15-year jail term for Goldenhill paedophile who ‘preyed on young victims’
Paedophile Michael Shallcross has been jailed for a catalogue of sex offences – after abusing children for more than 25 years.
The 61-year-old was convicted of seven counts of sexually assaulting a child and two charges of indecent assault following a trial at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court last April.
And five months later the defendant was back in the dock to be convicted of 10 further child-sex offences, including four counts of assault by penetration.
Now Shallcross, of Taylor Street, Goldenhill, has been jailed for 15 years and placed on an extended licence for a further five years for the offences.
Prosecutor Simon Blakebrough said: “The ages of the children at the time the offences were committed range from six to 15 years old and the offences span a period from 1987 until 2014.”
In a series of text messages with one girl Shallcross told her he loved her and sent three kisses – she replied the same and later told him he was dumped because he was married.
Mr Blakebrough said: “This suggests she believed they were in some sort of relationship and indicates a significant level of grooming.”
In another incident Shallcross warned a different victim not to tell anyone what had happened.
Mr Blakebrough said: “He said that if she told anyone she would get into trouble.”
The court heard Shallcross committed several of the crimes when he was on bail for offences related to the first trial. Many of his victims suffered nightmares and one of them has counselling.
One victim said: “I know he will never hurt me again but then I see things which remind me of it and it upsets me. Sometimes I just want to forget my thoughts. He should not have hurt me.”
The court heard Shallcross accepted he would be jailed.
Judge David Fletcher described the case as ‘tragic’.
He told Shallcross: “You seem to think there is some sort of conspiracy against you to get you into trouble – a conspiracy which involves enlisting the support of little girls. That is just as outrageous as it might sound.
“You have persistently maintained that you have no sexual attraction to children. This has had a serious impact on your victims and their families and you have so far shown no remorse.
“You have focused solely, selfishly, on the effect the conviction was going to have on you. In short, your actions, over that period of time, have wreaked havoc in those households and continue to have an impact on your victims.”
Evil man locked up for 18 years after raping two young girls
A violent pervert who raped two young girls nearly four decades ago could die in jail after he was locked up for 18 years.
Ronald Bartholomew violated one girl while threatening to kill her after taking her and two others to a wood in Blue Bell Hill and isolating her.
Bartholomew, formerly of Wainscott, admitted two offences of rape and nine of indecent assault dating back to the late 1970s
His lawyer, Simon Reevell, said the 67-year-old was in poor health and had closed his front door in Eastfield, Scarborough, where he now lives, “with the expectation of not opening it again”.
A judge told the pensioner, who has previous convictions for indecency, he would have to serve half of the sentence before the parole board would consider whether it was safe to release him.
Judge Jeremy Carey said Batholomew had molested and abused the victims “in the most invasive and disgusting manner”.
Maidstone Crown Court heard one of the girls first complained she had been abused by him when she was 18 but it was not pursued.
Prosecutor Amanda Hamilton said Bartholomew would play with the girls, giving them piggybacks so that he could molest them.
He raped one of them after taking her and two other girls for a drive and took her to a secluded spot where he stripped off her clothes, including a swimming costume.
Miss Hamilton said of the “forceful” rape: “She was terrified. She screamed as loudly as she could. He told her to shut up, put his hand over her mouth and threatened to kill her.
“She had heard he had been in prison for stabbing a woman, which wasn’t true. She was shocked. She tried to run away but he grabbed her wrist.”
A woman came along on a horse and asked if everything was alright. He replied it was and he was looking for two other children.
The girl was described by one of the others as “looking shocked like a startled baby”.
The victim did not tell anybody because she feared she would be killed. She told a teacher about the abuse during a lesson about not talking to strangers and abduction.
The police went to her home but her mother said she was known to be a liar.
Miss Hamilton said Bartholomew repeatedly assaulted the other girl and raped her on one occasion. He threatened to also kill her if she told anybody.
After he raped her she “lay on the floor crying silently and sucking her thumb”.
While playing with girls, he lined them up and said: “Who’s first?”
Bartholomew was jailed for three years in 1975 for attempted grievous bodily harm when he struck a woman on the back with a knife with intent to kill her.
The year before he was given six months for molesting a woman and in 1988 four months for indecently assaulting a girl in a garage.
Both victims told in statements how they felt robbed of their childhood. The woman raped at Blue Bell Hill said because of what happened she never wore a swimsuit again.
Judge Carey told Bartholomew, as he listened with the help of a hearing loop, the victim remembered it vividly and would never forget it.
Terming it “appalling sexual wrongdoing”, the judge said both victims had suffered greatly.
One said: “No amount of words can describe what he did to me all those years ago.” She was haunted with the images for nearly 40 years.
Judge Carey said Bartholomew had led an unblemished life since the late 1980s.
But he added as Bartholomew held onto the dock rail for support: “The seriousness of this case is grave. You are by law an offender of concern.”
For that reason, an extra year of licence was added to the sentence.
A sexual harm prevention order was made and Bartholomew’s name will appear on the sex offenders’ register for life.
Dangerous Leeds teen sex offender locked up for 15 years
A dangerous sex offender has been given a 15 year extended sentence for raping a young woman and attempting to rape a child under the age of 13.
A judge told Jay Skey, 19, he posed a significant risk of causing serious harm to others in the future as he locked him up over the attacks which took place in Leeds within days of each other.
Leeds Crown Court heard Skey targeted a young woman in December last year.
Michael Collins, prosecuting, said the victim described how she felt scared as Skey held her down by her wrists before carrying out the attack.
The sex attack lasted around ten minutes. Police were informed after the victim confided in her father.
Skey then preyed on a child under the age of 13.
Mr Collins, prosecuting, said police were alerted by the victim’s mother when she told her what had happened.
Skey, who was 18 at the time of the offences, pleaded not guilty to two offences of rape and two of attempted rape of a child under the age of 13.
He was found guilty after separate trials in June and September this year.
The court heard Skey has previous convictions for theft and possession of a bladed article.
The judge said: “If you were not the age that you are I would have no compunction in passing a life sentence in this case because of the seriousness and gravity of these matters. “But it may be that with the assistance of others while you are in custody that you can change. “I am going to give you that chance.”
Appeal judges jail Stowmarket sex offender given suspended sentence in Suffolk
A child sex offender from Suffolk has been jailed for three years – after his original two-year suspended sentence was quashed by the Court of Appeal.
Judges sentenced Dominic Gormer, 20, from Stowmarket, to a three-year prison term for sexual offences against a 13-year-old girl.
Gormer was 19 in September, when Ipswich Crown Court heard how he had sex with the girl after exchanging hundreds of messages over Facebook.
He was originally given two years’ detention in a young offenders institution, suspended for two years, and ordered to carry out 200 hours unpaid work.
Gormer, who had no previous convictions, was also made the subject of a 10-year sexual harm prevention order and told to sign the sex offenders register.
However, after a referral by Solicitor General Robert Buckland QC MP, the Court of Appeal quashed the original suspended sentence and imposed an immediate custodial sentence of three years.
Speaking after the hearing, barrister and MP Mr Buckland said: “This was a serious offence carried out by a much older man who sexually groomed the victim. I am pleased the court has agreed he should spend time in jail.”
The police became involved in the case after the girl’s mother discovered the Facebook messages.
Prosecuting Gormer in September, John Farmer said the messages had become increasingly graphic.
Gormer, who lived in School Meadow at the time of his prosecution, admitted meeting a child following sexual grooming in August last year, and sexual activity with a child.
At the time, he was also given a 180 day rehabilitation activity requirement, ordered to pay a £100 victim surcharge, and banned from contacting the victim for five years.
In September, sentencing judge Martyn Levett told the court he accepted that Gormer had initially refused to get involved with the girl because of her age, and that the girl had initiated contact.
Convicted Croydon sex offender who molested a girl, 11, has jail term cut
A Croydon sex offender who molested an 11-year-old girl has had his jail term slashed by top judges on appeal.
Mohan Kandasamy, 52, of Southcote Road, in Sanderstead, was jailed for nine years at Southwark Crown Court on January 29.
He admitted 12 indecent assaults and one sexual assault.
The victim was as young as 11 when Kandasamy abused her, Lord Justice McCombe told London’s Appeal Court today.
His crimes had a “serious and devastating” impact on the girl, he added.
Kandasamy’s lawyers described him as a “working family man” with young children, pointing to his previous good character when arguing that his jail term was far too tough and ought to be cut.
The attacks on the youngster were said to have been “opportunistic and brief”.
And Lord Justice McCombe said: “We have reached the conclusion that the overall sentence was rather too long.”
The judge, who was sitting with Mr Justice Fraser and Judge Peter Collier QC, cut Kandasamy’s sentence to seven years.
No prison term for Monmouth man after possessing indecent images
A MONMOUTH man has avoided a prison sentence after pleading guilty to two counts of possessing indecent images.
Richard Hounslow, of Castle Close, Monmouth, appeared at Cardiff Crown Court on Monday (7th November) charged with two counts of possessing indecent images of children.
Hounslow, who is 33, was found in possession of 37 images in category A, the most severe kind, and three in category B.
Judge Harris-Jenkins gave Hounslow a three year community order, 100 hours of community service and a five-year sexual harm prevention order.
A man accused of downloading child abuse images dramatically broke down in tears and admitted his guilt on the first day of his trial at Bolton Crown Court.
Gavin Wilkinson had denied 28 counts of downloading and possessing thousands of indecent images of children.
Judge Graeme Smith warned him that a prison sentence is “almost inevitable” because of his late plea and because Wilkinson had allowed his wife to fall under suspicion for a time before evidence came to light which cleared her.
Wilkinson was placed on the sex offenders’ register and Judge Smith stated: “The starting point in this matter is almost certainly going to be a custodial sentence.”
The court heard how the images and movies were found on a computer tower and laptop at 32-year-old Wilkinson’s home in Glazebury Drive, Westhoughton, which he shared with his wife
On the first day of his trial, Louise Brandon, prosecuting, told a jury how, on April 4, 2014, police raided the house and took away a computer tower, hard drive, laptop and iPhone.
Analysis of the machines revealed 402 indecent photographs and 62 movies of children on the tower unit and a further 8,527 photographs and 35 movies on the laptop.
“All of these images had been sourced, collected and downloaded from the internet,” said Miss Brandon. “The content of the images ranged from images of children in a state of undress to children being sexually abused by adults.”
A police expert established that the user of the computer tower had been actively searching for indecent images of children and had stored them in folders on the machine. Use had been made of file-sharing software to find the pornographic material. Only the day before he was arrested, nine indecent movies with file names such as “pedoland” had been put into a folder on the computer.
“Each filename also included the letters PTHC, which the prosecution say stands for pre-teen hard core,” said Miss Brandon, who added that between December 1, 2012 and the date of his arrest, there was a pattern of indecent child images being regularly searched for and downloaded.
On the laptop search terms such as PTHC and 5yo had been used.
Only Wilkinson and his wife lived at the house and efforts were made to try and establish who had been using the computer at the time the images were downloaded.
On the computer tower was a back-up of Wilkinson’s iPhone which showed he had been looking at the internet on the mobile and using a photo sharing website to look at folders of images with titles such as “Lolita 9 yo underwear”.
The jury was told that, on occasions, Wilkinson would access the images on his phone just minutes after texting his wife, friends or Stacey, a woman he was involved in an intimate relationship with.
The phone had also been used to access child abuse images within minutes of a Manchester United website being viewed on it. Wilkinson is a fan of club.
“There was only him and his wife living at that address. It is the prosecution case that the person viewing and downloading was the defendant,” said Miss Brandon.
When arrested Wilkinson admitted owning the devices but denied downloading and viewing child porn.
But Miss Brandon stressed to the jury: “All the evidence in the case points to the fact that it could only be him.”
As the first witness was about to be called to give evidence at the trial Wilkinson collapsed sobbing in the dock and subsequently pleaded guilty to all charges. He was granted bail to allow a pre-sentence report to be prepared and will be sentenced on Friday.
Man jailed for getting girl, 15, pregnant in sickening sex assaults 50 years ago
A Bonhill man has been jailed for five years for impregnating a 15-year-old girl and sexually assaulting children nearly half a century ago.
Norman Duncan was found guilty of six charges involving four girls aged between the ages of eight and 15, in the 1960s and 1970s.
The 70-year-old’s trial lasted eight days at Dumbarton Sheriff Court and a jury of 15 men and women took less than two hours to return unanimous verdicts on each charge, on September 21.
Duncan, from Ladyton, was immediately placed on the sex offenders register and told that he would be imprisoned.
And today he was handed down a sentence of five years for the crimes.
Sentencing, Sheriff Mungo Bovey said:”Listening to the evidence in this case, it was impossible not to conclude that your conduct had a ruinous effect on the complainers. “As [one of the complainer’s] put it, you created havoc in their lives and walked away leaving them to deal with it.”
Sheriff Bovey admonished Duncan on the first charge of lewd practices towards a girl under 16, by grabbing her and kissing her.
On a second of charge indecently assaulting a girl under 10 he was sentenced to 12 months. He was admonished over charges of sexually assaulting the same girl between the age of 12 and 14.
He was jailed for 12 months for another charge of lewd behaviour towards another girl under 12.
And for sexually abusing and impregnating a girl, 15, he was jailed for three years – making the total sentence five years.
A charge of using lewd, indecent and libidinous practices towards a girl under the age of 16 and kissing her on the lips was found not proven during the trial.
Duncan denied all allegations, forcing three of his victims to give evidence in court.
The court heard that one of the victims, who became pregnant at the age of 15 following Duncan’s abuse, delivered the baby when 16.
She fled home a year later — leaving her baby behind with relatives — and has not been seen since.
Tragically, the baby died several months later. However, DNA evidence was produced during the trial that confirmed Duncan is the father.
The trial heard blood samples were taken from the baby when it was born, in the 70s, and kept on file in what is known as a Guthrie card.
This was kept in storage for almost 40 years in Stobhill Hospital in Glasgow, and later in Livingston, before being recovered by police investigators in January 2014.
They sent the baby’s blood samples to the Scottish Police Authority laboratory in Dundee where tests were carried out, along with tests on a mouth swab taken from Duncan.
Fiona McMahon, manager of the police DNA database, gave evidence at to say the baby’s DNA matched Norman Duncan.
She said there was a match at each of the 15 DNA markers tested and said there was only a 170,000 to 1 chance of someone else being the father.
One of Duncan’s victims told the jury she has suffered depression throughout her life, traumatic flashback experiences, and has been diagnosed with post traumatic stress.
She was allegedly repeatedly abused in a house in the Vale of Leven between the ages of eight and 14.
Another told how the sexual abuse has affected her deeply and impacted on her relationships with her family.
Speaking after sentencing, Duncan’s lawyer Owen Mullan said: “He [Duncan] is an elderly man of obvious poor health. His reputation is ruined.
“He realises he will be spending his final years, or part of them, away from his family.
“He knows his family will suffer too.
“The consequences of a custodial sentence for Mr Duncan could not be more devastating.”
A 22-year-old man has been jailed for two years after admitting trying to incite young girls to take part in sexual activities.
Oliver Richard Lee, of Newnham Green, Gorleston, was sentenced at Norwich Crown Court today by Judge Bates.
Lee was jailed after admitting two counts of ’attempting to cause/incite a girl aged 13 to 15 to engage in sexual activity’ and one count of ‘making indecent images’.
Lee was arrested by officers from Norfolk Constabulary’s Safeguarding Children Online Team (SCOLT) following a warrant at his address in June 2015.
A number of items of electronic equipment were seized, including mobile phones and a Lenovo laptop.
Following forensic examination a number of chat-logs between Lee and four people he believed to be underage girls, were discovered. The logs revealed Lee asking them to provide naked pictures and to perform various other sex acts.
Lee was charged by SCOLT officers on 11 May 2016.
Lee was also placed on the Sex Offenders’ Register for 10 years.
Man undergoing dialysis is warned he could be jailed after being caught with child abuse images
A 57-year-old man who amassed thousands of pictures of child abuse could face an “inevitable” prison sentence.
Graham Langley pleaded guilty today to three counts of making indecent photographs of children over a five-year period.
He admitted having a total of 4,065 images – including 1,791 in the most severe category in law.
He also pleaded guilty to two charges of possessing prohibited images of children – a total of 1,400 pictures.
He committed the offences in the Redcar area between June 2011 and June this year.
John Nixon, defending, said the starting point for sentencing was one year’s imprisonment.
He said Langley had one relevant previous conviction and prison sentence for a sexual offence against a young person in 1999.
Teesside Crown Court heard today how Langley confessed his wrongdoing to police, then seemed to go back on it before accepting the full facts of the case against him.
Mr Nixon added: “He is married. He and his wife separated.
“He’s on dialysis three times a week. Prison will have a significant impact.”
Judge Sean Morris said: “To me it seems prison is inevitable.”
He bailed Langley, of Drub Lane, Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire, until sentencing on November 30.
He told the defendant: “I will grant you a pre-sentence report.
“Don’t read into this that at the end is anything else other than an immediate prison sentence.
“However because of your situation more details are required.”
An IT consultant from the Black Country who has appeared on TV and radio to give computer advice has been jailed for four-and-a-half years for sexually abusing two young brothers.
Stuart Rudd was told by a judge he had left his victims, both under the age of 13, “distressed” and at risk of “corruption”.
The 35-year-old was convicted by a jury last month of five charges relating to him showing the boys adult pornographic images before sexually abusing them.
Award-winning businessman Rudd, who has been managing director of Expert IT consultants in Bilston High Street, has appeared on BBC Midlands Today and Radio WM and described himself as the Computer Doctor.
The offences related to encounters a number of years ago, Wolverhampton Crown Court heard yesterday. Rudd had accused the boys of lying.
Judge Nicholas Webb told Rudd, of Summerhill Road, Coseley, that he was now banned from working with children for the rest of his life. He will remain on the sex offenders’ register for life.
Jailing him, the judge told Rudd: “Your offences were potentially corrupting and there was distress, particularly to the younger boy. The offences were pre-meditated, each boy had to give evidence and each was accused of being part of a conspiracy.
“You have never accepted responsibility and have shown no remorse. It’s a great pity because I believe you have considerable gifts but you have an unhealthy preoccupation with sex.”
He said Rudd’s denial meant any treatment given to him was likely to be less effective. Rudd also has a conviction for unlawful sexual intercourse with a 14-year-old girl dating back to the 1990s.
Thousands of indecent images were found on Flintshire man’s computer
A MAN had thousands of indecent images on his computer equipment, a court heard.
Matthew Graham Hatfield, 38, admitted possessing just over 1,000 of them.
But a further 240,000 images had not been categorised because of the work involved.
“It was a very large collection of child abuse images,” said prosecutor Rhian Jackson at Flintshire Magistrates Court at Mold.
Hatfield, of Ffordd Ogwen, Bryn y Baal near Mold, admitted possessing 25 category A images, the worst kind.
He admitted possessing one category B and 1,059 category C images.
Hatfield further admitted possessing 3,506 prohibited images of children.
He was rebailed pending sentence.
The court heard how the defendant had previously been cautioned by the police for possessing images.
He was caught on this occasion after he took a laptop to a shop for repair.
Staff contacted police because of file names indicative of child abuse images.
His home was searched and a number of items were seized and examined – together with a note he had written himself, a story about committing a sexual offence with a child.
Search terms had been used which indicated an interest in such material.
Interviewed, he said he was interested in a case where a girl aged five had been made pregnant and had been searching to find further cases.
He said that he did not think looking at the images was illegal and that those who had placed the images on the internet were at fault.
The defendant had no previous convictions, but in 2009 he had received a police caution for possessing five indecent images of children.
Miss Jackson said the prosecution accepted that the defendant had disabilities, but he was skilled in technology.
Magistrates agreed they would retain the case in the magistrates’ court at this stage and ordered a pre-sentence report.
Police found stun gun at indecent images pervert’s flat in Leeds
POLICE seized a stun gun from a flat after receiving a tip-off that the man who lived there had been accessing child sexual abuse images
Officers discovered the weapon after receiving intelligence that illegal images had been obtained from an internet address linked to the property at Cottingley Heights, Cottingley, Leeds.
Leeds Crown Court heard police arrested Richard De’andrade on October 30, 2014, after finding the stun gun on a shelf inside the flat. Computers and other equipment were seized but De’andrade denied that they contained any illegal material.
The property was analysed and found to contain 168 illegal images and movies.
Three images and four movies were at category A – the most serious level of offending.
Many of the images featured the sexual abuse of boys aged between eight and 15 years old. De’andrade pleaded guilty to possession of a prohibited weapon and 11 offences of making indecent images of a child.
De’andrade was given a 12 month prison sentence, suspended for two years, and ordered to take part in a 30-day activity requirement.
He was also told he must go on the sex offenders register for 10 years.
Judge Neil Clark said: “Anyone who even takes the risk of downloading this material compounds to misery (children) suffer.”
Kidderminster teacher who made indecent images of children escapes jail
A KIDDERMINSTER school teacher who admitted making indecent images of children and a separate charge of voyeurism has avoided prison.
Stefan Hall, of Highfields Close, Kidderminster, was given a two-year jail sentence suspended for two years, at Worcester Crown Court.
The 41-year-old was told by Judge Nicholas Cole: “You have lost your career and thrown away part of your life.”
Prosecutor Michael Aspinall said that Hall taught at Sutton Park Primary School and Franche Community School in Kidderminster. He was gay and got pleasure in seeing young boys in boxer shorts or swimwear.
When police visited his home on an unconnected matter, they found hundreds of pictures of boys aged seven to 13 on his computer equipment.
There was only one with a naked boy and that was covered in the charge of voyeurism.
Mr Aspinall said that some pictures had obviously been taken with a covert camera of a young boy and girl out shopping in Kidderminster. Some of his pupils described him as “odd.”
Judge Cole said Hall had shown a gross abuse of trust by taking pictures for his own sexual gratification. He ordered him to do 100 hours of unpaid work and pay £535 costs.
Hall has to sign on the sex offender register for 10 years and is barred from working with children.
He will be supervised by the probation service and must attend a sex offender’s group treatment course.
Exeter computer gamer caught with ‘disturbing’ abuse images of children
A computer games fan was found with ‘disturbing’ images of children as young as 18 months being abused when police seized his computer.
Gareth Drake had 137 images and ten movies which included some in the worst category which showed adults raping very young children who were in obvious distress or pain.
Drake, aged 33, was ordered to receive treatment from the probation service to address his use pornography and heavy drinking.
Drake, aged 33, of Grendon Road, Exeter, admitted two offences of making indecent images and was jailed for nine months, suspended for two years and ordered to undertake 25 days rehabilitation work with the probation service.
Recorder Mr Richard Stead told him:”What is particularly concerning are the category A images which show penetration and also show extremely young children, several under the age of two. They are extremely disturbing.
“There are clear aggravating factors in terms of the age and vulnerability of the children depicted in these images. There is also the question of whether they showed discernible pain or distress.
“I have seen reports from a psychologist and the probation service which make it clear you have autistic traits which make life difficult for you.”
Mr Lee Bremridge, prosecuting, said Drake’s use of the internet led police to investigate his computers. An examination found 137 still images and ten movies which he downloaded between June and September 2015.
Of these, 22 stills and seven movies were classified at the highest category A, which means they depict serious abuse of children by adults.
He said the age of the youngest child was estimated to be just 18 months by police. Drake also used chat rooms and some of the images appeared to have come from Skype chats.
How paedo hunters snared man who asked teen to act out porn film
A man who asked a 15-year-old girl to reenact porn scenes with him pleaded guilty after been caught by paedophile hunters.
Jonathan Haswell believed he had been sending graphic pictures of his body to the underage schoolgirl online.
But the 44-year-old, of Gateshead, had been snared by a vigilante group called Dark Justice who confronted him on camera as he tried to meet the fake girl in Newcastle city centre.
During online conversations, Haswell had told the schoolgirl they could watch porn together and copy what was happening on screen. He also asked her to send pictures in her underwear.
When the vigilantes confront him on film, Haswell admits he is carrying a pornographic movie.
He pleaded guilty to attempting to incite a child to engage in sexual activity, at Newcastle Crown Court.
He was sentenced to two years imprisonment, suspended for two years, with sex offender registration for ten years.
Haswell now has to abide by a Sexual Harm Prevention Order for life.
A man who had sex with an underage schoolgirl more than a decade ago has been given a three year jail term.
Stephen Robson convinced the girl that “other lads were just after her for sex” and then started a physical relationship with her.
Newcastle Crown Court heard Robson was in his early 20s when met the girl, from South Shields
In an impact statement the victim said she was “sold a fairytale” by Robson, but left with depression and anxiety.
Robson, now 34, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to two charges of having sexual activity with a child.
He admitted in interview that he had had sex with the girl but when asked what age she was at the time, he claimed he “was not very good with numbers”.
The court heard he is currently serving a prison term of more than three years for burglary, which was imposed last year.
Mr Recorder Euan Duff today sentenced him to three years behind bars, which will commence after his current prison term is completed.
Robson, who has no other convictions for sexual offences, must sign the sex offender register for life.
The judge told him: “This girl was entitled to grow up and have a relationship with boys her own age, gradually growing in to a sexual relationship with someone in an appropriate manner.”
Peterborough doctor ‘threw computers in the river’ to hide vile child abuse images
A Peterborough GP who has been jailed for downloading over 800,000 child sexual abuse images threw computers in the river to try and hide his offending.
Michael Kennedy was locked up for two years and eight months at Cambridge Crown Court after admitting a string of offences.
The court heard graphic details of some of the videos and images – which are too distressing to report.
After being arrested the doctor admitted being sexually attracted to schoolgirls and said he was particularly aroused by girls aged between 12 and 16, but the images found showed an interest in younger girls.
The court heard Kennedy would download the vile images through various paedophile groups online every week and admitted briefly using the Darkweb.
The former GP claimed that he knew what he was doing was wrong and would intermittently delete or throw the computers in rivers.
Sentencing, Judge David Farrell QC said patients and their families would be appalled by the doctor’s behaviour.
He said: “People are going to hear that their GP was interested in viewing the most appalling images of children being abused.
“Parents who had taken their children to be examined have now got to live with the thought that their children were being examined by a man who had this type of appalling behaviour.
“So that must be a very significant aggravating factor.”
He added: “What is clear to me is that despite what you have said (about being interested in older girls) you clearly get some sexual gratification, perverted sexual gratification, by looking at this type of child abuse.”
He also said that the offences were aggravated by the fact that they had occurred over a 10 year period and Kennedy’s job as a GP.
He said: “I take the view that your job as a GP, a doctor, throughout the period is a significant aggravating factor.
“As a GP thoughtout this period you would have been examining patients including child patients.
“I do not accept the submission that this factor is not aggravating. You, as a GP, are in a position of trust and respect of your patients.
“There is an expectation that doctors in particular will behave in a particular way.”
Kennedy was interviewed by police on March 17 when he admitted downloading the images over a 10 year period.
Defending Sarah Przybylska said her client was “appalled” by his behaviour and had tried to address it since his arrest by seeking professional help.
She added he had not taken any of the images himself and not abused his position as a GP which would be an aggravating factor. This was rejected by the judge.
Kennedy was supported by his wife from the public gallery when he was sentenced. Kennedy, wearing a dark suit and a blue shirt and tie, kissed his wife and daughter before being put in the dock.
Speaking after the sentencing, DCI Neil Sloan said the team of detectives who brought Kennedy to justice had examined every image found on the former doctor’s computer.
He said: “This was the biggest investigation of its type in Cambridgeshire. It started in March when we executed a search warrant at his home, and found a number of devices.
“There were 7.4 million images on the devices – some family photos, books, legal pornography – but we also found some 850,000 indecent images and extreme pornography.
“Each of these images is an image of child abuse, such as a child as young as six being raped.
“We have to look at every image, and each one is graded, It is not a case of looking at a few and stopping.
“We have a dedicated team looking at this. They are experienced detectives from a variety of backgrounds, who are targeting those, like Kennedy, who look at these vile images.
“This type of offending is a priority for Cambridgeshire police. The team is targeteing those who commit the offences, and we will do all we can to bring them to justice.”
Sex offender sent this shower pic to a ‘teenage girl’ – she was actually an online paedophile hunter
A sex offender who sent a picture of himself in the shower to a girl he thought was 14 was actually talking to an online paedophile hunter.
The 37-year-old, who is engaged to be married, also encouraged the ‘girl’ to masturbate as they chatted on Facebook.
But Bristol Crown Court was told that James Hanson’s lewd conversations were with a member of a group called the Online Predator Investigation Team, who studiously logged all the details of the conversation and passed it on to police.
Hanson spent hours on Facebook telling what he believed to be a girl called Ellie how wonderful she was. He eventually “unfriended” her but not until he had tried to persuade her to touch herself intimately.
Hanson, of Charlock Road in Weston-super-Mare, pleaded guilty to attempting to a charge of incite a child to engage in sexual activity in January 2015.
Jennifer Tallentire, prosecuting, said a Facebook profile was set up purporting to be a girl aged 14.
She said: “It was created in order to give information to police in a preventative way. There was no ‘Ellie’.
“The defendant made contact with her via Facebook. He knew she was 14. Her date of birth was 24.11.2000. He was 37 at the time.”
The court heard he made a friend request to her and they had sexualised conversations for around six weeks before he unfriended her.
Miss Tallentire made it clear that it was Hanson who was instigating sex talk, not Ellie.
The court was presented with logs of a chat in January last year, which read as follows:
Hanson: “Can I ask you to touch urself now? As we are chatting? Xx”
Ellie: “where”
Hanson: “On ur privates…xx”
Ellie: “I dunno nvr done that x”
Hanson: “Hehe its ok,, all you do is place a finger or two on the top n give it a gentle rub up n down ,,, few times. After a while ,,, you will feel hot …maybe try placing a fingertip inside urself ..ull see wat I mean… xx.”
Ellie: “I dunno seems weird x”
Hanson: “Ok… maybe try wen ur a lil older… xx”
Ellie: “yeh x”
Hanson: “Its called masterbating. Sorry for being rude ..,”
Kerry Barker, defending, said: “This was totally out of character.”
He indicated to a full public gallery containing Hanson’s family, his fiancée and her family.
His mother-in-law-to-be told the court: “He’s a great guy, honest and hard-working.
“This is out of character for James. He is generous and helpful. He’ll do anything to help anybody.”
Another character witness described Hanson as “clumsy and gullible”, saying he once deep fat fried a pasty.
Mr Barker said Hanson now recognised the impact it would have had, had the fictional girl been real.
He told the court: “He sent photographs of himself. All the more stupid, one may think.
“To his credit he did in fact stop the behaviour, without knowing the girl concerned was a fictional character.”
This image of a Facebook page shows some of the suggestions made to the ‘girl’ by Hanson
Judge Julian Lambert handed Hanson a two-year-community order, with 120 hours of unpaid work and 60 days’ rehabilitation.
The judge told him: “There was no child. But the seriousness is there might have been such a child.
“It came to light by concerned citizens good enough to monitor the internet for people like you.
“The pre-sentence report says you are terrified of the potential consequences of conviction.
“Yes, you should have been terrified.”
The judge handed Hanson a seven-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order, banning him from unchecked internet use.
He was told to register as a sex offender for five years.
Langley Green paedophile jailed for string of sexual offences against three young girls
A Langley Green paedophile man has been jailed for four-and-a-half years for sexual offences against three girls – two of them were as young as 11.
Unemployed Andrew Ward was sentenced at Brighton Crown Court on Thursday (November 10) after being found guilty following a trial in September.
He was found guilty of three cases of sexual assault on two girls, two assaults on one of the girls and one on the other – at his home in Honeysuckle Lane between 2014 and 2015.
The girls were both aged 11.
Ward was also convicted of taking an indecent photograph of another girl, aged under 13, during 2012 or 2013, also at his Langley Green address.
The 53-year-old will be placed on the sex offenders register for life and was given a sexual harm prevention order, severely restricting his access to children, which last until the court deems otherwise.
