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Philip Bray – Detling

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December 2016

Perverted horse riding instructor set up victim’s iPhone so he could remotely delete evidence

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A devious pervert went to great technical lengths to cover up having underage sex with a teenage girl, a court heard.

Philip Bray set up both their mobile phones so that he could remotely delete incriminating material such as nude photos if discovered.

But the 37-year-old horse riding instructor’s sordid secret was revealed after the girl’s mother became suspicious and saw some of the photos on her phone.

Now, Bray, of White Hill Road, Detling, has been jailed for just under five years after admitting six offences of sexual activity with a child, one of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and one of taking indecent photos of a child.

A judge told him: “You tried to expunge all incriminating material on her phone remotely. You put in place a facility to enable you to do that and shows how you sought to control her daily life.

“On any view, your behaviour was concerted, calculated and sustained over a period of some months, and was quite wrong. You subsequently sought to wipe the evidence from her phone.”

The girl’s mother told in a victim statement how she and the whole family had been affected by Bray’s behaviour.

Maidstone Crown Court was told how Bray, then 36, had full sex with the 15-year-old girl and committed other indecent acts with her. He obtained the contraceptive pill for her from the internet.

He also persuaded her to send him indecent photos and he sent her some of his private parts, as well as taking photos of her naked.

Prosecutor Peter Forbes said the teenager’s mother last year began to notice changes in her behaviour. She denied having a boyfriend.

When her mother questioned her, she started deleting material on her phone.

“Her mother saw a naked picture of her daughter, which she had taken and sent,” said Mr Forbes. “She confronted her and she broke down.”

The teenager told her: “He said I would get it wrong. He told me I would be the one to mess it up.”

“Her iPhone was being remotely wiped,” said Mr Forbes. “Her mother found a private message disguised as a news feed. The defendant had remote access to her device.

“He was in the process of deleting messages via his phone. It was evident he knew he had been discovered.”

When interviewed, the victim revealed she had sex with Bray at a hotel, at his then home in Gillingham and in his car.

Jailing Bray, for four years and eight months, Judge David Griffith-Jones QC said Bray took the girl’s virginity and the relationship seemed to become “all-consuming”.

“You were able to control her behaviour,” he said. “You took advantage of your young victim.

“You stole an important aspect of her childhood – namely her innocence by subjecting her to what can only be described in reality as a sustained and particular form of sexual abuse.

“The likely long-term effects on her can only be imagined. Her emotional development has to some extent been traumatised. Her educational process has been set back.

“It seems there is a lack of insight into the true nature of your offending. To your credit, you have sought counselling.”

Bray’s name will appear indefinitely on the sex offenders’ register and he will be barred from working with children under 16 and vulnerable adults.


Diane Edwards – Gorleston/Nuneaton

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June 2005

Jail for wife who watched sex attacks

A former Nuneaton woman who encouraged and arranged for her husband to have sex with a 12-year-old girl – and then watched as the assaults took place has been jailed for four years.

She was told by the judge: “How you could do that to a little girl is almost beyond belief.

Diane Edwards had originally denied any involvement in her husband Alan’s sexual abuse of the girl, but finally admitted her part in the offences on the day she was due to stand trial at Warwick Crown Court.

Edwards, aged 54, who was living in Queen Elizabeth Road, Camp Hill, Nuneaton, at the time, was jailed and made subject to an extended four-year period on licence after her release.

She admitted aiding and abetting, counselling or procuring her husband to have intercourse with the girl and to commit gross indecency with her. She was ordered to register as a sex offender for life and banned from working with children for 10 years.

Prosecutor Sara Muzaffer said the couple had previously lived in Tamworth where Alan Edwards had been jailed for indecency with a nine-year-old girl.

Miss Muzaffer said the latest victim told police she had had intercourse with the husband while the wife was present.

On one occasion Mrs Edwards had “‘almost insisted” that the girl get into bed and take her ‘bottoms’ off, and her husband then got in and had sex with the girl.

Andrew Tucker, defending, said Mrs Edwards, who had twice been treated for cancer, was dominated by her at times violent husband and, because of her “sad back-ground”, she felt he was all she had in her life.

Judge Richard Bray told Edwards: “I give you some credit for your pleas of guilty, but I have to sentence you for very serious sexual offences.

“Incredible as it may seem, you were encouraging and arranging for intercourse to take place with this young girl, and worse, you were physically present when it took place.

“How you could do that to a little girl is almost beyond belief. There has to be a long sentence to express the public abhorrence of the offences.”

In July last year Alan Edwards, aged 54, was jailed for six years and ordered to register as a sex offender for life after he admitted charges including unlawful intercourse with the girl and raping her.

Ian French – Huddersfield

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December 2016

Man avoids jail after indecent images of children found on his laptop

A man has been given a suspended jail sentence after indecent images of children were found on his laptop.

Leeds Crown Court heard yesterday (Tues) as a result of intelligence received about an image uploaded on to a Facebook page on December 28 last year a search warrant was executed at the Huddersfield flat of Ian David French on July 15 this year.

John Bull, prosecuting, said an Acer laptop was seized and examination revealed seven indecent images of children at Category A, the most serious, 16 at Category B and 44 Category C.

The police also recovered 63 prohibited images of children and three of extreme pornography.

French was interviewed and accepted uploading the indecent image of a child to a Facebook account he used in a fictitious name saying he did not know why he had done that.

Jessica Randell, representing him, said that one image shared was a cartoon and it had only been to one person in a private Facebook conversation “between two adults who had previously shared legal links to pornography.”

She said French had previously been an entrepreneur who was a project manager in a nightclub. He was a regular body builder working out in a gym but then suffered a serious shoulder injury which had led to osteoarthritis.

He had not been able to work and was taking prescribed painkillers and cortisone injections and because he was no longer able to train put on “large amounts of weight.”

That had hit his self-confidence and he had become a recluse in his own home shutting out friends and family. He had looked on his laptop at teenage porn and that escalated but when he realised what he was doing he had deleted the images.

She said the only item not deleted was the cartoon. He had now sought help for depression from his GP and was addressing his other problems. His shoulder had been reconstructed in an operation and he had already lost two stone in weight.

Ms Randell added: “He is full of remorse and ashamed about what he did.”

French, 36 of Market Place, Huddersfield, admitted three charges of making indecent images, possessing prohibited and extreme images and one of distribution. He was sentenced to a total of eight months in prison suspended for 18 months with a 30 day rehabilitation activity requirement.

Judge Penelope Belcher told him the offences were serious because the children pictured had actually been abused so he and others could look at the images.

Simon Willard – Hull

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December 2016

Fined £20 for making indecent images of a child

Simon Willard, 43, of Barham Road, east Hull, was fined £20, must have two years supervision

He was made subject to a sexual harm prevention order for five years, for making an indecent pseudo photograph of a child; two offences of making an indecent photograph of a child; possessing a prohibited image of a child; and possessing an extreme pornographic image of a person having sex with a dog.

He must pay £85 costs and a £60 surcharge.

Andrew McLeod – Dundee

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December 2016

Sex offender jailed over abuse images at social work office

A convicted sex offender caught with child abuse images at a social work meeting has been given an additional jail term.

Andrew McLeod, 39, was granted automatic release after serving a year for sexually assaulting a five-year-old girl.

Police examining McLeod’s phone at the meeting discovered indecent material.

He must now serve the rest of his original sentence and will not be released until at least January 2019.

He was sentenced to a year in prison for the new offence to be served concurrently and placed on the sex offenders register for 10 years.

Depute fiscal Saima Rasheed previously told Dundee Sheriff Court that the offence came to light when McLeod told social workers he had been using a social media application on his phone to keep in touch with friends in America.

That prompted public protection officials to impose an extra condition on McLeod, requiring him to hand over his phone for inspection by police on demand.

Ms Rasheed said: “On 31 March he attended at the criminal justice social work office for a pre-arranged meeting and signed to say he understood the new condition.

“Police asked to examine his phone and he handed it over.

“A cursory examination in his presence revealed indecent images of a child.

“He said he had been coming to show them the images.”

The court was told that 83 still images and three videos of child abuse were retrieved from the phone.

McLeod, a prisoner at HMP Perth, admitted a charge of downloading indecent images of children on 31 March this year at Friarfield House, Dundee.

Defence solicitor Paul Parker Smith said: “The expectation is for a custodial disposal with perhaps a supervised release order.”

Sheriff Alastair Brown said: “What is disturbing about this case is it is a symptom of a deeply-rooted problem.”

Bob Green – Widnes/Preston

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December 2016

‘Monster’ who stole girl’s childhood jailed for nine years

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An already convicted paedophile has been jailed for nine years for committing hundreds of sexual assaults against a girl who was aged as young as seven during years of sexual abuse.

Bob Green committed at least 150 assaults on a girl when she was aged between seven and nine during the 1970s.

The 66-year-old was sentenced to nine years behind bars on Monday for his appalling crimes, which the victim said had ‘stolen her childhood’.

Green, who committed the offences in the Widnes area but has since moved to Preston, frequently touched the girl sexually, often leaving her in such discomfort that she needed treatment to alleviate the pain.

Warrington Crown Court heard that he would abuse the girl at least once a week for a period of three years.

On one occasion when the girl was sitting on the toilet aged nine, the defendant entered the bathroom and began touching the victim.

Green said that if she told anyone about his abuse then he would ‘dance on her grave’, and his crimes were not reported until 2014.

Last month, he was convicted by a jury of four counts of indecent assault and one charge of gross indecency following a trial.

In a statement that was read out to the court, the victim described Green as a monster who had stolen her childhood and that she had had reoccurring dreams where a monster was coming to get her.

The statement said: “This abuse is something I will have to live with until the end of my life and was the worst possible start to life.

“Growing up being sexually abused makes you feel lost and scared – you live in a world of fear and isolation.

“Every little thing reminds me of what he did and he robbed me of every feeling of happiness.

“I have received counselling and have been taking antidepressants but they won’t take away the emotional scars.

“Feelings of guilt and shame have haunted me forever and prevented me from coming forward and talking about what happened to me.”

Green, who was previously jailed for four months in 2004 for 16 counts of making indecent photographs of children after installing a covert camera in a bathroom, received a sentence of nine years imprisonment.

Timothy Bleach – Petersfield

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December 2016

Retired Hampshire teacher found guilty of raping pupils

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A retired teacher has been found guilty of 56 sexual offences including rape against young girls at his school.

Timothy Bleach, 76, attacked girls aged between eight and 11 while he worked at Weyford Junior School in Bordon, Hampshire, between 1973 and 1980.

A jury was told some of the offences took place in a school store cupboard which was used for recorder lessons.

Bleach, of Hazel Walk, Petersfield, will be sentenced on Thursday at Portsmouth Crown Court.

He had faced a total of 62 charges and was convicted of offences including rapes, indecent assaults and acts of gross indecency.

He raped one girl on no fewer than 10 occasions and another at least three times.

Hampshire Police received the first complaint against him in 2014 from a woman who had watched a BBC report on the force’s work on historical sex crimes.

Subsequent allegations were made by eleven other women, with some saying it was the first time they had spoken about the attacks.

A further alleged victim told the court she had been assaulted while Bleach was teaching in Zambia, Africa, although the case was not prosecuted.

During a five-week trial, the jury was told Bleach attacked pupils in a school store cupboard, in classrooms and at some of their homes.

Prosecuting, said the women had not reported Bleach originally because they wanted to “please him, do well and show respect”.

One woman told the jury: “I thought the only person who would get into trouble would be me.”

Following the conviction, Martyn Booth from the Crown Prosecution Service said: “Timothy Bleach is a dangerous man who used his position of trust in the most abhorrent way to seek his own sexual gratification.”

 

Matthew Salmon – Nottingham

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December 2016

Pervert found guilty of rape and child abuse after schoolgirl comes forward

A man in his twenties is facing jail after a jury unanimously found him guilty of rape and child abuse allegations made by a Derbyshire schoolgirl.

The girl, who cannot be identified, said 29-year-old Matthew Salmon of Nottingham touched her and showed her a “rude film” before telling her to “keep it a secret”.

She revealed what had happened when a volunteer from NSPCC’s Childline visited her Sandiacre school to give a workshop on sexual abuse called Speak Out Stay Safe.

Prosecutor Andrew Vout had told the trial at Nottingham Crown Court that the girl, then aged ten, said in a “matter of fact sort of way” how Salmon made her undress in front of him and made her touch him intimately. Her revelations led to the arrest of Salmon who went on trial last week.

Mr Vout said the child went to see her head teacher in 2013 after speaking to a volunteer at Childline at the end of class at her Derbyshire school. “The girl went on to describe to her head teacher the various incidents of abuse,” said Mr Vout.

After the verdict, NSPCC School Service area co-ordinator for Nottinghamshire, Emma Grishin, said: “This disturbing case shows how vital the NSPCC’s Speak Out Stay Safe programme is in educating pupils about abuse and empowering them to come forward if they have been abused.

“We have already reached more than 50,000 children at over 550 schools in Nottinghamshire since the programme was launched in 2011, and we hope to reach more than ever during this school year.

“It is positive that the NSPCC has played a part in bringing Salmon to justice, and shows that the project can have a life-changing impact on some of the young people we visit.”

She added: “Occasionally pupils will disclose a very serious concern to one of our team members, but the vast majority of children who talk to someone will do so after our volunteers have left.

“This is particularly true of sexual abuse and exploitation, where a child may feel more comfortable explaining something so personal and frightening to a person they know and trust.

“If anyone has any concerns about a child, they can call the NSPCC Helpline on 0808 800 5000 for advice. Children and young people can call Childline on 0800 1111, or get help online at http://www.childline.org.uk.”

Salmon had denied causing a child to watch a sexual act for purposes of obtaining sexual gratification; where the schoolgirl viewed images of a person involved in sexual activity on a laptop; one charge of causing a child under 13 years to engage in sexual activity on at least three occasions; attempting to assault a child under 13 sexually; assault by penetration on at least three occasions; two separate charges of sexual assault and three charges of raping a child under 13 years. He was found guilty on all the charges.

Judge Gregory Dickinson QC, the Recorder of Nottingham, remanded him in custody today for reports to be prepared ahead of sentencing on January 18.


David Harber – Honiton/Exeter

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December 2016

Rape fiend, 46, jailed for life

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A SERIAL rapist who despised females and believed he had the right to force them to have sex has been jailed for life.

David Harber, formerly of Newton Abbot, raped four different women, a 14-year-old girl and forced a male victim, 21, who had learning disabilities and was extremely vulnerable into taking part in humiliating sex acts with him.

He met the women over two decades while living in the town and in Honiton, Exeter and Sussex.

His victims included a 14-year-old babysitter and an arthritis patient who he raped in hospital.

He was locked up for life after a judge said he had a controlling attitude to women and used sexual violence to punish them if they tried to resist.

Harber already had a conviction for under-age sex when he met his first victim in about 2002. He then went on to dominate and abuse the four women.

He groomed victims by giving them cannabis or amphetamines and forced them to have sex with friends or criminal associates. He kept the male victim as a virtual slave and tried to throttle him when he tried to resist.

A judge told him he used his victims for sexual gratification, had an extremely misogynistic attitude towards women and a sense of entitlement to sex.

He was found guilty of 30 counts of rape by a jury at Exeter Crown Court in February but reporting of his trial has been banned until now pending the conclusion of a related case.

Harber, 46, of Bexhill-on-Sea, was found guilty of 30 rapes, seven of inciting rape by others, one of assault causing actual bodily harm and two of sexual activity with a child.

He was handed a minimum term of 14 years by Judge Erik Salomonsen in February but the case could not be reported until a Contempt of Court Order was lifted at the end of a related case, in which the defendant was acquitted.

The judge told him: ‘There are a number of common themes in relation to the four female victims, three of whom were specifically vulnerable.

‘You became ever more controlling and your sexual demands more frequent and in the cases of anal sex, always unacceptable.

‘I have seen all the victim impact statements. They have all suffered depression and psychological damage. They will all suffer the consequences for years to come.’

During a trial at Exeter in January and February, the jury heard how Harber met the first victim in about 2002 and forced her to have anal sex against her will on two occasions.

Two years later he met a 14-year-old babysitter who he groomed for sex and abused more than 50 times before she was 16, causing her to become pregnant and have an abortion.

He forced her to have anal sex on her 18th birthday and repeated the assaults many times, including one occasion when he forced her to have sex while she was in a hospital bed and being treated for a painful arthritic condition.

He groomed his next victim by giving her cannabis before raping her and forcing her to have sex with men he knew while she was under the influence of amphetamines.

He moved on to his next victim shortly afterwards and used rape as a punishment and means of enforcing his control.

Harber met his final victim at a hostel after he was released from prison for an arson offence in which he set light to his council flat in the hope of being moved to better accommodation.

Jessica Stone/Gavin Kennedy – Desborough

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December 2016

Desborough couple jailed for total of 42 years for sex attacks on children

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A couple from Northamptonshire have been handed jail terms totalling more than 40 years for a sustained campaign of sexual abuse against young children.

Gavin Kennedy, 40 was sentenced to 22 years in prison with an extension of eight years.

He will not be eligible for parole until he has served 14 years and seven months.

Jessica Stone, 40 was sentenced to 20 years in prison with an extension of eight years.

Both defendants were given a further extended sentence which means they will be on licence for a total of eight years each after their release.

The pair, from Desborough, were found guilty of 18 charges relating to child sex abuse following a week-long trial at Northampton Crown Court in October.

During the trial, prosecutor Nicola Moore said Kennedy had been the initial instigator for the acts, which sprang from a taste in extreme pornography.

Ms Moore told the court that Kennedy possessed a “voracious sexual appetite” and searched for pornography using phrases such as “barely legal”, “very young girls” and “jailbait” – a coarse term referring to children under the age of sexual consent.

The couple were charged with:

  • Three counts of causing or inciting a child under 13 to engage in sexual activity

  • Engaging in sexual activity in the presence of child

  • Aiding and abetting the rape of a child under 13 by a male

  • Aiding and abetting the rape of a child under 13

  • Two further counts of sexual assault of a child under 13

  • One count of cruelty to a child.

Ian Best – Hemel Hempstead/Watford

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December 2012

Child rapist abused young girl for seven years

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A paedophile has been jailed after being found guilty of a string of sexual abuse offences against a young girl

Recovery driver Ian Micheal Best (41) of Watford appeared at St Albans Crown Court where he had previously been found guilty of the following charges:

  • Two count of rape of a child aged under 13

  • Three counts of rape

  • One count of committing gross indecency with a child

  • One count of indecent assault on a female

The court was told that the abuse started when the girl was just nine years old and continued for seven years at various locations including Hemel Hempstead, Bovingdon and then Watford.

The judge sentenced Ian Best to 16 years imprisonment

He was given a sexual offences prevention order and told he must register as a sex offender for life

Mark Harrison – Nuneaton

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December 2016

Serial Nuneaton sex attacker found guilty of another rape

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WHEN police officers investigated the terrifying rape of a 15-year-old girl in 1987 they were given information which led them straight to the home of schoolboy Mark Harrison.

But after speaking to him for just 5-10 minutes at his home in Edward Street, Nuneaton, they left without arresting him.

The officers did not conduct a formal interview, take a sample from him for DNA comparison or even check whether he had clothes which matched those of the rapist.

Now, almost 30 years after his rape of the girl on land at the edge of the Pingles leisure park in Nuneaton, a jury at Warwick Crown Court has taken just 50 minutes to convict him.

And the court has heard that in the intervening period Harrison had gone on to brutally attack and rape one woman and attack and attempt to rape another.

As a result, he is already serving an extended sentence of 24 years in prison, of which he will have to serve at least 16 years before he can even be considered for parole, with a further four years on licence after the expiry of that period.

His barrister Ian Speed commented: “One can only reflect on how different things might have been if he had been dealt with at the time and may have received assistance inside, and what two other victims might not have gone through.”

For raping the schoolgirl when he was also 15, Harrison (45) formerly of Croft Road, Nuneaton, was jailed for 11 years.

That will not add to his overall sentence, but Judge Stephen Eyre QC said he was taking steps to make sure the Parole Board is aware of his assessment of Harrison’s dangerousness.

During his trial the court heard Harrison was finally brought to justice thanks to the setting up of Operation Scenic by Warwickshire Police in 2014 to look into unsolved ‘cold cases.’

A review of the DNA evidence provided a full-profile match between semen recovered from the girl’s jeans and Harrison, with the odds of it being from anyone else being one in a billion.

By then he was already serving a 20-year sentence imposed in December 2013 for the brutal rape of a woman he had attacked as she was walking home later at night in 1992, and the extended sentence for the attempted rape of another woman after grabbing her and dragging her into a Nuneaton churchyard in 2002.

Outlining the rape of the schoolgirl, prosecutor Stefan Kolodynski said that in March 1987 she had spent the evening with friends, two of whom accompanied her part of the way home before she told them she could make her own way.

As she walked along a path along the edge of the Pingles leisure park, Harrison, wearing a balaclava covering most of his face, ran past her from behind and then stopped and turned back.

Without warning, he grabbed her in an arm lock and dragged her backwards to some nearby bushes.

As the terrified girl pleaded with him to let her go, he forced her to the ground, knelt on her arms, pinning her down, and pulled her jacket and blouse open, and lifted her bra.

He then quickly got up and turned round to kneel astride her facing away from her before undoing her belt and ripping her jeans open so the top button popped off.

Harrison then dragged her a little further, and as she talked to him to try to persuade him to stop, he revealed that he attended George Eliot School.

She said he let go of her and ordered her to strip, and when she asked whether he meant everything, Harrison, who said he had a knife, told her: “Just your jeans will do.”

Asked why he was doing it, she said he told her: “I suppose I get my kicks.”

She did as she was told, and as she took one leg out of her jeans he pushed her down on her back and began kissing her and digitally penetrating her before raping her at his second attempt.

He then stood up, pulled up his jeans and ran off, and the girl ran home and told her mother what had happened.

She was examined by a police surgeon who took swabs from her and from her clothing, including the crotch of her jeans.

From her description of her attacker and the name of his school, the police spoke to Harrison, but he was never arrested and no sample was taken from him for comparison.

The samples taken from the girl were archived and left into cold storage – until Operation Scenic was set up.

When Harrison was finally arrested in December last year, he replied: “I am innocent.” And he claimed he had never had sex until he was 18 years old.

Giving evidence, in response to questions from Mr Speed, Harrison said he was aware of the investigation at the time because the police had come to his home.

But he said they spoke to him for just 5-10 minutes, and there had been no mention by the officers of his clothing, or of an identity parade being held or samples being taken from him.

Harrison asserted: “Everything that’s said about me isn’t true at all. I’m not that kind of person. I don’t act rough towards males or females in that way. There’s a genuine mistake somewhere with the DNA.”

He said he did not accept the DNA evidence which linked him to the rape in 1992 or the attempted rape in 2002, despite having pleaded guilty to that offence, and did not accept it was his semen on the girl’s jeans.

After the jury returned its verdict, Mr Koldynski read out part of the victim’s statement, in which she said: “For me, the ordeal I suffered is something I have to live with every day.”

Mr Speed pointed out that Harrison’s earliest date of release, subject to the Parole Board’s decision, would be 2030.

“But by his stance with regard to not accepting his guilt, his actual sentence will not be terminated until 2042.”

Jailing Harrison, who already has to register as a sex offender for life, Judge Eyre told him: “This was a rape at night of a young woman, and you used violence and threatened even more violence. It was a terrifying ordeal for her.

“She has shown great courage in getting on with her life, but your actions have had a great effect on her.

“You committed very similar offences in February 1992 and in August 2002, using violence to rape or attempt to rape lone women walking through Nuneaton at night.

“I have no doubt you are a dangerous offender. If I were sentencing you now for the 2002 offence, knowing you had started at the age of 16, I would be considering a life sentence.”

John Denian – Brighton

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December 2016

Paedophile sentenced for sex and cruelty offences

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A paedophile is starting a three year prison sentence for sexual and cruelty offences against a child.

John Denian, 65, handyman, of Dewe Road, Brighton, was sentenced when he appeared at Brighton Crown Court on Friday.

Denian was found guilty of incitement to gross indecency and indecent assault on a girl aged between 5 and 10 between 1980 and 1985, and cruelty to the same girl between 1980 and 1991.

He was sentenced to one year for the indecency offences, and two years for the child cruelty offence, with both sentences running consecutively.

He will also be register as a sex offender for ten years.

Micheal Hartigan – London

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December 2016

Sex offender travelled to Hull from London to have sex with girl, 14

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A man travelled 155 miles from London to Hull to have sex with a schoolgirl he met online.

Micheal Hartigan, 25, had sex with the 14-year-old earlier this year, and was jailed for three years in October after admitting sexual activity with a child.

Describing the circumstances of the offence to Hull Crown Court, prosecutor Dale Brook said: “The defendant’s conviction relates to contacting a 14-year-old girl on the internet, and then travelling up to the Hull area and having consensual sexual intercourse with her.”

He has now been barred from having unsupervised contact with children under 16 for ten years.

The sexual harm prevention order, issued by Judge Mark Bury, also prohibits Hartigan from communicating with any child under 16 over the internet, via mobile phone, or through social media.

Hartigan, of St Marks Road, Kensington and Chelsea, London

The judge told him: “These orders are designed to prevent you from doing anything silly, and in that sense they are there to help you.

“If you do breach this order, that is a separate criminal offence and the punishment is a sentence of imprisonment up to five years.”

Hartigan was ordered to sign the sex offenders register for life after his conviction.

Jordan De la Mare – Whinhall

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December 2016

Airdrie paedo who downloaded thousands of child images faces jail

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AN Airdrie man faces jail after being found guilty of downloading 25,000 indecent images of children over a period of almost 10 years.

Paedophile Jordan De la Mare, of Whinhall, was convicted by a jury at Airdrie Sheriff Court and now faces a lengthy jail term.

The 28-year-old accumulated the collection of child sexual abuse images on his computer between 2005 and 2014.

During his three-day trial the jury heard how he took or permitted to be taken or made the indecent images at his home.

De la Mare was found guilty by a majority verdict.

Sheriff Morag Galbraith deferred sentencing until January 20, to obtain a full criminal justice social work report and a report to show the risk he poses to children.


Niall Hughes – Fazakerley

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Update: Hughes will be eligible for parole in 2017 if he can convince a parole board that he is no longer a danger to the public

June 2010

Six-year-old boy ask his mum if he “could kill himself” after sex attacks

A six-year-old boy asked his mum if he “could kill himself” after being sexually abused and raped.

Today his attacker is behind bars indefinitely for the two sex assaults on the boy when he was aged just four and five.

Judge David Harris QC told Niall Hughes, 34, he believed “without a shadow of doubt” he posed a danger to children.

He warned Hughes, who continues to deny his crimes, that unless he accepts his guilt and undergoes rehabilitation he would not be safe to be released back into the community.

He said: “This was a clear violation of a child of four in a breach of the trust you owed him for your own sexual gratification.”

The judge added: “At the beginning of May this little boy asked his mum if he could kill himself. She questioned him with sensitivity and skill.

“He said he wanted to kill himself because of ‘the horrible things he did to me’. It is a measure of the damage you have caused that a child of this age should think this way.”

Ordering Hughes to serve a minimum of seven-and-a-half years behind bars, the judge described how the “delightful and well-behaved boy” had been severely effected by the abuse.

The child is believed to be one of the youngest ever to give evidence at Liverpool Crown Court. During Hughes’s trial in January, jurors were played two recorded interviews with the boy, then aged five, when he described how the attacks made him feel “sad, because he hurted me”.

He detailed how he was in the bathroom of Hughes’s flat, when the defendant came in and raped him.

The second recording was then played when the youngster spoke of an earlier incident when he was woken in the night by Hughes, who was an acquaintance of his dad, sexually abusing him.

Hughes, of Longmoor Lan, Fazakerley, denied assault by penetration and rape, but jurors rejected his defence on February 2.

After hearing the sentence, the boy’s mum said: “The past year has been horrendous.

“It’s taken an entire year to get this sentence, it’s really been dragged out.

“I am pleased with the result. It was more than I expected.”

She also praised the police for their “amazing” support and care for her son.

He described how psychological reports revealed Hughes was an isolated figured who had trouble coping with stress. Judge Harris ordered Hughes to sign the Sex Offenders’ Register for life and imposed an indefinite sexual offenders prevention order.

 

Paul Narusberg – Tredegar

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October 2016

Blaenau Gwent man had hundreds of indecent images of children

A BLAENAU GWENT man has been jailed for possessing hundreds of indecent videos of children, including one clown-themed clip.

Paul Narusberg, aged 69, of Tynewydd, Tredegar, was sentenced at Newport Crown Court after pleading guilty to possessing indecent images of children.

Steven Donoghue, prosecuting, told the court that on September 28 this year police searched the defendant’s home where they found a total of 770 indecent images of children on a computer.

Narusberg was arrested at Bristol Airport at 10.05pm later that day as he returned from a holiday.

Of the category A images, 498 were videos and two were photographs, depicting children as young as three with the majority being of children aged between six and 12.

Some images included “fetishes” such as children being tied up and one was based on a clown theme, the court heard.

Police also found 336 images, of mixed categories and 154 “borderline” images— which were considered by police as being “concerning in some way”.

Judge Christopher Llewellyn-Jones QC, noted the “horrific” amount of indecent image cases “coming through the courts” recently and stated a custodial sentence was the only option.

“In some ways I find it difficult at times to distinguish between people who watch these types of images or material and people who create them,” he said.

“If there wasn’t people who watched there wouldn’t be the demand for the abuse of children in the way that it appears in these videos.

“I see very little distinction between those who watch them and those who take part in them. It’s absolutely horrific what was being done to these children.”

“You’re only slightly younger than I am and frankly, you disgust me,” he added.

Narusberg was sentenced to 18 months in prison and must serve at least half before being released on licence. When released, he will be subject to a 12-month period of supervision and will be listed on the sexual offenders register for 10 years.

A sexual harm prevention order was also imposed, and Narusberg will be barred from working with children and vulnerable adults for life.

Colin Phelps – Ebbw Vale

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June 2016

Ebbw Vale man avoids jail after indecent images of children found on computer

AN EBBW Vale man received a three-year community order after indecent images of children, including videos of girls as young as four, were found on his computer.

Colin Phelps, 68, of Spencer Street, pleaded guilty to three charges of possessing indecent images of children and two counts of making indecent images of children.

He appeared at Newport Crown Court on Wednesday morning following his arrest at his property on May 25, 2016 after police responded to intelligence linked to Mr Phelps’ computer.

Prosecuting, Gareth James said: “There were videos and images of girls aged between eight and 12.”

However, the prosecutor said that despite the images which were found on his computer and CDs, Mr Phelps has committed no contact offences against children.

Mr James added that although the 68-year-old was facing charges of making indecent images, he believed that Mr Phelps had not created pornographic images, only downloaded them.

Defending, Christopher Rees said that Mr Phelps had a previously clean record, and that he was remorseful and regretful of what he had done after spending three weeks in custody.

“He is greatly remorseful for his behaviour and he is bitterly ashamed and regrets what he has done,” said Mr Rees.

“He regrets the harm that has happened to the children in those images.”

Summing up, Jonathan Furness QC said that Mr Phelps had played a part in child sexual abuse by downloading these images, therefore creating a further need for children to be abused.

“A child was being harmed for sexual purposes for the type of people like you. This is a very serious offence,” said the judge.

The judge handed down a three year community order in which time Mr Phelps will have to attend 35 sexual rehabilitation sessions to prevent further offending, adding his remorsefulness and previously clean criminal record had been taken into consideration.

Mr Phelps will also have to make the police aware of any changes to his name or address under the terms of his sexual harm prevention order, and is banned for working with children.

Judge Furness reminded the 68-year-old that if he commits any further offences of this type, he will be only be able to pass down a custodial sentence.

Mr Phelps was ordered to pay costs of £335, which included an £85 statutory surcharge

Carl Miller – Newport

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August 2016

Man jailed for possessing indecent images of children

A man who admitted possessing indecent images of children has been jailed.

Carl Miller, 37, was sentenced to 16 months imprisonment after pleading guilty to two counts of possessing indecent pictures of children, which were recovered in March, and a further count of possessing extreme pornographic material obtained by police in July.

He was also placed on the sex offenders register.

At Newport Crown Court , prosecutor Jason Howells said when police went to investigate Miller, an agricultural worker, on July 12, he was not at his registered address in Bishpool Grove, Newport .

They were directed to an address in Oxford, where he was staying in a motor home, and there they confiscated a mobile phone, USB stick and a computer tower, the latter on which they found 17 indecent videos of children.

Mr Howells said: “The defendant was interviewed in July, when he said he discovered the videos by accident and his curiosity got the better of him, and so he downloaded more.”

Mr Howells added: “Miller said he didn’t obtain any sexual gratification from it.

“When he was shown the videos at the interview, he said he did not wish to see them or hear anymore of them. He said one of them was disgusting, and he started crying and broke down.”

He said Miller had admitted to watching the videos “out of curiosity”, and told police: “there’s no point in lying.”

According to Mr Howells, Miller later told police: “I wish I had deleted them.”

The court heard he used file sharing and cloning software for the images, but defence barrister Tracey Lloyd-Nesling argued there was no evidence to show he actively shared them with others, and that Miller deserved credit for his guilty plea, which came at the earliest possible opportunity.

Sentencing, Judge Neil Bidder QC told Miller: “I am going to give you full credit for an early as possible plea, but I must protect children from the abuse that is inherent in this type of child pornography.

“This is a case of very serious possession of this type of image due to its awful, disgusting nature.”

John McVan – Cleveleys/Hambleton

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December 2016

Child abuser sentenced to 16 years

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An Over Wyre man has been sentenced to more than 16 years in prison for a catalogue of sexual offences including the rape and indecent assault of children.

Following an eight-day trial at Preston Crown Court, John McVan, 66, of Sunset Park, Sower Carr Lane, Hambleton, was found guilty of raping a girl under the age of 16.

The offence took place between 1985 and 1986.

He was also found guilty of three counts of indecent assault. The charges relate to a teenage girl, under the age of 16, and took place between 1983 and 1986.

The court heard the offences took place at an address in Cleveleys.

In addition McVan was found guilty of two counts of sexual activity with a child. Those offences took place between 2012 and 2013.

He also admitted four counts of possessing extreme pornography.

He was jailed for a total of 16 years and nine months.

McVan was sentenced to 13 years behind bars for the rape, one year for indecent assault, another three years for sexual activity with a child plus nine months for possessing extreme pornography.

He was also sentenced to two years for the other indecent assault charges, three years for the second count of sexual activity with a child and 27 months for the other three counts of possessing extreme pornography – all to run concurrently.

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