June 2016

Pervert jailed for sexually assaulting three schoolgirls

A paedophile has been jailed after being found guilty of sexually assaulting three young schoolgirls

Unemployed Anthony Ian Search, 33-years-old of Shoeburyness was convicted of four counts of sexual assault on three underage female victims

The court heard that Search had groomed and then sexually assaulted the girls – Two aged 9 and one who was 13-years-old.

The offences took place in 2014 when Search was 31-years-old

At the hearing on 10 June, 2016 at Basildon Crown Court, Anthony Search was sentenced to a total of eight years.

The judge also issued Search with a sexual harm prevention order and told him that he must register as a sex offender for life.

October 2015

West Kirby man who targeted young girls ‘for his own sexual gratification’

A West Kirby man who admitted sex offences after grooming three teenage school girls has been jailed for 27 months.

Liverpool Crown Court heard 28-year-old Mark Taylor targeted the youngsters “for his own sexual gratification” and as well as sending explicit text messages, he offered them cigarettes and vodka and got one high on cannabis.

Jailing him Judge Denis Watson, QC, said that his offending had had an impact on his victims, all aged just 14 at the time.

He had “bombarded” one of them sending her 189 texts in just two days and lured another to his home with cigarettes and alcohol.

Nick Walker, prosecuting, said one of the victims had been with Taylor when he bought £160 worth of cannabis and by the time she got home her mum said she was “off her face” on the drug, which led to a police investigation.

Taylor had groomed that victim by sending messages such as saying she was “gorgeous” and “sexy” and she had gone round to his flat for cigarettes.

She eventually told him to leave her alone and described him as “a paedo.”

His second victim would ask him for cigarettes and vodka and he asked to kiss her.

She did not want to do so but he hugged her and touched her bottom over her clothing.

Taylor, of Dee Lane, West Kirby, sent sexually explicit texts to the third girl and offered to get her a litre bottle of vodka if she met him. “I think you are proper fit,” he told her.

Mr Walker said an impact statement from one for the girls revealed she was now afraid of going into West Kirby in case she bumped into him and was terrified of using public transport and the dark.

Taylor pleaded guilty to sexual activity with one girl and two of inciting the other girls to engage in sexual activity. The offences took place between March 1 and September 20 last year.

Judge Watson ordered Taylor, who has two previous cannabis convictions, to sign the Sex Offenders Register for ten years and imposed a Sexual Harm Prevention Order for the same length of time.

June 2016

Pervert molested girl and paraded in front of windows performing sex act in front of child

Photo of Strange is from 2011

A pervert who molested an 8-year-old girl and paraded in front of his windows performing a sex act in view of another young child has been jailed for just 10-months

Paul Strange, 23, invited the young girl into his back garden to see his animals then sexually assaulted her.

He twice molested the girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons

A ten-year-old girl later saw him carrying out a sex act in his front window. She screamed but he continued.

The girl’s guardians said she they had changed since the attacks.

One addressed the sex offender directly in a statement: “Paul Strange, I find you disgusting.

“You have turned our lives upside down.”

The other wrote: “It makes me sick to think that [the girl] has been subjected to his sick and twisted ways.

“I feel so strongly I think if I did attend court I would not be able to keep my emotions in check.

“Out of respect for the judicial system I have removed myself from the situation.

“It’s going to take time to get through time but we will find a way.”

Strange, of Hampden Street, South Bank, denied two charges of sexual assault and one of sexual activity in the presence of a child – his first conviction for sex offences.

He forced his victim to relive her ordeal giving evidence in a trial.

He was convicted by a jury last month.

David Lamb, defending, said: “I simply pose the question – is it really necessary for this young man to actually lose his liberty today?

“Mr Strange continues to deny his behaviour. Very often offenders convicted of this type of offence do so to the very end.

“Threats have been made against him. He is fearful for the future and what will happen to him.”

He asked the judge to give Strange a chance and spare him prison “by the skin of his teeth”.

He suggested a suspended jail term and an order to carry out unpaid work in the community.

Judge Sean Morris rejected this idea, telling Strange: “You groped her on two occasions, having enticed her into the back garden to see the animals.

“Had this been a guilty plea, it would have made a difference.

“But you had a trial. That little girl had to relive it.

“She was an honest and compelling witness.

“It had a dreadful effect upon her and her family.

“Your continued denials will make it impossible to impose a community order.

“It is sad to say, a sad fact of life, that… this is not the most serious kind of offending I have to deal with and other judges have to deal with day in, day out.

“I have to be true to the sentencing guidelines which steer judges to various levels of sentences.”

Strange was jailed for 10 months, given a five-year sexual harm prevention order and will be on the sex offenders’ register for 10 years.

June 2016

Children’s TV presenter, and his teacher brother convicted of possession and making indecent images of children

Robyn Wheldon-Williams on the Brainiac TV show

Two brothers who have both taught at schools in Wales have admitted possessing indecent images of children.

Pictured: Robyn Wheldon-Williams on the Brainiac TV show

June 2016

Eight years jail for man who drugged and raped boy, 13

A pervert who raped a 13-year-old boy has been sent to prison for eight years.

Vincent Joseph Hudson, 55, had denied the sex attack on the schoolboy

But after a trial at Carlisle Crown Court in April he was convicted of the crime on the majority verdict of a jury.

June 2016

Man who had sex with 14-year-old jailed

A man who had sex with a 14-year-old schoolgirl has been jailed for four years.

Khristopher Paul Edward Davie, 25, pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual activity with a child and sexual activity in the presence of a child, when he behaved in a lewd manner during Skype contact.

Leicester Crown Court was told that Davie was aged between 23 and 24 when he committed the offences with the girl.

Robert Underwood, prosecuting, said: “He knew it was illegal and didn’t tell anyone because he knew it would get him into trouble.

“There was grooming and naked images were exchanged.”

Davie, of no fixed address, was given a caution in 2012 for having sex with a different under-aged school girl.

Sentencing, Judge Robert Brown said: “Much of what your advocate has said on your behalf, all of which I’ve listened to with great care, was undermined by the fact, when you were 21, you had sexual intercourse with a girl and received a caution.

“Whatever is said about you being immature and preferring the company of youngsters you knew it was wrong.

“It is child abuse and taking advantage of youngsters whom the courts must protect.

“It involved grooming behaviour and there was is significant disparity of ages; 10 years.

“You’ve learnt nothing from that caution because you’ve gone on to offend against another child.”

Davie was placed on an indefinite sexual harm prevention order and will have to enrol on a sex offender register for life.

June 2016

Man jailed for trying to rape schoolgirl after buying her alcohol

A Haddington man has been jailed for five years for attempting to rape a schoolgirl after buying alcohol for underage drinkers.

As well as attempting to rape the 14-year-old girl, Ruslanas Kukanauza also sexually assaulted three other underage girls in attacks in Haddington in 2013.

A judge told Kukanauza – who is originally from Lithuania – at the High Court in Edinburgh today (Tuesday) that, given the nature of the attempted rape offence, he was “bound to impose a sentence of imprisonment”.

Kukanauza, 25, of Dobsons Walk, had earlier denied a series of charges during a trial, but was found guilty of the attempted rape in July 2013 and further attacks on other girls.

Judge Michael O’Grady QC previously told him: “It is apparent to me from the circumstances of this case that you are inclined to prey on young women as a matter of course.”

He said: “It goes without saying that the crime of attempted rape is always a cowardly and serious offence.”

The judge added that it was particularly so when “perpetrated by a grown man on a child” who was vulnerable.

The victim of the rape bid, who is now aged 17, said that at that time of the offence she would sometimes meet up with friends and go out drinking.

She told advocate depute Jo McDonald that they would ask others to buy alcohol for them.

The girl said she was not sure of the age of Kukanauza. She said: “The first time I ever met him he told us he was 19, then it was 21, then 24.”

The teenager said she had told her mother she was going to the gym and she was given money, but her intention was to buy drink.

Kukanauza came down the street and one of her friends said he would buy them alcohol as he had done it before.

She said she contributed £20 and he came back with a bag containing lager, cider and gin.

“He sat with us for a bit and then we got invited up to his flat,” she said.

They went to the flat on Hardgate, in Haddington, where she was drinking gin.

They later left after Kukanauza said he was going to the pub for a drink, but were told they could return to the flat later and were given the chance to stay.

The teenager said: “I was really quite drunk.”

She and others were lying on a bed and Kukanauza joined them. She said she was woken up by her body “shaking”.

“I didn’t have any pants on. They were just pulled down,” she said. She said she never consented to what was occurring “because I was sleeping”.

She said as soon as she realised what was going on she stood up before leaving the flat.

Defence counsel Matt Jackson told the court that Kukanauza still maintained his innocence.

Mr Jackson said: “He does go so far as recognising that he was wrong in involving himself in any kind of supply of alcohol.”

The defence counsel said that Kukanauza had come to Britain as a 17-year-old to find employment and had shown a strong work ethic.

Kukanauza was placed on the sex offenders’ register as well as receiving a jail sentence.

June 2016

Former Harrow school employee jailed for possession of indecent images of children

A former Harrow school employee has been jailed for a string of sexual offences against children.

Alex Bateman, 47, of Headstone Lane, pleaded guilty to six counts of making indecent images of children and one count of possessing indecent images of children at Wood Green Crown Court on May 3.

He was sentenced to 12 months in prison on May 27.

Bateman is to remain on the sex offenders register for ten years and has been placed under a Sexual Harm Prevention Order for ten years.

He worked as an archivist at Harrow High School, and has also written a book on the 617 “Dambusters” squadron.

June 2016

Mid Devon man admits sex offence allegations

A man has been warned he faces jail after he admitted carrying out serious sexual offences against a boy during the 1980s.

Kevin Snow, 52, pleaded guilty to three offences on what was due to be the first day of his trial at Exeter Crown Court.

The case had been due to be tried twice before but on the eve of the first trial Snow suffered a broken leg in a road accident and on the day before the second trial he took an overdose and was taken to hospital.

Snow, of Fir Close, Willand, admitted buggery and two counts of indecent assault on the same victim in the early 1980s.

Judge Jeremy Griggs adjourned sentence and ordered a probation report.

He told him:”You have taken what your counsel has described as a brave decision to accept the reality of what was alleged against you. You have saved people from having to give evidence.

“You know the likely outcome but I adjourning the case for reports. I know about the problems when you did not attend court in the past and the reasons that led up to that.

“As your counsel says, what has happened today has probably alleviated those problems so I shall grant you bail.”

Nigel Wraith, prosecuting, said: “The defendant’s position is that he simply cannot remember what happened but is prepared to accept that what the victim says is true.”

June 2016

Child killer sentenced to minimum of 23 years

A father who murdered his six-year-old daughter just 11 months after she was returned to his care following a custody battle has been jailed for a minimum of 23 years

Ben Butler, 36, inflicted catastrophic head injuries upon Ellie while looking after her at their home in Sutton, south-west London, in October 2013.

He was also found guilty of child cruelty over a shoulder injury, as was Ellie’s mother Jennie Gray.

He was jailed for a minimum of 23 years. Gray was jailed for 42 months.

Gray, a graphic designer, had admitted perverting the course of justice.

Following the guilty verdict at the Old Bailey, Butler shouted out: “I’ll fight for the rest of my life – unbelievable,” before adding: “I want to be sentenced now so I can fight in the Appeal Court.”

He added: “I will fight forever to prove this wrong. My daughter was jumping in the house. I’m 100% not guilty.”

Gray said: “Big mistake. Spend another 10 years proving you wrong.”

Butler was convicted in 2009 for shaking Ellie as a baby, although this was later quashed on appeal.

The couple then won a High Court judgement to have Ellie returned to their care in 2012.

Mrs Justice Hogg had sided with Butler despite objections from police, social services and Ellie’s maternal grandfather, Neal Gray.

At the time, Mr Gray – who had cared for Ellie since she was a baby – had allegedly warned the judge she would have “blood on your hands”.

A serious case review found Sutton Children Services felt “powerless to act” following the High Court’s ruling.

It found Mrs Justice Hogg’s ruling in the Family Court went much further than simply quashing Butler’s previous conviction and had exonerated him, as, in her eyes, he was a victim of a miscarriage of justice.

That had the effect of telling social services to “back off” – despite social workers’ concerns about returning Ellie to her parents, the review concluded.

In sentencing Butler, Judge Mr Justice Wilkie told him: “You are a self-absorbed, ill-tempered, violent and domineering man who… regarded your children and your partner as trophies, having no role other than to fit in with your infantile and sentimentalised fantasy of family life with you as the patriarch whose every whim was to be responded to.”

Jurors were told Butler battered his daughter to death in a volcanic loss of temper.

He did not call 999 for two hours and instead called Jennie Gray back from work in the City of London.

They then concocted an elaborate plot to destroy evidence and stage the scene of an accidental fall before alerting the ambulance service.

The couple even involved Ellie’s younger sibling by sending the child into a room on the pretext of fetching Ellie for cake, jurors were told.

The child can be heard on the 999 call saying Ellie “won’t wake up”.

Mr Justice Wilkie told a sobbing Gray that she may have been “exceptionally naive and stupid” to believe Butler and take part in the cover-up.

He added: “You played your full part in the grotesque charade that was the 999 call whilst subjecting your dead daughter to the indignity of pointless CPR when you knew full well she had been dead for two hours.”

Ellie’s grandmother Linda Gray died on 19 April – the first day of the murder trial – but the news was kept from Jennie Gray until sentencing at her father’s request.

In a joint statement, written ahead of the trial, Ellie’s grandparents said they had struggled to come to terms with the “shock and horror” of her death.

“Ellie was a very beautiful, bubbly and intelligent little girl who always had a smile on her face and even at such a young age she was nobody’s fool. She was our life and she gave so much pleasure to us and our family too. How we all miss her.”

Without referring directly to their daughter or Butler throughout the statement, they said: “We did not realise that some people could be so wicked.”

The court heard harrowing evidence of a toxic family life dominated by a man described in court as “angry, overbearing and manipulative”.

Butler had a “volatile temper” which could “explode at any time”.

In the months leading up to Ellie’s death he sent hundreds of abusive and threatening texts to Gray containing the most obscene and vile language, often directed at Ellie and a younger sibling.

Jurors heard how he frequently beat Gray up and threw her out onto the streets.

A video clip played in court also showed him swearing aggressively on a phone call in the family kitchen in front of Ellie.

Timeline

February 2007: At six weeks old and in the sole care of her father, Ellie was found to be “suddenly soft and limp”. Scans showed she had serious injuries.

June 2007: Ellie was placed in the care of her grandparents.

January 2008: The Family Court found that, on the balance of probability, Butler caused Ellie’s injuries and Gray failed to protect her.

March 2009: Butler was convicted of grievous bodily harm and sentenced to 18 months in prison. He had a history of offending and violence.

June 2010: His criminal conviction was quashed by the Court of Appeal on the basis of new medical evidence.

July 2012: The Family Court overturned an order which protected Ellie from her parents. It exonerated Butler and said that any injury caused to Ellie was “purely accidental”.

An independent social work agency was appointed to replace Sutton Council’s social workers to oversee the children being returned to their parents.

The children were not subject to any court orders which had an effect of preventing agencies (social workers, child protection, schools etc) from having any further involvement.

November 2012: Ellie was returned to her parents’ care.

October 2013: Ellie was murdered.

June 2016

Ben Butler found guilty of murdering six-year-old daughter

An abusive father with a criminal past has been found guilty of murdering his six-year-old daughter 11 months after he convinced the high court to return her to his care.

Ben Butler was convicted on Tuesday of murdering Ellie, who was found dead in October 2013 in the family home in Sutton, south London, after suffering fatal injuries similar to those inflicted in a high-speed car accident.

Jennie Gray, the girl’s mother and Butler’s partner, was convicted of child cruelty in relation to an untreated broken shoulder their daughter suffered weeks before she died.

She had already pleaded guilty to covering up her daughter’s death and perverting the course of justice to “save the skin” of her violent and aggressive partner.

In a unanimous decision, the jurors sided with the prosecution, who said unemployed Butler “consistently teetered on the edge of a violent loss of temper” and had killed Ellie in a fit of rage when minding her alone at home.

Butler mumbled angrily as the verdicts were returned. Gray said: “Big mistake, big mistake, big mistake.”

The pair, both 36, face lengthy jail sentences. Butler, who was holding a bible that Gray has brought to court every day, did not stand up when the verdicts were returned.

After the verdicts, Butler’s lawyer Di Middleton asked for sentencing at the Old Bailey to be adjourned. But Butler shouted out: “Di, I want to be sentenced now. There is no need – you can sentence me now so I can fight in the appeal court and prove this wrong. I will fight forever to prove this wrong.”

Butler’s effort to regain custody of Ellie had included an extraordinary press campaign by the former PR guru Max Clifford and was successful in spite of warnings from the child’s grandfather and the local council.

Neal Gray, 70, who had cared for Ellie since she was 10 weeks old, spent all of his £70,000 savings fighting Butler in the courts. It can be reported for the first time that he warned Mrs Justice Hogg, the high court judge who ruled on returning Ellie to her father in 2012, that she would have “blood on her hands” if she did so.

“My words have come true,” Gray said in an exclusive interview with the Guardian during the trial.

Following a high court application by the media for the release of family court judgments related to the case, it emerged that the high court judge Mrs Justice King concluded in 2014 that “Ellie died as a result of the father either hitting her on the back of the head with the leg of a child’s table, or swinging her with such violence that her head came so forcefully into contact with the table leg … and she sustained the skull fracture”.

Ellie was killed by Butler in what the prosecution described as a “truly disturbing” case. With the help of his partner, he then attempted to hide his crime. Staging an elaborate and calculated cover-up, the pair put potentially contaminated clothes in the wash and dumped Gray’s torn-up diary, which exposed the “toxic” atmosphere in the house and their abusive relationship. He took the dog for a walk, trying to appear normal and smiling at neighbours while she texted work to say she would not return to the office because she was ill.

It can now be reported for the first time that as part of their “cynical” cover-up, the couple set up a younger sibling who was in the house at the time of the murder to “discover” her body in her bedroom before calling an ambulance two hours after Ellie had been found unconscious.

Butler was jailed for 19 months for assaulting Ellie in 2007, when she was seven weeks old, but the conviction was overturned in 2010 following a judge’s assessment of new scientific research on shaken baby syndrome.

In a reverse of past tragedies such as the death of Baby P, the local authority, the London borough of Sutton, fought all the way to the high court to stop Ellie being returned to Butler and Gray despite his quashed conviction.

Court documents and local authority assessments obtained by the Guardian reveal that the council continued to believe Butler posed a danger to his children.

But Ellie was ultimately returned following a ruling in November 2012, when the then Mrs Justice Hogg declared Butler “exonerated”, adding it was “a joy” to see such a “happy ending”. She retired six days before the murder trial started, seven months earlier than expected.

Responding to the verdicts, Neal Gray said: “Today’s verdict is fantastic news … the tragedy is that none of this will bring our beloved granddaughter Ellie back to us.”

The investigating officer, Det Insp Dave Reid, said: “Butler and Gray set about orchestrating a set of lies to blame everyone but themselves for Ellie’s murder and the events leading up to it. They lied throughout the investigation and continued making outlandish accusations against a variety of people and organisations throughout their trial at the Old Bailey. However, investigating Ellie’s murder and tragic story meant detectives gathered a huge amount of harrowing evidence that proved Butler did indeed kill Ellie and Gray helped him cover it up.

“Whilst their convictions today will bring little comfort to Ellie’s beloved grandparents with whom she lived for the majority of her short life, or to all those who loved her, I hope they will go some little way to assuring them justice has now been achieved.”

Based on pathologists’ evidence, prosecutors said Ellie was possibly thrown into a wall or to the ground by Butler, suffering multiple fractures to the head along with thoracic bleeding. Butler, then an unemployed removals man, who has a string of convictions – including assault on a former girlfriend – denied throughout the trial that he was responsible for Ellie’s death.

Butler told jurors he had found Ellie unconscious in her bedroom at about 12.45pm on 28 October 2013, but that he had gone into shock and went downstairs to lie on the floor to recover. He summoned his on-off girlfriend home from work and she agreed not to phone 999 because, they claimed, they feared they would be blamed because of his 2007 conviction.

But over 10 weeks, jurors heard how the “toxic and dysfunctional” relationship had descended into extreme verbal, and probably physical, abuse before culminating in the brutal murder of a six-year-old girl.

The jury was shown examples from three months of abusive texts, in which Butler called Gray a “stupid useless cunt” a “fat, disg[usting] dog bitch cunt” and a “dog whore”. He told her he was “disgusted” when she got pregnant and frequently told her he “hated” her or that she was “finished”.

She would respond by telling him she loved him and would put him before everyone, including the children. In one, she said she would “rather jump off a skyscraper” than disturb his sleep. Throughout the trial and police investigation, Gray denied she was a victim of domestic violence, despite diary entries in which she prayed for a “magic spell” to make Butler love her and texts begging him not to beat her.

But in the end the jury sided with the prosecution, who accused her of being a “skilful and prolific liar” who would do or say anything to protect Butler.

A serious case review is expected to be released later on Tuesday.

June 2016

Pervert pleads guilty to distributing indecent photographs of children

ANDREW RAYMOND JOINSON , 41, of Merton Road, Scunthorpe, pleaded guilty to two offences of making indecent photographs of children and one of distributing indecent photographs of children.

He was committed to prison for 26 weeks, suspended for 24 months, and ordered to comply with programme and rehabilitation activity requirements.

He was also given a five-year sexual harm prevention order, a seven-year notification requirement, fined £500, ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £80 and costs of £85

Update: Hazell is now wanted by police for failing to comply with the Sex Offenders’ Notification Requirements. We understand he is now living in the Hull area

July 2014

Pervert avoids prison for grooming schoolgirl over Facebook

A unemployed pervert has avoided a prison sentence after he was caught grooming a 13-year-old schoolgirl for sex.

29-year-old Matthew Hazell of Dudley was found guilty at Wolverhampton Crown court of grooming a child online and sending sexually explicit messages.

Hazell was given a three year community order with a condition that he attends a sex offender treatment group.

The judge ordered him to pay £340 for the prosecution costs and a sexual offences prevention order was made

Hazell was also told he must register as a sex offender.

June 2016

Man avoids prison after grooming and having sexual activity with child

A 19-year-old man from Littlehampton has been found guilty of grooming a female child for sex

Aston Frost was found guilty of two counts of sexual activity with a child.

Chichester Crown Court was told that Frost had broke a child abduction order when he continued to meet the girl after her parents had tried everything to stop the contact.

On one occasion the police had to remove the girl from Frost’s flat after he had got her high on cannabis.

On a separate occasion when the police visited him at his flat, two other young schoolgirls were found

Even after the police weer involved, Frost still contacted the girl, which resulted in her becoming pregnant at 15.

Aston Frost was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment which was suspended for 2 years and was told he must complete 30 hours rehabilitation activity

A sexual Harm Prevention Order was made and he was also told he must register as a sex offender for a period of seven years

June 2016

Man jailed for child sex offences

AN OLDHAM man has been jailed for three years for historic sex offences against a young girl who was just nine years old at the time.

Stuart Jones (54), was sentenced at Manchester’s Minshull Street Crown Court after being convicted by a jury following a trial in April.

Earlier the same month he was arrested after going into Oldham’s Tommyfield pub drunk, and armed with a Samurai sword and a knife.

The court was told that the sex offences against the youngster had been committed within hours of each other in August 2001.

His victim was said to have been seriously affected by what he did to her, but made no formal complaint until more than ten years later.

Shirley Duckworth prosecuting, said the girl had suffered from severe depression and regarded what he had done as causing her mental torture.

She said she lacked confidence both mentally and physically, and had no trust in anyone – particularly men.

Jones, of Unsworth Way, Oldham, was convicted of offences of indecent assault and indecency with a child by the trial jury, but still maintains his innocence.

Judge Maurice Greene told him: “You were clearly going through a bad patch, but you used this girl for your own ends.”

He told him that despite a plea for leniency, the offences were so serious that there was no alternative to immediate custody.

Caroline Patrick defending, said that in 2001 when the sex offences were committed, Jones had been struggling to deal with the breakdown of his marriage, he suffered depression and turned to alcohol.

She said the offences had been isolated incidents and there was no suggestion of anything of a similar nature.

The court had been told that on the day of the weapons offence in Oldham on April 4, Jones had been drinking heavily in the Tommyfield before leaving.

He returned shortly afterwards, clearly drunk, and carrying the sword and knife which he described as ornamental.

Judge Greene said he accepted that he had not been brandishing them in a threatening manner, but said it had been a serious incident given that they were dangerous, and he had been drinking.

Jones was sent down for three years for indecent assault, sentenced to six months concurrent for indecency with a child, two months concurrent for possession of offensive weapons, and seven days concurrent for failing to turn up at his original sentencing hearing a week ago.

June 2016

Convicted rapist jailed after being caught in online sting

A convicted rapist has been jailed for 20 months after he was caught attempting to meet a schoolgirl for sex after he had groomed her online.

Neil Ivall & Katie Ivall aka ‘Chris Fear’ snared vile Carl Brown of Bungay after the pervert began messaging them thinking he was talking to a young schoolgirl.

The couple had created a fake account to catch paedophiles and Brown was soon passing on messages saying how he wanted to meet up for sex with the child

June 2016

Special Olympics gold medal winner had child abuse images

June 2016

Brazen serial rapist who targeted sleeping and drunk women jailed for 16 years

Serial rapist Alexander Ord has been jailed for 16 years for a catalogue of shocking sex attacks on sleeping and intoxicated females including a 15-year-old schoolgirl

Ord subjected two women and a schoolgirl to vile attacks while they were asleep and held down and raped a fourth victim in her own home.

A court heard one of the women was lying next to her daughter when she was raped while Ord laughed at another victim when she woke to find him on top of her as she slept next to her partner.

Now the 24-year-old, of New Hartley, Northumberland, has been locked up at Newcastle Crown Court after a jury convicted him of three rapes and a sexual assault, spanning three years.

A 42-year-old mum went to her daughter’s house along with others last April. Ord was not invited but turned up anyway.

The woman became heavily intoxicated and was helped upstairs and put to bed in her daughter’s room.

At the end of the night everyone left but then Ord crept back in.

Rupert Doswell, prosecuting, said: “The complainant woke up and felt someone on top of her.

“She was in and out of consciousness at the time.

“The following morning she was aware of her daughter lying next to her in bed. The defendant had gone.

“The complainant had been raped while her daughter was in bed next to her.

“The defendant had returned after leaving, let himself in, took off his shoes and went upstairs. He had one intention going into that house that night.”

Outlining the impact on her and her family, the victim said: “I’ve lost two-and- a-half stone and didn’t work for two months.

“My eldest daughter is struggling immensely, has taken several overdoses and has self harmed while my son had had weekly counselling sessions and has been significantly affected.

“My daughter couldn’t cope with the thought of her mother being raped beside her in bed as she slept.

“I just pray in time, with help, she can get back on track and not let him ruin the rest of her life.

“In a way I’m glad it was me he raped because if I had not stayed it might have been my daughter.

“I’m proud of myself and the other victims. We should walk with our heads held high and sleep well at night, knowing he can’t hurt anyone else in the immediate future.”

Another woman, 28, had been socialising at a house with her partner and others, including Ord, in 2012.

She went to bed with her boyfriend but was shocked to find Ord on top of her when she woke up.

Mr Doswell said: “She fell asleep and woke to find the defendant having intercourse with her.

“He was pretending to be (her partner) at the time but when she realised her partner was next to her, she pushed him off.

“The defendant moved down the bed and left, laughing.

“The following day he let himself into the complainant’s home and lay in wait for her and she went in and found him lying on her bed and he also tried to make further contact on Facebook.”

The woman said in a statement to the court that the ordeal left her suffering panic attacks and anxiety.

She added: “This was solely down to what he put me through.

“He dragged me through a lengthy court case.

“His actions have had a massive impact on my life.”

A 15-year-old schoolgirl was at a house party in 2013 and ended up going for a lie down upstairs after drinking alcohol and taking drugs.

Mr Doswell said: “She quickly fell into a deep sleep and woke to find Ord on top of her and her onesie had been untied.”

She said in a statement: “The memory of that night will creep up and I hit rock bottom again.

“I began to self harm and took overdoses.

“When he was convicted I cried because I was so happy he had to face up to the torture he put me through.”

Ord ended up at the home of a 22-year-old mum after a night out in 2014.

After some consensual kissing, he forced himself on her, ignoring her pleas for him to stop, holding her down by the shoulders and raping her.

She said: “I’ve been significantly emotionally affected and get flashbacks and nightmares about what happened.

“This happened in my own home where I previously felt safe and secure. I have not been able to go back there as I couldn’t face it because of the trauma of what happened to me there.”

Ord, of Seaburn View, New Hartley, Northumberland, was convicted after a trial of three counts of rape on the three women and one of sexually assaulting the girl.

He was jailed for 16 years with an extended licence until 2036 and must sign the sex offenders register and was made subject to a sexual harm prevention order.

Judge Deborah Sherwin told him: “You deliberately targeted women who were either under the influence of alcohol or who were asleep.

“In all cases the victims were particularly vulnerable, being affected by drink or asleep on some cases, and in places where they were entitled to feel safe.”

June 2016

Nottingham man jailed for 13 years after ‘water-boarding’ child

A man has been jailed for 13 years and three months after admitting he “water-boarded” a child.

Earld Jason Romans, of Nottingham, admitted a charge of grievous bodily harm with intent against an infant child and was sentenced at Nottingham Crown Court today.

The 29-year-old changed his plea part-way through his trial.

July 2016

Mother and partner jailed for murdering Liam Fee in ‘pitiless regime’ of abuse

A mother and her partner have been jailed for life for murdering her toddler son after subjecting him to a “cruel and pitiless regime” of abuse and neglect.

Rachel Trelfa or Fee, 31, and her civil partner Nyomi Fee, 29, grossly abused their position of trust to inflict appalling suffering on two-year-old Liam Fee.

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Defenceless Liam was murdered at his home near Glenrothes, Fife, on March 22, 2014 following a prolonged campaign of horrific abuse spanning more than two years.

He had suffered fatal heart injuries similar to those found on road crash victims and spent the last few days of his short life in agony from an untreated broken leg and fractured arm.

The pair – originally from Ryton, Tyne and Wear – were also behind a catalogue of unspeakable cruelty against two boys in their care, one of whom they tried to blame for Liam’s death.

At the High Court in Edinburgh, judge Lord Burns handed both women life sentences and indicated they would be in their 50s before they can be considered for release.

He ordered Trelfa to serve a minimum of 23-and-a-half years behind bars, while Fee – described by police as “domineering” – must spend at least 24 years in prison.

The judge told them: “In respect of Liam it was plain… that he had been subjected to a prolonged course of violent behaviour which caused him appalling suffering both physically and mentally and ultimately caused his death at the age of two-and-a-half.”

The couple, who have shown no remorse, displayed little emotion as their fate was revealed.

Liam’s father Joseph Johnson later left court without making any comment.

The couple were convicted of Liam’s murder and seven other charges against them in May following a trial at the High Court in Livingston.

The case of was one of the most distressing ever heard in a Scottish courtroom, with some evidence reducing jury members to tears.

Liam had suffered a severe blunt force trauma from a blow or blows to his chest and abdomen and had more than 30 external injuries on his lifeless body.

Jurors heard there had been an escalation of violence towards the boy leading up to his death, which included the couple failing to get help for the toddler when they knew he had the fractured bones.

Their callous indifference to his injuries left the child in severe pain, but the killers refused to get him medical aid, choosing instead to search the internet on their phones for terms such as “how do you die of a broken hip” and “how long can you live with a broken bone?”

The women admitted serious failings over the lack of medical help sought for Liam.

But they denied murder and, as part of their web of lies, tried to shift the blame for the killing on to a boy of only primary school age, who cannot be named.

The jury convicted the women of trying to defeat the ends of justice and of horrific abuses against that boy and one other, which left them “profoundly damaged”.

These included denying the youngsters access to the toilet then forcing them to take cold showers when they wet the bed; imprisoning one in a home-made cage; and tying another naked to a chair in a dark room where snakes and rats were kept after telling him that a boa constrictor ate naughty boys.

Brian McConnachie QC, representing Trelfa, told the court she maintains that she has suffered a miscarriage of justice in relation to the murder and most of the other charges.

He said the pair were being held in different prisons, with Trelfa – who has been disowned by her entire family – being “to all intents and purposes” locked up for 24 hours a day for her own protection.

Mark Stewart QC, for Fee, said she accepted responsibility for failing to obtain medical assistance for Liam but “maintains her plea of innocence” over the remaining charges.

Lord Burns told the killers: “Each of you had responsibility for the care and welfare of the three young children.

“You both grossly abused those responsibilities and subjected them to a cruel and pitiless regime of ill treatment and neglect while in your joint care.”

The trial heard that a number of people had expressed concern about Liam’s wellbeing during his short life. Fife Council is now reviewing how it handled the case.

July 2016

Teacher husband is jailed for grooming two schoolgirls and taking one’s virginity in woods during lunch break

A VILE married science teacher who had sex with two teenage pupils he ruthlessly targeted has been jailed for 32 months.

Evil Bruce Karwoski, 53, was locked up for grooming the girls for sex – but his wife has vowed to stand by him.

Judge Rupert Overbury told shamed Karwoski said he had committed a “gross abuse of trust”.

The judge added: “You owed a significant duty of care to the victims, their families and the school.

“I have no hesitation in determining that a sentence of immediate custody is necessary and proportionate because of the circumstances of the case and as a deterrent to others in a similar position of trust.”

Karwoski touched one of the girls intimately in a classroom.

The paedophile took a blanket when he drove her to a wood during lunch breaks as he ruthlessly took her virginity, the court heard today.

The victim told police she had sexual contact with Karwoski during free periods, after school and at dinner time.

She had even worn dresses and skirts to “make it easier”, said prosecutor Edward Renvoize.

Physics and chemistry tutor Karwoski indecently exposed himself to her on a webcam and urged her to take all her clothes off.

The pervert, who taught at Northgate High School, Ipswich, sent her a story in an email describing what he was doing to her and what she was doing to him.

Karwoski broke down and cried when the girl tried to end their relationship, said Mr Renvoize.

At one stage a school lab technician spoke to the deputy head after spotting the twisted teacher and the student spending time alone in a closed, unlit classroom.

Karwoski was spoken to but no further action was taken, said Mr Renvoize.

The sicko initially exchanged emails with a second girl as they discussed schoolwork and problems he was having at the time.

But the exchanges quickly became sexual and Karwoski arranged to meet her in a field near Westerfield.

He kissed her before they ended up having sex in the back of his car.

Their illicit affair only ended when the youngster called it off.

The offences emerged last year when one of the girls contacted the othergirl and asked her what had happened with Karwoski.

They realised they had both had sex with the serial predator and alerted the school, Ipswich Crown Court heard.

Karwoski, of Creeting St Mary, near Needham Market, Suffolk, admitted 13 offences of sexual activity with a girl aged under 18 while in a position of trust.

The charges date back a number of years, but the dates, as well as the ages of the girls, cannot be published to protect their anonymity.

Judge Overbury accused Karwoski of “crossing the boundary of acceptable behaviour”.