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Martin Crowe – Oxford

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March 2014

Pervert jailed after plaguing charities with 5,000 sick calls

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A MAN with a “deviant sexual interest” plagued beauticians and charities with thousands of calls and text messages asking for pictures of young girls.

Yesterday, Martin Crowe, of Dashwood Road, Oxford, was jailed for more than three years as Oxford Crown Court heard of the “devastating” effect it had on his victims.

The 51-year-old has been jailed twice before for the same offence of being a public nuisance and was made subject to an anti-social behaviour order, banning him from making such calls, back in 2009.

But the court heard Crowe, who pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing, began a further barrage of calls and texts from last August to December.

Prosecutor Naomi Perry said it was on an almost daily basis and that the calls and texts amounted to more than 5,000 over the period.

She said he was caught after he called domestic violence charity Your Sanctuary in Warwick on New Year’s Eve and pretended to be holding a woman prisoner with tape over her mouth. They traced his pay-as-you-go mobile number and discovered where it was being topped up.

Miss Perry said he also sent a text to one woman asking for pictures of young girls aged seven to 11 in dresses and make-up, adding that he liked it when they were “bound and gagged with tape”.

More than 100 individuals and organisations were contacted, including various Rape Crisis centres across the UK, national charity The Samaritans and dozens of beauticians.

Judge Ian Pringle told Crowe he had a “deviant sexual interest” in pictures of young girls and his repeated communications had caused “extreme distress” to people who received them.

Peter Watt, NSPCC national service director, said: “All the charities in this case do vital work to support children and adults in deep distress.

“The volume of calls Crowe made will have prevented hundreds from accessing help, leaving them vulnerable and at risk.”

Claire Fraser, defending, said Crowe’s offending had not escalated over the years – he just kept going back to the same pattern.

She said: “He hasn’t in any way tried to excuse his behaviour. He is remorseful and ashamed that when he finds himself in periods of isolation he turns to behaving in this way.

“He realises the impact this has on others and especially the women who are answering his calls and receiving his text messages.”

Judge Pringle said Crowe had made a “truly staggering” number of calls. He told him: “The effect of these phone calls on hundreds of people was in some cases devastating.

“You caused extreme distress to some of these people and when you called up charities you are wasting time that could be used helping people in trouble.”

He sentenced him to 38 months in prison and told him to pay a £120 victims’ surcharge.

Investigating officer Detective Sergeant Mike West said: “He now has time in prison to reflect on his actions and the effect they had.”


Graham Waddon/Raymond McArthur-Jones – Ealing/Surrey

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September 1999

Pervert who ran website netting millions from schoolgirl and farmyard sex Web sites, has escaped jail – because he’s sick

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A pornographer, who helped run the UK’s biggest Internet vice operation, has been spared jail because of ill health.

The case was heralded as a major legal landmark in the fight against Internet porn because it showed the content of US-based sites could come under British jurisdiction.

Graham Waddon, 28, played a key role overseeing a string of “cyber sin” sites from his terraced house in Surrey.

But his sites, with names such as Farmsex, Europerv and Schoolgirls-R’us, were all based in the US.

Southwark crown court heard that just one of the sites could earn him £4,500 per day.

Judge Christopher Hardy sentenced Waddon to 18 months imprisonment, suspended for two years. He said he accepted Waddon suffered from considerable health difficulties.

Police said Waddon, and his fellow computer designer, and former fireman Raymond McArthur-Jones, 35 – already jailed for a separate pornography offence – were distributing some of the most obscene and vile photographs police have found on the Internet. Sex with animals, torture, and other vile activities were available for £20 a month.

Waddon met McArthur-Jones by communicating with him on the Internet and ran what started out to be a perfectly legal operation, specialising in web site design for small local firms.

The unmarried Waddon, who ran the unofficial Queens Park Rangers football club website, had also planned to set up a local business directory.

The judge said: “I’m told that he is currently in custody serving a sentence of 23 months in the US, having pleaded guilty to being involved in child pornography.

“You therefore Waddon alone remain to carry the burden of the sentence for these offences.”

The court heard that for a monthly subscription of £20, customers were able to key in to a “revolting” variety of American-based Internet porn sites.

One such site made £19,000 in a single day.

Despite the ground-breaking court case two of the sites continue to operate, their foreign base putting them beyond the reach of the UK police.

Duncan Atkinson, prosecuting, said that as far as the Crown could gauge, the operation now had a new owner, was being run from Costa Rica and no longer had anything to do with Waddon.

The operation had generated £607,000 profit for Mr McArthur-Jones, while Waddon earned more than £126,000, which he spent on a legitimate but ailing Website design company.

Police confiscated £600-worth of computer equipment when they raided his home.

The judge said that because subscribers needed a credit card to access the porn sites, “it was unlikely lonely teenagers surfing the Internet in the small hours would have access to this material”.

Waddon had pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to 11 sample counts of publishing obscene articles on the Internet on or before June 1997.

He also pleaded guilty to one charge of having an obscene video for publication for gain.

During the past three years hundreds of thousands of photographs have been published. The sites built up a world-wide customer base that was thousands strong.

The couple first came to the attention of Scotland Yard’s Obscene Publications Unit in 1997. McArthur-Jones bought a BMW convertible, a Jaguar and a Range Rover. At the time, he was supposed to be on sick leave from the Fire Service, suffering from a bad back.

The two men were enjoying a break in a plush Spanish villa in September 1997 when officers searched Waddon’s home, his father’s address in Worcester Park, south London and McArthur-Jones’s house in Ealing, west London.

Waddon admitted 11 sample counts of publishing obscene articles on the Internet on or before June 1997. He also pleaded guilty to one charge of having an obscene video featuring a dog for publication for gain. Yet many of the adult sites are still operating, despite appeals by Scotland Yard to American companies to have them closed down. Waddon may have sold the rights to the sites, but no-one can be certain.

Zac Welch – Arbroath

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February 2014

Arbroath man facing jail for having sex with 14-year-old

A 25-year-old Arbroath man who admitted having unprotected sex with a 14-year-old girl could face jail.

At Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court on Tuesday, Zac Welch admitted engaging in sexual activity with the girl on June 4 2011.

Depute fiscal Dana Forbes told Sheriff Max Hendry that the incident occurred after a party in Fife.

By around 1.15am most of the guests had left, leaving only Welch, the complainer, the complainer’s older sister and another male.

Shortly afterwards, the complainer and her older sister both went to separate bedrooms.

Around 15 minutes later the accused told the other male he was going to speak to the complainer.

Ms Forbes said: “The complainer was woken up by the accused tapping her on the shoulder then kissing her. He then pulled down her pyjama trousers.

“The complainer then asked if he was some kind of prostitute. He asked what she meant. She replied: ‘When an older person has sex with a younger person’.

“He then removed her pyjama bottoms fully, had sex with her and didn’t use a condom.”

When the other male and the complainer’s sister entered the bedroom, they saw the accused with his trousers around his ankles and his belt undone.

When he was interviewed the next morning by police, Welch, of Marketgate, Arbroath, denied having any sexual contact with the complainer.

Forensic analysis was carried out, including swabs being taken from the accused, and his DNA was discovered on the victim.

Ms Forbes stated that the complainer had told police that she had had a crush on the accused and he made her feel special.

She added that no pregnancy ensued due to the intercourse.

Welch’s solicitor, David Cranston, said his client pleaded guilty when he became aware of the DNA evidence.

Sheriff Hendry deferred sentence until March for reports and warned Welch custody was a very real option, before releasing him on bail.

Tom Lee – Blackpool/Leicestershire

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March 2014

Rapist ‘likely to die in prison’ following sentencing for sex offences against a woman and underage girl

A 76-year-old rapist is likely to die in prison after being sentenced for historic sex offences against a woman and an underage girl.

Tom Lee was jailed for 14 years after admitting 11 offences, committed in north west Leicestershire and Blackpool, at Leicester Crown Court.

The offences included six charges of rape against the woman and one charge of rape and four charges of indecent assault against the girl, who was just 11 when the abuse started in the 70s.

Prosecutor Stephen Kemp told the court that one of the victims, when interviewed, described Lee as “a disgusting, violent person”.

The court heard that Lee, of Gateside Drive, Blackpool, subjected the woman to horrendous abuse, hitting her over the head with a bottle on one occasion and holding a knife to her throat on another.

Mr Kemp told the court: “She said she felt like a victim and still does – he made her very ill and she is still living scared.”

He told the court that the other victim did not report the abuse for years.

“It was not until four years ago that she told anyone about what she had suffered,” Mr Kemp said. “She said he had introduced her to things she should not have been aware of as a child and that he had taken her childhood away from her.

“She did not tell her family because she doubted anyone would believe her and it was only through watching a soap opera on television, which had a storyline where a character had suffered from childhood sexual abuse, which finally made her decide to tell someone.”

Brian Williams, representing Lee, said the only mitigation he could offer was that he had given an early guilty plea.

He told Recorder Christopher Millington: “Historic sex cases are familiar territory to these courts and here he made admissions from the very beginning.

“It is highly possible that he will not survive the sentence you pass upon him.

“These are very serious offences and there is going to be a lengthy sentence to cover them.

“I put forward no excuses or reasons for his actions.”

Sentencing Lee, Recorder Millington said he posed a danger to women.

“The impact you have had on your victims has been horrific,” he said.

Howri Garib – Scotland

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March 2014

Iraqi sex predator defies deportation for six years

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AN IRAQI sex offender who hid a conviction for assaulting three teenage girls from immigration officials is still living in Scotland six years after his deportation was ordered.

Howri Hamad Garib’s case has infuriated critics who said it highlighted justice system failings.

The pervert indecently assaulted three 14-year-old girls at a swimming pool in 2004, just a month after arriving in Scotland.

In May 2006, Garib applied for Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR)] in the UK, two months after he was convicted of the assault and placed on the Sex Offenders’ Register.

Despite it being a requirement for the application to disclose any criminal convictions he only revealed a road traffic offence.

Garib appeared in court again in 2007 where he was reprimanded and removed from the register.

During September 2008, the application for the ILR was refused by the Home Secretary, who said that sexual offences against children are “particularly abhorrent to society” and a deportation order was served. 

However, the 39-year-old is still at large after the authorities failed to eject him while taxpayers funded an appeal against the decision.

Last May, the Secretary of State rejected an appeal and also noted his failure to disclose the conviction.

Garib’s lawyers argued the Home Secretary’s decision was not reached fairly but in a judgment from Lord Boyd of Duncansby at Edinburgh’s Court of Session last week, their claims were rejected. 

Lord Boyd said: “While it appears that the Secretary of State has not relied principally on the failure to disclose the conviction it is the case that such failure could, on its own, be sufficient to justify refusal of ILR.”

Labour shadow minister for immigration, David Hanson said: “When foreign criminals have committed crimes and an order has been made to deport them, there is no excuse for keeping them here.”

The Taxpayer Scotland campaign group claimed politicians were failing to deal with the effects of human rights laws. Its director, Eben Wilson said: “Where is the statesmanship in our parliament and the UK parliament that can protect us?

“They’re asleep on the job and unwilling to take a stand. It’s time they did.”

A Home Office spokesman said: “We have always been clear that we will seek to deport those who break our laws and in 2012 we removed more than 4,500. Those who abuse our country by committing serious crimes here have no place in the UK and we are determined to see more of them deported.”

Robert Cubbon – Douglas

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March 2014

Pervert possessed pictures of incest on children as young as four and rape – Jailed for 6 months

A MAN who downloaded indecent photographs of children from the internet has been sent to prison for six months

He was caught when a scrap metal worker discovered a floppy disc and a fantasy sex novel in his car.

Robert Stephen Cubbon, 48, admitted four specimen charges of possessing indecent photographs of children between June 2001 and February 2002.

Sick images found in his possession included incest on children as young as four and rape.

Cubbon, of Empress Drive, Douglas, appeared before Deemster Doyle at a Court of General Gaol Delivery on Monday.

In January last year, Cubbon’s car was collected by Manx Metals for scrap, Alastair Montgomerie, prosecuting, said.

While preparing the vehicle for breaking up, an employee found a paperback sex novel called Slave World and a floppy disc.

He viewed the disc and found it contained pornographic images of young girls being sexually abused. Mr Montgomerie said there were 19 images on it.

On February 14 police arrested Cubbon and seized more floppy discs and a computer.

Cubbon strenuously denied any knowledge of the images. He said he had bought second-hand discs and the images must have been on them.

But Detective Constable Alan Killip examined the images, which included rape and incest on children as young as four and young girls being subjected to sexual abuse by men.

Mr Montgomerie said when the hard disc was examined, images of naked girls being subjected to sexual acts by men, were found. The hard disc showed the internet had been regularly surfed by someone looking for sex sites.

The defendant denied the offences at two further interviews but, when it was pointed out to him he was the only person using the computer, admitted he had viewed the images out of idle curiosity.

Advocate Paul O’Neill admitted there was little mitigation. Sympathy for such offenders was difficult to muster.

The defendant had not distributed the images, which were readily available and easily downloaded.

Cubbon, said Mr O’Neill, had lost his self-respect, his home and family and stood before the court with his life in shreds.

Mr O’Neill admitted: ‘There is the prospect of rehabilitation. It will take time because there is a lot to be done, but with the guidance and support from the professionals he will be able to restart his life.’

Cubbon he said was deeply ashamed.

Deemster Doyle said a firm line had to be taken over such offences. The images were deeply disturbing.

It was clear the defendant had a problem with child pornography and was in need of help.

‘The courts will send out the message that a strong line will be taken to anyone who possesses such images and custody will be imposed,’ said the deemster.

He placed Cubbon on the sex offenders’ register for five years and ordered the forfeiture and destruction of the images and computer.

Anthony O’Neill – Wigan

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March 2014

Judges dismiss paedophile’s appeal

A WIGAN paedophile caged for trying to fix a sex session with a five-year-old girl can have no complaint about his jail term, top judges have ruled.

Anthony O’Neill, 57, repeatedly contacted a prostitute and asked her to arrange a young girl for his depraved sexual enjoyment – telling her “the younger the better” and “five (years old) would be nice”.

The twisted sex offender, of Gidlow Avenue, was jailed for 18 months at Liverpool Crown Court, in November, last year, after he was convicted of attempting to arrange or facilitate a child sex offence.

Yesterday, three of the country’s most senior judges at London’s Appeal Court rejected a sentence challenge by O’Neill, saying his jail term was “neither wrong in principle nor manifestly excessive”.

Judge Simon Tonking said O’Neill sent a series of text messages to a sex worker in October, 2012, asking her “if she could arrange a young girl to join them in sexual activity”.

He asked the woman if she had a daughter or if she knew anyone else who could provide a young child for the vile

proposal – telling her “the younger the better”.

Judge Tonking said O’Neill suggested the girl should be aged five to seven years old, adding: “Five would be nice”.

After his arrest, O’Neill admitted sending the messages but claimed it was “nothing more than fantasy” and that he never intended to carry out the “very serious” child sex offence. He was, however, disbelieved and found guilty by a jury.

The author of a pre-sentence report found that O’Neill presented a “high risk of harm to female children”.

But he still denies that he committed a criminal offence, the appeal judge explained.

O’Neill’s lawyers argued that the judge handed him a “manifestly excessive” jail term for what was a failed attempt.

But Judge Tonking said: “Whilst this court acknowledges this offence was an attempt, rather than the full offence, the full offence which O’Neill contemplated and, which, we find, he wished to commit, was an offence of sexual activity with a child that was very serious.”

The appeal judge, sitting with Lord Justice Davis and Mr Justice Jeremy Baker, concluded: “In the circumstances, we find that this was an offence which could not have resulted in anything less than a custodial sentence.

“We find that the length of sentence imposed by the judge was neither wrong in principle nor manifestly excessive. Accordingly we dismiss this appeal.”

Christopher Mims – Colerne

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March 2014

Pervert who raped 13-year-old girl jailed for 15 years

A man who brutally raped a 13-year-old girl who he had been sexually abusing has been jailed for 15 years.

Father-of-two Christopher Mims had already been molesting the youngster for about two years when he forced himself on the child.

After raping the girl, the 33-year-old continued to have sex with her until she found the courage to put a stop to the abuse when she was 14.

Robert Duval, prosecuting, told Swindon Crown Court that Mims, of Pinewood Way in Colerne, began targeting the girl after his partner had had a baby.

Mr Duval said Mims would routinely touch the child and get her to carry out indecent acts on him.

When she was 13, he engineered a situation where he was alone with the youngster and raped her.

In the following years he had sex with her on a number of occasions until she put a stop to it when she was 14.

Mr Duval said the girl finally confided in others and then went to the police in 2012 to tell them what had happened.

Mims initially denied charges of rape, but on the day of the trial he pleaded guilty to one rape, six counts of sexual assault and two of sexual activity with a child.

Marcus Davey, defending, said that, although his client was significantly older and in a relationship with an adult, Mims had been an immature man at the time.

Since the offences came to light, he had lost his job and contact with his children after his relationship broke down.

Jailing him, Judge Douglas Field said: “One of the features in the case which will be reflected in your sentence is the very significant affect it has had on the victim.

“I have read her victim impact statement. The psychological damage you have done to her is profound and will be long lasting.

“You offended against this girl on a regular and prolonged basis. On one occasion you raped her and you were having regular sexual intercourse with her while she was under 16.”

As well as jailing him for 15 years, the judge also imposed a restraining order banning Mims from contacting his victim for 12 years.

He also imposed a sexual offences prevention order, restricting his liberty for the same period, and told him he must register as a sex offender for life.


Francis O’Neill – Whithorn

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March 2014

Ex-Whithorn community chief jailed for child rape

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The former chairman of a community council in south west Scotland has been jailed on child rape and abuse charges dating back about 30 years.

Francis O’Neill, 61, of Whithorn, was found guilty by a jury.

A court heard how he raped one girl when she was aged seven and sexually abused a nine-year-old boy.

A 39-year-old woman – who cannot be identified for legal reasons – told how O’Neill raped her when she was just seven years old.

And a 39-year-old man described how O’Neill made him perform oral sex and other sex acts while his car was parked in the Whithorn area of Dumfriesshire.

O’Neill also sodomised him when he was just nine years old.

O’Neill had claimed his accusers were lying but he was found guilty of the offences and was jailed at the High Court in Edinburgh for seven years.

But as they left court, Francis O’Neill’s angry victims – who had waited so long for justice – dismissed the sentence as “a joke” after what they had been through.

Judge Lady Wise said the woman, now aged 39, had given a “compelling account” of what had happened to her.

“She trusted you, as an adult, and didn’t know the acts you committed were wrong,” said the judge.

O’Neill’s male victim had been bribed with money and cigarettes to keep silent, the court heard.

At the time – between 1979 and 1985 – O’Neill had been married with a child of his own and had taken advantage of other children playing in the area.

The abuse had been carried out with a degree of cunning, said Lady Wise.

O’Neill claimed his accusers were lying but a jury found him guilty of rape, sodomy, making the rape victim perform indecent acts and making sexual remarks to another 15-year-old girl.

Defence advocate Simon Gilbride said his client continued to protest his innocence.

He said after O’Neill had been forced to quit his job he had worked for the Citizens’ Advice Bureau and for a dog rescue service.

He had also been president of the Whithorn District Community Council until being forced to resign.

Mr Gilbride said O’Neill suffered from “a myriad of physical complaints” angina, diabetes and breathing difficulties – all of which would make his time in prison more difficult.

Callum Young – Methil

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March 2014

Fife child rapist jailed for 12 years

A man who raped two young children in Fife over a 14-month period has been jailed for 12 years.

Callum Young, 35, abused the children, who cannot be named for legal reasons, at addresses in Fife between December 2010 and February 2012.

Young, from Methil, was convicted of two charges of rape after a trial at the High Court in Edinburgh last month.

The court heard that the children were aged five and eight when the abuse began.

Sentence had been deferred until Monday in order for the court to obtain reports about Young’s character.

On Monday, defence advocate Ronnie Renucci told judge Lord Kinclaven his client did not accept he had done anything wrong.

Mr Renucci said Young suffered from mental health problems and could not read or write.

Lord Kinclaven also ordered Young be supervised by the authorities for two years following his release from jail.

Michael Bishop – Calne

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March 2014

Calne man, 36, ‘may be jailed’ for sex offences against girl, 15

A 36-year-old Calne man who had a sexual relationship with an underage girl has been warned he could be jailed.

Michael Bishop has been ordered to register as a sex offender after admitting a string of offences against a 15-year-old girl.

On two weekends, a month apart, in late autumn last year he had sex with the teenager.

He also admitted two other sex acts with the child on the same dates when he appeared at Swindon Crown Court on Friday.

Bishop, of Low Lane, Calne, pleaded guilty to six counts of sexual activity with a child.

The first three offences took place between Friday, October 25, and Monday, October 28, and the others between Friday, November 22, and Monday, November 25.

He was also charged with causing a child to watch sexual activity in November, which he denied, and prosecutors said they would not seek a trial.

Judge Douglas Field adjourned the case to Friday, April 25, and released him on conditional bail until then.

He said: “I must warn you, the fact that I am granting you bail should not be taken as any indication of the outcome of your case.”

 

Edric Hogarth – Devizes

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March 2014

Wiltshire man, 54, convicted of repeatedly abusing young girl

A jury has convicted a 54-year-old man of repeatedly abusing a young girl.

Edric Hogarth, known as Eddie, indecently touched the youngster and got her to carry out sex acts on him over a number of years.

Although he denied all of the allegations, claiming the child was lying, a jury at Swindon Crown Court rejected his pleas and convicted him.

At the end of a week long trial the panel of seven men and five women found him guilty by a majority of ten to two on Friday.

Judge Tim Mousley QC adjourned the case to Friday, April 4, and released Hogarth on bail until then.

Hogarth, of Eastleigh Road, Devizes, was convicted of two counts of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and sexual assault of a child.

The father-of-five carried out the abuse on the girl when he was living in the village of Redstocks, near Seend.

The jury were told the first charge related to an incident in September 2012 which the child said prompted her to tell her mother what had been going on.

Hannah Squire, prosecuting, said the other charges were ‘multi-incident counts’ which meant a course of conduct where he was alleged to have done the same thing more than once.

They are said to have taken place between the start of 2009 and the date of the last alleged offence.

Miss Squire told the jury that the child could not be sure about how long the abuse had been going on.

Hogarth was working 6pm to 6am night shifts as a baker at the time he was molesting the child.

David Graves – Kirriemuir/Forfar

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March 2014

Pervert guilty of sexually assaulting underage girls

A man has admitted using social media to contact underage girls before assaulting them.

David Graves was caught after after a victim’s mother found topless images of her 12-year-old daughter on her phone.

The 20-year-old admitted sexually assaulting the girl and a 14-year-old and told police: “I know what I did was wrong.”

The High Court in Edinburgh heard that police also found more than 100 indecent images on Graves’ laptop.

The court heard that the 12-year-old had left her phone lying in the living room of her home. Her mother looked through it and found messages from the older girl to her daughter and semi-naked pictures of the younger girl.

Advocate depute David Nicolson said the mother had then confronted her daughter who eventually admitted there had been sexual contact with Graves. Her father then called police.

Graves had already been sent a message by the mother of another girl who discovered a photo of her 13-year-old daughter in her underwear on a laptop, telling him that if he contacted the youngster again she would alert police.

Graves, formerly of Kirriemuir in Angus, admitted sexually assaulting the three girls.

He also pled guilty to sending sexual communications to children via a social networking website and possessing indecent images of children.

When police checked a laptop he used they found 122 indecent images of children and 22 videos, including some at the most extreme level.

A judge told the first offender that a custodial sentence was the “only realistic option” and remanded him in custody ahead of sentencing next month.

Graves’ first victim had contacted him through Facebook in 2012 and messages were exchanged, during which she told him she was 14, a year older than her true age, and he said he was 18.

At one stage he suggested that she could stay with him any night she wanted.

Mr Nicolson said he later “asked her to send a picture of herself which was followed by a series of sexually explicit messages”.

“She then sent him a photograph of herself in her underwear which was later discovered by her mother on her laptop,” the prosecutor said.

“That caused her to check the history of messages between the parties back to March 2012 and then send a message to him stating that she was the girl’s mother and that if contacted her again she was going to contact the police.”

The girl later revealed she had met Graves three times and told him she was only 13.

The 14-year-old girl had met Graves at a fast food restaurant in Forfar, in Angus, where he worked and he had added her on Facebook which led to a series of sexually explicit conversations.

She met him on various occasions last year with the 12-year-old sometimes also going along.

Mr Nicolson said Graves repeatedly tried to hug and kiss both girls and sexually assaulted them. He would molest the girls and pull down their trousers and expose himself.

Graves asked police if what had happened would affect his chance of joining the Army or being able to get into America. He also claimed that because he knew what he had done was wrong that he was thinking of handing himself in.

Defence counsel Ronnie Renucci said: “I accept, as does he, that having regard to the seriousness of these offences a custodial sentence will be inevitable.”

The judge, Lord Boyd of Duncansby, deferred sentence on Graves for the preparation of a background report and placed him on the sex offenders’ register.

 

Colin Steward – Gloucester

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March 2014

Suspended jail term for Gloucestershire businessman caught with child abuse pics

Graphic designer Colin Steward, who runs an erotic photography website, was caught with hundreds of indecent images of children on his computer, a court heard.

The 54-year-old, of Kingsholm Road, in Gloucester, who describes himself as a ‘voyeur’ pleaded guilty to 10 charges of making indecent pictures.

He was sentenced to six months’ jail suspended for 18 months and placed under supervision for 18 months.

Judge William Hart imposed an indefinite sexual offences prevention order and told him he will have to sign the sex offender register for 10 years. He was ordered to pay £175 costs.

David Maunder, prosecuting, said police raided Steward’s home on September 3 last year and found about 450 indecent images of children. More than half of them were at level four – one level below the most serious classification. They involved children in their early teens.

When Steward was interviewed by police and told what had been found on his computer he said he had an interest in what he called ‘erotica’.

Steward said he ran a website where he sought people wanting to have adult shots of themselves.

“He said he would be behind the camera rather than in front of it as he was a voyeur,” Mr Maunder added.

He said Steward told police he had been having personal problems over the last couple of years and added Steward was a man of previous good character.

Paul Trotman, defending, handed the court three references for Steward.

He said Steward was regarded by the probation officer as most unlikely to reoffend.

Passing sentence, Judge Hart said: “Until now you have led a perfectly honest, respectable and decent life and have brought up a family. You clearly have friends who value you extremely highly and have taken the trouble to write on your behalf.

“You have now let down yourself and those who speak highly of you. You now realise that every image of this sort has a victim, a real victim.

“Everyone, whether they pay for these images or not, helps fortify those dreadful people who produce the images in the first place and that of course leads to increased abuse of children, usually abroad but not always.”

Adil Aboulkadir – Dartford

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March 2014

Sudanese paedophile sues Britain because his parole hearing was DELAYED and his human rights were ‘breached’… and he’s already cost the taxpayer £125,000

A Sudanese paedophile jailed for four years for raping and sexually abusing teenage girls is suing Justice Secretary Chris Grayling after his parole hearing was delayed.

Adil Aboulkadir, 38, was one of five refugees from Darfu who attacked girls aged 14 and 13 – before costing UK taxpayers £125,000 in legally-aided lawyer and interpreter fees during their trial.

Aboulkadir, then of Dartford, Kent, was handed an open-ended jail term – with at least four years behind bars – after he was convicted of rape and three counts of sexual activity with a child at Maidstone Crown Court in May, 2008. 

He has now convinced a judge at London’s High Court that his human rights were ‘arguably’ violated by the Parole Board’s failure to consider his release as soon as his minimum prison term expired.

Offenders deemed ‘dangerous’ when they are handed indefinite jail terms, such as Aboulkadir, can only be released after their minimum term has lapsed and the Parole Board is convinced they no longer pose a threat to the public.

In a legally aided judicial review challenge, Aboulkadir’s barrister, Nathaniel Wade, is now arguing that it ‘cannot be right’ that he spent 16 months in jail after his four-year tariff ended in May, 2012, without a review of his prospects for release.

He said: ‘The Parole Board failed to schedule a hearing due to a combination of inaction, slowness in action, failure to schedule sufficient time for the hearing and failure to obtain such reports as were deemed necessary.’

The barrister said the Justice Secretary Chris Grayling’s office referred the case to the Parole Board in August, 2011, but that the first hearing into his potential release was not listed until December, 2012.

That hearing was deferred as no interpreter was arranged to translate for Aboulkadir and, after further postponements, his hearing did not take place until September, 2013, Mr Wade added. 

He said the 16-month delay breached Aboulkadir’s right to a speedy decision on the lawfulness of his continued detention, as enshrined under article 5.4 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

He added that Aboulkadir is now seeking a ‘declaration to that effect’ as well as damages, as ‘just satisfaction for his frustration and anxiety as a result of that breach’.

Mr Wade said that the Secretary of State for Justice, Chris Grayling, is ‘factually and legally responsible for the readiness of the Parole Board’ and that Aboulkadir’s claim was against both.

Julian Blake, appearing for Mr Grayling, insisted Aboulkadir’s challenge had been launched too late and was in any event now ‘academic’ as he was cleared for release by the Parole Board in September last year.

Aboulkadir has, nonetheless, since been detained in an immigration centre while he fights a bid by the Home Secretary, Theresa May, to deport him to Sudan now his jail term is over, the barrister explained. 

The convict, previously of Dartford, is also seeking a referral by the Criminal Cases Review Commission to the Criminal Appeal Court, in a bid to challenge the safety of his convictions. 

In any event, Mr Blake argued that, while there was undoubtedly a delay in his parole hearing, this was a ‘case management’ issue and did not amount to a breach of Aboulkadir’s human rights.

Judge Charles George QC nevertheless ruled that the claim was neither too late nor academic, and granted permission for a full judicial review hearing.
He concluded: ‘I certainly cannot say that the claim under article 5.4 is unarguable.’
The full hearing will take place at the High Court at an as yet unspecified date.

May 2008

Five jailed over sex with children

FIVE Sudanese refugees have been jailed for a total of 20 years after committing a series of sexual offences against teenage girls in north Kent.

The men, all from Darfur in Sudan, were sentenced at Maidstone Crown Court last Thursday.

All five were found guilty at the end of a five-week trial in February this year and remanded in custody to await sentencing.

Judge Martin Joy told them: “You came to this country to seek political asylum. No doubt, you came to this country because you regarded it as a safe country. However, by your conduct, this country becomes less safe.”

He also told the court how the cost for providing each of the men with an interpreter came to a minimum of £25,000.

Jumaa Saleh, 19, of Lowfield Street, Dartford, Mohamud Jimale, 20, of Rochester Road, Gravesend, Diwt Kfle Akal, 18, of Edwin Street, Gravesend, and Mahder Zeregergis, 19, of Crayford Road, Crayford, were each convicted of two charges of sexual activity with a child. Each was jailed for four years.

Adil Aboulkadir, 33, of Lowfield Street, Dartford, was convicted of one charge of rape and three of sexual activity with a child. He was given an indeterminate sentence for public protection, with a minimum of four years’ imprisonment.

All five accused denied the charges, which related to a series of incidents last year involving girls aged between 13 and 14.


Lee Swain – Castleford

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February 2006

Teenagers sexually assaulted boy, eight, in garage

Two teenagers lured an eight-year- old boy into a disused garage and seriously sexually assaulted him.

The youngster was raped by the older youth while his pal looked on and joined in and assaulted him, Leeds Crown Court heard.

Prosecutor Neil Clark said the victim was offered to go with the two accused while they were playing in the Ambleside area of Castleford

He said the victim went with the teenagers after it was suggested to him they should go to the derelict garage for “rudies.”

The court heard after the assault the youths went out together with their victim collecting conkers as if nothing had happened.

Lee Swain, 18, of Fryston, Castleford, admitted raping the boy and was sentenced to two years detention in a young offenders’ institution and disqualified from working with children in the future.

His 16-year-old pal, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a child under the age of 13 and was sentenced to a three-year supervision order.

He was also disqualified from working with children for the rest of his life. Passing sentence, Judge Shaun Spencer QC told Swain the prosecution had not alleged the offence of rape took place without his consent but it was still a very serious matter which carried a sentence of life imprisonment.

He said: “This was not an offence which I regard or am willing to pass off as adolescent experimentation.

“The child was offered money and taken to an enclosed place where the offence happened.”

Judge Spencer added he accepted Swain had difficulties, which he had read about in a psychologist’s report, and that he had a mental and emotional young age.

And the judge told Swain’s friend: “You were not the instigator and you didn’t start it, and, secondly, the activity you were responsible for was much less serious.”

Dennis Moxon – Wakefield/Stafford

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October 2008

Wakefield man jailed for sexually abusing his own young daughter

THE daughter of a convicted paedophile has spoken of her relief after her 54-year-old father was jailed for four years.

The victim, now 24, waived her right to anonymity to tell of the years of sexual abuse at the hands of Dennis Moxon.

Moxon, a former soldier who also worked as a railway track inspector, was today behind bars after being found guilty by a jury at Leeds Crown Court

They found him guilty of four counts of sexual abuse against the then child

The victim explained how drunken Moxon would touch her over her clothing between the ages of 11 and 13 after he and her mother had split up.

“When he thought I was asleep was when he would start. I felt scared when it happened. He was my dad, I was confused. I didn’t understand what was going on,”

She said she would stay at her father’s place in Lawefield Lane, Wakefield, every weekend and the abuse only stopped when he remarried.

He moved away from the area to Stafford in 2003.

But she says the abuse is still clear in her mind.

The victim was only 11 when her dad began to molest her while she slept.

Her nightmare continued until she was 13 but she told no-one about it until she was 22.

She poured her heart out to her ex-partner, who encouraged her to go to the police.

She said: “Growing up, I found it hard to trust people. It was bugging me. I found it hard to understand how someone could do that to their own children.

“Then, having children of my own, I just could not get over it. It’s definitely made me more protective of them.”

She said: “If my story helps other people to come forward and get convictions, then that’s what I want.”

Moxon was sentenced at Leeds Crown Court yesterday and the victim was there to watch him jailed.

She said: “I feel happy it’s all out in the open. I can move on now. I want this to help others come forward. I would advise people to speak out, it’s not as hard as you think and it is worth it.”

The victim said she now wanted to move forward with her life.

She added: “For me, I don’t have a dad. When I looked at him in court I just felt hatred.”

Sentencing Moxon, Judge Paul Hoffman said: “Plainly you have committed a serious breach of trust.”

He said she had beren at a young and vulnerable age and had veen very badly affected. He had damager her life and her ability to cope.

Moxon was jailed for four years, placed under a sex offender’s prevention order and banned from working with children for life.

Colin Osbourne – Stoke-on-Trent

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March 2014

Paedophile pensioner jailed for ‘historic’ sex crimes after handing himself into police

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PENSIONER Colin Osbourne has been jailed for 10 years for ‘historic’ sex crimes against two girls – after handing himself in to police.

The 71-year-old admitted his crimes to officers in January after being warned his two victims were planning to report the incidents themselves.

It emerged Osbourne had raped and indecently assaulted one victim in the 1970s and then indecently assaulted a second girl in the 1990s.

Now Osbourne, of no fixed address, is starting his 10-year jail term after pleading guilty to five charges of rape, six counts of indecent assault, and three charges of indecency with a child.

Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court heard both victims have been left mentally scarred as a result of the abuse.

The court heard Osbourne began touching his first victim, before making her perform a sex act on him and then progressed to having full sex with her. The attacks left the victim feeling dirty, guilty and ashamed. She has received counselling but still suffers from anxiety and panic attacks.

The second victim was sexually touched by Osbourne.

Prosecutor Stefan Kolodynski told the court: “He sometimes put his hand over her mouth while he abused her.

“He would take her to car parks. He would say that if she told anybody he would bury her.”

The second victim says her life has been ‘totally ruined’ by Osbourne.

Peter McCartney, mitigating, said Osbourne, who has no previous convictions, voluntarily surrendered himself and made a full confession to the police.

Mr McCartney said: “He recognises that the victims will be forever haunted by what he did to them.

“He knows he has put a blight on their lives.”

As well as the 10-year jail term, Osbourne has been placed on the Sex Offenders’ Register for life and made the subject of a Sexual Offences Prevention Order, preventing him having unsupervised contact with under 16s.

Judge David Fletcher told Osbourne: “Their lives have been ruined as a direct result of your behaviour.”

Thomas Foster – Langley Park

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March 2014

Langley Park pensioner jailed for 27 months over child abuse

A PENSIONER convicted of abusing a child after a crown court trial was last night starting a 27-month prison sentence.

Thomas Foster continues to deny any sexual offending, and told a probation officer he was “gobsmacked” at being found guilty.

The twice-married 68-year-old was said to have led a “blameless” life but for “a few hours of aberration” in April last year.

His barrister Anne Richardson told Teesside Crown Court yesterday (Monday, March 17) that the retired council worker will find life difficult in prison.

He turned up with a huge rucksack, and Miss Richardson said: “He’s been advised that there can be no sentence other than custody.

“This is completely out-of-character for a man who has otherwise led a blameless life . . . there is a great deal of good in Mr Foster.

“This is not a paedophile. This is not a predatory person cruising around schools. It is quite the opposite. It is not that sort of case.”

Foster was convicted of sexual assault and two charges of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity after a trial last month.

The judge, Recorder Ian Atherton, told him: “You will no doubt find it hard in prison . . . you don’t accept your guilt.

“You have very powerful mitigation. You have led a blameless life, giving much to the community.

“It is spoke of in deeply moving terms by your daughter, a colleague and your ex-wife in the references I have read.

“It is a man of two parts, clearly, I see before me.”

Foster, of The Crescent, Langley Park, Durham, was also put on the sex offenders’ register for the next ten years.

The court heard that he worked as a painter and decorator and as a housing inspector for local authorities in County Durham.

Donald Campbell – Bradford

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March 2014

Making child abuse movies charges admitted by Buttershaw man

A 48-year-old man is in custody awaiting sentence for multiple offences of making child porn movies.

Donald Campbell, who is being held in Leeds Prison, pleaded guilty yesterday to 11 charges of making an indecent image of a child at Glendale Close, Buttershaw, Bradford, on or before October 10 last year.

He appeared at Bradford and Keighley Magistrates’ Court last week when his case was sent to the Crown Court.

Campbell’s barrister, Jayne Beckett, asked the court to adjourn sentence for a report from the probation service. She made no application for bail.

Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC said he would sentence Campbell on April 8.

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