February 2016

Man who robbed York school girls of their shoes acted on fetish

A MAN with a sexual fetish for children’s shoes robbed two school girls in the street and collected four bin liners of stolen children’s clothing and footwear, a judge told York Crown Court.

Today Darryl Kwiatowski is again a free man after Recorder Richard Wright QC gave him the chance to conquer his obsession instead of spending years in jail.

The 24-year-old knocked a girl to the ground from behind as she walked home from school along Millfield Lane, Acomb, and stripped her shoes and socks off her, said Rob Galley, prosecuting.

In a separate incident, some weeks later, he also grabbed a younger girl in a headlock as she walked to school through the Beckfield Lane estate and pulled her shoes off her.

His four-year campaign to collect children’s shoes, socks and clothing ended on September 1, 2015, when he grabbed a pair of shoes from where a girl had put them while she played outside, but was spotted by adults who gave chase as he ran off down the street.

Police found four bin liners full of children’s clothing in his bedroom including a bra and the shoes and socks taken from the two robbery victims.

Kwiatowski spent four and a half months in custody before he was sentenced at York Crown Court.

Recorder Richard Wright QC told Kwiatowski: “I am quite satisfied that what lay behind your offending was that you are developing or have developed a sexual fetish or interest in children’s shoes, socks and clothing. On these occasions, you could not help yourself but to act on that fetish to steal their clothing.

“For the children whom you targeted, what you did must have been a distressing, shocking and upsetting experience.

“I have to turn my attention to the long-term protection of the public and I ask myself whether that is best achieved by sending you to prison for a number of years or give you an opportunity to nip in the bud this problem you plainly have.”

He made a three-year community order with a condition that Kwiatowski go on a sex offender treatment order. Kwiatowski, of Jute Road, Acomb, pleaded guilty to two charges of robbery and one of theft. He must also pay £280 costs.

The judge warned if he does not do the order, he will be sent to jail for several years.

Asked to make a sexual harm prevention order restricting Kwiatowski’s behaviour in a bid to stop him repeating his offences, he said he didn’t have the power to do so because robbery and theft are not sexual offences.

Kwiatowski’s barrister Paul Hodgkinson said the fetish was related to a “problem in his infancy” and that he had lost his job when he was remanded in custody following his arrest.

Mr Galley said the younger girl was now afraid to walk to and from school along and either went with friends or got a lift.

February 2016

Teenager must sign sex offenders register

A TEENAGER has been put on the sex offenders register for five years after admitting to sexual activity with a child.

Bradley Tuckwell-Fletcher, 19, pleaded guilty to six counts of sexual activity with a child and one of causing a child to engage in sexual activity.

Tuckwell-Fletcher, of Holly Grove, Fareham was handed a community order by a judge at Portsmouth Crown Court.

Sentencing, judge Roger Hetherington said: ‘You would know perfectly well what her age was.’

The judge added the victim was ‘perfectly happy’ for the sexual activity to take place.

The court heard the offences took place over a period of three years.

The judge said custody was justified but where there was a chance of rehabilitation a community order could be given instead.

Tuckwell-Fletcher must do a three-year community order with a sex offender treatment requirement.

A sexual harm prevention order bans him from all but inadvertent contact with girls under the age of 16 without their parents’ permission.

He must also sign the sex offenders register for five years.

Tuckwell-Fletcher had no previous convictions, pleaded guilty and made admissions in his police interview.

February 2016

Serial child abuser convicted of 29 offences against five boys and a girl

A SERIAL child sex abuser has been convicted of 29 offences against five boys and a girl.

Stanley Simpson was warned he could face a life sentence after a Durham Crown Court jury returned unanimous ‘guilty’ verdicts on all 29 charges, including three of child rape, 20 of indecency or indecent assault of a child and six other serious sexual offences with boys, over a 20 year period.

A former legal adviser at community advice centres, he committed the offences on victims, aged eight to 15, at his homes, in Pennywell, Sunderland, and Ouston, nearChester-le-Street, where he lived at different times between 1980 and 2000.

February 2016

Paedophile admits child sex offences

A 27-year-old man has admitted possessing indecent images of children and other offences. 

Robert Sharpe admitted making and possessing indecent images of children, and attempting to incite a child to engage in sexual activity, at Hull Crown Court yesterday.

He was released on conditional bail and is due to be sentenced at the same court on March 14.

Charlotte Baines, defending, applied for an adjournment for the preparation of a pre-sentence report.

“I think this is a case where a full report is necessary,” said Judge Jeremy Richardson QC.

Miss Baines said: “He has no previous convictions.

“There are two powerful pieces of mitigation; the guilty pleas and the lack of convictions.

“The pre-sentence report will build on that.

“He lives with his parents. I don’t really know much more than that at the moment.”

“He’s not a mature individual, by the look of it,” said the judge.

“He was born in 1988,” Miss Baines said.

Sharpe admitted possessing indecent images of children on June 29 last year, making them between March 8, 2014, and June 30, 2015, and the attempted incitement offence on November 3, 2014.

Sharpe, of Spring Bank West, west Hull, was granted bail with the condition that he co-operates with the author of the report

The judge told him: “Will you stand up, please, Robert Sharpe.

“You have heard what has happened. There is going to be a report.

“You must read nothing into the fact that I’m releasing you on bail and I’m taking a report – it simply means that the court wishes to find out much more about your circumstances.

“I expressly state to you that all sentencing options remain open, and that might include being sent to prison.

“We shall await developments. Do you understand?”

“Yes, sir,” Sharpe replied.

The judge told him: “You are on the sex offenders register from this point onwards.

“The precise length of that requirement will be determined once sentence has been passed upon you. Do you follow?”

“Yes, sir,” said Sharpe.

February 2016

Engineer hid identity to download 10,000 child abuse images

A KINGSTEIGNTON man has admitted downloading more than 10,000 images of children being sexually abused.

Darryl Hall, 52, used his computer skills to look for vile images and movies, Exeter Crown Court was told.

He had tried to hide his identity using a portal name but police tracked him down and found the evidence when they raided his home near Newton Abbot.

Among the images were 35 movies and 1,111 still images of the most extreme nature, some involving the abuse of very young children.

The judge described them ‘abhorrent’ and jailed Hall for 16 months, suspended for two years.

The defendant, an engineer, admitted seven offences of making indecent images of children.

He was ordered to go an internet sex offenders treatment course.

The police will be allowed to monitor his activities for ten years as part of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order.

The Judge told Hall: “These were abhorrent images of very young children which you had been accessing for more than four years.

“The aggravating factors are the high volume of images, the ages of the children and the fact that you searched for them deliberately and systematically.

“These are not victimless crimes. The fact that many people viewed these images on peer to peer software does not diminish the criminality at all.”

Mr Gareth Evans, prosecuting, said Hall was traced through his use of a peer-to-peer website where users share images.

His home was raided in November 2014. Police found a total of 10,520 images and movies. Searches clearly indicated his interest in child abuse.

Emmi Wilson, in mitigation, said Hall’s brother had been jailed for similar offences and he started looking at the images out of curiosity.

He became addicted because he was lonely. She said Hall, of Rydon Estate, was keen to work with probation.

February 2016

Jehovah’s Witnesses failed to report paedophile to police – Now convicted

A CHURCH elder who sexually abused vulnerable children was invited to speak at his first victim’s wedding, a court heard.

A court was told Harry Holt, 71, now of Rutland Street, Nelson, went on to attack seven more girls as young as nine after the Jehovah’s Witnesses failed to report him to police.

When the matter was raised, a local beat officer advised parents to ‘just keep your children away from him’, the court heard.

Holt is facing a lengthy prison sentence after being convicted of attacks against eight girls in Scotland dating back over 40 years.

His first victim, now 56, described Holt telling her he would deny touching her and that nobody would believe her.

She told Kilmarnock Sheriff Court: “As a child I was made out to be a liar but Charlie knows I’m not lying.

“My mother and father were treated very badly and it caused disruption in the congregation. They were of very good standing.

“The local bobby was there and my mum and dad asked him what they should do and he said, ‘just keep your children away from him’.

The woman, then 14, said a judicial committee of elders was held where Holt admitted groping her but not sexual touching.

She added: “He was sitting straight across from me. As a result he was removed as an elder from the congregation.”

The court heard at 19 she got married and her mother insisted that Holt should officiate which caused a ‘big row’ as ‘it wasn’t until years later that she found out why’.

Another victim, now 32, described Holt abusing her in the jacuzzi at the Magnum leisure centre in Irvine, Ayrshire, when she was between 14 and 15.

The court heard the visit was laid on as a treat for ‘pioneering’ door to door with leaflets and church magazines.

The victim told the court: “I kept telling him to stop.”

Holt, a retired engineer, and his wife later moved from Ayrshire to the Edinburgh area, although the victim still saw him through the Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Holt, was found guilty of 11 charges of indecent assault and lewd and libidinous behaviour in Seamill, Dalry, Saltcoats, Kilbirnie, Stevenston and Kilwinning, Ayrshire, and in Gorebridge, Midlothian, between May 1971 and August 2004.

One of the attacks took place in a Kingdom Hall meeting place run by the church, the court heard.

The crimes came to light when two victims shared their experiences years later and went to the police.

Sentence was deferred until next month and Holt was remanded in custody.

February 2016

Convicted paedophile preyed on call girl

A convicted paedophile who called an escort to his flat where he raped her three times in the space of 20 minutes has been jailed for nine years.

The call girl was left naked and hysterical in the hallway outside the Walthamstow flat belonging to Jason Eminson, 34, in the early hours of 30 July last year.

She went to the address and after texting her driver to say all was well the two went to Eminson’s bedroom where they had consensual sex.

But Eminson removed his condom and pulled the girl her by the hair and forced her to perform oral sex on him.

He then threw the girl onto her back and raped her for a second time.

February 2016

Pervert attempted to sexually exploit children – Jailed

A man who attempted to sexually exploit children has been jailed.

Ryan Howley (14/02/94) of Top O’The Close Road, Todmorden, pleaded guilty to inciting a child to commit sexual activity and attempting to meet a child following sexual grooming at an earlier hearing.

Today, Friday 12 February 2016, he was sentenced to three years in prison, placed on a indefinite sex offenders registration and has received a sexual offences prevention order indefinitely at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court.

Between November 2014 and April 2015 Howley separately contacted children who were aged twelve and thirteen in the Rochdale and Todmorden areas using messaging on social media

He was aware of the children’s age and sent them numerous sexual messages.

He asked them to go shopping with him, or for a drive.

In one message he asked a twelve year-old girl to send an indecent image of herself to him but the girl refused.

He continued to contact the children even when they asked him to stop.

Howley also followed children down the street in his car and approached a twelve year old girl asking her to have sex with him.

The children told their parents and police were alerted. 

Howley was arrested on 23 June 2015

February 2016

Kilsyth paedophile attacked girls over three year period

A KILSYTH man who sexually abused two young girls, has been told it is “likely” he will face a lengthy jail term

Brian Docherty, 51, of Rennie Road, pled guilty at Airdrie Sheriff Court to attacks on the girls on various occasions over a three year period

Docherty admitted to sexually abusing one of the girls, when she was aged between six and 10, on various times between December 1, 2010 and May 31, 2014, at three separate addresses in the Kilsyth and Cumbernauld area

He admitted acting in a lewd, indecent and libidinous way towards the young girl.

Prosecutor Ann Francis Hilley told the court how he repeatedly induced her to sit on his knee, kiss him and bathed her and then sexually attacked her.

Docherty also admitted to repeated sex attacks on a second female child on various occasions between April 1, 2012 and November 30, 2013, again at all three addresses in the Kilsyth and Cumbernauld area.

The second girl was aged between 10 and 11 years-old at the time of the attacks. He repeatedly induced her to sit on his knee, made comments about her underwear and attempted to handle her private parts.

He denied a third offence of sexually assaulting the first child when she was aged between four and six years-old, which was accepted by the Crown.

Ms Hilley told the court: “This came to light when one of the girls told a friend who in turn told a teacher and the police were called. The second girl then revealed she had also been abused by him.’’

Docherty returns for sentence at the end of March.

Sheriff Derek O’Carroll said: “ It is highly likely you will end up in prison, but I will keep an open mind.”

The sheriff called for a criminal justice social work report and a risk assessment as to the danger he poses to children.

Docherty was released on bail and put on the Sex Offenders’ Register.

February 2016

Bar worker jailed for raping boy in Bude in the 1990s

A BAR worker who left a young boy in Bude in “excruciating agony” after raping him in the 1990s has been jailed for 17 years.

Andrew Robertson, who was known as Gadget, was working at an amusement arcade as a part-time mechanic fixing the machines when he met the young boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons.

The 44-year-old went on trial at Truro Crown Court last week and denied offences of rape and indecent assault, but was found guilty by a jury on Monday.

Jason Beal, for the Crown Prosecution Service, said Robertson was in his twenties when he raped the boy, who was aged under 16.

The court heard he would sometimes buy the under-age victim alcohol before sexually abusing him. and also bought him presents.

Judge Christopher Harvey Clark, QC, said Robertson had seen an opportunity to groom the boy for his own perverted sexual desires.

He said: “When he was drunk and, in effect, defenceless you would force him to give you oral sex, then you took it further; seizing the opportunity you raped him with great violence.”

Judge Harvey Clark said the rape injured the boy and left him suffering “excruciating agony”. and that Robertson had raped him on two further occasions, assaulting him violently each time.

The court heard The offences came to light after the victim, now an adult, told his partner about what had been done to him. as a child.

Robertson, now of Brunswick Road, Hove, Sussex, was convicted of four counts of indecent assault and three of rape.

Paul Walker, for the defence, said his client worked in a bar in Brighton and was of previous good character. He said Robertson had not abused others.

Sentencing, Judge Harvey Clark said the victim had been severely physically and psychologically harmed by Robertson’s “brutal sexual behaviour”.

February 2016

Pervert jailed for sexual activity with a child

A pervert has been jailed for sexual activity with a child after advertising to meet a “fem boy” online.

Robert Flanagan, 31, Ashton Drive, Ashton, Bristol, met the 14-year-old boy, who is undergoing gender alignment, on the website Craiglist at the start of August, last year, a court heard.

Flanagan, who the court heard has a sexual preference for pre-op transgender males, had advertised to meet a “fem boy” on the website.

The court heard the complainant got in touch after feeling he met the requirements and the pair began to message each other.

Soon, phone numbers were exchanged, alongside graphic images.

This was reciprocated by the complainant, who in return sent a naked image, Leeds Crown Court heard.

Flanagan later told the teenager: “We’ll have to be careful. If this gets out I’ll lose my job, my life, everything.”

However, he suggested that they meet up and, on 22nd August, 2015, he drove up from his home in the Bristol area to where the boy lived in West Yorkshire.

The pair then travelled in Flanagan’s van to a rural area, where they parked up and walked along a footpath before the defendant kissed the boy.

A sexual encounter then took place. The court heard that the 14-year-old had had no previous sexual experience.

Tom Storey, prosecuting, said: “The complainant knew that he wanted to be female since he was 12.

“He has suffered from Aspergers, severe depression, OCD and eating disorders, making him extremely vulnerable.”

He added, at the time of the incident the victim said he was, “going through a really tough time”.

However, Mr Storey added although the boy said he regretted his actions now: “He was not made to do anything that he hadn’t wanted to do at the time.”

Flanagan was arrested on December 15 last year.

Although he had four previous offences, including a football banning order, none of them related to the incident.

Flanagan sobbed in the dock on Friday as Judge Sally Cahill, QC, sentenced him to six years in prison on one count of meeting a child after grooming and two counts of sexual activity with a child.

He was also given a sexual harm prevention order.

Judge Cahill, said: “I am told that you show remorse and it is clear throughout this hearing you have been in tears. Whether they are for yourself or your victim is not for me to determine.

“You have let down both your family and your friends. You are lucky that they are standing beside you.”

Matthew Harding, defending said that Flanagan had faced a tough time in custody because of the nature of the offence.

He said: “Through me, he makes it clear that the offending was his fault and nobody else’s.

“It needs to be made clear to the complainant that it is Mr Flanagan’s fault that this took place.”

February 2016

Pervert molested three-year-old girl and two schoolgirls – Jailed

A SEX attacker who molested a three-year-old girl and two other underage females has been jailed for four years.

Stuart Whyte was convicted of using lewd, indecent and libidinous behaviour towards the youngsters up to 30 years ago when he was a teenager himself.

He forced his victims to relive their nightmare treatment by giving evidence at his trial and claimed they had 
conspired to make up a complete “fantasy”.

Passing sentence on him at Livingston Sheriff Court yesterday, Sheriff Susan Craig praised the “bravery” of the women for having the courage to attend court to give evidence in the face of his continuing hostility.

She told Whyte: “It’s clear from both the victim impact statement and the way she gave evidence that the first complainer’s life has been blighted by your abuse of her.

“That she successfully managed to become an adult with children of her own is a testament to her.”

She said she realised that Whyte, 44, was young himself 
at the time of the offences, and was a first offender who had built a successful adult relationship.

But she added: “You must understand that the crimes of which you were convicted are so serious that only a custodial sentence is appropriate.”

She backdated the jail sentence to January 12 when Whyte was remanded in 
custody and told him he would be subject to a year’s social work supervision on his eventual release.

In addition, she said his name would remain on the sex offenders register indefinitely.

A jury earlier returned a unanimous verdict finding Whyte guilty of abusing his first victim on four separate occasions at a house in Livingston when she was aged between three and four.

The jury also returned majority verdicts finding him guilty of inappropriately touching a 15-year-old girl at another house in Livingston and exposing himself to a girl aged between ten and 12 at the first address.

The three-year-old, now 32 and married with children, gave evidence that she still suffered “flashbacks” about Whyte sexually abusing her and forcing her to perform sex acts on him.

The second victim told the jury through tears how she had tried to take her own life six times because she was unable to cope with being sexually abused by Whyte as a teenager.

Whyte, of Osprey Brae, Livingston, showed no emotion as sentence was passed.

February 2016

Man admits encouraging girl to sexual activity

An Exeter man has admitted encouraging a 13-year-old girl to perform sex acts for him online.

Richard Ariss, aged 28, of Alford Close, Exeter, pleaded guilty to three offences of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.

All the offences involved the same 13-year-old girl and took place in September 2014.

Judge Graham Cottle adjourned the case for a probation pre sentence report. He bailed him but warned him that a prison sentence is probable.

February 2016

51-year-old man ‘groomed schoolgirl for a sexual relationship’

A 51-year-old man accused of sending a string of text messages and kissing a teenage schoolgirl insisted he had no sexual intentions towards her, a jury heard. 

Andrew Marshall, of Newborough, Anglesey, denied meeting a child following sexual grooming. 

He then pleaded guilty after the prosecution opening and was bailed for sentencing next month. 

Outlining the case at Caernarfon crown court, prosecutor Myles Wilson alleged: “He began grooming a 14-year-old girl for a sexual relationship.

“He would invite her to his house, give her money and gifts, and he would send her text messages referring to her as my girl and as a minx.” 

The barrister said: “All of this was kept secret from her family.” 

Marshall, he said, wrote in one text: “Hope you are OK, wish I could kiss your chest better.” 

He’d also allegedly told the girl to view a porn website. 

Police launched a probe after her mother found a birthday card under the teen’s bed.

The jury heard it was signed: “My special girl, love you always Andy.”  

February 2016

Paedo serves FAMILIES at Manchester pet shop

Jamie Sumner talks to families at the store despite pleading guilty last year to downloading child abuse images.

The 26-year-old is pictured on the pet shop’s Facebook page to drum up trade. Yet many of those who flock to the shop are unaware of Sumner’s dark secret.

Last November he appeared in court where he admitted having a sickening collection of disturbing images.

Bosses at Manchester Pets and Aquatics then allowed him to keep his job where he is free to mingle with kids.

The Daily Star Sunday was tipped off about Sumner by anti-paedophile campaigner Chris who runs a website dedicated to tracking convicted sex offenders.

He said: “I can’t believe he has been allowed to keep such a high-profile role within the shop.

“It is not like he is working in the back – he is in the shop where he will inevitably come into contact with children.

“He obviously has an interest in children otherwise why would he have pleaded guilty to the offences when he went before the court?

“People might say that he didn’t physically harm anyone but the children in the pictures are abused on camera for people’s pleasure and profit.

“These are often the forgotten victims of abuse because, in many cases, they are never traced.”

Sumner’s home in Tameside, near Manchester, was raided after police received a tip-off last June.

He pleaded guilty at Manchester’s Minshull Street Crown Court to four counts of making indecent photos of children.

He was told to attend a sex offender group and was banned from accessing the internet without specific software.

Sumner was also ordered to sign the Sex Offenders’ Register for five years and was given a three-year Community Order.

A spokesman for the pet shop said Sumner had been allowed to keep his job because he had been extremely remorseful over his actions.

He said: “We do not let him serve children.”

February 2016

Man had 2,307 illegal images of children

A man with “deep defects” in his character had 2,307 illegal images of children on his home computer equipment, York Crown Court heard.

Michael John Bulmer’s secret world was exposed through his purchase of some DVDs, said Louise Reevell, prosecuting.

That led to police arresting him and searching his home, where they found his illegal horde of sexual pictures of children aged between 12 and 16.

Bulmer, of Park Street, Selby, pleaded guilty to four charges of having indecent images of children.

After reading a pre-sentence report about Bulmer, The Recorder of York, Judge Paul Batty QC, told him: “You have an entrenched and very long standing dependency not only on alcohol on an evening but also watching these disgusting images.”

He said Bulmer, 49, had “deep defects” that needed dealing with and that he was motivated to tackle his problems.

He suspended a 12-month prison sentence for two years on condition that Bulmer goes on a sex offender treatment programme and does 20 days’ rehabilitative activities.

He also put him on the sex offenders’ register for ten years and made him subject to a sexual harm prevention order restricting his use of the internet and forbidding him to own computers or other electronic items capable of accessing the internet without supervision indefinitely

Alex Menary, for Bulmer, handed in a reference from his previous employer, which the judge said was “excellent” and did not give any other mitigation after the judge indicated the sentence he proposed to pass.

Mrs Reevell said Bulmer had 220 images of the most serious kind, 1,227 in the next category and 857 in the least serious category.

February 2016

Man who had hundreds of indecent images of children on his laptop and phones is spared prison

A MAN who had more than 1,300 indecent images of children on his laptop and phones – including pictures depicting girls as young as five involved in sexual acts – has been spared jail.

 Other images on the devices seized from Timothy Seddon included pornographic stills of a man and woman involved in bestiality, Stafford Crown Court heard today, while others showed girls aged 8-12, including an 8-12 year old undressing.

Seddon, 51, of Elm Drive, Bradley, admitted three counts of making indecent photographs of children, circulating indecent moving images of children, distributing an indecent photograph of a child and possessing extreme pornographic images.

The court was told that more than 130 images were category A – the most serious.

Steven Bailey, prosecuting, said: “Police visited Mr Seddon’s home address, having received information, on November 5 2014, and took a long time it seems analysing all the material. Phones and a laptop were seized and the majority of images were on phones.

“Distribution was an attempt to generate conversation with adult men about sex with children. In 2014 he uploaded a (photo) onto Twitter of a girl of about 11, 12 or 13, naked, purporting to be that girl. He said he had used Twitter posing as a 13 year old girl, used as a means of contacting adults.

“He said he had been sent photos of girls as young as five and six and wasn’t interested in them that young. All the images were on Twitter.”

Neil Gerrity, defending, told the court that Seddon had no previous convictions.

“He says to me he continues to wrestle with himself in terms of what is going on. He does not know what is going on in his own head.”

Mr Gerrity added that rehabilitation was an option, given Seddon’s circumstances.

Judge Mark Eades, passing sentence, said: “It seems pretty harmless, it’s only a picture, it’s not real life, and if you have a depravity towards it, it might not be yourself taking them. If you sit down and think about it, in order to get the pornographic image in the first place, a child has to be abused.

“You had over 100 Category A images. That means a good number of children have been abused. You provided the money that oils the wheels of this industry when you did it. There are victims.

“The question I have had to decide is what to do with you, if rehabilitation is really an option and if you are sincere. You have a problem with viewing child pornography and I accept rehabilitation is probably the right course.

“But if you are saying you will go on a course because you want to avoid prison and you don’t believe you have done anything wrong and you don’t have a problem with child pornography, it is going to be a waste of time.

“Which way should I go? It is on a knife edge. Given your age, and the fact you have pleaded guilty, I am prepared to accept what your counsel has said.”

Seddon was handed a community order with a supervision requirement of three years. He was ordered to go on a sexual offender programme, placed on the Sexual Offenders’ Register for five years and ordered to pay £535 costs.

February 2016

Pervert loses everything after viewing indecent movies of children

A MAN lost everything after he was found to have downloaded four indecent movies of child abuse.

Anthony Williams, 44, was expected to lose his job, and he had lost his wife and the home he shared with her and their two children, said Judge Geraint Walters, sitting at Mold Crown Court.

Williams, of Benjamin Road in Wrexham, accepted he had a problem and had already paid to attend a course – the type the court would normally send people like him on.

“You completed it successfully,” the judge told him.

In the circumstances, particularly as the case involved only four movies, he was placed on a three-year community order.

He was placed on 50 days rehabilitation “to ensure you maintain the progress that you have made on the private course that you attended”.

Williams was ordered to register with the police as a sexoffender for five years.

A five-year sexual harm order was also made to control his future internet activities.

The defendant admitted three charges – two of making indecent movies by downloading, and a third charge of possessing movies.

The case related to a total of four movies – three at the worst possible category A and one at category B.

Prosecuting barrister Anna Pope told how in July of last year, police executed a search warrant at his then home in Richmond Road, Acton, acting on intelligence that images were being downloaded onto an IP address at the premises.

He was present at the time with his wife and two children.

He took an officer to one side and said he had downloaded some videos and that it was nothing to do with anyone else.

Police seized computer equipment and when interviewed, he admitted downloading images of children.

He admitted downloading porn and said that 95 per cent of the images were adult.

The defendant described the medication he was on for depression and said his sex drive diminished.

He said he started to research pre-teen pornographic images of children aged between 10 and 12 and would download them twice a week.

They went into a download folder where he deleted them.

When the equipment was examined, the four movies were found on a memory stick. 

They had been deleted and could not be opened without specialist software.

Andrew Green, defending, said Williams had admitted the offences at the local magistrates’ court and had been sent to the crown court for sentence.

The case involved a small number of movie images which had already been deleted.

Judge Walters told him: “I believe you will lose your job – the chances are that you will.

“You have lost your wife and the home you shared with her and the children – all because you used the internet to look at pornography.

“It developed and you went the wrong side of the line.

“It is hard to imagine a man standing before the court who has lost more than you already have.

“Since you committed these offences, you paid privately in order to attend a course aimed at dealing with internet sexual offending.

“You completed it successfully.”

The judge added: “The reality here is that nothing that I could properly do to you could punish you over and above the punishment you have already inflicted upon yourself, or others have inflicted upon you.”

In view of the fact the case involved four movie images he would be placed on a community order.

The judge warned that if he breached the order then he would be returned to court where he could receive a custodial sentence.

“I am sure you would not be that foolish,” he said. 

February 2016

Former school teacher jailed for making indecent images of children

Tyrone Mark, 40, from Caerphilly, was caught with 185 videos and images on his phone and laptop – some of which ranked among the most serious category of indecent material.

He previously taught at Arnewood School in New Milton, Hampshire, but was sacked after a separate investigation into inappropriate behaviour.

Mark, who had pleaded guilty to the charge, was jailed for six months.

Before the offences took place, the former geography teacher had been banned from the classroom for life after forming an inappropriate relationship with a pupil.

A disciplinary panel heard he gave the pupil alcohol, condoms and a key to his house.

During a police investigation which followed, detectives found the catalogue of images at his home in Wales.

Judge Peter Henry said the images were “repulsive”.

December 2014

EDUCATION chiefs have passed vital files to detectives investigating a teacher who began a relationship with a pupil and kept a sex dossier on other students.

It comes two years after school bosses were first alerted to the friendship between the girl and geography tutor Tyrone Mark, 39, who was later sacked and banned from teaching for life.

Mr Mark, who taught at The Arnewood School in New Milton, gave the teenager alcohol, condoms and even a key to his house.

He also wrote sexually explicit notes about many of her fellow pupils – some of whom featured in school photographs he kept at his home.

Earlier this year he was found guilty of professional misconduct and barred from teaching by the National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL).

At the time Arnewood issued a statement saying a police investigation had found no evidence of any criminal activity by Mr Mark.

But campaigning parent John Caine, of New Milton, submitted a Freedom of Information Act request and discovered that no such probe had taken place.

Officers have now launched an investigation after receiving a bundle of evidence, including the dossier compiled by the teacher.

A police spokesman said: “We have received files from The Arnewood School that were passed to them by the National College for Teaching and Leadership. The matter is now under investigation by our child abuse investigation team and it would not be appropriate for us to comment any further.”

Mr Caine, whose son Jonathan went to Arnewood and was taught by Mr Mark, has repeatedly accused the school of not following proper procedures.

He said: “It was the school’s responsibility to involve the police, and now the school will provide evidence to the police. Better late than never I suppose.”

Mr Mark was sacked from Arnewood following an internal investigation and was expelled from the profession in July this year.

February 2016

Pensioner admits charges of possessing indecent pictures and movies of children

A 71 year old Devon pensioner has admitted nine charges of possessing indecent pictures and movies of children.

Graham Blissett, of Westcott Way, Honiton, appeared from custody at Exeter magistrates court.

The court heard two dozen of the movies and photos were from the most serious category.

His lawyer, Peter Seigne, said:”It is out in the open. He has to face the consequences in a positive way.”

He said Blissett, who has medical issues, wanted to ‘clear it up’ and get help and didn’t want to end up in prison for the first time at his age.

He was bailed and will be sentenced next month but was warned that all options remain open to the court including custody.