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Christopher Rose – Northolt

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April 2014

Church pastor nibbled young girl’s ear in ‘sexual way’

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A church pastor who ‘sexually’ nibbled a young girl’s ear has been berated by a judge who banned him from going out at night.

Christopher Rose gently bit the 13-year-old’s ear in a sexual manner, leaving her so traumatised she started to self-harm herself.

Evangelical church pastor Rose, 45, befriended her family before ‘getting too close’ to the girl.

However, Rose was spared jail by Judge Francis Sheridan, who instead ordered him to do 60 hours of unpaid work and slapped him with a night-time curfew.

Sentencing him at Aylesbury Crown Court, Judge Sheridan said the young girl’s family had ‘utter faith’ in Rose and that he had been in a total position of trust.

“He was trusted in the family setting and then misused that position in relation to the daughter,” said the judge.

“I’m not going to stop him working as a pastor but I think my duty is to protect other young girls of that age from over-familiar treatment.”

The pastor at the Living Waters World Outreach ministry nibbled the girl’s ear while alone with her in January 2013.

“You touched her in a sexual way,” said Judge Sheridan.

“You did it in a way where you made it perfectly clear why you were doing it.”

The police were informed and Rose, whose ministry is based at Aylesbury 1st Scout Hall in Osier Way was arrested.

Rose was also accused of two charges of meeting a girl following grooming, four charges of engaging in a sex act with a girl aged 13 to 15 years and two other sexual assaults, relating to the victim and one other young girl.

He was convicted of nibbling the victim’s ear but acquitted of all other charges following a trial at Aylesbury Crown Court last month.

Sentencing was previously adjourned as Rose was signed off as unfit to work due to depression until April 14.

Speaking at an earlier hearing George Heimler, mitigating, said Rose, of Sandringham Road, Northolt, Middlesex, had no relevant previous convictions and had been assessed as at low risk of re-offending.

“The complainant said it lasted just two seconds and it was a single occurence,” he said.

“He is a person who has devoted much of his adult life to pastoral duties. He became friendly with the mother and associated with the child coincidentally.”

Judge Sheridan agreed it was an isolated incident.

As well as the unpaid work, Rose was placed under a 6.30pm to 5am curfew for one month.

He was also ordered to pay costs of £300 pounds and must sign onto the Sex Offenders’ Register.


Raymond Thomas – Ellesmere Port

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April 2014

Man jailed for sex offence on underage boy

An Ellesmere Port man with a string of previous convictions for sexual offences involving under-age male children has been jailed for 26 months after rubbing baby oil into a schoolboy’s back.

Raymond Thomas, 52, of Langley Court, was sentenced to 10 months imprisonment for sexual activity with a child.

He was also sentenced to 16 months for what was described as a ‘complete and utter’ breach of the sexual offences prevention order (SOPO) imposed on him in 2005.

Both sentences, handed out at Chester Crown Court yesterday (Tuesday), are to run consecutively.

Thomas, who pleaded guilty to both offences, was arrested on November 8, 2013, on suspicion of breaching the SOPO which prohibits any unsupervised contact with males under the age of 16, and the victim’s complaint was made shortly after.

The court heard that Thomas befriended the victim, who was experiencing difficulties at school, and had unsupervised contact with him between November 2012 and November 2013.

The victim stayed overnight at Thomas’ flat and would sleep in the bedroom while Thomas slept in the sitting room, but on one occasion, he woke to find Thomas rubbing baby oil into his bare back.

The court was told that Thomas had paid for top-ups for the victim’s mobile phone.

Thomas was convicted of sex offences involving under age boys in 2000 and in 2005, when he received a 10-year prison sentence, of which he served six years.

Sentencing Thomas, Judge Roger Dutton said that Thomas had ‘cultivated a friendship with an emotionally scarred boy’.

He said: “This went on month after month. I have no doubt that it was an attraction that you had to the boy.

“You engineered situations where you would be alone with him. Albeit there was only one sexual offence in that period, that fact remains that you engineered these situations in complete disregard for the order.

“Your emotions got the better of you and you committed this act.

“Fortunately, that was the end of it and there was no further activity but it is quite plain that you present a risk to youngsters of that age and that was exactly why the SOPO was imposed. The breach was repeated and you knew exactly what was happening.”

Thomas was also ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £120, and the SOPO remains in force.

Ernest Blackburn – Colton/Leeds

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April 2014

Leeds pensioner had 17,000 indecent child images

A pensioner had more than 17,000 indecent images and movies of children, including a 12-month old baby being sexually abused, when police raided his Leeds home.

Ernest Blackburn had accessed some of the most serious and grossly offensive material which included images of animals being sexually abused.

Police made the discovery after searching the married 70-year-old’s home in Colton.

Leeds Crown Court heard officers went to his home on Austhorpe Avenue on September 2011 after receiving information.

Blackburn continued to deny an offending, claiming he did not know how the material got onto his computer.

He eventually pleaded guilty to 21 offences related to possessing or making indecent images of children on the day he was due to go on trial last month. More than 900 of the illegal images were at levels four and five – the two momst serious categories of offending.

A judge ordered Blackburn to spend the weekend in prison while he considered what sentence to impose when he appeared in court last Friday.

After being returned to court he was made the subject of a three-year intensive community order designed to address his offending. Blackburn was told he must also go on the sex offenders register for five years.

The court heard Blackburn had no previous convictions and had shown remorse over his offending.

Blackburn’s lawyer Ian Cook said the short spell in prison had been a frightening experience for his client.

He added: “The reality of prison life is a lot worse than he has seen on TV.”

After the hearing, Det Con Claire Forder, of West Yorkshire Police’s abusive images unit, said: “Today’s sentence sends out the message that individuals who exploit children via the internet will be identified and prosecuted.

“West Yorkshire Police are committed to tracing such offenders whether within our county or beyond.”

Philip Hilstrop – Cromer/Norwich

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April 2014

Former Cromer minister convicted of possessing indecent images back in court for breaching order

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Former Cromer Methodist minister Philip Hilstrop, who was convicted of possessing more than 1000 indecent images, was back in court for breaching his sexual offences prevention order by having a mobile phone with a camera. His case has been adjourned for a report.

Philip Hilstrop, 63, of Queen’s Road, Norwich admitted one count of breaching his court order between January 2012 and August 2013 and another breach of the order between January 2012 and May 2013, by having mobile phones capable of capturing images.

The court heard that Hilstrop in 2011 was given a four month suspended jail sentence for possessing more than 1000 indecent images. He was also placed on the sex offender’s register and made subject to the sexual offences prevention order, under which he was not allowed to have a mobile phone with a camera outside his home address.

Martin Ivory, prosecuting, said that when police made a routine check on Hilstrop they found he had a phone with a camera on it and that he had taken a photo on it while on holiday.

They also found he had an iPhone which he had not told police about.

Michael Clare, for Hilstrop, said they were technical breaches.

He had a phone that had a camera on it. It is a technical breach of his sexual offences prevention order. It is not linked to anything sinister. It is just that he had a phone capable of taking pictures.”

He said the photo he had taken was of an Easter procession, in Spain, while on holiday.

“He had not realised he would be in serious trouble.”.

He said that Hilstrop also had an iPhone to replace one which had been dropped by accident down the toilet and had overlooked telling police that he had replaced it.

Mr Clare said that Hilstrop now had got himself a mobile phone with no camera on it.

Judge Stephen Holt said he wanted a full report and adjourned sentence until June 6.

Jack Tomlinson – Keighley/Burnley

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April 2014

An ex-Burnley man has been jailed for three years for sexual offences against two different schoolgirls in the area

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Jack Tomlinson (24), of Stanley Road, Keighley, had pleaded guilty to nine counts of sexual activity with a child and was found guilty by a jury in March of a further two counts, Burnley Crown Court heard.

Mark Savill (prosecuting) told the court that the mother of one of the girl’s had become suspicious of contact between the two but when she quizzed her daughter, she was told nothing was going on.

But the court heard that the girl had left school one day early without permission and went home in floods of tears.

Tomlinson, Mr Savill said, had then pestered the girl with “large numbers of messages” via social network sites and the police were contacted.

On arrest, Tomlinson admitted touching the girl on “four or five occasions” and said he thought he had been in love with her.

The court heard he had continued the offending while on bail.

Kathryn Johnson (defending) told the court that the probation service felt they could work with Tomlinson, a man of previous good character and who had never been to prison.

Ms Johnson asked whether the Judge could consider a suspended sentence for Tomlinson, a father of two, something she described as “not a soft option” with the courses he would have to complete.

But Judge Andrew Woolman said that Tomlinson should have known sexual activity with young girls was “wrong” and that what he was doing was “against the law”.

The Judge added that Tomlinson had persisted in one case “not really caring” about what the law says about sex with young girls.

Judge Woolman said it was a “difficult sentencing exercise” as people had spoken well of Tomlinson adding: “I recognise that this is going to fall hard on you and your family.”

Tomlinson was given a 10-year sexual offences prevention order and ordered to sign the sexual offenders register indefinitely.

Ashleigh Cooper – Louth

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April 2014

Louth man jailed for child sex offences

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A Louth man who claimed his “other personality” was responsible for a string of child sex offences has been jailed for four years.

Ashleigh Cooper, 22, of Kelstern, Louth, admitted six charges of inciting a child under 13 to engage in sexual activity and indecent images of kids.

His crimes were discovered during an unrelated investigation by South Wales Police in which a laptop belonging to a 12-year-old girl was seized.

The laptop was found to contain communication which was traced to Cooper and a warrant was executed at his address in November 2012.

He was arrested on suspicion of possession of indecent images of children.

As the investigation continued into his chat logs, he was further arrested in April 2013 for inciting a child under 13 to engage in sexual activity.

But Judge Michael Heath said he was in no doubt that it was Cooper who was responsible.

Cooper was jailed for four years for five of the charges at Lincoln Crown Court on April 15.

He was given a further two-and-a-half year term to be served concurrently for the sixth offence.

Detective Constable Nicky Linn, of Lincolnshire Police’s Internet Child Abuse Team said: “Ashleigh Cooper committed some appalling offences, and his victim may never be able to get over the experience of what he put her through.

“He tried to claim that he had another personality who was responsible for his behaviour, but fortunately the judge gave no credence to this.

“It is clear that people who choose to engage in these sort of offences will be brought to justice and be held fully accountable for their deeds.”

Anthony Bennett – Hayle

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April 2014

Hayle teen jailed for raping two young girls after confessing to police

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CONSUMED by guilt, a 20-year-old Hayle man walked into a police station to confess to raping two young girls.

Anthony Bennett made the shocking confessions at Penzance police station last summer that he had raped two young girls when he was a teenager aged around 13 to 15.

At Truro Crown Court on Wednesday, Bennett, of Penmare Terrace, was jailed for his abuse of the girls, who cannot be named for legal reasons.

Gareth Evans, for the Crown Prosecution Service, said Bennett first went to the police on August 3, last year, when he was aged 19, and asked speak to an officer.

“He disclosed to the officers that he had previously raped [the older of the two girls] on numerous occasions over a period of 12 to 18 months.”

Mr Evans added: “Three days later, having been released by the police for enquiries to be made, the defendant again contacted police.

“He was to tell the officer that as well as the offences he had disclosed, he wanted to tell them about further offending.”

Bennett revealed that he had also raped another girl.

When asked why he had come forward, Bennett said to police: “It has been eating away at me for so long and it needed to come out.”

At a previous hearing, Bennett pleaded guilty to 10 counts of rape in relations to one girl and three counts of raping the other.

Paul Gallagher, defending, said the abuse had stopped because of the guilt he was feeling about what he had been doing.

He said: “He has turned to drink perhaps not surprisingly to try to block out what he has done … he wishes that he could put the clock back.”

He added that Bennett had the courage to admit what he had done and that his parents were supporting him.

Sentencing, Judge John Neligan, said the case was an exceptional one because the reason for the prosecution was Bennett’s confession.

He said: “It is quite clear that you deliberately used [the girls] to satisfy your adolescent sexual appetite in what can only be regarded as a shameful way.”

Bennett was jailed for six years and ordered to sign the sex offenders’ register for the rest of his life.

Dylan Lloyd/Luke Finn – Porthmadog/Bala

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17 April 2014

Men admit sex offences against same boy

TWO men who admitted sexual offences against a teenage boy will be sentenced in June.

Farmer, Dylan Morris Lloyd, 40, of Cwm Tylo, Parc, Bala, who previously pleaded guilty to a series of sexual offences against the victim, was ordered to register with the police as a sex offender pending sentence.

Co-defendant, Luke Finn, 26, of High Street, Porthmadog, who appeared in court from custody, admitted two counts of sexual activity with the same boy. He was remanded in custody pending sentence.

Mold Crown Court heard this week the investigation was started after Lloyd called the police to report that the complainant had assaulted him.

John Philpotts, prosecuting, said that the boy was being investigated separately for the alleged assault. But it was during that investigation that the sex offences emerged.

Lloyd last month pleaded guilty to six charges of sexual activity with the child, involving a mutual sex act. He admitted a further charge of inciting the child to engage in another sexual act.

The offences took place last year. Lloyd denied a charge of raping the boy and that plea was accepted when he admitted an alternative charge of sexual activity involving penetration.

He was bailed pending sentence.

His barrister David Williams said that his client was a farmer who had livestock and he needed time to sort matters out, and to appoint a farm manager pending his sentence.

Finn’s barrister Anna Pope said that he was realistic about the outcome and she did not apply for bail in the meantime.

Judge Niclas Parry said he would agree to a longer than usual adjournment for sentence so that Lloyd could put his affairs in order.

Both defendants were told by Judge Parry that they would receive substantial credit for their guilty pleas.


Barry Peach – Derby

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April 2014

Five years for Derby pervert who sexually abused baby

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A 53-YEAR-OLD man went to a police station to confess he had sexually abused a baby years ago

Barry Peach admitted indecent assault and child cruelty and was jailed for five years yesterday when he appeared at Derby Crown Court.

James Varley, prosecuting, said: “As far as indecent assault on a young child goes, it’s hard to think of a worse one.”

Judge John Pini QC said what Peach had done was a “demonstrably deviant act”. He said that if the crime had been committed in recent years, it would have been charged as rape.

The court heard that in May last year Peach was heading to Pear Tree police station when he handed a letter to a police community support officer in the street.

He told the officer: “I want to confess something to you – I sexually abused a young child (many) years ago.”

He said he had also tried to suffocate and assault the baby when it would not stop crying.

Sophie Murray, in mitigation, said: “This came to light because Mr Peach wanted to divest himself of his guilt and his shame and his deep remorse. He views himself as ill during the time (he committed the offences).

“It is clear he has suffered from depression for a long period of time.”

She said that Peach, of Alder Walk, Derby, had struggled in the interceding years to understand why he had done what he had.

The court was told he had confessed his crime to his wife and they agreed they would go to the police about it.

Judge Pini said it was “powerful mitigation” that Peach reported himself to the police.

The judge said: “You are only sitting there because you had the moral courage to walk into a police station – 99.9% of the population would not have done that.”

The court heard that the victim had been unaware of the abuse until being told by police after Peach’s confession.

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Gwion Griffiths – Bala/Trawsfynydd

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April 2014

Man must keep away from school after offence

A 24-YEAR-OLD sex offender must not live close to a village school during term time, a judge has ordered.

Gwion Wyn Griffiths had performed a sex act in a bedroom window of his home as nearly 40 young children were crossing the school yard opposite on their way to the lunch canteen. None of the children saw him, but he had been spotted by teachers inside the Trawsfynydd school, Caernarfon Crown Court heard.

Griffiths, of Cefn Gwyn, Trawsfynydd, but now living temporarily with a relative at Bala, admitted sexual activity in front of a child and was given an eight-month suspended prison sentence last Thursday.

Judge David Hale placed him on a supervision order for two years and made an exclusion order to keep him away from the school during term, and said he must live where directed by the Probation Service. For five years Griffiths must keep away from children under 16 and he must register as a sex offender for 10 years.

Richard Edwards, prosecuting, said there was no suggestion that any of the children had seen what Griffiths was doing. Defence barrister Jonathan Austin pointed out that Griffiths had pleaded guilty at the first opportunity and had no previous convictions.

Passing sentence, the judge said Griffiths had a number of problems of a social nature. “You stood on the bed so you could be seen from the window,” he said, adding that although there was no evidence the pupils saw him “your intention was that they should”.

Abdul Basit – Burnley

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April 2014

Man jailed for rape of Burnley teenager

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A man from Burnley has been jailed for 34 months after pleading guilty to rape and sexual assault. 

Abdul Basit (22), of no fixed abode, raped a teenage girl in Burnley when he was 17, Burnley Crown Court was told.

Basit later sexually assaulted the same teenage girl, also in Burnley, before running off, the court heard.

Lisa Worsley (prosecuting) told the court that Basit had then tried to make amends by sending the girl a card containing £20 as a way of an apology, but it was refused.

The court also heard that Basit was being watched by police and had been served with more than one abduction notice in relation to girls under the age of 16.

Basit had pleaded guilty at court on Friday at the first opportunity.

Andrew Nuttall (defending) said the best mitigation he could put forward was that Basit had pleaded guilty early.

Mr Nuttall said: “He is ashamed of it. Of that, there is no doubt. He is fundamentally aware of what he has done and is fundamentally aware it’s ruined his life.”

Mr Nuttall added that at the time of the offences Basit had been “drinking far too much alcohol”.

Mr Nuttall went on to say that Basit was “cowed by the circumstances” he found himself in and was fully aware of the impact on his victim.

Sentencing, Judge Andrew Woolman said that after the indecent sexual assault, the girl had been left “distressed”.

The Judge described Basit’s actions as “quite serious offending” and that he had some “disturbing attitudes”. He said the police and others were “clearly concerned” as to what Basit might do next.

But Judge Woolman said there was not enough evidence for an extended sentence, and he had to sentence Basit for the rape at the age of committal, at 17.

Basit was given a 10-year sexual offenders prevention order, put on the sex offenders register indefinitely and was handed a three year restraining order against the girl.

The Judge warned Basit that if he had been older at the time of the rape he would be looking at much longer in prison and that the 10-year order was necessary to protect members of the public from serious harm.

Jason Barry – Mouzel

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April 2014

Cumbrian man is jailed for sex offence with child

A Cumbria man has been jailed for 12 months after admitting engaging in sexual activity with a child.

Jason Barry, 42, of Mouzel, near Dalton, initially denied two counts of engaging in sexual activity with a minor, one count of sexual activity with a minor and one count of rape.

He admitted one count and the other charges were dropped.

The offence took place between March 2010 and July 2011.

As well as being jailed, Barry was put under a five-year Sexual Offences Prevention Order, put on the sex offenders register and put under a two-year restraining order.

He appeared before Preston Crown Court on April 4.

Anthony Walker – Stoke

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April 2014

Stoke pervert used secret cameras to film up schoolgirls’ skirts

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PERVERT Anthony Walker has been jailed after he covertly filmed up girls’ skirts.

The 53-year-old would travel to Cheshire to use secret cameras to capture indecent footage of schoolgirls in their uniforms and young performers in dance troupes.

Walker also set up his own website where people expressed their interest in corporal punishment and the spanking of children.

He went on to make and distribute images.

Now the paedophile has been jailed for 32 months.

Prosecutor Hugh O’Brien-Quinn said police executed a search warrant at Walker’s flat at The Villas, Stoke, on December 30, 2011.

Mr O’Brien-Quinn said: “The defendant said, ‘I have not touched anyone. There are just movies and pictures’.”

Walker’s computers and mobile phones were examined. Police found 1,573 indecent images at level one; 22 at level two; 53 at level three; 86 at level four; and 47 at level five. There was also 60 level one moving images; 27 level two movies; five at level three; 96 level four and 26 level five.

Mr O’Brien-Quinn said: “The defendant had set up a website called Grey School Shorts. It did not contain any unlawful images of children. However, it formed a network of like interests to this defendant. People expressed interest in corporal punishment and spanking young children.”

Walker had exchanged images on a sharing system.

Mr O’Brien-Quinn said: “He accepts involvement in this activity for about nine years.

“His phones were examined and there was covertly filmed footage of girls in school uniforms, and shots up their skirts.”

Walker, of Chamberlain Avenue, Stoke, pleaded guilty to 26 charges of making indecent images of children; distributing indecent images of children and two offences of committing acts outraging public decency.

Sarah Buckingham, mitigating, said: “He is a ‘simple, timid little man doing what he can without much assistance. He needs more help.”

Jailing Walker, Judge David Fletcher said: “These were real people who were exploited.”

Walker was made the subject of a sexual offences prevention order and was placed on the sex offenders’ register for life.

Superintendent Mark Dean, of Staffordshire Police’s protecting vulnerable people department, said: “We welcome the sentence and hope it goes someway to reassuring the public that we are committed to protecting those who are the most vulnerable. The protection and care of vulnerable young people is a top priority for us.”

Daniel Everitt – Totnes

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February 2014

Judge’s warning to man who asked girl, 16, to send him naked images

A man with an ‘unhealthy interest’ in young girls persuaded a 16-year-old to send him pictures of her posing naked.

Daniel Everitt sent texts to the woman encouraging her to e-mail him the images of her through Facebook and kept the pictures on his computer, Exeter Crown Court was told.

The 24-year-old, who has a previous caution for under age sex with a 14-year-old, was sent on a sex offenders’ treatment course and warned he will go to jail unless he changes his behaviour.

Everitt, of Crocadon Meadows, Halwell, near Totnes, admitted causing the girl to engage in pornography and was jailed for ten months, suspended for two years.

He was also sent on the internet sex offenders’ treatment programme, ordered to sign on the Sex Offenders’ Register for ten years, and made subject to a Sexual Offences Prevention Order which enables the police to monitor his internet use.

Judge Francis Gilbert, QC, told him: ”You requested a 16-year-old girl to send photographs of herself unclothed to you. You already have a considerable criminal record.

“You have a caution from 2010, when you were 20, of sexual activity with a child and you seem to have quite a strong and unhealthy interest in under age girls.

 
 

“You need to understand the law is there to protect them from their own folly and from behaviour such as you embarked on. If you do not, you will be going to prison.

“The girl in this case sent you pictures and realised afterwards that she was no longer in control of those images. That is the evil and dangerous part of this.

“You could do anything you want with them, including putting them on the internet. That is a very troubling situation which caused her deep distress.

“I hope they have been destroyed. In this context it is a mitigating feature that they did not show her face.”

Mr Richard Crabb, prosecuting, said the images were found by police while they were examining Everitt’s computer in relation to another matter.

They showed the naked torso of a girl who was later found to be aged 16, and who said she had been encouraged by texts to send take the images of herself and send them by Facebook.

The pictures showed her naked body but not her head.

He said Everitt had committed an offence even though the girl was over the age of consent because the law relating to child pornography covers children up to the age of 18.

Mr William Parkhill, defending, said Everitt regrets what happened and had no intention of distributing the images. He said it would be more constructive for him to receive treatment than go to jail.


Edward Campbell – Clapton

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December 2010

TRIPLE child killer back behind bars for rape of young girl

A father who killed three of his own children has been jailed for 13 years for raping and molesting a young girl.

Edward Campbell, 77, strangled Susan, 10, Ronald, 11, and Paul, 13 and left 14-year-old Joel seriously inured at the family home in Clapton, east London, on December 6 1974.

Campbell told the court: ‘I am not a violent man’

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Child killer, 77 years, convicted of raping girl in 1970s

Edward Campbell, a 77-year-old man from London who killed three of his children in 1974, has today been convicted at Snaresbrook Crown Court of sexually abusing a girl between 1963 and 1973.

Campbell was found guilty of eight charges, including rape and buggery, following a trial which began on 15 November 2010.

Kay Scudder, reviewing lawyer and rape specialist from CPS London, said:

“The Crown Prosecution Service would like to thank the brave victim of rape and child abuse who supported our case to seek justice almost fifty years after her terrible ordeal began. She had been sexually abused throughout her childhood, starting when she was just four years old, and only ending horrifically ten years later when, after killing three of his own children, Campbell was sent to prison.

“But the victim, now in her fifties, has this month given evidence against Campbell for the sexual abuse she faced as a child.  He is now aged 77 and he has been convicted of rape, buggery, indecent assault and gross indecency.

“No-one looking at the facts of this case would fail to be horrified by the nature of this abuse.  Having put together the prosecution case, I am pleased that after so many years justice has finally been secured for the victim and that Campbell will now face punishment.”

The sexual abuse escalated over a ten year period between 1963 and 1973 when the victim was aged between four and 14 years old.

The offending came to an end in 1974 after Campbell strangled three of his own children. When the case came to trial the defendant was allowed to plead guilty to manslaughter and grievous bodily harm after a psychiatric report ruled he had been depressed at the time of the killings.

Kay Scudder continued:

“From a very early stage in this investigation I have worked alongside the police as we prepared this case for prosecution.

“As with all victims of sexual offences, the victim in this case was offered the opportunity to give her evidence behind screens but she chose to stand in open court.”

The defendant will be sentenced at a later date.

David Thomas – Dunmow/Shalford

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April 2014

Judge jails handyman, 26, for sex with 14-year-old girl in Dunmow

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A HORSE groom and handyman caught having under-age sex with a 14-year-old girl in Dunmow was today (Friday, April 14) jailed for 28 months.

David Thomas, 26, of Hulls Lane, Shalford, near Braintree, handed himself into police after a woman reported him to the Derbyshire force after reading messages on his Facebook social networking page, relating to the girl.

Thomas, who pleaded guilty at Chelmsford Crown Court to having under-age sex with the girl in January, was told by Judge Anthony Goldstaub QC as he jailed him: “Yours is a case of rural sexual misbehaviour in Dunmow.

“Young girls have got to be protected and that applies in the town and in the country equally, and the only way is to send people to prison if they err. You have erred and must go to prison.”

Thomas was also placed on the sex offenders’ register for 10 years, but Judge Goldstaub declined to make a sex offenders’ prevention order.

Nicola May, prosecuting, said: “Derbyshire Police received a call from a Kayley Rayner reporting she had accessed his Facebook page and found messages between him and a 14-year-old girl.

“Miss Rayner had concerns about trust issues. He had suggested she access his Facebook account and in his likes folder there was a picture of a young-looking female. She also found chat about under-age sex at the start of the year.”

Referring to the girl, Miss May said that Miss Rayner thought she looked “16 at the very most” and looking at the messages “found they were of a sexual nature and suggested they had had sexual intercourse”.

She continued: “The girl had written ‘if it happens again we’ll need protection’ and he responded ‘no problems’.

“He handed himself into police at Braintree police station before others had the opportunity saying he had sex with a 14-year-old girl – the age he believed she was at the time.”

Julie Brice, mitigating, said: “It was a one-off. He had turned his life around having suffered alcohol and drug problems.”

David Brant – Malvern/West Midlands

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April 2014

Known sex pest raped 3 year old girl – Jailed for 15 years

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A KNOWN sex offender who has been before the courts for nearly 85 offences since 1997 has been jailed for 15 years for raping a three-year-old girl.

David Brant had a history of sex offences, prosecutor Michael Conry told Worcester Crown Court, but on 13 occasions had failed to tell the authorities where he was living.

He was jailed for 15 years for the attack on the girl in Malvern at Worcester Crown Court.

Brunt was told by Judge Robert Juckes QC that he would have to serve nine and a half years before he could be released.

The judge added that Brant who must sign the sex offenders register for life, would be on licence for 15 years and in danger of recall when he is freed.

Defence counsel Andrew Hobson said Brant had led a shiftless and homeless life because of his alcoholism. He had moved several times in the West Midlands and had not deliberately targeted the Malvern family.

He had made an early guilty plea to a charge of sexual assault on the three-year-old. As a sex offender, he also admitted failing to notify the authorities of his change of address.

Mr Conry said it was the 13th time that Brant had failed to notify a new address. It was midday on March 3 when he turned up at the house in Malvern and was allowed in by a mother of three children. During the short time he was alone with the young girl he carried out the assault, later claiming she had been injured when he carried her downstairs.

The youngster was examined in hospital when the extent of her injury was revealed. But the sexual assault had a profound psychological effect on the child, making her violent towards her parents.

Mr Conry said Brant and was known as Pisshead Dave because of his drinking. He had many convictions for dishonesty and in 2005 was jailed for 12 months for a sex assault on a 14-year-old girl walking home from a friends at night. When she realised she was being followed, she nipped into a telephone kiosk to contact police but Brant had assaulted her before they arrived.

Brant, who had been banned from working with children for life, was deeply ashamed of his actions, said Mr Hobson. Homelessness and alcohol had led to his offending but since he had been in prison on remand he was no longer craving for a drink.

Judge Juckes said there was no criticism of the mother for letting Brant into the house. She was merely extending the hand of friendship to a man she thought knew her husband. By committing such a “horrible” crime and his lust overcoming his inhibitions, Brant showed he was still a danger to children.

July 2012

Criminal order continues

A MAN from Malvern who has been before the courts for 73 offences since 1997 is to continue to be subjected to a Criminal Anti-social Behaviour Order.

Confirming the Crasbo at Worcester Crown Court, Judge Robert Juckes QC said 31-year-old David Brant, of Orchid Court, Poolbrook, had been a persistent offender when he was in drink.

Brant was last arrested in Kidderminster in February this year when passers-by found him lying drunk and unconscious in Green Street.

When he was taken to the police station, he became abusive and violent. He was fined £100 for being drunk and disorderly.

The case was passed to Worcester magistrates on May 14 when the two-year asbo was made, said Charles Hardy, prosecuting at crown court.

The magistrates were told of Brant’s year of unruly behaviour, mainly at Malvern Theatre and library and on one occasion when he caused £6,700 damage to 13 cars.

Michael Aspinall, for Brant who is currently in custody, appealed against the terms of the Crasbo, which he said were unclear and imprecise.

He conceded Brant had a drink problem but this should not be criminalised by the threat of prison.

The judge agreed that the object of the order was to deter rather than punish.

But it was still necessary to protect the public against anti-social behaviour.

He allowed the appeal against the original terms of the Crasbo but ruled it could be used against Brant if he caused alarm to anyone by using abusive, threatening and violent behaviour.

Robert McFarlane – Kilmarnock

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April 2014

Kilmarnock Rapist Jailed Again

A Convicted rapist from Kilmarnock who went on the run from police has been jailed for four  months.

Robert McFarlane, 47, was subject to a court order banning him from all contact with young girls after being imprisoned for a string of serious sexual offences.

At Kilmarnock Sheriff Court, he admitted failing to notify officers of his whereabouts and activities between March and April last year.

The high-risk offender was placed under restrictions in 2007 after being convicted and jailed for rape, assault with intent to ravish, lewd and libidinous conduct and a sex offence involving a child.

Connor Quigley – Kilmarnock

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April 2014

Kilmarnock Teen Jailed For Abusing 5 Year Old

Connor Quigley - Kilmarnock

A Babysitter from Kilmarnock who sexually abused the five-year-old girl he was supposed to be looking after has been jailed.

Connor Quigley, 19, pretended to be playing a game with his victim, who told police she “felt sad” when it happened.

He was caught after the girl’s mother found her under her bed and she replied: “I’m hiding from Connor because he touches me.”

Quigley told her not to tell anyone what had happened, the town’s sheriff court heard.

He was given one year’s detention and placed on the Sex Offenders Register for 10 years  after admitting sexual abuse at various addresses between July 2012 and March 2013.

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