December 2016

Grantham student jailed for downloading images of baby abuse

A student who downloaded “abhorrent” images of babies being sexually abused was locked up by a judge on Tuesday. 

Connal Rochford attracted the attention of police after he was discovered to have had internet chats with an older man in Wales in which they discussed sexually abusing young children.

Jonathan Dunne, prosecuting, told Lincoln Crown Court that as a result police carried out a search of Rochford’s home in Grantham and seized a laptop computer and mobile phone.

When the items were checked they were found to contain more than 1,200 indecent images of children.

The prosecutor said: “What marks this case as being unusual is the type of images involved. They involve very, very young children. Some are under the age of one year old.”

The court was told that Rochford has no previous convictions.

Rochford, now aged 20, of Mossdale Close, Grantham, admitted three charges of making a total of 1,244 indecent images of children. He also admitted possession of extreme pornography and possession of a prohibited image of a child.

He was sent to a young offenders’ institution for eight months.

Rochford was placed on the sex offenders’ register for 10 years and given a sexual harm prevention order which aims to restrict his behaviour after his release from his sentence.

Judge Simon Hirst, passing sentence, rejected a defence plea not to send Rochford straight into custody. The judge said “I am afraid I don’t feel I can do my public duty by suspending the sentence because of the period of time this went on, because of the number of images involved and because of the age of some of these children.”

December 2016

Paedophile tried to apologise via Facebook

A paedophile who tried to apologise to one of his victims via Facebook has been found guilty of child abuse.

Glynn Davies sent one of his alleged victims an online message saying: “Heartfelt apologies” after she confronted him years later.

Davies, 56, of The Crescent, Irby, Wirral was convicted of abusing two girls in the 1970s and 1980s.

Today a jury at Liverpool Crown Court convicted him of one count of rape and 11 counts of indecent assault.

He was cleared of three other counts of rape, one count of attempted rape and one count of indecent assault.

During the trial the court heard one of the girls confronted Davies on Facebook in May last year and he responded with an ‘apology’.

However, Davies told police he often played games with the girls, in the form of “show me yours, I’ll show you mine”, when they all exposed themselves.

Charlotte Kenny, prosecuting, said: “The first woman asked him to acknowledge at least the abuse she was subject to. His response was ‘heartfelt apologies’.

“In respect of that Facebook message, Davies agreed it had been sent.

“He told police it was a vague apology for the showing of the genitalia, but it was no admission for any form of abuse.”

Davies molested the first girl from the age of five or six, until she was around 11 or 12.

He abused the second girl when she was aged about 11 or 12. He was a secondary school pupil at the time.

December 2016

Former football scout worked with young players despite convictions for possessing child abuse images

A former football scout continued to work with young players despite having convictions related to child abuse images.

John Butcher, 67, worked at Millwall. Yesterday he also admitted working with the youth team at Cobham FC in 2004 – 11 years after his first conviction.

He said: “I’ve never physically abused any children.”

Last year he was convicted of breaching a sexual offences order by taking a boy to football matches while still claiming to be a Millwall scout.

Millwall said the club heard last year that he was posing as a scout and told the FA. The FA said Butcher is permanently suspended from football.

Chelsea’s former chief scout Eddie Heath, who ex-youth team players have accused of abuse, was also at Millwall. Asked about the Heath claims, Butcher said: “I can’t believe it. It was a real shock.”

This week he was traced to an address in south London where he was pictured wearing a Millwall coat.

Yesterday he admitted being secretary and working with the youth team at Cobham FC in 2004 – 11 years after his first conviction.

He said: “I’ve never physically abused any children.”

Butcher said he was a part-time scout for Millwall for 15 years and scouted for Chelsea and Wimbledon in the 1990s.

Former Chelsea player Gary Johnson has claimed he was paid off by Chelsea to keep quiet about being abused by former head scout Eddie Heath.

But when asked about the Heath claims, Butcher said: “I cannot believe it. It was a real, real shock.

“I knew nothing about it. I would see him quite regular, if I went to a game and he was there we would talk. People are saying he was always with kids but I never saw him with kids. I just could not believe it.”

Butcher continued being involved in youth football after he was convicted of attempting to smuggle child abuse images into Gatwick from Amsterdam in 1993.

In 2003 he was convicted and fined for attempting to buy a child abuse video from America.

Six years later, Butcher was made the subject of a five-year child protection order and put on the sex offenders’ register for seven years after he was caught looking at paedophile images in an internet cafe in Mitcham, south London.

Court records show he was convicted last year at Wimbledon magistrate’s court for breaching a sexual offences order by travelling with a boy to football matches while still claiming to be a Millwall scout.

He admitted going to youth matches for nearly a year and sending text messages to the boy.

Butcher claims he stopped scouting after an FA official contacted him in 1993 in the wake of his conviction.

Shockingly, he is now free to coach children as he no longer on the sex offenders’ register or subject to any court order.

A former youth worker said he saw Butcher managing a boys’ football team after his 1993 conviction.

December 2016

‘Vile’ Rugby rapist jailed for ‘violating’ underage girls; second offender still at large

Left: Christian Acheampong – Ransford Buabeng (right)

Two schoolgirls were ‘violated in a vile way’ by a rapist after he plied them with drink in incidents three years apart.

Christian Acheampong, 40, had denied raping the two 15-year-old girls during incidents in September 2012 and August last year.

But a jury at Warwick Crown Court found him guilty of both charges by unanimous verdicts.

Jailing him, a judge branded him a danger to the public and praised Warwickshire Police – but criticised the ease with which under-age girls could get served with alcohol in Rugby.

They also convicted a second man, Ransford Buabeng, of taking part in the first rape after he was tried in his absence, having fled the country.

Acheampong, of Duke Street, Rugby, was given an extended prison sentence of 15 years, followed by an additional five years on licence.

Judge Andrew Lockhart QC explained he would have to serve at least ten years before the Parole Board considers his release – and he will only be freed before serving the whole term if they believe it safe to do so.

Buabeng, 31, of Wavebeck Court, Long Lawford, was sentenced in his absence to ten years – and both men were also ordered to register as sex offenders for life.

Prosecutor Peter Arnold told the jury that in September 2012 three girls, aged 15 and 16, had been out, and then went to Acheampong’s home where he and Buabeng plied them with alcohol.

The girls had too much to drink, and when one of them, a 15-yer-old, went upstairs to go to the toilet, the two men dragged her into a bedroom and raped her.

Sentencing the two men, Judge Lockhart told Acheampong: “You showed no compassion. You thought you had got away with it. Happily, you had not, and that is largely through the bravery of your later victim.”

The jury heard that girl, also 15, had been out in Rugby and had got so drunk she fell as she left the Midas Club.

The judge, who criticised the lack of checks on under-age drinkers in Rugby bars, told Acheampong: “You had plainly been watching her at the club, and you persuaded someone to run you all back to your house.

“You were keen to see if you could once again have sex with a young and vulnerable girl.”

He plied her with yet more drink, and after her friends had left, he struck, getting her upstairs onto a bed where ‘in a mirror attack to that in 2012, you pulled her trousers down and raped her repeatedly.’

“You violated that girl in a vile way. That is you carrying out an almost identical predatory rape of a young woman.

“You were caught because of proper and robust policing, as the people of this county have come to expect.

“The rape of that girl brought both of you back into the picture on count one [the 2012 rape].

“You told lie after lie to seek to evade proper justice, but the Warwickshire Police and a Warwickshire jury saw straight through you.”

Acheampong’s barrister Jasvir Mann said he had been in work since coming to this country, and was the sole carer of his ten-year-old son following the death of his partner two years ago.

But Judge Lockhart told Acheampong: “I must pass upon you a significant sentence. Plainly any sentence I pass will have an enormous effect on that boy. It will effectively mean he’s lost both parents in the space of two years.

“I must consider dangerousness, and whether you present a significant risk of causing serious sexual and psychological harm to others in the future.

“You have committed two offences against very young women who were plied with alcohol and then raped. In my opinion, you are a predatory rapist and a present and clear danger to young women.”

Of Buabeng, the judge pointed out: “If he is arrested, he will be brought here under an international arrest warrant, and will be brought to this court for the sentence to be explained.”

Judge Lockhart continued: “This case was admirably investigated, in the best traditions of the Warwickshire Police Service.”

But he added: “No-one was subject to any check of their identity when buying drinks across the course of the evenings when extremely young women became heavily influenced by alcohol, to the extent that a 15-year-old fell on her way out of the Midas Bar.

“I ask the Chief Constable to review what I have said and decide whether any further action needs to be taken or whether any remedial action needs to be taken.”

December 2016

Former Harlow Council chairman, sentenced for downloading child abuse images

Former Harlow Council chairman Ian Jackson has been sentenced for possessing images of child abuse and images of bestiality.

The 64-year-old, of Green Hills, Harlow, was sentenced to eight months imprisonment, suspended for two years, after pleading guilty to three charges last month.

Between January 2012 and December 2015 Jackson downloaded four indecent category A and four category B still images of children, contrary to the Protection of Children Act 1978.

In the same time period he was found to possess 110 extreme pornographic images, which included animal porn, contrary to the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008.

Police found the images on Jackson’s computer after completing a search in December 2015.

Jackson, a former Harlow Firebird Radio and Harlow Hospital Radio volunteer, was also given a sexual health prevention order for ten years at the sentencing at Chelmsford Crown Court today.

Judge Christopher Morgan said: “You have pleaded guilty to two offences of making indecent images of, four images of category A and four of category B.

“You also admitted possession of 110 images of extreme pornography. When interviewed about these you chose to make no comment.”

He continued: “By viewing such images you are perpetrating the abuse of children, more and more pictures are circulating. These are serious matters.”

The former Liberal Democrat councillor, served in the ceremonial position on the council in the mid-2000s. His portrait has been removed from the walls of the Civic Centre.

Before the sentence was read Rakesh Sharma, mitigating on behalf of Jackson, said the former councillor had been forced to stop his voluntary work.

He told the judge: “This is a 64-year-old man of impeccable character who volunteers for Harlow Hospital Radio. He has had to give that up.

“He has suffered with depression, with that type of illness it does come and go. His wife and daughter are standing by and supporting him.

“This was a small number of images. These were downloaded some time ago, most recently over three and a half years ago. He had deleted all the images from his system and not returned to his old behaviour.”

Jackson was also ordered to pay £220 in costs within six months.

After the sentencing the Star was approached by child abuse charity the NSPCC.

A spokesman said: “Jackson’s vile internet searches resulted in him downloading pictures of the horrific abuse of children.

“Make no mistake possessing images of child abuse is crime and helps to fuel a vile industry.

“Each time one of these graphic pictures is taken a child is left with untold physical and psychological damage that can last well into adulthood.”

December 2016

Pervert avoids prison over indecent images of children

A Leeds man has avoided a prison sentence after he admitted making 21,506 Category C indecent images of children and making 12 Category B indecent images of children.

Ian Roberts, (47), of Gilbert Mount, Leeds was sentenced to a community order with rehabilitation activity requirement for 30 days, Sexual Harm Prevention Order, £200 fine, £85 costs and £60 victim surcharge 

December 2016

Manchester football coach convicted of possessing videos of naked boys

A youth football coach has been convicted of possessing indecent videos of naked boys.

David Harry Taylor, from West Didsbury, denied that the ten DVDs found at his home contained indecent material but a jury took just five minutes to find him guilty.

41-year-old Taylor, who was a coach and welfare officer with Manchester club NJ Wythenshawe, was suspended by the Football Association after he was arrested for the offences.

Liverpool Crown Court heard that police raided his home on November 2013 in relation to other allegations, which did not result in proceedings, and found the ten DVDs.

When these were examined it was found they contained 14 hours of footage involving boys aged between eight and 15. They started off clothed before exercising and some were then shown naked in a shower or sauna, said Fiona McNeill, prosecuting.

The jury were shown snippets from the videos, which were professionally produced and not made by Taylor, and were in the lowest category of indecent images.

Taylor, of Rawsley Avenue, did not give evidence.

He was bailed ahead of his sentence next month and Judge Paul Lawton ordered him to sign the Sex Offenders Register meanwhile.

December 2016

Man, 62, admits making indecent images of children in Burton over nine years

A 62-year-old Derby man has been made to sign the sex offenders’ register after he admitted making 38 indecent images of children in Burton over nine years.

Brian McNeice has appeared at Derby Crown Court after he previously pleaded guilty to making 16 category A rated indecent images of children, 17 category B rated and five category C rated, all in Burton between December 30, 2007 and July 7, 2016.

McNeice, of Byron Street, Derby, was made the subject of a three-year community order with supervision and will appear on the sex offenders’ register for five years.

December 2016

Partick paedophile jailed after being caught with over 46,000 indecent images of children

A man caught with over 46,000 indecent images of children was jailed for 13 months at Glasgow Sheriff Court today.

Paul Biggar, of Kennoway Drive, Partick, pled guilty to being in possession of indecent photographs or pseudo photographs of children on March 31, 2016.

Biggar, 49, had the images stored on the hard drive of his PC and also an external storage disc.

The sick images were both Category B and C, which were both still and moving (video) images.

Sentencing had been postponed to clarify the correct number as there could have been as many as 56,000. The final agreed figure was 46,394.

Sheriff Daniel Scullion noted that Biggar was deemed a ‘low risk’ to children in a criminal justice social work report.

 

The sheriff referred to test cases HMA V Graham and HMA V Ryder and said he had also studied cases from England and Wales to decide the sentence.

Despite a plea from Biggar’s defence lawyer, Mr Robertson, to consider a non-custodial sentence, Sheriff Scullion said he was left with no other alternative.

He said: “I take into account the category of the images which were in your possession. I accept that you are a first offender.

“The volume of images in this case is high. There was also an external storage device.”

He added that he would have jailed the pervert for 16 months had the case gone to trial but sentence was reduced for his early guilty plea.

Biggar was also placed on the sex offenders register for 10 years.

December 2016

‘My life’s over’: Boston paedophile’s words after officers raided his home

A man who downloaded hundreds of child abuse images has been jailed at Lincoln Crown Court.

Alan McConville was already under the threat of a suspended jail sentence for a previous offences when police raided his then home in the village of Algakirk.

Phil Howes, prosecuting, said that when officers arrived at the property McConville put his head in his hands and said: “That’s it. My life’s over now.”

Mr Howes added: “He made full and frank admissions and said he needed help.

“When he was interviewed he said was a self-destructive person. He said his relationship had been falling apart and he resorted to looking at adult pornography and then went on to child pornography.

“He said he felt sick, worried and guilty as hell.”

Mr Howes said that 874 indecent images of children were found on computer equipment seized from the home of McConville.

The images included eight videos which had a total footage of over two hours.

McConville, 41, now living at Hinton Court, Fenside Road, Boston, admitted three charges of making an indecent photograph of a child.

He also admitted breach of a suspended jail sentence imposed for assault.

He was jailed for a total of 12 months, placed on the sex offenders’ register and given a five year sexual harm prevention order.

Michael Cranmer-Brown, in mitigation, said that since his arrest McConville had been thrown out by his wife and after a period of time spent living in his car he is now in a bedsit.

“He had been in a relationship with his wife for 20 years but their relationship had gone slowly downhill. For 10 years or so it had not been worthy of the name.

“In those circumstances he sought some sexual gratification in the internet and strayed into this child pornography.

“He doesn’t have a sexual interest in children. He says the whole thing has been a nightmare. It was a terrible mistake. He is extremely remorseful.”

“He would say that at the time he was under a great deal of stress and was profoundly depressed.”

Judge Michael Heath, passing sentence, told McConville: “The only sentences that I can pass for these offences are custodial sentences.

“I have considered carefully whether I can properly suspend the sentences but I cannot.”

December 2016

Torquay engineer convicted of downloading child abuse images

A RETIRED engineer whose life became boring has been convicted of downloading images of child abuse.

Derek Biddles, 65, was caught with indecent movies and photos of children as young as four on his computer and memory stick.

He described the images as ‘horrible’ and denied getting any sexual pleasure from them.

But Exeter Crown Court heard he deliberately searched for photos of youngsters on the internet and used peer-to-peer software to access them.

Recorder Philip Mott QC said he was particularly concerned at the young age of some of the children involved in the abuse. But he spared Biddles jail after hearing he was a man of previous good character and there were relatively few indecent images involved.

Prosecutor Caroline Bolt said police executed a search warrant at his home address in Torquay on February 2. They arrested Biddles and seized a computer and memory stick. Analysis showed 33 movies – 10 in the most serious category. There was also evidence he had used search terms showing an interest in children.

Biddles told police he had an interest in older teenage girls but the images showed abuse involving children much younger, said the prosecutor.

The defendant told the probation service that he did not get pleasure from the ‘horrible’ images and described his actions as ‘stupid’.

He said he had lost friends as a result of his actions.

Biddles said he was ‘very bored during the day’ and wanted to look for work and fill his time with useful activities to get purpose back in his life.

Probation said he was a low risk of re-offending.

Recorder Mott QC said: “The victims in some of the charges are particularly young girls and the movies last 20 minutes and more.

“But there are a comparatively low number of files and only four were live at the time police seized the equipment, the rest being deleted. It is quite clear you were specifically looking for hardcore images of pre-pubescent girls and were relatively sophisticated in using peer-to-peer software.

“You are a man of 65 with no previous convictions and as a result of that I’m able to suspended the sentence of imprisonment.”

Biddles, of Aveland Road, admitted four charges of making indecent images of children between 2006 and 2016.

He was jailed for 12 months, suspended for two years; told to do a rehabilitation requirement for 40 days; sign the Sex Offender Register for 10 years and made subject to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order for 10 years.

December 2016

Bispham rapist is jailed for horrific sexual assaults on children

A man has been jailed for 17 years for a string of horrific rapes and sexual assaults on two children.

Christopher Jameson’s victims were just five and 12 when he abused them, Preston Crown Court heard.

The 58-year-old, of Linden Place, Bispham, leaned on his walking stick and rocked back and forth in the dock as he was finally brought to justice at Preston Crown Court more than a decade after some of his vile crimes.

Wearing headphones to assist his hearing, he appeared to show no emotion as Judge Stuart Baker imposed the lengthy sentence.

Jameson denied his guilt throughout a trial, accusing one victim of making up what happened, but was eventually convicted by jurors.

Describing his crimes as “the grossest breach of trust”, Judge Baker said: “You have been convicted by the jury of raping a girl as young as 12 and continuing when she was 13 at that time you were in your 40s, clearly a responsible adult and there was a huge disparity between your ages. “The charges were specimen charges.

It’s not possible for me to identify how many times you committed that offence but it is clear from the jury’s verdicts you committed that offences on numerous occasions – at the very least five. “Both victims have suffered significant psychological harm.

“These were persistent offences. You showed no remorse whatsoever and your case at trial was not merely a denial – you accused the girl of fabricating her evidence which plainly the jury found was an invention on your part.”

The charges included raping a girl between the ages of 12 and 14, and one occasion attacking her with a sex toy when she was just 13.

He was also found guilty of kissing a five-year-old girl. It was also revealed he had a conviction for an indecent assault in 1974 when he was 16.

Jameson will be on the Sex Offender’s Register and barring list for the rest of his life. He will be subject to a mandatory one year extended licence on his release from prison.

December 2016

Bury man who downloaded indecent images of children avoids prison sentence

A Bury St Edmunds man who downloaded indecent images of children onto his computer has avoided a prison sentence.

Nathan Wilkinson, 36, of Acacia Avenue, had pleaded guilty to two offences of making indecent images of children.

On Thursday, at Ipswich Crown Court, Judge David Goodin said that because the probation service had identified a real prospect for his rehabilitation and was considered at low risk of re-offending, Wilkinson was suitable for a community order.

The court heard how police officers had gone to Wilkinson’s home on April 27 and found a ‘relatively low’ number of images and movies on his laptop computer.

Appearing for Wilkinson, Steven Dyble said loneliness had been the main reason behind the offences. Wilkinson had no previous convictions.

Judge Goodin imposed a three year community order with a 60 day rehabilitation activity requirement and ordered Wilkinson to sign the sexual offences register.

Wilkinson was told he would be the subject of a sexual offences prevention order for the next five years and must pay £500 towards the cost of the prosecution.

December 2016

Escort agency bosses jailed for exploiting teenage girls

Two men who employed two vulnerable underage girls as prostitutes have been jailed.

Stephen Castle and Steven Davis ran Girls4you, an escort agency based in Shoeburyness.

Essex Police launched an investigation in April 2014 after officers found a vulnerable teenager, who had been reported missing from home, in a car driven by Davis. She told officers she had been working as a prostitute and Davis was arrested on suspicion of arranging or facilitating child prostitution.

During the course of their enquiries, the victim told police she had started working for the agency shortly before her 16th birthday and had never been asked her age, though she had told Davis.

She also described how both men had supplied her with mephedrone.

Officers found indecent images of the girl and a second victim, also aged 16, on Castle’s mobile phone, as well as a large number of text messages revealing his involvement in the running of Girls4you.

Officers spoke to a number of women who worked for Girls4you, who said they would drink and take drugs at his flat while waiting for bookings, Basildon Crown Court heard.

Davis, 55, would drive them to their appointments and took over the management of the business if Castle was away or busy.

Girls4you, which operated for 14 years, was shut down when Castle, 41, was arrested on August 27, 2014 after officers executed a search warrant at his then address in Shoebury.

Castle now of Friday Street, Eastbourne, admitted charges of controlling activities of a person in prostitution for gain between June 1, 2013 and August 31, 2014, possession of 198 indecent images of children, distribution of 13 indecent images of a child and being concerned in the supply of mephedrone.

He was jailed for a total of four years.

During police interviews, Davis, who had also worked as a bailiff, denied knowing the two victims were underage and claimed to only work for the agency as a part time driver, not as a business partner.

The former car salesman from Southend, denied two counts of arranging or facilitating child prostitution between June 1, 2013 and August 31, 2014 and controlling prostitution for gain.

But he was convicted and jailed for two-and-a-half years for each child prostitution count and 15 months for controlling prostitution for gain, all to run concurrently.

He admitted being concerned in the supply of mephedrone and was sentenced to six months, to run concurrently. The judge ordered a charge of possession of an indecent image of a child to lie on file.

Davis was known as Big Steve and Castle was known as Little Steve, due to their height

The agency’s website had offered sexual services in exchange for money, allowed members of the public to scroll through listings for girls and make bookings.

The website stated the agency aimed to get an escort “to your door within the hour”, and said it covered much of Essex and the surrounding area including “most of the main airports” such as Southend, Stansted and Luton.

Castle and Davis were also placed on the sex offenders register.

December 2016

Wirral paedophile jailed after exposing himself to schoolgirls

An already convicted paedophile has been jailed after being branded ‘a danger to young girls’ – with the Judge saying he would have imprisoned him for longer if he could.

Jonathan Davies waited outside a Wirral school for hours before he exposed himself to four terrified schoolgirls.

Judge Steven Everett said Davies’ record was ‘as bad as I have seen’ as it was revealed he was also guilty of 72 previous offences including sexual assaults and indecent exposure.

December 2016

Northern Ireland yoga teacher Robinson guilty of 10 sex charges

A well-known yoga instructor in Ballymena who taught about the ‘harmony of body and spirit’ in his classes, has pleaded guilty at Antrim Crown Court to a number of sex charges, relating to two females between 1979 and 1990.

Desmond Robinson (73), of Kintullagh Court, originally denied 25 charges of indecent assault on the females and 14 of gross indecency with, or, towards them when they were children.

However, at court on Wednesday, he changed his plea and admitted 10 of the charges.

The rest were left on the books by the prosecution.

The exact ages of the females at the time of the offences are unknown but the charges Robinson admitted to described them as children and in others as females.

The locations where he abused the females is also unknown. Robinson was released on continuing bail and a pre-sentence report will be prepared before he comes back to court in February.

The pensioner will now have to sign the Sex Offenders Register, but the length of time he will be on it has yet to be revealed.

An internet search shows Robinson was organising ten-week courses of Svatantra Yoga in the spring of 2015, at a cost of £46.90 per person.

The listing said each class included meditation, yoga breathing practice, classical postures, Bandhas and Yoga Nidra, and ‘all work is skilfully adapted and modified for individual needs’.

The listing continued: “Also included: information on the benefits of Yoga for managing and, even preventing common ailments, which are often due to stress and poor lifestyle. Also, information on healthy eating and diet specific to Yoga. Yoga explained as being complementary/supplementary to other non-yogic forms of fitness and sport and will be explained in detail.

“The aim of the course is: balance and harmony of body, mind and spirit, peace, health and harmony – Svatantra Yogi Om Tat Sa”.

The listing said the area included Ballymena’s Seven Towers Leisure Centre.

December 2016

‘Predator to innocent children’ admits to sex abuse

A man described as “a dangerous predator to innocent children” had his sentence increased after new evidence of sexual assault was presented to the court.

Kevin Jones, 56, who is serving 14-and-a-half years in Pentonville Prison, was sentenced at Snaresbrook Crown Court on Tuesday.

He was charged with 12 counts of sexual abuse, including six counts of indecent assault on a male person, two counts of inciting a child under 13 to engage in sexual activity, two counts of engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child and two counts of sexual assault of a child under 13.

He pleaded guilty to all charges.

The assaults took place repeatedly between 1977 and 1983 and between 2009 and 2011 against two young boys at a variety of locations in the borough.

This comes after Jones was convicted and sentenced in June to sexual abuse against two girls at Basildon Crown Court.

This included at least 20 occasions of oral rape against a girl under 13 and sexual assault in the late 1970s.

One of the victims “collapsed in court” during the first trial and was “terrified of giving evidence”, later telling the court no one knew the extent of the abuse, Judge Louise Kamill was told.

In the latest case, victims were inappropriately touched and received oral sex, the court heard.

Jones is said to have told a victim, “don’t be afraid, you are going to like what’s going to happen”, “it feels good – you don’t need to worry about it, it’s completely natural” and “there is no need to tell anyone about it”.

Jones was described by Judge Kamill as “a man of considerable size – possibly frightening to children”.

She sentenced Jones to two-and-a half-years for each count to run concurrently and consecutively to his current sentence.

Judge Kamill called Jones “a dangerous predator to innocent children” and added the sentence did not reflect the seriousness of the offences, but she was constrained by the totality of the case against him.

“The courage of those people coming forward is to be applauded and we all hoped that the consequences they have been through will be diminished and possibly repaired in the future,” she added.

December 2016

Vile child rapist jailed for series of horrific attacks on 10-year-old girl

A vile child rapist has been jailed for repeatedly attacking a 10-year-old girl who he groomed online. 

Mohamed Igal, 23, manipulated his “vulnerable” victim under the social media nickname “Wavey CJ” after meeting her on an estate in Southwark.

She had recently moved to the capital from overseas to live with her family.

Igal, a Dutch national, repeatedly raped the girl between July 2010 and May 2011, before she moved away from the area, a trial at Woolwich Crown Court heard.

His victim found the courage to come forward about the abuse in 2015 when she was 15 and he had tried to contact her again.

The court heard that he had messaged her to tell her he wanted her to perform sexual acts on him.

Igal, of Harper Road, Elephant and Castle, was sentenced to seven years and nine months imprison on Friday, December 16.

He was found guilty of the rape of a female child under 13 years old by a jury on Friday, November 4 following a trial.

August 2011

Stockton man jailed for 10 years over abuse of boy

A SADISTIC sex predator who inflicted “appalling and hideous” physical and sexual abuse on a terrified boy has been jailed for 10 years.

Remorseless Gary Alan Graham starts his long prison sentence still vociferously denying his cruel crimes despite a jury’s guilty verdicts.

Judge Tony Briggs said: “It is a quite appalling and hideous story.

“It was done, as far as I can see, for your sadistic pleasure and satisfaction,” he told Graham.

He said Graham picked out a vulnerable child and subjected him to “predatory abuse”.

Teesside Crown Court heard how Graham, 46, beat the soles of the boy’s feet with a metal bar, held him over a staircase and threatened to drop him.

He tied the boy’s hands behind his back, put socks or a scourer into his mouth to silence him, blindfolded him and sexually assaulted him years ago.

The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told no one of his ordeals until more than a decade later, said prosecutor Yvonne Taylor.

Graham, of Wrensfield Road, Stockton, denied any wrongdoing to police and said the assaults never happened.

He denied two charges of indecent assault – offences now classified as rape – and two of child cruelty. A jury convicted him on all counts after a trial last month.

Graham was given a sexual offences prevention order and will be on the sex offenders’ register – both indefinitely.

Robin Denny, defending, said: “This defendant vigorously maintains his innocence to all of these charges. He appreciates that he is bound to have a prison sentence.”

He said there was no suggestion Graham, who had no relevant other convictions, offended against anyone else in the years since the attacks.

A probation officer said Graham was a high risk to others.

In a statement, the family of the boy said: “This case proves that justice can be done, even after many years. This has been a long time coming but we can finally get on with our lives.

“Hopefully Gary Graham will never be allowed to put another child through this.

“He deserves to be punished for what he has put our family through. No sentence will ever be enough in our eyes.”

They encouraged other victims to come forward and thanked detectives and the Crown Prosecution Service for their hard work and support.

December 2016

Paedophile locked up for sexually abusing two young girls

A paedophile who sexually abused two young girls has been jailed for 14 years.

Brendan Simcock, from Stockport , began molesting his two victims when both were under the age of 10.

Simcock, 40, was brought to justice more than a decade later after the youngest victim bravely came forward.

Based on information she provided, officers then approached a second girl who had also suffered his abuse.

The sex attacks happened over a five year period, between 2001 and 2006.

A jury found Simcock, of Woodhall Crescent, Reddish, guilty of five counts of indecent assault against the youngest girl, and six counts against the older girl at an earlier hearing.

At Manchester’s Minshull Street Crown Court on Thursday, he was sentenced to 14 years in prison and has been added to the sex offender register for life.

He was also given a lifetime sexual harm prevention order.