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Ronald Bennett – Andover

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October 2016

Shamed children’s charity founder jailed for sexual offences including rape

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THE shamed founder of a Hampshire children’s charity has been jailed for 16 years for historic child sex offences – including rape – after refusing to go into the witness box to defend himself.

On Tuesday a jury at Winchester Crown Court found Ronald Nicholson Bennett, founder of the disbanded Brave Hearts Children’s Charity Association, guilty of five counts of historic sexual abuse which took place in Hampshire and East Anglia in the 1980s.

The 72-year-old, of Launcelot Close, was originally charged with one count of rape and three counts of indecent assault of a girl under 14 involving the first victim.

Two of the indecent assault charges were changed during the proceedings extending the age range from 14 to 16 but the jury, made up of nine men and three women, found Bennett unanimously guilty of all four counts.

He was further charged with two counts of gross indecency towards a second victim and the jury found him guilty by majority on one count and no verdict was reached on the second charge.

Throughout the week-long trial before Judge Susan Evans, Bennett wore a dark suit and needed the aid of a hearing loop as the court heard evidence from both victims, who cannot be named for legal reasons, and witnesses for the prosecution.

When Adrienne Knight, mitigating, opened the case for the defence Bennett chose not to take the witness stand to defend himself having given no comment interviews following both arrests in 2013 and 2015 but his wife and son were called to give evidence in his favour.

Addressing the jury about Bennett’s failure to give evidence in his closing speech on Friday, prosecutor Russell Pyne, said: “Ladies and gentlemen, when I opened this case to you on Monday I told you that it was going be a decision of credibility.

“I did not know the defendant’s stance.

“It is not far from the dock to the witness box but it seems too far for this defendant.”

He continued: “My submission to you is there is only one reason why he decided not to give evidence, because he had an unpalatable choice.

“If he went into the witness box and told the truth it would lead to convicting him. If he went into the witness box and told you lies, he is scared of you discovering that they were lies.”

Defending Bennett’s refusal to stand witness, Miss Knight told the jury that the burden of proof is on the prosecution.

She said: “That means that the defendant doesn’t have to say anything.

“The law says he does not have to give evidence if it does not suit him.”

Asking the jury to return a not guilty verdict on all six counts, she continued: “You don’t have to decide that these ladies are lying to return a verdict of not guilty, you only have to think that there is an outside chance that they are unreliable to return a verdict of not guilty.

“It can take a lifetime to know when somebody is fabricating, you have to take that into consideration, that to convict somebody after 30 years on somebody who changes their evidence, you don’t know them, you don’t know anything about them and you don’t know what they are capable of.

“By the prosecution even asking you to return a verdict is asking you to speculate because you simply don’t know what the truth is.”

Judge Evans released the jury on Monday morning to deliberate and they returned the guilty verdicts the following afternoon.

The former security officer set up the Brave Hearts Children’s Charity Association in 1991 to raise money to help youngsters that needed special assistance or support.

In 2007 he was named fundraiser of the year at the Pride of Andover awards where he was congratulated by Esther Rantzen.

Following sentencing, Detective Constable Paul Harfield said: “Ron Bennett preyed on young girls, targeting families when they were at their most vulnerable, paying no regard to the long-term effects on the victims or their families.

“He formerly enjoyed a high profile locally on the back of his charity work for disadvantaged children, but he will now have time in prison to consider the disingenuous life he has led.

“Hopefully this sentence will provide some closure for his victims and their families, who have all lived a very long time with the negative effects of Bennett’s actions.

“Society is safer now that Bennett no longer has access to vulnerable young girls.”


John Burrill – Fleetwood

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October 2016

Evil dad caged for killing tragic tot by lobbing her at sofa while high on cannabis

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A TWISTED dad who spent the evening smoking cannabis before murdering his baby girl in a fit of rage has been jailed for a minimum of 18 years.

Shop worker John Burrill, 31, hurled nine-week-old daughter Daisy Mae Burrill across his lounge after her crying woke him up from a drug-induced sleep.

The youngster was killed on impact – suffering a fractured skull when her head hit a baby monitor and TV remote control left on Burrill’s sofa.

And sickeningly, he went outside to smoke another joint as his daughter lay dying with the fatal injury.

When he came back inside, Burrill – who spent up to £200-a-week on cannabis – found his daughter motionless in his front room.

A court heard how Burrill told the baby’s mum Ashlee Cox: ”If one of Daisy’s hairs is on the remote, they’ll try and pin it on me”.

Daisy was transferred to Manchester Children’s Hospital but died three days later after her life support machine was switched off.

Doctors established she had brain damage and suffered a single impact injury to the left side of her head from a hard surface, causing a fracture.

She had injuries consistent with being shaken or being gripped by the legs and swung against a hard surface.

And doctors found fractures to her ribs which occurred some days before her death and damage to her calf, shin and thigh bones.

A post-mortem concluded she was subjected to significant violence and her injuries were non-accidental.

At Preston Crown Court, Burrill, from Fleetwood, Lancs, was convicted of murder after a nine day trial.

The dad previously admitted manslaughter but denied murder.

The jury heard the family lived in cramped conditions and slept in a single bedroom at their terraced house but Burrill squandered much of the couple’s money on smoking cannabis ”day and night”.

He would get stressed and punch walls but had not previously been violent to Miss Cox or the baby.

On the night before the tragedy last March, he had been smoking the drug but after going to bed he was woken up in the early hours by the baby crying.

He was up with Daisy-Mae for about 90 minutes to feed her but just 20 minutes after going back to sleep he was woken up again at 5am by her crying and he took the baby downstairs.

He put her in her Moses basket on a chair to see if she would settle before offering another feed – but when he switched on the TV news, the baby began to cry again provoking him to pick her up and throw her onto the settee.

Burrill then went into the kitchen and made a small cannabis joint which he smoked in the back garden before returning inside to watch TV.

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He claimed he picked the baby up and could not feel her breathing and then returned to the bedroom looking ”stoned” holding a lifeless Daisy-Mae on his upturned palms.

He told the court: ”It plays on my mind every day. I would have thrown her quite forcibly.

“I know what I’m like when I lose my temper. I was tired. I had been up all night. I would say I was irritated and frustrated.

”I lost my temper a little bit, well quite a lot, to be honest. I just think the tiredness took over and I really lost my rag and I threw her down onto the couch.”

But after the case, Det Chief Insp Dean Holden, of Lancashire Police said: ”As Daisy Mae’s father John Burrill was in a position of trust – however, he abused this in a violent outburst which tragically led to her death.

“While we will never know exactly what happened, his actions showed a man with extreme disregard for his defenceless baby daughter.

“After being taken to hospital, medical experts agreed Daisy Mae had been critically injured. She had sustained a large fracture to the skull and injuries consistent with shaking.

“Burrill is clearly a dangerous individual whose shocking actions robbed a family of a loved one. While his conviction today will bring little comfort to Daisy Mae’s relatives, I hope it will go some way to assuring them justice has been achieved.”

Miss Cox, 29, was initially arrested after her daughter’s death but was subsequently freed without charge.

She said in a statement: “Daisy-Mae was taken from us at nine weeks old. She was a beautiful baby girl and a much-loved new addition to the family.

“Words cannot express the pain and anguish my family and I have endured since Daisy-Mae’s death. This suffering has been made worse by John Burrill’s refusal to admit that he alone was responsible for her death.

“Even though Daisy has gone, she will never be forgotten. She will be forever in our hearts and although justice has been served it will never bring her back. We would now ask that we are left in peace to finally grieve our loss.”

Samuel Langton – Toxteth

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October 2016

Like father like son – teen pervert follows in footsteps of paedophile dad

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A teenage pervert was locked up for abusing underage girls – just months after his paedophile dad was jailed for rape .

Samuel Langton jnr, 18, was found guilty of molesting three teeanage victims, in a trial last month.

Earlier this year the teen – who at the time could not be named due to his age – also stood trial alongside Samuel Langton snr, 56 .

Langton jnr, who was accused of offering his dad’s victim £8,000 to drop the case, was cleared of perverting the course of justice.

But Langton snr, of Grafton Street, Toxteth , was jailed for 16 years after he was found guilty of four counts of rape and 10 sexual assaults.

Today the younger of the two paedophiles appeared at Liverpool Youth Court to be sentenced.

Langton jnr, of Richmond Terrace, Anfield, was found guilty of nine counts of engaging in penetrative sexual activity with one girl.

The court heard he was aged 17 at the time, but she was much younger.

Langton jnr was also found guilty of assaulting the schoolgirl, causing her actual bodily harm, by kicking her, and criminal damage after smashing her mobile phone.

The teen was convicted of sexually assaulting a second victim, in Liverpool city centre, by touching her breasts and bottom.

Langton jnr was found guilty of engaging in non-penetrative sexual activity with a third girl, on a street in Cressington.

He was convicted of making her watch him masturbate and taking an indecent photograph of her breasts.

Langton jnr admitted two counts of cannabis possession after twice being caught with small quantities of the drug.

District Judge Wendy Lloyd said Langton jnr, who denied any wrongdoing with the girls, was “a young man left very much on his own”.

She said: “He seems to be a very lonely character. I understand that he doesn’t trust or like anybody very much.”

Jeremy Rawson, defending, said his sobbing client was now totally isolated from his family.

He said: “He is virtually a recluse. He has almost imposed isolation to keep away from others and to keep away from members of the public.”

Mr Rawson asked the judge to take into account Langton jnr’s “sorrowful life”.

District Judge Lloyd said the first victim “seemed to be under this young man’s spell”.

She said his attack on the second girl was “a form of sexual bullying”.

The judge said the third victim was particularly vulnerable and he took indecent pictures of her to exert control.

She said: “If he has got photographs of her bare breasts then he has got potentially ammunition for the future.

“You took her down lonely, dark roads and did with her what you wanted. I believe she was extremely frightened.”

District Judge Lloyd accepted that Langton jnr “had a great deal to cope with”.

She said: “You find it difficult probably to have relationships with girls nearer your age.

“You were looking for young girls because you find them easier to manipulate.

“I have some worries about your attitudes towards girls generally. You perhaps have some very negative thoughts about girls.”

The judge handed Langton jnr two years in a young offenders institution.

She made a five-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order and told him to sign on the Sex Offenders Register for three and a half years.

Stephen Kimberley – Blurton

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October 2016

Blurton pervert caught with indecent images of children and bestiality videos

Perverted former optician Stephen Kimberley has been jailed after he downloaded more than 1,800 indecent images of children.

The married 58-year-old – who was handed a three-year community sentence in 2010 after committing a similar offence – also had 20 videos of women having sex with dogs when police raided his home.

Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court heard the defendant came to the attention of police when officers monitored the content of online chat rooms.

Prosecutor Guy Mathieson said: “His discussions involved talking about sexual offences against two young female children. He also indicated he was in possession of indecent images, which he was prepared to share with like-minded individuals.”

Police went to the defendant’s home at 7.35pm on June 15 and seized electrical equipment.

The computers were analysed and contained 299 indecent images at category A – the most serious. There were also 334 at category B and 1,188 at category C. And there were 20 videos of adult women having intercourse with dogs.

The court was told the children were pre-pubescent.

Kimberley, of Keble Way, Blurton, pleaded guilty to three charges of making indecent images of children and one offence of possessing extreme pornographic images.

His previous convictions include a three-year community order in September 2010 for making indecent images of children.

Anis Ali, mitigating, said the defendant has referred himself to the Lucy Faithfull Foundation to try and address his problem.

Judge Timothy Smith said a custodial sentence had to follow and jailed Kimberley for 20 months.

He added: “It is all too easy for somebody to sit on their computer at home and believe the images they are viewing are not real and what they are seeing is not happening. But what was happening was real abuse to real children, real rape of very young children. And those who look at such images perpetuate what is the vilest of all industries.

“You are still demonstrating to the probation service a complete lack of understanding, insight and empathy. It did not cross your mind what it was you were viewing.”

The defendant was made the subject of a sexual harm prevention order and was placed on the sex offenders’ register for 10 years.

September 2010

Pervert optician avoids jail despite downloading child sexual abuse images

A PERVERTED optician who downloaded child porn has avoided a jail sentence.

Stephen Kimberley, aged 52, worked as an optician for a high street chain when police executed a search warrant at his home in Keble Way, Blurton, at 9.10am on May 24 last year.

His computer was seized and examined by Staffordshire Police’s hi-tech crime unit.

Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court was told yesterday that four indecent movies of children were found which were accessible without any specialist software.

Prosecutor David Bennett said the movies were level four on the scale, with level five being the most serious.

“They lasted for between 10 and 20 minutes and one child as young as seven was having sex with an adult male,” said Mr Bennett.

In his police interview Kimberley, a married father, said he regularly visited two adult porn sites and received “pop ups” containing images of children.

He said he had no interest in child porn and denied seeking out such material.

The court was told experts confirmed there was evidence of “pop ups” on the computer.

Kimberley pleaded guilty to one charge of making indecent images of a child between August 5, 2007 and May 24, 2009.

Richard Dewsbery, mitigating, said Kimberley accepted downloading the images while looking for other material.

But he said the defendant did not view the images repeatedly, there was very small number of images compared to the thousands of items of adult porn Kimberley had viewed, and he did not distribute the images to anyone else.

Mr Dewsbery said: “He is still in a sort of denial. He is obviously struggling to come to terms with this matter but he recognises the very real impact this has on those depicted on the material.”

He added the conviction has cost Kimberley his job.

“He has been without employment since February and won’t be going back to the job he used to hold.”

Judge Paul Glenn sentenced Kimberley to a three year community order with three years’ supervision and a requirement to attend a sex offenders’ group work programme for internet users.

He must also pay £500 prosecution costs and will be on the sex offenders’ register for five years.

Judge Glenn told the defendant: “I have seen stills from the videos, they are disgusting.

“They depict male and female children being abused. These were real children being abused. The actions of people like you who search and access that material encourage those who abuse the children.

“You are trying to minimise responsibility, you are trying to put the best gloss on events as you can.

“You are preoccupied with sex and you have some form of sexual attraction to young children. But there is no suggestion you sought to embark on any contact offending.”

 

Scott Gray – Leeds

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October 2016

Pervert had sickening sexual images of children at his home in Leeds

POLICE found vile movies featuring children and babies being subject to appalling sexual violence after seizing computers from a house in Leeds

A court heard officers executed a search warrant at Scott Gray’s home on Winrose Avenue, Belle Isle, on April 21 this year after receiving information that illegal material was being accessed from the property.

Bashir Ahmed, prosecuting, said the equipment was analysed and 39 movies were discovered at category A – the most serious level of offending.

Officers also found nine category B movies and one extreme pornographic movie featuring animals.

Mr Ahmed said some of the movies feature babies aged between 12 and 18 months old and children who were clearly in a state of distress.

The prosecutor said Gray was interviewed about the offending. Mr Ahmed said: “He said he would view the downloads and his access to them depended on how depressed he was feeling at the relevant time.”

Judge Geoffrey Marson, QC, said: “He was not as depressed as the children (being abused) I would expect.”

Gray pleaded guilty to five offences of making indecent images of children and one of possessing an extreme pornographic image.

He was made the subject of three-year community order, during which he must take part in a 60-day activity programme.

Jonathan Sword – Halesowen

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October 2016

Pervert escapes jail after being caught with indecent images of children, bestiality and sexual torture

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A HALESOWEN pervert who owned and ran a Scalextric circuit and children’s party company and was caught with a “disturbing” collection of indecent images of children has escaped jail.

Jonathan Sword, aged 54, also had images of sexual torture and sex with animals. He was caught after the police were called to the funeral parlour where he worked.

His bosses had been suspicious about his behaviour in the mortuary – although he faced no charges in relation to that when he appeared at Warwick Crown Court.

Sword, who owned and ran the Phoenix Scalextric Circuit in Jill Lane, pleaded guilty to six charges of making indecent images of children and two of possessing extreme pornography.

He was sentenced to 16 months in prison suspended for two years and was ordered to take part in a rehabilitation activity for 50 days and to carry out 100 hours of unpaid work.

In addition Sword, of Southwick Road, will be barred from working with children and was ordered to register as a sex offender for 10 years.

Prosecutor Martin Butterworth said Sword came to the attention of the police in May while he was working for a funeral parlour, which he did not name, in south Warwickshire.

The proprietor of the funeral parlour had ‘discovered him alone in the mortuary in suspicious circumstances.’

When the police spoke to Sword about the suspicions over his behaviour at the funeral parlour, they seized his computer, together with the phone he had had on him in the mortuary.

After he had given a mostly ‘no comment’ interview, a member of the police high-tech crime unit examined Sword’s phone, on which nothing incriminating was found, and his computer.

That had a large number of indecent images of children on it, including 47 movies and 51 stills classed the most serious category A, there were nine category B movies and 29 stills, and six movies and 55 stills at category C.

But Mr Butterworth pointed out there were many other images which the expert had not classified.

When Sword, who had no previous convictions, was interviewed again he admitted downloading the images and building up his collection of them over the past five years.

Mark Sharman, defending, pointed out that although Sword had made no comment in his first interview, that had been in relation to the matter about which his employer had called the police, rather than the images later found on his computer.

Mr Sharman said Sword, who may suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, had served in the Royal Armoured Corps for 16 years, after which he set up a business manufacturing toy soldiers before going on to set up the business running Scalextric events.

He added that Sword was ‘highly motivated to address his offending,’ and since his arrest he had disconnected his internet service and has sought help from the Lucy Faithfull Foundation and another organisation working with sex offenders.

Sentencing Sword, Recorder Kevin Hegarty QC told him: “The extreme pornography includes sexual activity with animals and people receiving serious injury.

“Having regard to the very young ages shown in the pictures, the extensive period over which this collection was amassed, and the inclusion of moving images, this is one of the more serious cases that comes before the court.

Peter Grass – Chesterfield

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October 2016

Derbyshire man had 27,000 indecent images of children, some as young as 10, on his computer

A Derbyshire pervert has been slammed by a judge for keeping a “dark secret for 10 years or more.”

Derby Crown Court heard how Peter Grass had more than 27,000 indecent images of children at his address.

The 44-year-old had been downloading and viewing movies and stills of girls and boys as young as 10.

The court was told of the 4,500 he was eventually charged with possessing, more than 400 were of the most serious Category A and showed the victims “in clear distress.”

They included young girls engaging in sexual activity with both underage boys and adults and scenes of sadomasochism.

When Grass was arrested, he admitted he had an interest in paedophilia.

But Recorder Peter Cooke spared him jail believing that an intensive three-year community order and treatment programme would be more “in the public interest” than sending him to prison.

Recorder Cooke said: “You have been looking at this filth for more than a decade and this is a bad case because it is a large number of category A films and images.

“You were unusually candid saying that you have these paedophilic tendencies and that you were using [the images] them for pornographic stimulation.

“But there is no evidence you distributed any of them or went on to commit any offences involving contact [contacting young children].

“It has been your dark secret for 10 years or more and this community order I am handing you, certain sections of the public will struggle to understand, given what you have done.

“But my greatest responsibility is to ensure that you do not come back before the courts again.”

Abu Joyce, prosecuting, said police issued a warrant to search Grass’s address where they seized a number of electronic devices including a data storage unit, a computer and a Samsung mobile phone.

She said they started analysing the computer first and discovered the huge amount of indecent images.

Miss Joyce said: “He has been doing this secretly for a decade.

“On that computer alone there were in excess of 27,000 illegal images which could not be individually categorised because of the sheer volume they found.

“Having found that on just one of the devices the decision was taken not to analyse each and every device.”

In total, Grass was charged with possessing 419 Category A images and films, 799 Category B images and movies and 3,357 of Category C, the least serious.

Grass pleaded guilty to all three charges, which dated from September 5, 2005 to December 16, 2015.

Kelly Shooter, mitigating for Grass, said her client had made “open and candid admissions” both to the police and through his guilty pleas.

She said: “A long community order will allow him to openly get the help that he does want.”

Recorder Cooke handed Grass, of Burns Road, Grassmoor, Chesterfield, a three-year community order, ordered him to sign the sex offenders register and handed him a sexual harm prevention order.

 

Daniel Thomas – Derby

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October 2016

Pervert (36) fantasised about raping children

A Derby pervert had more than 500 indecent images of children on his computer and shared sick web chats saying how he “wanted to rape children”, a court was told.

Daniel Thomas lived a “sad and solitary life” which caused him to “fall prey to the darker reaches of the internet” by searching for the images, Derby Crown Court was told.

Raglan Ashton, prosecuting, read out some of the web chat exchanges the 36-year-old had with another internet user. In them he was asked “have you raped a boy?” to which he replied “no, but I might do”.

And, when asked how young his potential victim would be, Thomas wrote back saying “the younger the better”.

Mr Ashton said officers discovered a total of 544 indecent images of children when they swooped on Thomas’s home in Parker Street, Derby, 138 of which were the most serious category A.

And he said a further 98 “extreme” pornographic pictured were also found which featured adult men and women having sex with animals.

Mr Ashton said: “Analysis showed he had used search terms such as ‘boy sex with animal’ and ‘boy and girl sex’.

“The children in the images ranged from 10 to early teens but the reason why the defendant came to the attention of the authorities was chat logs he had been engaged in.

“They contained graphic and very explicit talk which the Crown say were pretty disturbing.

“He was talking on incessantly about fantasies that revealed a disturbing background and insight into this man.”

Mr Ashton said Thomas was arrested and, when he was asked in his interview by detectives about the web chat in which he talked about raping children, he said it was “a wind up’.”

Thomas pleaded guilty to three counts of possessing indecent images and one of possessing extreme pornography.

Nothing was mentioned about any prosecutions on the second man with whom Thomas was engaging in the web chats.

Samina Rashid, for Thomas, said: “He does not make excuses for his behaviour but he has had a very difficult year during this period.

“He lost a very close friend he had known since childhood and watched him deteriorate through illness which made him very depressed himself.”

Handing Thomas a three-year community order, Judge Peter Cooke said: “I do not say this as an insult but you appear to be someone that leads a sad and solitary life and you have fallen prey to the darker reaches of the internet.

“This is two men perverted by the material they have viewed indulging each other in an orgy of fantasy they were not going to re-enact.”

As well as the community order, which will see him take part in regular community sex offender group work to address his offending, Thomas was handed a five-year sexual harm prevention order and has had to sign the sex offenders register.


Luke McIntosh – Swindon

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October 2016

Man guilty of raping girl, 16, in cocaine and booze-fuelled attack

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A MAN who raped a 16-year-old girl in a cocaine and booze fuelled attack has been ordered to register as a sex offender.

Luke McIntosh forced himself on the teenager in the living room as his mother slept upstairs.

And the 22-year-old claimed his saliva had been found on the girl’s neck because he had been sneezing after snorting too much of the drug that night.

McIntosh, of Acacia Avenue, Pinehurst, pleaded not guilty to two counts of rape but was convicted following a trial at Swindon Crown Court.

The jury had been told that the defendant had a series of emotional difficulties which meant he had problems picking up non verbal signals.

He also has a tendency to take things literally, is slow to adapt to new situations and is subject to emotional outbursts.

Robert Duval, prosecuting, told the court that although he had been prescribed medication for his problems he had stopped taking them nine months before.

“As he told the police in interview, his medication and alcohol and drugs do not combine,” he said.

“He considered himself old enough to decide what he took and he decided to take alcohol and drugs rather than medication.”

He said the girl and McIntosh had mutual friends and when he got a mobile phone from a mate with the girl’s messaging details on it he started to contact her.

On Friday, September 25, last year the youngster and a friend of hers told their parents they were going to a friend’s birthday, but instead went to McIntosh’s house.

Arriving just after 8pm they went in and, after meeting his mum, the girls went upstairs to his room with him and one of his mates.

He said the four of them were in the bedroom drinking brandy and liqueurs and he was smoking cannabis and taking cocaine.

As the evening went on the defendant’s mate tried to get together with the other girl, but when she showed no interest he left.

At about 2.30am, concerned at his drug taking, the girl texted her mother saying ‘Can you please come and get me, I don’t like it here,’ but she was asleep.

McIntosh told the girls they could stay the night at his house, and both agreed, sleeping either side of him in his bed but fully clothed.

Mr Duval said that during the night he took the girl to the living room where he pushed her on to the sofa and raped her, while she begged him not to.

He then went to the toilet but returned to force himself on her again and during the attack he bit her neck.

She was determined to leave and after getting a knife and talking about stabbing people, he let her out saying ‘Don’t holler me again’, meaning not to call him.

The girl then contacted her sister’s boyfriend, who lived nearby, and reported what had happened to her.

She was examined by a doctor at the police station and found to have a 2cm by 3cm bruise on her neck which had his saliva on it and other signs of sexual contact.

When he was questioned McIntosh insisted that nothing sexual happened between them and she was jealous because he was paying more attention to her friend.

After he was convicted Judge Douglas Field released him on bail until Friday, November 18, so a pre-sentence report can be prepared.

Keith Noble – Thurrock

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October 2016

Man jailed for child sex crimes and indecent images offences

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A THURROCK man has been jailed for 11 years after admitting to a series of historic child sex crimes and indecent images offences.

Keith Noble, 53, of Flint Street, Grays, pleaded guilty to three counts of indecent assault at Basildon Crown Court last week.

He had already admitted a number of indecent images charges and further offences of attempted rape and indecent assault in June.

The offences involved two female victims who were juveniles at the time.

The offences occurred between 1998 and 2003.

Police said Noble had originally been arrested in 2002 after one of the two victims made an allegation of a sexual offence.

However, after investigating it was concluded that there was ’insufficient evidence to proceed’.

Then, in October 2014, it was alleged that Noble had accessed indecent images of children.

He was charged with 14 offences – of making indecent images, distributing indecent images, possession of extreme pornography and recording a person doing a private act – which he admitted at his first court appearance in October 2015.

An Essex Police spokesman said: “During the course of the investigation, officers discovered evidence of covert filming and distribution of images. The victim was identified, who later disclosed other offences for which Noble was responsible.

“As a result of this disclosure, officers contacted the victim who mad the allegations in 2002, who agreed to speak to officers again.”

Noble was jailed last week for all 19 offences and given a 12-month licence period to be served when he is released.

Michael McCarthy – Leighton Buzzard

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October 2016

Man jailed for string of sex crimes against young children

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A man has been jailed for a string of sex crimes dating back to the 1980s

Michael McCarthy, aged 58, of Osprey Drive, Leighton Buzzard, was found guilty of two counts of indecent assault on a child under the age of 13, and of two counts of sexual assault on a child aged under 13 along with four counts of historic indecent assault on a child aged under 13.

The offences occurred in Dagenham, Essex, during the 1980s and early 1990s, and in Hemel Hempstead during the 1990s to 2008.

McCarthy was sentenced to 12 years for his offences plus a further four years due to the seriousness of his crimes. He must serve at least 12 years before being considered for parole and has been added to the Sex Offenders Register.

He is also subject to an indefinite Sexual Harm Prevention Order, which means that on his release from prison he will have to abide by strict conditions surrounding any contact with a child and will be closely monitored by the Public Protection Unit.

John Peters – Aberystwyth

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October 2016

‘Monster’ jailed for 20 years for subjecting young girl to decade of sex abuse

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A ‘monster’ who subjected a young girl to nearly a decade of rape and sexual abuse leaving her emotionally scarred for life was jailed for 20 years today.

The victim of John Peters, 79, was robbed of her childhood by his offences and has never been able to shake off her feelings of shame and disgust, Gloucester Crown Court heard.

“When I think about my childhood it makes me feel so sad, unhappy and angry,” she told the court.

“I wish I had never been born. I was a very sad and lonely little girl, very scared and desperate to escape. I had no control over my situation at all.

“I knew that this nasty man would do bad things to me. I cannot even call him by his name – he is just simply the nasty man to me.

“The sexual abuse will stay with me forever. It has scarred me for life and it makes me feel dirty and ashamed.”

She said she can never bring herself to trust people fully and she feels ‘broken and damaged.’

“I jump and get very anxious when I am approached from behind by anyone or I hear people coming. This is because of when the nasty man came up behind me and abused me.”

She said she has had mental health issues and regular nightmares. She suffers from depression and does not sleep well.

“I am extremely anxious all the time and I do get very angry. I have suffered from anorexia for large parts of my life.”

The woman thanked the jury for believing her.

Peters, of Penparcan Road, Aberystwyth, who abused the girl in the late 1960s and through to the 70s when he was living in Nailsworth, had denied six charges of rape and six of indecent assault but was convicted of all of them by a jury. The court heard the charges represented at least 21 incidents of rape and 21 of indecent assault.

He insisted to the jury that her allegations were all lies and said he had never touched her sexually.

The prosecution had told the jury the offences did not come to light until the woman went to the police in 2014.

Giles Nelson, for Peters, told the court today that he will suffer in prison because he has arthritis, mobility problems and suffers from asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Judge Jamie Tabor QC said he had not seen any sign of contrition from Peters, even after conviction.

Passing jail terms totalling 20 years the judge told Peters that nobody in court would ever forget the emotional evidence given by his victim about the effect the offences have had on her.

“It was the clearest possible testimony of the damage that can be done by an adult to a child by sexual abuse,” the judge said.

“I have no doubt your selfish and unforgivable actions have had a devastating effect on her life. You chose to have a trial which meant she had to give evidence and be called a liar.”

The court heard he even gave her Chinese Burns if she disobeyed him.

The judge said: “What you did to her repeatedly when she was a little girl was simply wicked.”

The judge imposed 20 years for raping the girl when she was 10 and concurrent shorter sentences for each of the other 11 offences the jury had convicted him of. He added a one year extended licence period to the sentence, meaning Peters could be recalled to prison at any time in the next 21 years if he is released on parole.

Judge tabor told Peters he will have to serve at least 10 years of the sentence and it will be then up to the Parole Board to decide if and when he can be freed on licence.

Brian Catling – Huddersfield

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October 2016

Man jailed for 20 years for sex offences against three girls

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A man from Huddersfield has been jailed for a total of 20 years after he was convicted of sex offences against three girls.

Brian Catling, 57, raped two of the girls and Judge Christopher Batty said he had “preyed” on the vulnerability of his victims.

Catling, of Woods Avenue, Marsden, was found guilty on two charges of raping an 11-year-old by a 10-2 majority of the jury and acquitted of a third involving her.

He was also found guilty of raping a 14-year-old girl by an 11-1 majority and of three charges of indecently assaulting another teenager, two of them by an 11-1 majority and the third by a 10-2 majority.

Judge Batty, sitting at Leeds Crown Court, said he accepted Catling now had paranoid schizophrenia and suffered auditory hallucinations, diabetes, deep-vein thrombosis, has previously had a stroke and experiences seizures.

“But as a much younger man at the end of the 1990s and 2000 you were a man sexually attracted to young girls.”

The first victim was 11 when Catling discovered she had been raped by another man and the effect that had on her.

“She was devastated and you preyed on that vulnerability and that devastation, no doubt seeing an opportunity for yourself. A young girl unlikely to tell anyone what you were about to do to her and if she did talk was somebody unlikely to be believed.”

Judge Batty said he followed her to a cellar one day and raped her. “Afterwards you warned her she must not say anything and reminded her she would not be believed.”

He subsequently raped her at least five times. She did not speak up then and suffered nightmares, flashbacks and panic attacks saying her life had been left in tatters “for your gratification.”

The other girl was raped during a visit to his home. She had been having problems with her own family and on that occasion “poured her heart out to you.”

He added: “You saw it as an opportunity to present a shoulder to cry on, took her into your bedroom and took advantage of her.

“She too has been devastated by the impact you have had on her life.”

The third girl, who was 15, was also touched sexually during visits to his home where he often had open house to teenagers.

Rebecca Fairburn, for Catling, said he had led a solitary life in his later years and all the offences were 17-20 years ago. Catling was ordered to register as a sex offender for life.

Martin Lahiff – Barrow

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October 2016

Barrow man admits sexual offences after being caught by undercover police

A MAN has admitted attempting to engage in sexual activity with a child after being caught by undercover police.

Furness Magistrates’ Court heard that Martin John Lahiff, of Barrow, thought he was communicating with a 13-year-old girl online, but that the other person was an undercover police officer.

Lahiff, 26, pleaded guilty to two sexual offence charges when he appeared at the Barrow court on Saturday.

Lahiff admitted attempting to cause or incite a girl aged 13 to engage in sexual activity, and intentionally engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child for the purposes of sexual gratification. Both charges related to October 27.

Prosecutor, Ms Chrissie Hunt said the defendant, of Storey Square, had been communicating with an undercover police officer and not a child.

The court also heard that Lahiff has previously possessed indecent images of children.

Lahiff’s solicitor, Ms Maureen Fawcett said: “Fortunately it was an under cover police officer and not a 13-year-old girl.”

Ms Fawcett said: “He is ashamed of himself.”

Magistrates committed the case to crown court. The case is next set to be heard before Preston Crown Court on December 2.

Lahiff was remanded in custody until the next hearing.

Jason Neill – Torquay

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October 2016

‘Anything with a skirt’, including schoolgirls, ‘hunted’ and filmed in upskirt videos by pervert

A TORQUAY man with a sexual fetish for filming females of all ages found ‘hunting his victims’ in Torquay town centre targeted ‘anything with a skirt’, a court has heard.

Jason Neill was caught red-handed taking upskirt videos of females when a member of the public saw him acting in an unusual way in Union Street, following a woman, and holding his rucksack ‘as if he is walking a dog on an invisible lead’.

Having been arrested by police, he said: “You’ve caught me red-handed. How long will I get for this?”

In his police interview he admitted that he got sexual gratification from filming women and said he would target anything with a skirt.

As well as searching for ‘candid upskirt school pics’ on the internet, Neill made his own videos by secretly recording women around Torquay, and some of the victims were schoolgirls.

Neill, 32, of Palantine Close, Torquay, a Neill admitted possessing 4,913 indecent images and making 7,170 indecent images, as well as one act of outraging public decency and one possessed an extreme pornographic image, which was grossly offensive, disgusting or otherwise of an obscene character, when he appeared at Exeter Crown Court on Thursday.

Prosecuting, Felicity Payne, said: “The offence of outraging public decency relates to how he was discovered. On August 4, 2015, a member of the public sees the defendant walking down Union Street in Torquay and he is holding his rucksack in a very unusual way. He describes it as if he is walking a dog on an invisible lead.

“It seems as if he is trying to take upskirt videos and pictures of women in the street and he has his mobile phone in a pocket in the front of his backpack.”

Neill is spotted following a woman down the street and only stops following her when she enters a shop, but he is seen hanging around outside the shop.

Miss Payne added: “He is described as hanging around and hunting for his next victim.”

The member of the public managed to track down a passing police officer, and Neill is arrested at the scene with a video running on his phone showing upskirt shots of a woman

When he arrested, he said: “You’ve caught me red-handed. How long will I get for this?”

Neill’s home is then searched and a number of indecent images are found on his device, including a number that he has taken himself.

Two of the videos show two teenage girls wearing short skirts as part of their school uniform.

Miss Payne added: “His internet history is searched and very clear search terms, including candid upskirt schoolgirl pics, are found.

“In his police interview, he admitted that he got some sexual gratification from these images and that he has a fetish for filming women.

“He told himself that what he was doing was no different to seeing someone wearing a bikini on a beach.

“He said that he would target anything with a skirt.

“He had tried to hide some of the images as they had been downloaded and deleted, and there were very clear search terms that he had been using.”

Mitigating, Emmi Wilson, said that Neill had no previous convictions and that he needs to get himself sorted out for his problems.

Sentencing Neill, Judge Graham Cottle said: “You were taking pictures of young girls up their skirts and all sorts of sordid material that you had downloaded was found at your house.

“I am giving you a chance today but if you do not participate in any part of your sentence then you will come back here and you will go down. You have a number of problems but we must try and find a way to try and stop you reoffending.

“If you fail though, then you will be brought back to court and I will send you away and then you will take your chance in prison which won’t be a happy experience.”

Neill was given a three year community order, and was ordered to take part in the Thames Valley Sexual Offenders treatment, as well as a Rehabilitation Activity Requirement.

A Sexual Harm Prevention Order against Neill was put in place for the next five years.


Emma Kent – Wirral

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October 2016

Violent woman who used sex toys in front of young girls jailed for four years

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A woman who used sex toys and tried to urinate in front of two young girls has been jailed for four years.

Emma Kent, 29, was already in jail for slashing a woman’s throat when she was found guilty of the child sexual activity claims.

Kent wore a nappy and a bra during one shocking incident and forced her underage victims to touch her breasts.

One young girl said Kent exposed her private parts and warned the victim not to blab to her parents because “it’s our secret”.

The deranged deviant even tried to urinate in front of the girls on one occasion at an address in New Brighton

The court heard that the younger female victim has been sectioned for mental health issues having suffered deep psychological harm.

The other victim regularly has nightmares and flashbacks, saying she has felt like she wants to die

She told Liverpool Crown Court: “The pain won’t leave, the scars won’t fade and the memories will never vanish or disappear.”

Kent was convicted 21 times between the ages of 18 and 23 of multiple assaults, arson, possessing weapons and public order offences.

She was found guilty of three counts of sexual assault and four counts of engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child and sentenced to four years in jail – she denied the charges.

Kent, who will now have to sign the Sex Offenders’ Register for life, appeared via video link from Prestwich Hospital in Bury, where she was moved to from prison last year because of concerns of her “life-threatening” self-harm.

Shane Chubb – Binfield

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October 2016

Rapist who took ‘advantage of young girl’ jailed

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A paedophile from Binfield has been jailed for 13 years after a trial at Reading Crown Court .

Shane Matthew Chubb, 43 of Apsey Court, in Binfield, was sentenced on Friday, October 28 after being convicted by unanimous jury following a trial at the same court.

He was found guilty of one count of rape with a girl under the age of 16, and three counts of sexual activity with a child contrary to the Sexual Offences Act 2003.

The offences took place in Berkshire from 2002 and 2009 against one victim.

He was also convicted of two counts of making indecent images of children. These offences took place between the 2010 and 2014.

Alfie McIntyre – Newquay

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October 2016

Fairground worker jailed for child rape and told he’s a danger to all females

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A Newquay teenager who a judge said will pose a risk to women for the rest of his life raped an 11-year-old girl he groomed while working at a fairground in the town.

Alfie McIntyre, 18, was sentenced to five years in a young offender’s institution at Truro Crown Court yesterday afternoon having pleaded guilty to two counts of rape at an earlier hearing.

McIntyre was staying in temporary accommodation at the Springvale Guest House on Henver Road, Newquay, when the incident happened on May 31 this year.

The court heard that McIntyre was working at a fairground at Trevithick Manor, Trellogan Road, when he met two young girls, including the 11-year-old victim.

McIntyre began flirting with them before speaking to the victim in a suggestive way and telling her he wanted to have sex with her, and offering her free fair rides.

Three days later the two girls returned and after the victim’s friend left the fairground, McIntyre and the victim began chatting, before leaving the site together and walking towards the town.

The court heard McIntyre invited the girl to his upper floor flat at the Springvale Guest House on Henver Road and once inside he began kissing her.

The girl pulled herself away from McIntyre and stated that she didn’t want to get into trouble but McIntyre proceeded to pull down the girl’s leggings and ask for sex.

The girl reiterated that she didn’t want to get into trouble with the police but McIntyre told her they wouldn’t speak again if she didn’t have sex with him.

McIntyre continued his advances before taking the girl’s underwear off and raping her, despite the girl’s pleas for him to stop.

He gave the girl a choice of carrying on or having her perform oral sex on him. McIntyre later walked the girl back to her parent’s house, where the victim’s mother gave him a glass of lemonade.

In the proceeding days, McIntyre bragged to the girl’s friends about what they had done and after complaining of physical pain the girl told her stepfather and mother about what had happened

The girl’s parents called the police, and the court heard how an internal medical examination suggested that the girl had been a victim of rape.

McIntyre’s flat was searched by police who found condoms, which the girl had previously mentioned McIntyre had used, and CCTV also confirmed that the girl had been there, the court heard.

McIntyre was arrested on June 4.

During his interview he denied having sex with the girl and stated that she was following him around, despite him asking her not to.

McIntyre was charged with two counts of rape, which he pleaded guilty to at a later crown court hearing.

McIntyre appeared to show little emotion as Judge Simon Carr ordered him to spend five years in a young offender’s institution.

Judge Carr described how he had “no doubt” that McIntyre will be a danger to women for the rest of his life.

Judge Carr told McIntyre: “That young girl will have to live with this for the rest of her life. I accept you have suffered enormous challenges in your life, but you have shown no remorse for your actions and you see yourself as the victim, rather than the child you raped.

“You are a high risk to women and don’t understand or accept the severity of what you do.”

McIntyre was also ordered to sign the sex offenders register for life.

 

Paul Banfield – Telford

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October 2016

Man who dressed in women’s clothing to sexually molest young girls breached restraining order

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A man who dressed in women’s clothing to sexually molest young girls breached a restraining order, a court has heard.

Paul Banfield was given an 18-week prison sentence which was suspended for two years in 2015.

It came after he admitted inappropriately touching and kissing a teenage girl in Shrewsbury town centre.

He had pleaded guilty to sexual assault at Shrewsbury Crown Court.

The court was told last year that it was the third young girl that Banfield had approached and behaved with in a similar manner.

It was told that the police had growing concerns for the risk he posed to the community.

A restraining order given at the time forbid him from being in Telford town centre during certain hours in school term-time.

On September 8 this year Banfield was seen in the town centre by the father of one of his victims at 7am.

He was arrested an appeared at Shrewsbury Crown Court. Miss Samantha Powis, prosecuting, said the father decided to take a picture as proof.

Banfield, 44, of Stonedale, in Sutton Hill, Telford, had pleaded guilty to breaching the retraining order.

Mr Dean Easthope, for Banfield, said it was a low level breach in circumstances.

He said: “He was simply on the ring road, not aware of his location putting him in breach of his restraining order. This is a vulnerable man with learning difficulties.

He was walking towards the train station to get a train to Wolverhampton.”

Banfield said he had not realised school had started again.

Mr Easthope said he was unlikely to have come into contact with any schoolchildren at 7am.

Judge Barrie handed him a three-year community order for the crime.

Stephen Ainscow – Bolton/Warrington

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July 2010

Wanted man hands himself into police

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A MAN convicted of dragging a 14-year-old girl into woodland where he raped her twice has handed himself into police.

Stephen Ainscow, aged 28, was jailed for seven years in 2005 after he abducted and raped a terrified schoolgirl late at night, pushing his fingers down her throat to keep her quiet.

The girl was rescued after a quick-thinking student, then aged 17, heard her crying out for help and went to alert his stepfather.

The pair found her lying on her back in the mud, half-naked, screaming, crying and in shock.

The attack came just two hours after Ainscow sexually assaulted a disabled woman.

Ainscow carried out the attack in Waterfoot, Rossendale, on December 4, 2004.

He was released from prison in March after serving four years of his sentence but subsequently went missing, breaching the terms of his release.

One of his victim’s said she was too terrified to step outside her front door because he was on the loose and the police appealed for help in tracking him down.

Police visited addresses in Bradshaw and Glossop in a bid to track him down before Ainscow handed himself into to police in Warrington this afternoon.

He will now be sent back to jail to serve the remainder of his sentence.

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