January 2016

Man jailed for live streaming child sex abuse from the Philippines

A man who paid for the live-streaming of child abuse from the Philippines and collected thousands of indecent images has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison.

Thomas James Fairley, aged 43, from Bletchley, had previously admitted eight charges of child sexual abuse.

Fairley was arrested by officers from the National Crime Agency’s CEOP Command in March 2015, on suspicion of paying for indecent images of children and inciting sexual activity with children from the Philippines.

During a search of his home, investigators recovered several electronic devices including two laptops and one desktop computer, which contained 3,375 indecent images and videos of children.

The material included over 300 items of the most extreme type (Category A), as well as extreme adult pornographic images.

Skype chat records found on one of the laptops showed Fairley stated he had a sexual interest in children and had been requesting ‘shows’ with children via live-streaming. He also promised to send money for indecent images of children, and requested that victims be of certain ages.

Fairley was sentenced today at Luton Crown Court to two and a half years in prison and will be subject to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order.

Matt Sutton, from the National Crime Agency’s CEOP Command, said:“Thomas Fairley paid for the sexual abuse of some of the world’s most vulnerable children to be streamed back to him in the UK, live via the internet.

“He also collected a large number of extremely disturbing images, some of which fall into the worst category possible. Each of these images involved a child being abused.

January 2016

Man jailed for 4 years for child sexual offences

A 20-year-old man has today been jailed following an investigation into child sexual abuse in Rotherham.

Mark Hastie, 20, of Fleming Way, Flanderwell, appeared before Sheffield Crown Court today (Friday 22 January) to be sentenced after pleading guilty to:

• TYhree counts of sexual activity with a child

• One count of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity  

• One count of possessing indecent images of children.

He was jailed for 4 years and given a 10-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order.

Hastie has also been placed on the sex offenders register for life. 

The investigation into Hastie began in 2015, when the father of a 13-year-old girl called police to report concerns over an older man trying to contact his daughter.

When specialist officers spoke with the teenager, she disclosed sexual abuse.

Hastie was arrested and his electronic devices seized, which revealed he had been sending inappropriate messages to his victim, encouraging her to engage in sexual activity with him, and had indecent images of children.

January 2016

British paedophile filmed himself sexually abusing girls as young as eight in the Philippines

A British paedophile who filmed himself sexually abusing girls as young as eight in the Philippines is facing years behind bars today.

Trevor Monk, 47, paid thousands of pounds for access to the children during a two-week holiday in the South-east Asian country.

He even complained to one woman arranging the abuse that one of the girls was 16 instead of 13 and was unable to have sex.

Between December 2010 and November 2014 he also transferred a total of £14,740 via Western Union to accounts in the Philippines in exchange for live streams of the abuse of young girls.

The Old Bailey heard he claimed the payments were not in exchange for the the indecent videos, but because he knew the children were living in poor conditions and wanted them to be able to eat.

Monk also confessed to flying to the Philippines, but said this was to visit his “girlfriends”.

The court heard he told officers he first met one of the female facilitators – Janet – online when “she was sending him live shows of her abusing children”.

Prosecutor Timothy Probert-Wood said: “This case stems from an investigation into the sellers and buyers of child abuse material in the Philippines.

“The defendant’s email address was identified as being an alleged purchaser of such material and as a result was arrested.”

At the time of his arrest the former machine operator admitted he had downloaded what he described as “child exploitation pictures”.

Mr Probert-Wood added that examination of computers, external hard drives and memory cards found at Monk’s home revealed tens of thousands of indent images and video of children, and evidence that he had himself molested young girls in the Philippines.

Just one of the computers contained evidence of more than 43,000 indecent images of children.

Records of Yahoo chat logs revealed negotiation of payments between Monk and the women in the Philippines. In one discussion he told the woman “£1,500 for the girl, £500 for you”.

In another he even expressed his disappointment at not getting what had been agreed.

Mr Probert-Wood said: “Monk was requesting footage of live shows, but was in fact being sent pre-recorded video of child abuse that he had already seen. He complains of being taken advantage of in that regard.

Adjourning the sentence until Tuesday January 26, Judge Anuja Dhir QC warned Monk: “I can tell you this, that it will be a prison sentence and it will be a lengthy prison sentence.”

The court heard details of some of the images Monk was sent, one of which included a girl aged around seven to 10 years pulling her top down and holding a sign saying “for you James” – the name that he used in his email address to chat.

Using the messaging service, Monk also arranged to meet up with his facilitators and young girls when he visited the Philippines between March 23 2014 and April 4 2014.

On March 31 2014 he asks a woman if he would be allowed to “f***” the girl she is to provide for him, to which she replies “the sky is the limit”.

However, later that day he sends a frustrated message claiming to have been lied to, as the girl was 16 and on her period, and not 13 and willing to participate in whatever he wanted.

He tells the woman: “You should be ashamed – you gave me lies about touching and f******”.

During the same trip Monk films a number of girls aged in their early teens touching themselves and can even be heard in the footage encouraging them to do so.

One of the videos Monk films and directs in the Philippines involves an adult female molesting a girl under the age of 13.

Mr Probert-Wood said: “In interview Monk said he thought the female was the child’s mother.”

Monk of Cornelia Place, in Erith, Kent, pleaded guilty to:

• One count each of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity

• Assault of a child under 13 by penetration

• Sexual assault of a child under 13.

• Two counts of causing a child under 13 to engage in sexual activity

• Six counts of causing a child to engage in a sexual act

• One count of intentionally encouraging or assisting the commission of an offence

• Three counts of making indecent photographs of children

• Three counts of possessing indecent photographs of children.

Monk will be sentenced at the Old Bailey on January 26.

Monk was arrested in March last year following an investigation by the National Crime Agency into the buyers and sellers of child abuse material in the Philippines.

January 2016

Teen pervert avoids jail despite luring thousands of young boys to commit sex acts

A manipulative paedophile who pretended to be a teenage girl called “Lucy” to lure more than 2,000 young boys to engage in sex acts over the internet, avoided jail today.

Michael Wyles of Derrick Close, Reading, breached a suspended sentence for possession of indecent images of children when one month later police found fresh pictures on his Ipod, the court heard. 

The 19-year-old, who was banned from accessing the internet or having a mobile phone, was tracked down to a public house where he worked before making the “extraordinarily frank” confessions at the police station.

Prosecuting, Charles Ward-Jackson told Reading Crown Court how Wyles admitted his penchant for underage boys.

“As a result of that conviction he was known to the police and came to their attention more recently in March last year when an indecent image was uploaded online,” he said.

“He was using the username in chatrooms of Lucynom.

“On March 17 police went to his home in Reading. They went to his bedroom and took an Ipod Touch. He was not home so they went to his place of work, the Water Tower pub.

He told them that over the last two years he had contacted 2,000 children over two chatrooms. His method was pretending to a be girl called Lucy

“He was very apologetic and gave up his Iphone. He was then interviewed at the police station. He said he was gay and was interested in boys. Underage boys aged between 13 and 15 years.

“He told them that over the last two years he had contacted 2,000 children over two chatrooms. His method was pretending to a be girl called Lucy. He would then send to the boys images of a teenage girl.

“He then encouraged them to strip off and masturbate on camera. Of the 2,000 contacted about three-quarters discussed sexual matters and about half sent images back, so about 1,000,” said the prosecuter.

Police were only able to find about 35 indecent images which were sent by his young victims. The court heard how some of the images were sent over Snapchat.

Other images which were of Category A were also found on his phone. These pictures were downloaded from the internet and were not ones sent by his victims, the court heard.

He admitted at an earlier hearing to count one, of downloading 35 indecent images of children of all three categories, on count two, of a single image of a naked child, and count three, encouraging or commissioning the image of a four-year-old girl in the bath.

Wyles said he never received an image of the young girl but admitted asking for it.

Judge Johanna Cutts said by law she should immediately send him to prison for breaching a suspended sentence, but took pity on the teenager.

“The fact is that these boys are children. They were not capable of consent. They were being manipulated by you.

Sentencing Wyles, Judge Cutts said: “You are a young man still at 19 years old and on December 21 in this court you pleaded guilty to two counts of making indecent images of children, all taking place in March of last year.

“The images involved boys between 13 to 15 years, most category C, some A and B. Most self-taken images of other internet users.

“The more serious were downloaded from the internet.

“You also admitted count three, when you encouraged another internet user to take a picture of a four-year-old girl.

“Breaching a sentence is always a serious offence and in this case more so. In February last year you were given a 12 month sentence, suspended for two years.

“I hope in the work you have been undertaking in the sexual harm prevention programme you realise how vulnerable teenagers can be.

“The fact is that these boys are children. They were not capable of consent. They were being manipulated by you.

“I have heard how you have completed 10 courses in the programme and continue to work closely. In March last year you had not yet begun to work on the programme. You had only had inductions.

“If you are given an immediate custodial sentence you will be unable to continue the programme you are on.

“The law requires me to impose that breached sentence, but I am not going to do that today. I am going to suspend a period of custody because I realise you had not had a chance in March to start the programme.

“I am told you cannot get the treatment in custody.

“Rest assured that if you reoffend you will be going to prison.”

On count one he was sentenced to two years, on count two, four months and on count three 12 months. All were suspended for two years and ordered to run concurrently.

Wyles was also required to undertake 200 hours of unpaid work, pay a fine of £500 for breaching a suspended sentence and £1,000 court costs.

“I reserve any breach for myself. I do not want to see you in this court again,” Judge Cutts added.

January 2016

Sentencing delayed for sex offender

The sentencing of a man who was convicted of engaging in sexual activity with a child after contact with her on social media has been adjourned to Tuesday, February 2. 

Kelan Wright, aged 21, of Granby Court, Bletchley, was found guilty on Friday, December 18 of one count of engaging in sexual activity with a girl following a three-day trial at Aylesbury Crown Court.

Wright developed a relationship on social media with the victim, a 14-year-old girl, during Spring and Summer last year.

On August 21 2014 he made arrangements for them to meet up and took her back to his flat in Bletchley where he engaged in sexual activity with her.

Wright was arrested on September 27 2014 and was charged with the offence on May 2, 2015.

Investigating officer Det Con Kim McHugh, from Milton Keynes Force CID, said: “This case is a reminder of the dangers of social media – do you know who your child is speaking to online? Thames Valley Police will work to pursue those who offend, to provide support to victims and to ensure offenders are brought to justice.”

The initial sentencing was due to take place today (January 22) but the case was adjourned to February 2.

January 2016

Paedophile teaching assistant takes case to European Court of Human Rights

A teaching assistant who was jailed for filming teenager boys naked in changing rooms has launched a legal challenge at the European Court of Human Rights after being ordered to sign the sex offenders register.

Martyn Minter, 40, claims it is a breach of his “right to private and family life” to have to report to the police for the rest of his life.

Despite failing to overturn the punishment in the British courts – which have repeatedly thrown out his legal challenge – Minter has now lodged a claim at Strasbourg.

The case is already thought to have cost the taxpayer tens of thousands of pounds. 

October 2006

Teacher filmed boys in shower

A teaching assistant from a Reading secondary school has admitted filming boys naked in changing room showers.

Martyn Minter, 31, was found with tapes of 72 boys who had been recorded secretly with a camcorder hidden in a sports bag, Reading Crown Court heard on Friday.

Prosecutor Alan Blake said that Minter had been working as a learning support assistant for PE at Blessed Hugh Faringdon School in Southcote as well as running coaching sessions for the pupils at Palmer Park and South Reading Leisure Centre.

He also ran coaching sessions for Reading Road Runners, which he encouraged the pupils to join.

Mr Blake said: “On the evening of September 12 last year, he picked four boys up from their home addresses for circuit training at South Reading Leisure Centre, he then took them to Palmer Park for stretching and a warm down. 

“The boys said the defendant always advised them to perform stretching routines in the showers. He would lock the boys in the changing rooms in turn for privacy while each showered and stretched.

“That day one of the boys made a disturbing discovery. He dressed after he had showered and then noticed something unusual about the sports bag of the defendant sitting on the bench in the changing room – a camcorder was on record with the lens pointing at the shower.”

Mr Blake went on to say how the boy phoned his father and said “the pervert has been filming me”, but said nothing to the defendant so that when he dropped him home again his dad was waiting and called the police.

When officers searched Minter’s bedroom, at the home he shares with his mother in Callington Road, Whitley, they found 47 camcorder cassettes, 42 of which had handwritten stickers with boys’ names on them, with 72 boys names in all, and one particular boy featured 21 times, the court heard.

When the police saw the tapes they discovered Minter had one in particular that showed him massaging a boy around his groin while he was naked using just a towel. The tape had been made without the boy’s consent.

On further investigation, the court heard the boy, who is now 20 but was 14 at the time, was being given extra training by Minter but he broke off the arrangement when Minter made a pass at him.

Minter admitted filming boys he was training over a period of four years without consent but denied sexual motivation, claiming he wanted to monitor the stretches.

Minter previously admitted 12 counts, one of indecent assault, six of taking indecent photos and five of voyeurism.

Isobelle Forshall, defending, said: “He did not think he was hurting anyone but realises he was breaching their wish. He continually wishes there could be a way of making things better and putting things right.

“He is a particularly vulnerable man and was seeking treatment for depression at the time – this is a picture of a man in a quite pathetic emotional condition.”

Miss Forshall said that sending him to prison may make him “desperately destructive” as it would put him in contact, for the first time, with other much more sophisticated sexual offenders. Judge Gordon Risius adjourned sentencing until Friday, November 17, for further assessments on the defendant.

January 2016

Pervert who locked schoolgirl in car in bid to have sex with her walks free

An east Belfast man who told a 14-year-old girl he was “going to have sex with her” in his locked car has walked from court with a suspended 18-month prison sentence.

Rodney Manley (45), formerly of The Mount, pleaded guilty to a charge of sexually touching the schoolgirl while giving her a lift home on dates between June and July 2013.

Prosecutor Ros Scott Bell asked that a further charge of meeting the teenager following sexual grooming be “left on the books in the usual terms”.

She told Antrim Crown Court that in the summer of 2013 Manley gave the girl, now aged 17, a lift to her home in Dundonald but en route he pulled the car over into a layby near Longstone Special School.

While the teenage sat directly behind Manley in a rear passenger street, “the defendant took off his seat belt, turned off the engine, took the keys out of the ignition and locked the car door and put the keys in his pocket”.

Mrs Scott Bell added: “He put his knees on either side of the two front seats, turned to her and stared at her.

“He then moved forward and reached into the back and rubbed her leg and his hand then moved up her thigh. He grabbed her close and tried to kiss her.

“The defendant told her they were ‘going to have sex’. The complainant was panicking.”

Judge Donna McColgan QC was told that the complainant “heard the car doors unlocking” and that it appeared Manley had accidentally knocked the keys against the seat which cancelled the central locking mechanism.

“She took advantage of the opportunity to get away from him and ran home. She did not tell anyone what had happened and went straight to her room,” said the prosecution barrister.

Over the next few days, the teenager received text messages from Manley using the name ‘Rod’ which were discovered by her mother’s partner.

The court heard that after the stepfather took her phone, Manley sent her a text message, saying: ‘You should have been more careful with your phone.’

He told her he was getting rid of his phone and was getting a new one. The judge heard that after the girl made her complaint to police, Manley was arrested and interviewed by detectives.

He denied the allegations, saying they were “sick”, adding: “They are the biggest load of nonsense I have ever heard.”

He told police that the girl was sitting in the front seat of the car and denied he had locked the car to prevent her escape.

Mrs Ros Scott Bell added: “By his guilty plea he has now accepted that what he told was not true and what she told the police was a true account.”

The court heard that the defendant had a number of previous convictions including a 10-month sentence for cultivating cannabis in 2013.

A pre-sentence report stated that Manley did not pose a danger to the public in the future and was assessed as being at medium risk of likely reoffending.

Defence barrister Ian Turkington said Manley’s guilty plea was “an indication of his remorse”, adding: “I have been asked to offer his apology to the complainant in this case.”

He told the judge that following publication in a newspaper of his first appearance in court, Manley was visiting his brother’s house in east Belfast when “five men came through the front door of the house, two held him down and he was assaulted with baseball bats with nails in them.

“He suffered quite serious fractures and wounds. He still remains in pain”.

Mr Turkington added that father-of-two Manley, who is originally from Enniskillen, moved to Belfast as a young boy as his father was in the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) and travelled about through work.

He said that a number of his relatives were caught up in the Enniskillen Poppy day bomb attack in November 1987.

The barrister urged Judge McColgan QC “not to impose an immediate custodial sentence” saying Manley had not committed any further offences in the intervening 30 months since 2013.

“He found his previous incarceration a very difficult experience. It has proved a salutary experience,” said Mr Turkington.

Judge McColgan QC said Manley’s culpability in the case was high and the “depth of harm to the complainant is significant”.

Stating the “sexual touching was at the lower end of scale of such an offence”, the judge said that Manley had told “quite a number of lies” during the course of his police interviews but now accepted the events as described by the complainant.

Manley was sentenced to 18 months in prison suspended for three years.

He was also banned from working with children, was placed on the sex offenders’ register for 10 years and was made the subject of a Sexual Offenders Prevention Order for the same period.

Judge McColgan QC also granted a restraining order which prevents Manley from approaching the complainant or her mother and bans him from going near their home in east Belfast.

January 2016

Paedophile found with 1000’s of images of children as young as 18-months-old

A PERVERT who was found with thousands of images of children as young as 18-months-old was jailed today.

Daniel Leleniewski was caught with 642 images and 212 videos of the most serious category on a laptop in his East Reading home last year.

Reading Crown Court heard investigators from Thames Valley Police searched through the contents of the computer, and discovered obscene pictures and videos.

Prosecuting, Angus Robertson, said: “The youngest child was 18-months-old and there were many under 10.

“There are two incidents where the child was exhibiting visuals signs of distress.

“There were images of children being tied up and asleep.”

Judge Steven John heard Leleniewski was handed a two-year community order in 2011 when he was caught with more than 10,000 explicit images involving children, and some with animals.

He told the court the defendant is “more stupid than he took him for” after hearing he denied to police that he used the images for sexual purposes.

Defending, Jenny Mcveigh, said: “The unexpected death of his grandmother has affected him.

“His partner is currently standing by him. She has confirmed she is under no misapprehension as to why he is here today.

“It’s the family’s intention to reunite and live together.”

Leleniewski, 27, of Cholmeley Road, admitted two counts of making indecent images of children at a hearing last year.

He was jailed for 20 months for each charge, to be served concurrently.

Sentencing, Judge John added: “By far the greatest amount of images were a level A category.

“Abuse also happens when children are required to be photographed and filmed so their pictures can be viewed by depraved people such as you.

“How any normal person can regard viewing images of that kind for pleasure as acceptable defeats me.

“Despite the fact that on the previous occasion you were prepared to accept that your motivation was sexual on this occasion you have chosen to bury your head in the sand and denied the obvious.”

Leleniewski was also slapped with a ten-year sexual prevention order and told to pay statutory court costs.

The judge added there was a lack of a threat of contact in his case.

His laptop will be destroyed by Thames Valley Police.

January 2016: Hubbard is now living in Great Yarmouth. The pictures below were taken in 2013/14

April 1992

Man jailed for string of serious offences against baby girl

A Wicklow man has been found guilty of multiple offences against a baby.

Unemployed David Hubbard was found guilty of:

• Unlawfully and maliciously wounding a baby with intent to cause grievous bodily harm

• Unlawfully sexually assaulting the baby

The court heard the offences took place on Christmas day in 1990 when the baby was aged just three-months old. 

The baby suffered a blow to the head during the attack which lead to the discovery of the sexual assault.

Hubbard who denied the offences finally admitted his crimes just ten minutes before his trial began.

Other allegations of rape and sexual assault were made by several other children at the time, but unfortunately the victims were so traumatized they were unable to go to trial.

The pervert who had a history of house burglaries and stealing cars was sentenced to just four-years in prison of which he must serve two

January 2016

Pervert jailed for sexually abusing three boys

A PAEDOPHILE who sexually abused three boys after giving them “treats” has been jailed for ten years.

Ian Morgan, 51, plied his victims with cannabis and alcohol, encouraged them to stay at his flat, and took them fishing and on trips to the seaside.

He sexually assaulted one boy while he slept and “systematically” abused another.

One of his victims was “particularly vulnerable” because he was “out of control”, had no parental supervision and was in trouble at school.

One of the boys was too embarrassed to talk about what happened to him.

Another went on to suffer depression and other mental health issues.

Morgan, of Pearson Park, west Hull, denied any wrongdoing, but was convicted by a jury of ten indecent assaults, and three offences of indecency with a child after a five-day trial at Hull Crown Court.

He was found not guilty of four counts of rape. Morgan sighed and shook his head as the guilty verdicts were delivered.

His offending, which began in the 1990s and spanned ten years, only came to light when one of his victims saw him by chance in 2014 and noticed Morgan smile at him.

He confided in a friend in a pub then went outside to call police.

One victim who gave evidence at court told the jury Morgan encouraged the boys to play truant from school so they could visit him.

He said Morgan used to “bribe” him and first assaulted him while he slept on his couch.

The man told the jury: “When we went fishing the next day, I was sat in the back and he looked at me and I looked away.

“I didn’t like it. I was a bit scared at fishing that day.”

He said he found Morgan “intimidating”.

The court heard he had groomed the boys.

Jailing Morgan yesterday for a total of ten years, Judge Mark Bury told him: “You provided these boys with treats, taking them fishing and letting them stay at your flat.

“Equally, you abused them, and in order to do so you provided them with alcohol and cannabis. That is a serious aggravating feature. The trial lasted a week and all of us in court heard how deeply affected the complainants have been by your offending, and you are going to have to pay for that now.”

January 2016

Man caught with indecent images of children claimed he was lonely and isolated

A NELSON man caught with indecent images of children aged as young as six has been ordered to seek help by a crown court judge.

Neil Hannah, 54, claimed he had amassed the collection of 126 pornographic picture because he was lonely and isolated.

And he insisted that his sex drive was virtually zero after suffering a heart attack recently, Burnley Crown Court was told.

But Judge Beverley Lunt heard that the images had been on Hannah’s computer since at least 2008, before his home was raided by police last April.

Hannah, of Hallam Road, who admitted to 13 offences of making or possessing indecent images, was given a 20-month prison sentence, suspended for two years.

Judge Lunt also imposed a sexual harm prevention order, for life, restricting his future use of the internet and insisting he submit any device he uses to police for inspection on request.

Prosecutor Stephen Parker said that 13 of the images seized by police were of the most serious nature, showing sexual abuse, with eight more classified at a less serious grade and the remainder showing youngsters in sexual poses or similar.

January 2016

Rapist locked up for attacks on young girl over six-year period

A man who raped an underage girl over a six-year period has been jailed for 19 years.

Darius Majchrzak, who has links to Dudley and West Bromwich, was also convicted of making indecent images of a child.

The 43-year-old. of no fixed abode, was found guilty of 12 counts of rape and three counts of making indecent images of a child at Birmingham Crown Court.

Eight of the rape charges related to a child under the age of 13.

The offences, which took place between 2006 and 2012, came to light as police were investigating an unrelated matter.

West Midlands Police were able to use law under the sexual offences act to convict him of four of the attacks outside of the UK.

Majchrzak, of no fixed address, denied all of the offences against the victim but was convicted after a trial.

Detective Constable Harjindra Rennison, from West Midlands Police, who led the investigation, said: “This was a complex investigation over three years and the sentence illustrates how serious these crimes were.

“This was a traumatic period for the victim over a long period of time.

“Sexual crimes can haunt victims long after the offence so I hope the sentencing will give some closure and help her to move on with her life.

“We will always take reports of sexual abuse seriously – and victims needn’t worry that offences occurred many years ago because we can still build compelling cases against offenders.”

Detective Inspector Sarah Booth, from the child abuse investigation team, added: “It was a protected investigation which involved a lot of time gathering the trust of the victim.

“These were really serious offences and at no point did he take any responsibility for his crimes.”

January 2016

Pensioner faces jail for sex attacks on boy and girl 50 years ago

A Dunmow pensioner, who sexually abused a young girl and boy over a five-year period more than 50 years ago, faces jail after being found guilty at Chelmsford Crown Court.

Keith Thurley, 71, of Ash Grove, who lived in Great Hallingbury at the time of the attacks, will be sentenced on February 25 after pre-sentence reports have been written. He was released on bail in the meantime.

Six men and six women jurors took two-and-a-half hours on Friday to convict Thurley of all 17 offences, some of which were committed in the countryside near his home of half a century ago.

Judge Patricia Lynch QC added: “Normally I would remand straight into custody and make it perfectly clear as night follows day a custodial sentence will follow.”

Gareth Hughes, defending, urged her to grant bail for preparation of the reports to help “manage” his client’s medical problems, involving testing and visits to his GP.

Judge Lynch agreed, but told Thurley: “I want to make it very clear to you a prison sentence is likely. All sentencing options [are] open.”

The court had heard that Thurley told the girl victim: “It’s our secret, don’t tell anybody about it.” Then, when he saw the girl coming while he was with the boy, he told the lad: “She won’t tell anybody.”

He was found guilty of indecent assault on the girl, involving oral sex and touching her private parts, and 11 offences on the boy of indecent assault and indecency with a child, all between 1961 and 1966.

Prosecutor Chris Paxton told the jury: “This case concerns sexual abuse some 50 years ago, but neither victim told anyone until a couple of years ago, when the female approached the police.

“Thurley co-operated during the investigation, attended for interview and denied all the allegations made by them, saying they didn’t happen.”

During the hearing the court was told that when interviewed by police Thurley said his reaction to the allegations was “utter shock”. He said: “I am disgusted and cannot believe it.”

December 2011

Man, 35, tried to strangle young boy

A MERSEYSIDE man was jailed for 3′ years after he admitted the attempted murder of a four-year-old boy.

The 35-year-old man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, put his hands around the boy”s throat and squeezed.

He stopped when the youngster, who also cannot be named for legal reasons, became dizzy, Liverpool Crown Court heard.

The man pleaded guilty to one count of attempted murder.

November 2011

A MERSEYSIDE man was warned he faces a lengthy spell behind bars after admitting the attempted murder of a four-year-old boy.

Ian Kerrison, 35, from Maghull put his hands around the boy”s throat and squeezed before quickly stopping when the youngster, who cannot be named for legal reasons, became dizzy, Liverpool Crown Court heard yesterday.

Onwhat should have been the first day of a trial, Kerrison, of Nursery Road, pleaded guilty to one count of attempted murder. s

Debbie Gould, prosecuting, told the court the incident was at Kerrison”s house.

When the boy was at home with his mum later the same day she noticed he had red and purple bruise marks around his neck, like finger marks, and he told her Kerrison had strangled him.

The next day, Miss Gould said, a Highways Agency traffic officer was driving past Switch Island when he saw a car parked on the hard shoulder and a lone man, the defendant, near a bridge.

When he approached, Kerrison told the patrolman: I”m gonna jump.

Miss Gould said Kerrison was taken to Whiston Hospital and confessed several times to what he had done.

He was then admitted to Aintree hospital”s psychiatric unit.

The court heard that at Kerrison”s house was a computer pendrive that contained what can only be described as suicide notes.

One read: I am really sorry but I have no choice over doing this… I am just in a constant hell…

The court heard the letters were written 11 days before the incident and had been edited and revised several times.

online Miss Gould told the court: The defendant intended to kill and he put that intention into effect when he put his fingers around his neck. Log on to echo.co.uk news, sport However much pressure he actually applied, it was sufficient to scare, to make him feel dizzy and cause the injuries.

It is clear he only did this for a very short time, that he stopped of his own accord and that he felt distress and guilt as a result of what he had done.

So much guilt that he initially continued with what was his original intention, namely to kill himself having killed [the boy].

Sentencing was adjourned until December 21 for psychiatric and other reports to be drawn up.

January 2016

Paedophile Cambridge special constable jailed for five years

A special constable based at Cambridge has today been jailed for five years for sexual offences against children.

Daniel Clarkson, 25, who is based at Parkside police station, had pleaded guilty to:

• Causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity

• Four counts of penetrative sexual activity with a child

• One count of non-penetrative activity with a child earlier this month.

The offences relate to two separate girls.

He was jailed at Cambridge Crown Court and given an extended licence of three years on his release due to the high risk he was deemed to pose to children.

Clarkson was also placed on the sex offenders register for life.

Clarkson was arrested and suspended on May 20 last year. He remains suspended pending misconduct proceedings.

Detective Chief Inspector Neil Sloan said: “The crimes committed by Daniel Clarkson were very serious and that is reflected in the sentence handed down by the court today.

“We want the public and our own employees to feel confident about raising concerns about the conduct of our officers and staff. We will always investigate these cases thoroughly and ensure any offenders are brought to justice.”

September 2011

Gang attack paedophile

Locals took their revenge on a paedophile who preyed on girls as young as eight, a Doncaster court heard.

Sexual predator Michael Wilsher suffered rough justice at the hands of locals who beat him up to the point he needed hospital treatment after some of his victims finally spoke up.

Wilsher, a father of three girls now in their teens, pleaded guilty to six charges of sexual assault on girls under 13, who were aged from eight to 11. The offences, which he admitted, went on until 2009.

Lisa Roberts, defending, said feelings ran high when the offences came to light and said events culminated in him being attacked by a group of six men.

She said: “His van was smashed up and he was hospitalised as a direct result of his offending.

“He has lost an awful lot, his wife, his children, and he deeply regrets his behaviour and actions.”

Judge Jacqueline Davies, sentencing Wilsher to four-and-a-half years in jail with an extended period of four years on licence, said he posed a significant risk to the public of serious physical or emotional injury if he committed further offences.

The judge told the 44-year-old: “Your new offences began only a short time after a conviction in February 2004 and show an emerging pattern of behaviour.”

Nicola Peers, prosecuting, told the court one of the girls sexually assaulted by Wilsher said she ‘felt sick because it felt so creepy’.

Some of the girls told their mothers but they decided not to tell the authorities for the sake of their children.

But the facts emerged and he was reported to police.

He initially denied the allegations and said the girls were making them up – but pleaded guilty when the case reached Doncaster Crown Court.

Miss Peers said Wilsher initially was placed on the Sex Offenders’ Register in 2004 when he was convicted of inciting a 10-year-old girl to commit an act of gross indecency at a market stall.

The girls’ parents were shocked to hear the railway supervisor was already on the Register for a previous offence when he started committing the sexual assaults at his home on Daw Lane, Bentley, in 2004.

After the hearing, one father of Wilsher’s victims criticised the sentence as too short.

He said: “Four and a half years is nothing – I’m disgusted. The sentence is not long enough for what he did.

“The feeling in the community is very strong, and I think he should have been put away for 10 years.”

January 2016

Indecent images of children found on home computer

Police found indecent 
images of children on a computer at a Yetholm man’s home.

Twenty-seven-year-old Harrison Rowe of Deanfield Place, Yetholm, appeared on indictment this week.

He admitted possession of indecent photos or pseudo-photos of children at his home between April 26 and July 2 last year.

At Jedburgh Sheriff Court on Monday, the first offender Rowe was sentenced to three years supervision, and placed on the Sex Offenders’ Register for a similar period.

Police attended at the house with a search warrant after receiving intelligence relating to the internet connection.

Rowe told officers he had lived there for some 20 years and that there were two computers in the house, one owned by him.

He was asked if had viewed any indecent images, and admitted he had.

“I did, and I don’t know why I did it,” he told the police.

Procurator fiscal Graham Fraser said that the accused had been fully co-operative with the police, and admitted he had intentionally looked for indecent images of young boys, typing “pre-teen boys” in the search engine.

Rowe said he had been feeling low at the time and was glad that he had been caught.

Police found 105 stills and two movies.

Defence solicitor Greig McDonell said his client had sought help and had already undertaken and completed a programme on his own behalf.

Sheriff Peter Paterson told Rowe: “The numbers are such that a custodial sentence is not appropriate,” but warned the accused the sentence was a direct alternative to imprisonment.

January 2016

Jailed For Child Sex Abuse Images on computer for 2nd time

A man from Leighton Buzzard’s been jailed for 20 months after pictures of child sex abuse were found on his computer for the second time in 3 years.

Ian Riddell, 52, had been given a chance in 2012 when he was not sent to prison and received a Community Order.

One condition of his sentence was that he must not delete his internet history.

Police found the images during a spot check last year and he admitted he’d been viewing and then deleting images for 18 months, Luton Crown Court heard.

Prosecutor Sandra Beck said Riddell had been sentenced to the 3 year Community Order with supervision at Aylesbury Crown Court on 1 November 2012 for 8 charges relating to indecent images of children.

On Saturday 27 June last year the police made an unannounced visit to his address and asked to see his computer. He took the officers to his bedroom, where there was a Compaq laptop.

The computer was examined and it was discovered he had been accessing pornographic sites using search terms such as “Boys and Girls” and “Gay Boy.”

15 images were at Category A, the most serious level, 26 were at Category B and 91 at Category C, the least serious level.

He admitted he had been deleting his internet history use, had been accessing images for 18 months and had purchased a new, clean hard drive from eBay.

Riddell, a father of two, of Nelson Road, Leighton Buzzard, pleaded guilty to breaching a sexual offences prevention order, and three charges of making (downloading) indecent images of children.

Judge Michael Kay QC told him: “Your offending was calculating and devious. This is the second time in quite a short period of time that you have committed these sort of offences and it was done in breach of a court order.”

The judge ordered that the laptop is forfeited and made a Sexual Harm Prevention Order for an indefinite period.

It means that the police will now be able to monitor his computer use remotely.

Riddell must also register as a Sex Offender for 10 years.

January 2016

Man jailed for child sex crimes after victims came forward

A Wirral man has been jailed for six years for historic sex abuse offences – after his victims came forward when he was sentenced for similar perverted behaviour.

Andrew Martindale received a three-year prison sentence in June 2014 for three offences of sexually abusing a sleeping 16-year-old girl in 2012.

After his case was reported in the Wirral Globe one of his two other victims, whom he abused in the late 1980s and early 1990s came forward and told the police and when the other victim was contacted she also revealed he had done the same to her.

56-year-old Martindale, formerly of McKenzie Road, Leasowe, denied their allegations and faced trial but was convicted by a Liverpool Crown Court jury of seven offences of indecently assaulting the two girls.

The court heard that one girl was aged between eight and 12 and the other aged ten and 11 when Martindale abused them.

The older girl, who spent some time in care, had told social services about some of his behaviour but her allegations were never investigated by police, said Ben Jones, prosecuting.

In an impact statement that victim said she was over-protective of her children as a result of what had happened to her at his hands. She suffers from anxiety and having to go through a trial had added to that.

The other victim read her statement to the court herself and she too said her childhood had been ruined. She said she regretted not taking an opportunity as a child to reveal what was happening and she has been left with anger and trust issues.

She concluded, “I’m going to get counselling. I won’t let him ruin my life anymore.”

Judge Andrew Menary, QC, told long white haired Martingale, who showed no emotion, that he sentenced him on the basis he had indecently assaulted them on at least two occasions “and there may have been many other occasions.”

He ordered him to sign the Sex Offenders Register for life and imposed an indefinite Sexual Harm Prevention Order.

January 2016

Pervert who raped a four-year-old girl was today starting a 20 year sentence

Shaven-haired 36-year-old Rampling, who was convicted after a trial at Liverpool Crown Court, still maintains his innocence and he sat in the dock repeatedly shaking his head, with his arms defiantly folded and his tongue poking out.

The jury heard that DNA evidence of his oral rape attack was found on the child’s Disney ‘Frozen’ top and when his phone was later seized and analysed it was found to have adult pornographic videos, which he had deleted, and he had made three internet searches for child abuse images just nine days before the rape.

Rampling, of Bolton Road, Ashton-in-Makerfield, will have to serve two thirds of the 17 year term before he can apply for parole. He was ordered to sign on the Sex Offenders Register for life.

He had been convicted of rape and three offences of sexual assault which the judge described as “perilously close to vaginal rape.”

The judge said that the victim, who now shows signs of insecurity and has nightmares, blames herself and her life has been damaged forever. During the trial Rampling described her and her mother as ‘liars’, which was an attempt “to save your own skin,” said Judge Menary.

Andrew Ford, prosecuting, told the court that the offences came to light after the child, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, told her mum that she had seen “cheeky ladies” on his phone.

When questioned further she revealed what had been happening to her and said he had told her it was their secret and if she told anyone he would go to prison and “eat maggots.”

The police were notified but Rampling, suspecting that his behaviour had come to light, vanished for 48 hours before being arrested.

The court heard that he has previous convictions but nothing similar.

Paul Becker, defending, said that Rampling still denies the offences.