June 2016

Church member who sexually abused two children jailed

A church member who sexually abused children over a ten-year period has been jailed for four years and two months.

Derek Smith was found guilty by a jury after forcing his victims to relive their ordeals by giving evidence during a trial.

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

The 48-year-old repeatedly carried out lewd acts on a ten year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl.

Smith, of Anstruther, Fife, was made the subject of an 18-month extended sentence following his release from prison.

A 28-day concurrent jail sentence was also imposed after he was found guilty of contempt of court by feigning illness during the trial to disrupt proceedings.

A jury at Perth Sheriff Court found Smith guilty of indecently assaulting the boy in Perth and Dunfermline between 1 January, 2000 and 1 November, 2003.

They also found him guilty of indecently assaulting the girl in Leven, Fife, in August 2010.

The trial was told Smith had been a member of a church group and had been introduced to the children by a mutual friend.

Following the guilty verdict, the court was told that Smith had previous convictions for sexual offences.

Solicitor John McLaughlin, defending, described his client as “slightly odd” and told the court Smith would be vulnerable within a prison setting.

Sheriff Fiona Tait said she had no option but to jail Smith, adding that he had “misled the court” in relation to his feigned illness.

June 2016

Penrith man admits child sex crimes

June 2016

Pervert jailed after victims come forward

June 2016

Teenage girl abducted child and carried out string of sexual offences against children

Teenager Scarlet Drury has been spared jail for abducting a child and a series of sexual offences against children.

The 19-year-old indulged in sex acts with three underage children – Two girls & one boy.

The court heard she had sex with thr schoolboy on Redcar beach in Teesside after drinking alcohol

Prosecutor Oliver Thorne said Drury was repeatedly seen kissing, cuddling and taking part in sexual activity with the two young schoolgirls.

One occasion she was even heard bragging about it

When told the girls’ ages, Drury said “age doesn’t matter”, “age is just a number” and “yeah it’s fine”.

She defied child abduction notices banning her from communicating with the girls.

When challenged, she said: “I know it’s wrong and the police are taking me to court.

Dury was spared jail at Teesside Crown Court

“I’m probably going to jail for it. I’ll still do it when I get out.”

The court was told of the effect on one of the girls.

She was described as nervous and paranoid, blamed herself for what happened, struggled emotionally to accept it and isolated herself from her family.

Concerns had been raised about reports of sexual activity at Drury’s Wharton Street flat.

It was alleged children went to the flat in school uniforms and there was alcohol and cannabis there.

Drury, of Skelton, admitted five charges of sexual activity with a child and one of taking a child without lawful authority.

Drury said she was very sorry and would not offend again.

The judge gave Drury a one-year custodial sentence suspended for two years with a year’s supervision and a five-year sexual harm prevention order.

June 2016

‘Predatory’ Pontypool man jailed for grooming teenage girls

A Pontypool man has been jailed after he groomed two teenage girls on Facebook who later turned out to be fake profiles.

David Phillips, aged 44, of Prince Street, was sentenced at Newport Crown Court today after being charged with two counts of attempting to arrange or facilitate the commission of a child sex offence.

He pleaded guilty to the allegations that he attempted to meet two girls; a 14-year-old girl and a 15-year-old girl for the purpose of sexual activity.

June 2016

Plymouth ‘low life scum’ plied underage girls with drugs before sex

A MUM has branded a drug user as a “low life scum” after he admitted sleeping with her underage daughter.

Dale Hewitt, aged 25, faces years in prison after he pleaded guilty to sexual activity with two schoolgirls aged 13 and 14.

He plied them with drugs and handled weapons including knives in front of them, Plymouth Crown Court heard.

Hewitt entered guilty pleas on the second day of his trial – and has previously been convicted of abducting another 14-year-old girl.

The mother of the complainant in the latest case said outside court: “He is low-life scum. He goes on from one victim to the next.”

Judge Paul Darlow adjourned sentence until July 15 and freed Hewitt on bail as an “act of mercy”.

He ordered a probation report but told the defendant: “You must come to court expecting to go into custody.”

Hewitt ran from court to a waiting car, infuriating members of his victim’s family by waving at them as he was driven away.

Hewitt, of Marlborough Street, Devonport, pleaded guilty to four counts of penetrative sexual activity with one child between December 2014 and February 2015.

He also admitted sexual activity with another girl between April and December 2014.

Hewitt continues to deny other charges of rape and attempted rape against the girls and also threatening them with a BB gun on separate occasions.

Judge Darlow discharged the jury from returning verdicts on those five charges – which will be dealt with at sentence.

Manipulative Hewitt supplied both girls with mephedrone, or bubble, and sometimes cannabis before touching them sexually. He never asked them for any money.

One girl told the jury through her recorded police interview that she was “wrecked” on drugs and alcohol, but Hewitt still had sex with her at his old flat in Clifton Place, Greenbank.

She said she was always “scared” of Hewitt, who became aggressive and angry after taking drugs himself.

The girl broke down in tears as she recalled how she cried in the toilet the first time it happened.

His victims do not know each other.

Both girls said he showed them his weapons, including two knives and a sword.

Hewitt, in his version of events accepted by the prosecution, said that both girls were already using drugs when he started to share his mephedrone and cannabis.

The defendant added that he started off as friends with the girls, but accepted that he could become aggressive and angry towards them after using drugs.

He accepted that he had weapons on display and handled them in front of them – but said he never threatened or assaulted them.

Judge Darlow said he was releasing Hewitt on bail as an “act of mercy”.

The court heard that the starting point for the most serious offences is five years in prison.

The 14-year-old with whom Hewitt had sex later tried to take her own life, her mother revealed after the trial collapsed.

The angry mum said her daughter had been let down by the system as she waited more than a year for justice.

She added: “She tried to commit suicide and ended up in Derriford Hospital. She now has Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and is on medication.”

The mum, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said: “I am furious, this is the crime of the century. The law needs to change the way it deals with these girls.

“Hewitt is a low-life scum, he went from victim to victim to victim.”

The mother said that her daughter was ready to give evidence and face accusations that she was telling lies and exaggerating.

Hewitt’s guilty pleas meant that the 16-year-old did not have to appear in court for cross-examination

The mother, supported by several relatives and friends, said: “We feel let down, there was a year and a half before the trial began.

“Our little girl was ready to go into court and tell everyone what had happened to her. She was due to give evidence at 10am and we were told what was happening at 9.30am.”

The trial was held up while police and prosecutors built the case against the second victim. Hewitt was meanwhile tried for a separate abduction offence.

Judge Paul Darlow addressed prosecution and defence barristers privately about the late disclosure of Facebook contacts between Hewitt and the victims.

But the mother was angry that the judge released the defendant on bail as an “act of mercy” for a month before his sentence.

She said: “What kind of message does that send, that he is still walking the streets?”

Hewitt was convicted in February of the abduction of a vulnerable 14-year-old girl who was found on his flat.

The scheming defendant claimed that the girl had only popped around to use the shower minutes before the police turned up in June last year.

The offence happened after the sexual allegations involving the other two girls, but was tried first.

Hewitt had been served an abduction notice which obliged him to call police or social services as soon as he saw the teenager.

The girl had run away from home before, taken an overdose and formed inappropriate relationships with older men, Plymouth Crown Court heard.

A neighbour later called police because they heard Hewitt having a violent row with a female in the house.

Officers found the 14-year-old in the shower and found female items of clothing and toiletries through the home.

Hewitt said she had turned up minutes before officers arrived and asked to use the shower.

The girl herself made no complaint to the police, allowing Hewitt’s story to go unchallenged.

Abduction in legal terms need not mean grabbing a child from the street without their consent.

It can also include keeping them from the “lawful control” of their parents or legal guardians, with or without the consent of the youngster.

A jury convicted him of abducting the girl after a three-day trial.

He was found guilty by a unanimous verdict and sentence was adjourned – to be dealt with alongside the latest offences.

June 2016

Sheffield man jailed for breaching sex offences order

A paedophile from Sheffield has been jailed again for using internet chat rooms to contact children.

Joseph Patrick Hallam, of Auckland Rise, Halfway, was given a seven-year sentence after he admitted breaching a sexual offences prevention order and arranging or facilitating the commission of a child sexual offence.

Hallam is subject to strict conditions under his SOPO and he has served several custodial sentences in the past for sexually abusing children.

June 2016

‘Selfish and brutal’ child rapist jailed for life after catalogue of abuse spanning four decades

A monstrous child abuser has been jailed for life for a catalogue of horrific sex crimes spanning four decades.

Cruel Paul Seaman, 57, embarked on a “campaign of rape” and sexual molestation against three young boys and one young woman.

He was branded a public danger with a “distorted” mind as he went to prison still denying his terrible crimes.

Judge Stephen Ashurst told him: “You are a selfish and brutal man quite prepared to take out your sexual feelings on very young children indeed.”

Seaman preyed on vulnerable victims in a string of depraved sexual offences dating from the 1980s until as recently as last year.

A jury convicted him of 18 charges after a five-week trial at Teesside Crown Court yesterday.

He was found guilty on nine counts of rape – five against two boys under 13, four against the young woman – one of attempted rape and eight of sexual assault.

The judge said this was one of the worst cases of its type, telling the defendant: “Your behaviour has blighted the lives of many people.

“The extent of your sexual misconduct has been, in my judgment, extreme.”

He said two of the boys feared their violent tormentor, were left damaged and dared not speak of what he did at the time.

“It may well be others simply would not believe the horror,” added the judge.

“What you did to those boys has been life-changing.

“It is hard to imagine behaviour more gross and damaging.”

Asked by police why he came forward, one of the boys said: “Right now he could be doing something else to another child and I don’t want him to get away with it.”

Another boy was left with “lifelong shame and embarrassment”, said the judge.

But there was “light at the end of the tunnel” as some of the abuse survivors had since made a “remarkable change”.

Seaman also forced himself on a kind and vulnerable young woman, touching and raping her repeatedly.

Judge Ashurst said Seaman’s sexual appetite “doesn’t show any signs of diminishing”.

“A discretionary life sentence should be reserved for cases of the utmost gravity,” he added.

“I regret to say, Paul Seaman, that this is such a case.

“This is a case that lacks a single mitigating feature. You have shown cruelty.”

Seaman was cleared by the jury of 14 other charges – four sexual assault counts relating to two other boys and seven counts of rape and three of indecent assault against another woman.

He denied all the charges and denied any wrongdoing, saying none of the alleged incidents happened.

He claimed all the witnesses against him were lying and had concocted false stories. He denied trying to bribe victims to buy their silence.

Seaman had lived across Teesside including in Stockton, Brotton, Grangetown, Dormanstown and North Ormesby but his address was recorded in court as Durham Prison.

At just 14 in 1973, Seaman was convicted of raping an 18-year-old girl on waste ground, and of indecently assaulting a very young girl in 1980, when he was 21.

These crimes earned him mere months in custody, and he was given a suspended sentence for abducting a boy from Middlesbrough in 2010.

John Elvidge QC, defending, said Seaman was of “limited intellectual ability when tested” and was on the borderline of learning difficulties.

He said Seaman had long-standing medical problems including epilepsy which he developed at 21 after he was attacked and suffered a fractured skull.

He will be on the sex offenders’ register for life and was given a restraining order banning him from contacting eight victims and witnesses.

Investigating officer Detective Inspector Simon Walker said: “This man continually committed serious sexual offences over decades – ruining the childhood of his victims and leaving them with lasting scars from his persistent offending.

“He has shown no remorse or regret.

“I hope today’s verdict is a clear indication to those who prey on young people that we will catch up with you and we will put you before the courts to ensure that justice is served.”

July 2015

Perverted football manager used Facebook to encourage young players to act like men and shower naked

THE ex-manager of a football team who touched one of his young players on the bottom as he tied his bootlaces before a match has been ordered to go on a sex offenders programme.

Stephen Wild, of Hunderton Road, Hereford, also sent the player messages by text and on Facebook suggesting they should shower naked, Worcester Crown Court heard.

Samantha Forsyth, prosecuting, told the court that the boy, a 17-year-old, was keen to join the team at the start of 2013 and contacted 54-year-old Wild who invited him to join in the training.

They went into the showers together afterwards and Wild was naked but the boy kept his shorts on, Miss Forsyth said. Wild later sent him messages saying they were both men and should both shower naked.

“It demonstrated a pattern of grooming,” she told the court.

The boy got into the team and before one game as he was tying his laces, Wild touched his bottom.

The boy decided to leave the team and Wild later messaged him to say he should pay back his registration or he would be reported to the Football Association.

The boy told his parents what had happened. Wild was investigated and it was discovered he had texted other players suggesting they shower together.

“He was the manager and he had the responsibility,” Miss Forsyth said.

“They respected him and looked up to him. It was an abuse of a position of trust.”

Wild, who managed a Sunday league team, pleaded guilty to one charge of sexual assault.

Jonathan Stannisland, defending, said it was a “fleeting and minor” sexual assault but the background to it was unpleasant.

Judge Michael Cullum said: it was not a touch of someone on a football pitch as a joke.“It was a sexual activity against a background of sending flirtatious messages and then threatening the boy that he wouldn’t play football again,” he said.

Wild was ordered to undergo a 36-month sex offenders group work programme with supervision from probation. He will have to sign the sex offenders register for five years.

June 2016

A Telford predator with a “violent sexual nature” has been jailed for 10 years after a string of historical sexual offences stretching back over 30 years.

Timothy Wake, 49, was arrested in 2012 after an historical complaint had been received of rape. An investigation began and a number of complaints from women in the Telford area led to Wake being charged with a series of sexual offences.

The complaints spanned more than 30 years when Wake began targeting young school girls dressed in uniform for sex outside a Telford school from 1984. His offending and targeting of vulnerable victims continued throughout his adult life.

During the course of the investigation further victims were identified, showing his predatory and violent sexual nature.

He was sentenced at Stafford Crown Court on Monday for rape, threats to kill and sexual activity with a child.

He was given 10 years with an extended license period of eight years in order to further protect the public.

He has been ordered to serve two thirds of his sentence before he is eligible to apply for parole and will remain on the Sex Offenders register for life.

Judge Eades described Wake as a highly sexed unreformed individual who had no sexual restraint.

He said he viewed every female that he came in to contact with as a potential sexual partner and was incapable of control.

He was described as a danger to the public and that females in his reach were at risk of sexual harm and that he would continue to commit further offences if not stopped.

Judge Eades added: His actions have left psychological long term damage on these females who were brave enough to speak with the Police.

DC Letitia Suarez of West Mercia Police said: “I would like to commend the bravery of the victims for coming forward. Their support has helped us to ensure that Wake is no longer free to commit further offences and will face justice for his actions.”

April 2013

Jail for three Lincoln men who attacked teenager because he had ginger hair

Callum Booth, Nathan Booth and James Hatton

Three men who attacked a Lincoln teenager because he had red hair have been jailed for a total of 10 years.

The unlucky 14-year-old was simply playing football with friends on the Birchwood estate when he was singled out by violent ringleader Nathan Booth, 22, who was jailed for five years and nine months.

Booth stamped on the child’s head as his older brother Callum, and their friend James Hatton, also “piled in,” Lincoln Crown Court heard

The boy suffered a broken arm while trying to protect his head. He needed surgery and a metal plate to repair the injury.

The trio, all from Lincoln, went out seeking some form of revenge after another youth with red hair verbally abused Booth’s sister, the court was told.

In an emotional witness statement the boy, who cannot be named, described how he was attacked after Booth approached him and asked for the time.

Gareth Weetman, prosecuting, said: “Nathan Booth took the lead and as the boy was taking his phone out to check the time he hit him.

“He recalls the group of three piling in on him. He remembers the stamping of feet and curled up.”

The boy suffered a broken right arm as he tried to protect his head and later needed surgery to insert a metal plate to repair the injury.

Callum Booth, 27, of Lancaster Court, off High Street, and James Hatton, 25, of Lamb Gardens, St Giles, were each jailed for 26 months after all three attackers admitted causing the boy grievous bodily harm.

Jailing all three men, Judge Sean Morris told them: “There was no reason for this attack, worse than that it was just because he had red hair.”

The court heard Nathan Booth carried out two further unprovoked assaults within six months after being granted bail following the attack on the boy in April 2011.

During the first incident Booth repeatedly punched a woman and twice kicked her in the face after becoming involved in a domestic row.

His victim, Emma Foster, 23, was taken to hospital with a “variety of injuries” from her head to shin, the court was told.

Miss Foster’s former boyfriend, Timothy Campbell, 28, of St Rumbolds Street, Lincoln, was jailed for nine months after he admitted striking her with a single punch at the start of the incident.

Supermarket worker Carla Smart, 19, of Swift Gardens, St Giles, Lincoln, was also given a two-year-conditional discharge after she admitted pulling Miss Foster’s hair.

In her victim impact statement, Miss Foster said she now felt very depressed and was reluctant to go out in public.

Booth was again released on bail after the attack, but was re-arrested just two months later after breaking a stranger’s jaw during an unprovoked attack in a McDonalds near the University of Lincoln.

The man was left unable to eat for six months and required three operations to insert a plate in his jaw after Booth struck him with a single punch as he was sitting down in the restaurant “minding his own business.”

Booth, of Addison Drive, St Giles, admitted two charges of inflicting grievous bodily harm and a single offence of assault causing actual bodily harm between April and October 2011.

Passing sentence, Judge Morris warned him: “One day if you are not careful young man you are going to kill somebody.

“You have been beating up children, beating up women, that is the mark of a coward.”

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June 2014 

Mum left her tiny baby suffering “catastrophic” brain damage

A MOTHER left her tiny baby suffering “catastrophic” brain damage after she angrily shook her daughter to “vent her frustration” after an argument.

She “targeted” the defenceless girl after a drinking session – and the serious brain injuries caused to the girl meant that she would continue to suffer problems for the rest of her life.

The selfish mother showed “gross irresponsibility” after the shaking attack by lying to hospital staff and police, a court heard.

Mercedes Foster, 20, admitted inflicting grievous bodily harm on the girl. She was sent to a young offenders’ institution for 20 months.

Katherine Goddard, prosecuting, told Grimsby Crown Court that Foster’s daughter was born eight weeks premature in August 2012.

Foster was living in Beeson Street, Grimsby, at the time with her boyfriend.

There were five children under eight living there.

The baby involved was aged about three-and-a-half months at the time.

A neighbour alerted social services on December 7, 2012, after hearing the sounds of a child screaming.

A visit was made by social services and the baby seemed to be sleeping soundly in a pushchair.

There were no immediate welfare concerns for any of the five children living there.

Another neighbour later heard the sound of arguing between Foster and her boyfriend, who was the father of the baby.

The infant was crying and Foster claimed she grabbed hold of her and shook her for three or four seconds.

Foster claimed that all she wanted to do was to stop her daughter crying and that, afterwards, the girl went to sleep.

“Things were clearly not right,” said Miss Goddard.

Foster rang an out-of-hours doctor service at 2.40pm on December 8, saying that the girl was pale and refusing her food.

At 6am on December 9, Foster dialled 999, claiming that her daughter had started twitching the night before.

An ambulance was sent and, when the crew arrived, the girl was in the middle of a seizure. She continued to have seizures during the ambulance journey to hospital. The girl was later transferred to Sheffield.

“It was clear she was a very poorly child,” said Miss Goddard.

The emergency services immediately suspected a non-accidental cause for the baby’s condition. There were no external marks of violence and no skull fractures.

Foster was arrested and admitted she had shaken her daughter and that she had lied or failed to tell the truth to the police and the hospital staff.

The baby was placed with a foster carer in May last year. She had made progress and, although she was now approaching her second birthday, was believed to have the abilities of only a baby aged about nine months.

“She requires constant care from the moment she wakes up in the morning to the moment she goes to bed at night,” said Miss Goddard.

“She is incapable of entertaining herself. Her development is still severely delayed. The prognosis remains largely uncertain.

“She is unlikely to improve significantly from the condition she is now in.”

Judge David Tremberg told Foster that a parent was supposed to provide certain standards of care and treatment but her behaviour towards her daughter fell way below those.

“What you did to her was a grave breach of trust,” he said.

Judge Tremberg added: “In a momentary loss of control, you picked that baby up and you shook her for several seconds.

“The result of your actions has been to cause her severe and irreparable brain damage. She will suffer the effects of what you did for as long as she lives.”

Foster had shown “gross irresponsibility” by trying to “deflect blame” from what she did and by not reporting the incident fully and truthfully.

June 2016

Bolton church deacon jailed for child sex offences

A church deacon who groomed and sexually abused two teenage girls after befriending their families has been jailed for eight years.

Michael Higson, from Bolton, carried out the abuse from 2009 to 2016 while working as a youth leader and deacon of West Houghton Pentecostal Church.

His crimes came to light after a family member of one of his victims saw a text from him, Bolton Crown Court heard.

Higson, 34, pleaded guilty to eight counts of sexual activity with a child.

One of his victims was 13 when he began to groom her, suggesting sexual behaviour to her online, police said.

He then began having physical contact with her, which lasted for a number of years before the victim ended it.

Higson, of Cairngorm Drive, later sexually exploited a 14-year-old girl but he was reported after the family member saw a text message from him on the victim’s phone.

In February, the police were called in and Higson was arrested and charged.

Det Con May Preston said: “Higson manipulated his position in society to gain the trust of these girls and their parents.

“Once he had accomplished that, he then set out to groom these young girls and sexually exploit them.”

June 2016

Man caught with two days worth of indecent child videos

A Tayside man was caught with indecent videos of children with a running time of over two days.

Adam Robert Morawski, 41, New Wynd, Montrose, admitted possessing 15,226 indecent pictures and 13,314 videos between April 20 2013 and June 22 2015.

Confidential information was received by police that indecent images of children had been downloaded to a device associated with Morawski’s address.

He told police: “It is possible. I found pictures on the internet.

“They weren’t naked children but I turned off straight away. I found some pictures when I was looking for movies.”

Police found a laptop, work laptop, a tablet, a smart phone and numerous hard drives.

Forfar Sheriff Court heard that Morawski told police that he had downloaded a zip file when he had been looking for 3D movies.

He said he had opened the file, realised it contained indecent images and tried to delete it but it was too large.

He stated he had only accessed the indecent images on two occasions.

He could not provide any information for creation dates of the images.

Of these, 1,170 images were in the most serious categories, 1,187 were in category B while the majority, 12,869 were in category C.

Of the 13,314 videos, 998 were in Category A, 1,103 were in Category B and 11,213 were in Category C with a running time of two days, one hour.

Search terms well-known for showing child indecent images were recovered from Morawski’s internet searches.

The internet history also showed that numerous web pages were visited with names suggesting content relating to indecent images of children.

Indecent images were also found within his recycle bin and some were also saved in files.

Defence solicitor Ian Flynn told Sheriff Pino di Emidio he would present his plea in mitigation once social work reports had been prepared.

The sheriff deferred sentence until July 20 and continued Morawski’s bail.

He also placed him on the sex offenders’ register in the interim.

Morawski is also required to surrender his passport and any other photo identification which could allow him to travel.

June 2016

Pervert, 21, caught with movies of children being sexually abused

PERVERT Liam Stazaker downloaded indecent images of children for his own sexual gratification.

The 21-year-old was arrested after police executed a search warrant at his Newcastle home

Officers seized a MacBook from his bedroom which was analysed and was found to contain three movies of children being sexually abused.

Two were at category A – the most serious – and one at category B.

Now Stazaker has been handed a community order as the judge believes that is the best way to protect the public.

Prosecutor Peter McCartney told Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court that police, acting on information, raided the defendant’s home in Cambridge Drive at 6.35am on January 21 last year (2015).

Mr McCartney said: “They seized his MacBook from his bedroom. It contained three movies.

“He acknowledged he had a problem.

“He said he approached the Lucy Faithful Foundation but the cost was prohibitive so he did not take up their help.”

Stazaker, of Cambridge Drive, Newcastle, pleaded guilty to two offences of making indecent photographs of children.

Jason Holt, mitigating, said the defendant had accrued significant debts but his father is re-mortgaging his home to pay them off and Stazaker intends to repay his parents.

Judge Paul Glenn sentenced Stazaker to a three-year community order with an accredited programme requirement.

He told the defendant: “You installed a programme which allowed you to browse the internet anonymously and search for images of young children.

“You sought to obtain and swap images. And you had some very unpleasant conversations with others via the internet.

“You have been frank with the author of the pre-sentence report.

“You viewed images for a number of years and you accept seeking out and exchanging images, although I do not sentence you for distribution because you are not charged with it.

“You accept you were sexually motivated and derived some sexual gratification.”

The judge said Stazaker was ‘luckier than most’ as he comes from a good home and has a supportive family.

Judge Glenn added: “You have run up significant debt due to a gambling addiction. It is time you grew up a bit, hold down a job and begin to lead a more industrious lifestyle.”

Stazaker will be on the sex offenders’ register for five years and was made the subject of a Sexual Offences Prevention Order for the same period.

He was also ordered to pay £350 costs.

June 2016

Facebook pervert snared after officer posed as schoolgirl in undercover online operation

An internet pervert was snared when an undercover Cleveland Police officer posed as a schoolgirl online.

Bahman Albet, 30, bombarded three vulnerable schoolchildren with “overt and extreme sexual messages”, Teesside Crown Court heard.

He adopted a false identity with the fake name Tony Mantana to contact youngsters onFacebook and other social media.

He was caught when a officer started communicating with Albet claiming she was 15.

Innocent conversation descended into a deluge of sexual messages within a day, the court was told yesterday.

Albet sent images of his genitals, offered her money for sex acts and persistently offered to book a hotel for them to have sex, said prosecutor Jo Kidd.

The full extent of Albet’s sordid activities was laid bare on his iPhone when he was arrested.

It revealed similar sexual online conversations with two girls and one boy, all underage.

His twisted fantasies included involving the children’s parents in sexual activity.

When his victims did not respond as he liked, he became aggressive and intimidating.

He persistently requested pictures from one 15-year-old girl. She sent him a photo of her breasts and he distributed it to others.

When she did not comply with his requests, he threatened to send the image to her friends and family and damage her home.

He invited a 13-year-old girl to come to London to meet and have sex with him in a hotel.

He suggested sex to a 13-year-old boy who had already been the victim of online grooming.

He had 21 indecent images of boys and girls aged 12 to 15 on the phone.

Albet admitted 13 offences from October to December last year.

They were causing a child to engage in sexual activity and attempting to do so, causing a child to watch sexual activity and attempting to do so, causing or inciting child exploitation, attempting to arrange or facilitate a child sex offence, possessing an extreme pornographic image, making indecent photographs of children, distributing an indecent photograph of a child and harassment.

Andrew Coleman, defending, said Albet never met the victims and never intended to.

He said Albet showed remorse and shame for his behaviour over a short period of time.

He said: “During the time of this offending his world was effectively in a haze.

“He was suffering from a form of adjustment disorder. He was embroiled in an addiction to amphetamine and alcohol.

“He did lose touch with reality.”

He said Albet had been an asylum seeker from Iran, was granted indefinite leave to remain and started a family in the UK.

Judge Tony Briggs told Albet, formerly from Blackburn in Lancashire, now of no fixed address, that prison was inevitable but accepted his remorse was genuine.

Albet was jailed for two years and four months, given an indefinite sexual harm prevention order banning him from contact with under-16s and governing internet and social media use.

He will be on the sex offenders’ register for 10 years.

He denied a charge of possessing a “paedophile manual” which was left to lie on the court file.

June 2016

Sex offender breached order during camping trip with young girl

A PAEDOPHILE failed to tell the mother of two young girls that he was on the sex offenders register before going on a camping trip with them, Swindon magistrates heard.

Robert McKinley swam naked in a lake at Ashton Keynes with one of the children and took off her bra in the water during the break in April last year, prosecutor Vyvyan Thatcher told the court on Wednesday.

The trip meant he was in breach of the register’s requirements that he notify his offender manager that he was staying somewhere with a person under the age of 18.

Mr Thatcher said McKinley, of Brimble Hill, Wroughton, had been a registered sex offender since 2009. Before that he had been known by a different name.

He had been convicted in 2009 of sexual activity with a child and sentenced to a year in prison.

He had met the children’s mother and she had taken some time to get to know him and thought he was good with children.

In April last year they went camping at a site in Ashton Keynes. During the holiday “he swam naked with a child having undone her bra and given her cider.”

When the mother found some of his documents in another name she asked McKinley about them.

“He gave various reasons. Later she decided to Google him and the conviction for the sex offence came up,” he said.

She also found out about the incident in the lake involving her daughter, who was under the age of 13 at the time.

He was interviewed by police in May 2015 and admitted it. “He admitted giving her cider, helping her off with her bra while they swam. He also admitted taking the children on a bike ride without their mother’s knowledge.”

McKinley, 52, pleaded guilty to the breach.

Richard Williams, defending, stressed McKinley faced one charge of failing to notify his offender manager about the trip.

He had driven his camper van to the site and the woman had met him there with her children. It had slipped his mind that he should tell the authorities what he was doing. He was keen to stress he had slept in the caravan and the children had been in a tent.

“Clearly he realises what an incredibly vulnerable position it has put him in,” said Mr Williams. “There have been no difficulties with notification before this incident. He said it was completely inadvertent that he did not notify the police.”

The magistrates asked for a pre-sentence report and adjourned the case until July 8. McKinley was granted bail on the condition that he did not have any unsupervised contact with anyone under the age of 18 unless cleared by his offender manager.

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June 2016

‘Watch indecent images and expect visit’ – judge warns

A JUDGE has warned that people who download indecent images of children can expect a knock on their door.

Judge Geraint Walters, sitting at Mold Crown Court yesterday, said police now had the technology to detect wrongdoers.

“Police have the ability today more so than ever to be able to police to some extent the internet,” he said.

Those behaving that way needed to understand that it was only a question of time before there was a knock on the door, the judge told the court.

He added: “I am constantly amazed by the fact that there are still people doing this, running the risk that they will be caught,” he said.

He told defendant Paul William Route that what people like him who spent a lot of time on the internet did not understand was that they became acclimatised by what they were seeing.

The shock value diminished and the need to look at something more shocking arose.

“That is why people end up committing sentences of this sort,” he said.

But the victims in the films were real children being abused by adults, the judge told the court.“Each time an adult looks at that image, that child is being abused again,” he said.

Route, 56, of Almond Grove in Rhosnesni, Wrexham, admitted three charges of making indecent images by downloading them from the internet, five charges of possessing them and one charge of possessing a prohibited image.

The court heard that when police acting on intelligence that an IP address at Route’s home was being used to download images, he was found to have 76 videos and six images of category A, B and C.

Mark Connor, defending, said his client had no previous convictions and he was suitable for assistance in the community.

The judge said the sentence was intended to “cure the defendant of his addiction”.

He was placed on a three-year community order and sent on an internet community sex offender programme and 90 days’ rehabilitation.

Route was also placed on the sex offender register for five years and he was made the subject of a fiveyear sexual harm prevention order to curb his future use of the internet

June 2016

Sex offender sentenced to 10 years

A man has been jailed for 10 years after a string of sexual offences against women and children.

Pervert Bryan ‘aka Bryn’ Bastion has been sent down after the list of horrendous offences which took place in Kirkby in the late 1980s, 1990s and 2000s.

Following a trial at Nottingham Crown Court, Bastion, 63-yrs-old of Sunningdale Drive in Skegness, was found guilty of the rape and indecent assault of a woman, two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm against another woman, indecency with a child, and the indecent assault of another child.

June 2016

Man jailed for attacking partner and baby at Dymchurch caravan park

A drunken father who punched his crying baby son full on in the face when his girlfriend said he couldn’t go to an amusement arcade has been jailed.

Thug Lee Merrett, 23, from Walsall, West Midlands, had downed most of a bottle of Jack Daniels before he hit his terrified partner 20 times and then turned on their nine-month-old son.

The family had been on holiday at a caravan park in Dymchurch, Kent, and Merrett had wanted to play in a nearby amusement arcade but his girlfriend asked if he would stay with her and the baby.