Court had at that time been told how Robbin handed police two USB flash drives when they went to his then home in Colne in November the year before.

Officers were to find more than 4,500 disgusting images of young boys.

Robbin, who had been later questioned, had told police he knew he had done wrong and that he got some sexual gratification from looking at the photos.

The defendant, then of End Street, had admitted 16 charges of making an indecent photo of a child. He had been given a three-year community order, with supervision.

On Tuesday, he was back in court and admitted three counts of making an indecent photograph of a child, on or between November 1st and November 27th, last year.

The offences are said to involve more than 50 images, some at category A, the most serious level, as well as categories B and C.

The defendant, now of Leeds Road, Nelson, was committed on unconditional bail to the crown court to be sentenced on September 7th.

Miss Parveen Akhtar (prosecuting) at the latest hearing, said last November officers from the Dangerous and Sexual Offenders Unit, acting on intelligence, went to the defendant’s home. Robbin was arrested and told them he was responsible for uploading indecent images of children and using his mobile phone to access the internet. He claimed he had thrown the phone in a reservoir.

Officers remained to search his flat and he was taken to the police station. On the way, he asked what the police officers were doing at his home and when he was told it was being searched, admitted he had lied and had not got rid of the phone.

Miss Akhtar added: “He said, ‘it’s in my mattress, in a rip at the front. I put it there. It don’t know why I lied’.” Robbin said he had deleted the pictures, which were found when experts examined the phone.

Mr Geoff Ireland (defending) said: “I believe he is complying with supervision, but obviously, he is in a serious position. The defendant does have some issues.”

Sentencing Robbin in 2011, Judge Andrew Woolman had told him: “Normally people who keep images as bad as this go to prison, but I have read the report about you written by the probation officer and you met a psychologist and she has reported to the court. It’s clear that you have extreme difficulties in dealing with life and don’t understand an awful lot.”

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Neil George – Southampton

July 22, 2015, 1:33 am

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July 2015

Pervert banned from city for making obscene comments to Wiltshire schoolgirls

A MAN who followed schoolgirls making obscene sexual comments and putting them in fear of attack has been banned from Salisbury.

Police used CCTV to track Neil George, 51, as he moved around the city, before arresting him.

On February 26 he followed the two girls along Netherhampton Road, Salisbury, during the afternoon and a 25-year-old woman along Wilton Road during the evening, while making obscene and sexual comments towards them.

George, of Kendal Avenue, Southampton, pleaded guilty to two public order offences of causing alarm and distress.

He received an 18-month community order and a 40-hour rehabilitation activity requirement.

He also received an 18-month restraining order, preventing him from contacting any of the victims or entering Salisbury.

Inspector David Minty said: “I am really pleased with this outcome.

“Mr George had travelled from outside the city to commit his crime, a crime that has had a very real and traumatic effect on a number of young ladies.

“I really hope the fact that he can no longer come back to the city sends a strong and positive message to him and others like him.”

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Paul Baker – Barton Seagrave

July 22, 2015, 1:38 am

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July 2015

Northamptonshire man jailed for four years for sex attack on teenage boy in the 1980s

A former children’s home worker from Northamptonshire has been jailed for a sex attack he committed on a teenage boy more than 35 years ago.

In the 1980s Paul Baker, who is now 56, of Grosvenor Road, Barton Seagrave, Northants, was a care worker at The Brambles Children’s Home which operated on Buckle Close, Luton, until 2008. He was employed as a noise abatement officer at Kettering Borough Council.

Baker approached the boy while he was outside his family home playing football. Baker told the boy that he had just bought a new car and invited him out for a ride.

The teenager agreed but after a short journey Baker suggested that they should get out and go for a walk.

After the pair had later sat down Baker pulled the boy’s tracksuit bottoms and pants off, then removed his own clothing.

Baker then performed two sex acts on the boy, before grabbing the boy’s hand to make him perform a sex act.

Following the attack Baker told the teenager not to tell anyone what had happened.

At an earlier trial this year Baker denied charges of indecent assault and claimed that it was a case of mistaken identity

He was found guilty by a jury and at Luton Crown Court on Friday was sentenced to four years in jail.

During the sentencing Judge Phillip Bartle QC read out extracts from a victim statement, which detailed the severe psychological impact the attack had on the teenager.

Judge Bartle said: “This incident has had a profound effect on him. He said that after it happened he wanted to get into bed and forget everything.

“This boy told nobody what happened at all until about 15 years later when he told his wife.“At trial there was evidence he had seen doctors and psychiatrists because of the effect of what had happened to him.”

Judge Bartle added that the victim also suffered a mental health breakdown later in life.

In mitigation, defence barrister Siobhan Molloy conceded that the attack was ‘planned’.

Ms Molloy added that if Baker was given a custodial sentence he would lose his job as a noise abatement officer at Kettering Borough Council, leaving his wife in difficulty with mortgage payments.

Nonetheless Judge Bartle QC jailed Baker for four years. After serving half of the sentence Baker will be released on licence. He will also have to sign the sex offenders list for five years.

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Patrick Collins – Newport

July 22, 2015, 2:00 am

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August 2007

Ex-boxer jailed for sex assault

AN ex-boxer who subjected a teenage girl to an “extremely nasty and humiliating” sexual assault was sent to prison for three and a half years.

Relatives of the girl screamed abuse at Patrick Collins, 40, as he was led from the dock at Newport crown court.

The court heard how Collins recorded his attack on the girl, who could be heard screaming at him to stop. He admitted sexual assault and false imprisonment.

Collins, of Williams Close, Newport, lured the girl to his home by asking her to help him choose his partner’s birthday present, the court was told.

He persuaded the girl to dress in his partner’s clothes so he could judge what size to buy and asked if he could take pictures of her so he could show a dressmaker what he wanted, Byron Broadstock, prosecuting, said.

The girl reluctantly agreed to try the clothes and a pair of his partner’s tights, Mr Broadstock said. Collins, he said, had a predilection for ladies’ tights.

Collins and the girl went downstairs where he assaulted her, picking her up and saying I’m going to do to you what I do to my girlfriend’.

“Rather grotesquely he made a DVD of it all,” Mr Broadstock said.

The girl fled the house in hysterics and Collins was arrested that day. He denied the allegations initially saying the girl had flirted with him and said she was more sexy than his partner, but when shown the DVD “became flustered” and admitted the assault.

Defending, Leighton Hughes said these were grave offences, but Collins had shown regret and remorse.

“This was plainly disturbing if not crazy behaviour” he said. “He finds it just about impossible to acknowledge what he’s done. He’s just about broken.”

Sentencing Collins after viewing the DVD of the assault, Judge Roderick Denyer said: “This was clearly an extremely nasty and humiliating indecent assault. She was clearly telling you to stop and you didn’t.”

Outside court the girl’s grandmother said the teenager’s life had been ruined and the sentence was not enough.

She said: “He’ll be out in 18 months. My granddaughter has to live with this for the rest of her life.”

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Michael Kinnear/Caroline Shaw – Heysham/Blackpool

July 22, 2015, 8:08 am

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July 2015

Man and woman exploited 7-yr-old girl and involved her in indecent images worldwide

Michael Kinnear and Caroline Shaw took obscene pictures of 7-year-old girl and distributed them to other paedophiles

Caroline Shaw, 29, (pictured) formerly of Thornton Road, Morecambe, now living in Meldon Road, Heysham, and Michael Kinnear, 48, who gave his last known address as Fairfield Avenue, Blackpool, pleaded guilty to inciting a seven-year-old girl to be involved in child abuse images worldwide.

They also admitted offences of possessing and distributing indecent pictures, some at the highest level of indecency, of children.

Shaw further pleaded guilty to taking an indecent picture of a child and ill-treating a child.

All the offences took place at Morecambe between October last year and May this year.

Prosecutor Malcolm Isherwood said: “The case involves the taking and making of indecent images of children.

“They exploited a seven-year-old child, indecent photographs were taken of her and distributed.”

The prosecution opposed bail for Kinnear.

The defendants were ordered to appear for sentence at Preston Crown Court on August 12 by Blackpool magistrates.

Kinnear was remanded in custody and Shaw was allowed bailed.

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Nicholas Morgan – Newton Abbot

July 22, 2015, 8:13 am

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December 2012

Judge spares Newton Abbot man, 52

A JUDGE has told a Newton Abbot man it would be pointless to send him to prison for possessing indecent images of children.

Nicholas Morgan, 52, of Rundle Road, was found with 242 images of children on his computer.

He pleaded guilty to five charges of making indecent photographs of children and two counts of possessing images.

But the court heard he was a man of previous good character and the offences ‘come down the list of seriousness’.

Exeter Crown Court was told Morgan’s mother-in-law had become suspicious after discovering indecent sites on his computer.

Prosecutor Alistair Verheijen said she had been shocked by what she found and called the police.

Morgan at first denied any knowledge of the sites and told the police they could check his computer.

But when the hard drive was examined they found a number of searches indicating he had been looking for the child sex sites.

Some photos had been deleted, the prosecutor said.

The images ranged from level one to level three with level five being the most serious.

Mitigating Rupert Taylor said Morgan had always been in employment. He provided three character references for the judge to read.

Morgan was told to take part in a sexual offenders treatment programme and pay £1,000 costs.

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Christopher Botham – Widnes

July 22, 2015, 8:34 am

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July 2015

Widnes man spared immediate prison sentence over indecent images of children

A WIDNES man caught by police with nearly 100 indecent images of children has been spared an immediate prison sentence.

Christopher Botham, 62, of Irwell Street, appeared at Chester Crown Court on Monday, July 20, to be sentenced for three counts of making indecent photographs of children and another count of possession of indecent photographs of children.

Judge Nicholas Woodward handed Botham an eight-month prison sentence, suspended for two years.

The defendant is also to be supervised for the next 24 months, was ordered to pay £535 in prosecution costs and his IT equipment will be destroyed.

Judge Woodward also imposed a sexual offenders prevention order for the next decade.

The court heard from Jo Maxwell, prosecuting, that police found 98 indecent images of children on IT devices including four USB pen drives, a personal computer base unit and a laptop.

Judge Woodward said the images included 37 each at categories C and B with another 24 at category A – the most serious as classified by the Crown Prosecution Service.

The 98 images also included one video in category B.

Carmel Wilde, defending, spoke briefly and said Botham wanted to ‘convey his shame’.

Sentencing, Judge Woodward said this was a ‘low point’ for the defendant and that Botham had been accessing images ‘over a period of years’.

The judge added: “It is clear from the pre-sentence report that you are motivated to address your sexual offending.”

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Christopher Morrow – Liverpool

July 22, 2015, 8:37 am

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July 2015

Paedophile turned to charity after being caught

A Childwall paedophile convicted of child abuse images offences turned to a charity to change his ways, a court heard.

Christopher Morrow, 25, of Francis Way, referred himself to Birmingham-based charity the Lucy Faithfull Foundation after his arrest.

He pleaded guilty to seven charges of making (downloading) indecent images of children, aged as young as 10, at Liverpool Magistrates’ Court yesterday.

Morrow, who was unrepresented in court, said: “All I can say is that I am deeply sorry. I have sought help from the Lucy Faithfull Foundation and the course they run. I have been going regularly for the last eight weeks.

“(Downloading the images) was not regular, it was very infrequent that I would ever do it. I never intended to share it with anyone or anything along those lines.”

The Lucy Faithfull Foundation says it is dedicated to preventing the sexual abuse of children.

Its website says: “We believe that changing offenders is one of the best ways of protecting children.

“Sex offenders must be held accountable for their actions. Nevertheless, many abusers and potential abusers are troubled by their sexual thoughts regarding children.

“They need access to appropriate sources of support and intervention to help them manage their thoughts and behaviour and to assist them to live responsible, fulfilling and law-abiding lives.”

Jo Lazzari, prosecuting, said Morrow was arrested as part of a Merseyside Police investigation.

She said: “The defendant’s computer hard drive was seized by the police as a result of a warrant they executed at his home address. They found a number of indecent images on the computer.”

Ms Lazzari said the charges related to one category A image, the most serious according to sentencing guidelines, a category B video and two images, and a category C video and two images.

Overall there were 27 indecent images found on the computer.

Ms Lazzari said: “He was interviewed and accepted downloading these images, and said he was aware the children were under-age. He does not have any previous convictions.”

Morrow, who lives with his parents, was told he could face prison for the offences.

Magistrates sent the case to Liverpool Crown Court, where he will be sentenced on August 18.

Morrow was released on bail with the conditions not to have any unsupervised contact with anyone under the age of 18.

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Keri Thomas – Llanelli

July 22, 2015, 9:22 am

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Keith Brown/Samina Kauser – Birmingham/Coventry

July 22, 2015, 9:50 am

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Stephen Short – Blyth

July 22, 2015, 9:55 am

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David Gladwin – Worksop

July 23, 2015, 12:53 am

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Alan Ramsay – Rutland

July 23, 2015, 12:56 am

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Matthew Stone – Dover

July 23, 2015, 12:59 am

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Bryan Russell – Taunton/Exeter

July 23, 2015, 8:49 am

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James Halliwell – Crowle

July 23, 2015, 8:51 am

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Michael Baker – Taunton

July 23, 2015, 8:54 am

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Michael Macrae – Inverness/Nairn

July 23, 2015, 8:59 am

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