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John Williams – Penycae

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August 2013

Penycae sex offence man tried to take his own life

A MAN who had never been in any trouble before inexplicably exposed himself and indulged in an indecent act in front of a little girl.

When the girl told her parents what had happened, John Kevin Williams, 58, was confronted by them.

He admitted what he had done and then made a serious attempt to take his own life, a court was told.

Williams, of Hall Street, Penycae, near Wrexham, pleaded guilty to indulging in an indecent act in front of the child.

Judge Niclas Parry, sitting at Mold Crown Court, sent him on a community sex offender programme.

“This was quite inexplicable behaviour,” he said.

There was a great disparity in age.

“This is all about you putting your own sexual gratification above the welfare of a young child,” the judge said.

He had no previous convictions of a sexual nature, had pleaded guilty immediately and had admitted what he had done to the girl’s family when challenged.

Williams was contrite and clearly remorseful. The incident was short lived and he did not touch her.

There were no threats or coercion and he had displayed proper victim empathy.

Judge Parry said in the circumstances it was entirely appropriate he would protect the public and young girls in particular by passing a three year community order with supervision, under which Williams would attend a community group work sexual offenders’ programme.

He also made an order the defendant must not stay in a house even for one night where there was a child under the age of 16.

Williams was also placed on the sexual offenders’ register for the next five years.

Sion ap Mihangel, prosecuting, said the incident in June occurred when the defendant opened his trousers, exposed himself and indulged in an indecent act in the presence of the girl.

She later told her parents what he had done, and when confronted he admitted it.

The matter was reported to the police but before he could be arrested Williams made a concerted attempt to take his own life.

He was arrested in hospital on July 1 and when interviewed made full admissions.

Williams had been remanded in custody by magistrates who had been concerned for his welfare.

Stephen Edwards, defending, said: “He has lost everything, his home, his employment and his reputation. This is a man who is entirely broken.

“This moment of madness has already changed his life forever. He has paid a very heavy price for his actions.”



Matthew Woodgate – Maidstone/Ashford

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August 2013

Convicted sex offender jailed after targeting children at Stour Leisure Centre in Ashford

A sex offender – banned by a court order from targeting children – has been caught chatting with two eight-year-old boys.

Matthew Woodgate, 22, had been given the ban for downloading disgusting images of children.

But in June he approached the boys at the Stour Leisure Centre in Ashford– in defiance of the Sex Offences Prevention Order.

He began asking them intimate questions and offered one of them money – frightening him so much he told his mother that he feared he was about to be raped.

Woodgate, from Maidstone, later told probation officers he was curious to discover if the boys were “sexually aware”.

The sick pervert then confessed his urges were “like floodgates opening and then drowning me in my own thoughts” and could have led to contact with his victims.

But in jailing him for two years, Judge Adele Williams told him: “You have an entrenched, distorted and perverted view of sex with children and pose a high risk of harming them.”

Prosecutor Edmund Burge told Canterbury Crown Court: “He was at the swimming pool and on two separate occasions he approached young boys

“He engaged them in conversations which very swiftly turned into discussions about their genitals. “

The court heard that the youngsters were so alarmed they immediately reported the incidents to their parents, who alerted pool officials.

“Woodgate was stopped and admitted having such conversations with the boys, saying that it was a joke which had gone rather too far.”

Woodgate, of Tufton Street, Maidstone, admitted two breaches of the SOPO which was made at Maidstone Crown Court in 2008 after he admitted 22 charges of downloading indecent images of children.

The court heard that in January 2010, lawyers for the pervert successfully reduced the indefinite ban on approaching unaccompanied children to three and a half years.

Yet three and a half months later in April that year he admitted nine charges of breaching the order and one charge of possessing an indecent photograp

He was sent to a young offender’s institute for 16 months and given another five year ban.

Mr Burge said:“For a 22-year-old man he has a relatively lengthy record, which includes a 2006 official warning by police after approaching a young female child.

“He has a marked tendency to try to engage young children, especially boys, in sexually explicit conversations, “ he added.

Nicholas Jones, defending, said: “These are serious breaches of the order which goes to the very heart of the kind of conduct it was designed to prevent.

 


Brett Saunders – Toothill

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August 2013

Man jailed again for child abuse images

A MAN who started downloading indecent images of children just 16 months after he was released from prison for similar offences is back behind bars.

Brett Saunders, of Beaulieu Close, Toothill, had thousands of pictures and movies of child abuse on his computer which he was banned from owning.

The 40-year-old was caught after an investigation by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre into a website where ‘bespoke’ images of abuse were made.

Rosie Collins, prosecuting, told Swindon Crown Court the site could only be accessed by prior knowledge and involved having specialist software downloaded.

“It was a site were movies were effectively being made to order: bespoke movies,” she told the court, adding there was no indication he had been involved in ordering abuse.

They traced one of the users to Saunders and arrested him at his home in Swindon in September last year. When they searched it they found a laptop, a hard drive, two thumb drives, and a mobile phone, none of which he was allowed to have.

The hardware and storage media were examined and found to contain more than 5,000 images and movies of children being abused.

Miss Collins said the vast majority of them were of victims under the age of 13 with some as young as three or four years old.

She said in May 2010 he was jailed for eight months and also put under a sexual offences prevention order.

The terms of that order meant he was not allowed to use a computer or other device without approved filter software and the permission of the police.

When he was questioned he admitted he had been downloading indecent images of children saying he couldn’t explain why he started doing it again.

Saunders pleaded guilty to breaching a sexual offences prevention order, eight counts of making and one of possessing indecent images of children.

He was jailed in 2010 after a work mate found one of his CDs of vile images lying about at work, and when police were closing in on him he threw a laptop into a river.

Graham Bennett, defending, said that during his short prison sentence he received little help for his addiction to the material he was looking at.

He said he knew that he was facing the prospect of a jail term for what he had done.

Passing sentence Judge Euan Ambrose said: “Between November 2011 and September last year, a period of about ten-and-a- half months, you searched for, sought out and downloaded no fewer than 5,672 indecent images of children.

“In all probability there were more on your computer, but the police only have resources to catalogue them so far.

“You express remorse and a desire to seek treatment. While there is no reason to suppose those expressions are not sincere, they have to be viewed against the background here of repeat offending and the manner in which you breached the sexual offences prevention order.

“These were offences committed within a relatively short time after your release from your last prison sentence.”

He jailed him for two years and eight months and imposed a new sexual offences prevention order for when he is finally released.


Trevor Wilkinson – St Bees

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August 2013

CUMBRIAN MAN JAILED FOR 10 YEARS FOR ‘HORRIFIC’ SEX CRIMES

A Sellafield worker has been jailed for 10 years after he admitted 33 sex crimes, including three rapes.

Trevor Wilkinson, who lives in the St Bees area, was today locked up for the offences – the rapes, seven serious sexual assaults, some allegedly on a victim who at the time was not conscious, six offences of voyeurism and 17 other offences, mostly relating to his possession of hundreds of child pornography images.

One of the offences related to the possession of 926 indecent still images of children of the second most serious category and 55 moving images of the same category, relating to children aged under 13.

Carlisle Crown Court heard the scaffolder’s offences dated back to 2002.

Speaking following today’s sentencing, Detective Chief Inspector Nicholas Coughlan said Wilkinson, 51, had answered for the “horrific crimes” and justice had been served.

“The victims will have to live with the memories of his actions and our thoughts continue to be with them.

“There is no excuse for Wilkinson’s unthinkable actions and I am glad that he is now facing prison for his crimes,” he added.


Paul Williams – Caernarfon area

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August 2013

Paedophile used Facebook to offer 15-year-olds money for sexual favours

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A paedophile made explicit suggestions and offered drugs and money in return for sexual favours after contacting two 15-year-old girls on Facebook, a court heard.

Paul Anthony Williams, 36, of no fixed address, was jailed for 40 months at Caernarfon crown court and must register as a sex offender for life. A court order restricts his internet use and contact with girls.

Williams admitted sexual grooming and inciting a girl to engage in sexual activity. Police were alerted after the mother of one of the teenagers, of Prestatyn and Denbigh, saw Facebook messages from Williams.

Defence counsel Simon Mintz said Williams’s record was “unappealing” but his last sex offence was a decade ago. Although there was “sex talk” with the girls, no sexual assaults actually took place.

Prosecutor Caroline Harris said Williams’s history included a 1996 conviction for indecent assault on a girl of six, and sexual intercourse with underage girls.

Recorder Keith Bush said Williams was “extremely dangerous” to young girls. He had persistently contacted one of his latest victims to meet up for sexual purposes.

The judge said “serious distress” had been caused. “Mercifully, matters didn’t proceed as far as any physical meeting between you and the young girls,” he added.

“It’s behaviour which I’m sad to say seems to be part of your personality.”


Shane Adams – Trowbridge/Chitterne

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August 2013: Now living in Chitterne, Wiltshire

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He raised cash for children’s charities but now he’s a child abuse images pervert

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A PERVERTED minister who raised money for children’s charities has escaped jail after admitting downloading more than 100 child abuse images.

Spiritualist Shane Adams, 30, formerly of Ramsbury Walk, Trowbridge, was given a community rehabilitation order despite some of the pictures being rated at level five, and deemed by a district judge to be ‘clearly sadistic in nature’.

Handing down the sentence after reading psychiatric reports district judge Simon Cooper said: “You have pleaded guilty to making and possessing indecent photographs of children. I am acutely aware that these were serious and unpleasant images.

“I am less clear from the reports that you fully appreciated the effect of these photographs being taken and being made available to the world, the effect it has on the children themselves.”

At a previous hearing the court heard police searched the home Adams shared with his wife in Abdon Close, Chitterne, on April 6 2005.

He admitted downloading the images, telling officers he planned to send them to Prime Minister Tony Blair to highlight misuse of the internet.

Of the 102 images recovered, three were rated at level five, two of which included scenes of sadism, with others at levels one to four.

The court heard Adams suffers from learning problems and dyslexia, and his personality had changed after he suffered from the brain disease encephalitis as a 16 year old.

Andrew Eddy, defending, said his client had self-harmed as a young man and had been prescribed medication for depression several times over the years.

Adams, an ordained minister who registered with the California-based Universal Church of Life over the internet in 2002, hit the headlines two years ago after a local vicar branded him as ‘evil’ for holding spiritualist events in Trowbridge.

He set up Trowbridge Spiritualist Church in March 2004 and as well as spiritualist meetings performed vampire weddings and exorcisms.

At Chippenham magistrates’ court yesterday he was given a three-year community rehabilitation order and ordered to register as a sex offender for five years.

Mr Cooper said: “It is clear from the report of the clinical psychologist that your cognitive disabilities impact on your ability to understand what you have done and how serious it is. If I sent you to prison that would surely be the end of you and that is not the purpose of sentencing.

“I believe the protection of the public can be achieved without imposing a prison sentence.”


Derek Storey – Sunderland

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August 2013

Vile Sunderland sex attacker told child victim to ‘shut up and lie there’

A MAN is behind bars after being jailed for 11 years for rape and a further string of sex offences.

Derek Storey carried out the sickening attacks on four young victims over the space of several years.

The 51-year-old, of Westheath Avenue, Sunderland, is today starting the 11-year sentence for the “devastating” abuse, which has plagued his victims throughout their lives.

One of his victims has made eight attempts on her life as a result of the abuse, Newcastle Crown Court heard.

Another victim branded Storey a “sick individual who deserves no compassion for what he’s done”.

A third said: “Whatever happens to him, it’s not enough. He has destroyed me and my young life.”

The court heard that Storey’s twisted behaviour began with molesting his first victim, going on to rape her a few years later, telling her to “shut up and lie there”.

The abuse first came to light when one of the victims referred to Storey as a “dirty pervert” in a Facebook conversation.

Eventually all four came forward.

When he was arrested on June 12 last year, Storey claimed the allegations were all “fabricated”.

Alec Burns, defending Storey, said that the abuse was a case of “curiosity” that had gone too far.

He said: “Things started off as curiosity but he accepts that things went far far beyond that.

“He seems to have accepted responsibility for his activities.”

Storey pleaded guilty to 11 counts of indecent assault and one count of rape on the morning of the trial, with all four victims ready to give evidence.

Sentencing him at Newcastle Crown Court, Judge David Wood said the effects on the victims had been devastating.

“They have all suffered and it’s really a wonder that all four of them have survived.

“These offences are so serious, only custody can be justified for them.”


Scott Bambrick – Hamilton/Stirling

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August 2013

Babysitter sexually assaulted three-year-old girl

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A babysitter who sexually assaulted a three-year-old girl has been placed on the sex offenders register.

A trial heard how the child’s mother went out for the evening, leaving 25-year-old Scott Bambrick in charge of her daughter and two-year-old son.

She returned to her Stirling home in the early hours of the morning and was woken next day by the little boy.

The mother, cannot be identified for legal reasons, was alarmed to discover her son’s nappy was fastened with masking tape. She found that both he and his sister had badly marked bottoms. A majority verdict convicted him of sexually assaulting the girl with an unknown object.

Doctors examined both youngsters and concluded that the injuries were not accidental. Some of the bruises appeared to be fingermarks, the High Court in Edinburgh was told. The little girl also had other more suspicious bruising.

Bambrick, of Stonehouse, Hamilton, claimed he did not know how the children were injured but admitted to police that he had given the little girl “a wee skelp”. He also said he had smacked the little boy’s hand.

In court, Bambrick lodged papers blaming their mother for anything which had happened. But a jury rejected his denials and also his suggestion that the little girl could have fallen against an upturned table leg.

Bambrick was found guilty, unanimously, of striking both children with his hand on the night of May 19 last year. A majority verdict convicted him of sexually assaulting the girl with an unknown object.

Judge Lord Uist told Bambrick that, as a result, his name would be added to the sex offenders register. The judge also called for a background report before sentencing Bambrick later this month and he was remanded in custody until then.



Dean Hammersley – Redditch

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January 2012

I was raped in broad daylight by sex fiend under police surveillance says Birmingham youngster

A TEENAGER has told how she was viciously raped in broad daylight by a sex fiend who was supposed to be under police surveillance.

The victim was just 16 years old when she was attacked by Dean Hammersley, who is five years older than her, as she walked along Bull Street in Birmingham city centre.

She met him a year earlier while she hung out with her friends in ‘Pigeon Park’ – the nickname they gave to the grounds of St Philip’s Cathedral, on Colmore Row – and another area known as ‘Fasties’, the roundabout at Lancaster Circus.

They used to call him “Creepy Dean” and Hammersley struck as she went to buy an ice lolly.

She said he started to kiss her and, as she tried to push him off, telling him she had a new boyfriend, he bundled her into the bushes.

After raping her, Hammersley callously told her: “Now clean yourself up, you dirty slag.”

Hammersley was under licence at the time for previous offences, the terms of which meant he was banned from contacting anyone under the age of 16.

The pervert, from Redditch, Worcestershire, was sentenced to 34 months in prison in June last year after he pleaded guilty to one count of rape at Birmingham Crown Court.

He was also placed on the sex offenders register for life.

The rape victim, who is from the Black Country but does not wish to be named, has broken her silence to urge police to improve the way they monitor sex offenders. Now aged 18 and studying for her A levels, she said: “Hammersley has left me suffering from nightmares and panic attacks. I can no longer go into Birmingham city centre because I am terrified.

“It brings back too many horrible memories.

“I just wish something had been done to monitor him better. He was known to me and my mates as ‘Creepy Dean’. The area where it happened was frequently patrolled by police, yet he went unnoticed.

“I was attacked in broad daylight in a busy area. I just don’t want this to happen to anyone else.”

She told how Hammersley coldly attacked her in June 2010, despite crowds and security cameras nearby.

“I had been walking back from Fasties with a friend at around 4pm. I’d been on a date with my new boyfriend the night before and was very excited about it,” she said.

“I nipped into the newsagents to get an ice lolly and the friend I was with carried on. When I came out, Dean was there instead and started walking with me.

“I told him I had started going out with someone, but then he tried to kiss me. I made it clear that I didn’t want to kiss him back, but there were bushes near us and he shoved me into them.

“I was desperately trying to get him off me, but he was a big guy. There are CCTV cameras everywhere, but he didn’t care. I was terrified – he had this awful look in his eyes.

“It lasted around five or six minutes and then, when he was finished, he just looked at me and said ‘Clean yourself up now you dirty slag’.

“He walked with me back to Pigeon Park, handed me a fag and said ‘Smoke that, it’ll calm you down’. When I got there I ran over to my friends and told them what had happened.

“I was crying and very shaken up.”

She said it was six months before she finally plucked up the courage to report the rape to the police. After watching a rape reconstruction on TV’s Crimewatch, she was scared that Hammersley would strike again unless she acted.

“I knew then that I had report him,” she said. “I’m glad he was put behind bars, but he will be out soon and I’m worried that he could do the same again if he isn’t properly monitored.

“He was known to the police before for previous crimes, but openly mingled with young girls right under their noses. He should have been on their radar and they should have known what he was up to.”

The victim, whose boyfriend has supported her throughout the ordeal, warned that she was oblivious to Hammersley’s past when she first met him.

“Dean would come along on his BMX bike and hang around with everyone,” she recalled. “That included girls who were aged 10 and upwards.

“No-one really knew much about him, other than he had come from Redditch and was living in a hostel in Birmingham. But he would try it on with girls and there was something about him that wasn’t quite right, hence the nickname Creepy Dean.”

The teenager said Hammersley was just one of a number of shady characters who targeted youngsters in Birmingham city centre.

“I think shoppers walking around the Cathedral believe the kids there are very innocent and just having a laugh. But, in fact, when you scratch the surface you see things are very sinister,” she said.

“I started going up there because I was going through that sulky teen stage when I didn’t get on with my mum.

“I’d met a friend who suggested we go up there to escape our problems. But I soon realised things weren’t as they seemed. Everyone was drinking and hiding the alcohol in McDonalds cups and bottles of Coke.

“I even started to do it myself. We’d stay there until around 9pm at night and sometimes headed over to a place we called ‘Fasties’.

“But there were also older boys present as well. They would say they were 18 but really they were 30. Young girls would also pretend they were older.

“I am worried about what else has happened there – and I am worried that I am not Dean’s first victim.

“What if he’s done this before but the girls are too scared to come forward? I just hope my story will encourage other people out there, and who are suffering, to speak up.”


Mark Moorin – Leeds

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June 2013

Leeds pervert arrested after using wife’s phone to download child abuse pictures

A child abuse images pervert from Leeds was caught after he downloaded vile images of children on his wife’s mobile phone.

Mark Moorin, 39, was arrested at his home in Pudsey, Leeds, following a tip off from police in the USA.

Officers then seized a computer from the house on Lowtown when they searched the property in November 2009.

Ewan McLachlan, prosecuting, told Leeds Crown Court a total of 1,427 illegal photographs and 133 movies were discovered. A total of 68 images were at level five – the most serious kind.

Moorin claimed he had swapped photographs with a couple and they sent him a file which infected his computer with illegal images.

He then claimed he had got a new laptop but that had also become infected with illegal images. He pleaded guilty to 21 offences relating to making indecent images of children.

Graham Parkin, mitigating, said delays in the investigation had led to it hanging over his client for three-and-a-half years until it finally came before the court. During that time Moorin had not committed any other offences.

Moorin was made the subject of a three year community order, during which he will be required to take part in sex offender treatment programmes.

He was also ordered to sign the sex offenders register for five years.

 


Andrew Fyles – Guildford

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August 2013

TV Dancing on ice coach had child abuse images 

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A Dancing On Ice coach has been convicted of making indecent images of children.

Andrew Fyles trained stars behind the scenes on the series that featured model Melinda Messenger and actress Gemma Bissix.

But ITV said the instructor will not be involved with the show again after cops found a stash of 1,030 indecent photos of children on his home computer.

Some images were rated grade four, which includes sex between children and adults.

Fyles, 39, was convicted of six counts of making indecent images of a child last month.

South West Surrey JPs handed Fyles, of Guildford, a three-year sexual offences prevention order.

The pervert, who also coached kids as young as two at a local leisure centre, was banned from working with kids and put on the Sex Offenders Register.

An ITV spokesman said Fyles has had no link with the show since at least 2008. A TV insider said: “He was a friend to contestants. A lot were parents and they’re disgusted.” Fyles refused to comment.


Roger Panesar – Sittingbourne

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August 2013

Sittingbourne father jailed after having sex with young girl he claimed ‘came on to him’

A middle-aged man who claimed a teenage girl had given him the “come on” and instigated sex has been jailed for four years.

Father-of-two Roger Panesar told police following his arrest the youngster was sexually active and would arouse him.

Maidstone Crown Court heard the girl herself told police she “went along with it” because she thought it was “normal” and enjoyed it.

But Judge Charles Macdonald QC said the law was in place to protect young victims who consented to inappropriate relationships.

“There is but one thin point (of mitigation) and that is she did not ultimately withhold any consent,” he remarked.

“But the law is there to protect young girls who make that decision and so it is hardly any mitigation at all.”

Panesar, of The Parade, Northwood Drive, Sittingbourne, admitted four offences of sexual activity with a child between December 2010 and March 2011.

Prosecutor Gary Pons said the girl resisted the 41-year-old at first and told him she was not interested when he tried to kiss and hug her.

However, the court was told she said nothing when, on another occasion, he started to kiss her.

“He took off her clothes and, in her words, she just went along with it,” added Mr Pons.

The girl told police sexual activity took place between them on at least 10 occasions.

In her interview with officers, she said: “I thought it was normal. I enjoyed it so I went along with it.”

Panesar admitted at the time of his arrest he had had sexual intercourse with the teenager, but added: “She came on to me.

The prosecutor added: “He said that she had instigated the sex. He said she was sexually active and would arouse him.

“He said it was a secret between the two of them, but denied making any threats.”

The court was told the girl had alleged that Panesar threatened to “punch the living daylights out of her” if she ever told anyone what was going on.

Tom Stern, defending, said Panesar also disputed the number of times he had had sex with the girl, but added he could “offer little” that would explain his offending.

“It was ostensibly consensual conduct… but there was a gross failure of judgement on his part.”

As part of his sentence, Panesar must sign the sex offenders’ register indefinitely. He was also made subject to a sexual offences prevention order which includes a ban on unsupervised contact with children under 16.


Liam Broatch – Whitehaven

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August 2013

FAKE FACEBOOK FRIEND LURED TEENAGE GIRL FOR SEX, CARLISLE COURT TOLD

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A man who used a false identity on Facebook to befriend a schoolgirl he wanted to have sex with has been sent to prison for three and a half years.

Liam Broatch was 23 when, using the name Darren Waddington, he got to know the 15-year-old on the social network site, Carlisle Crown Court heard.

Then, using his real name, he contacted the girl to tell her that the ‘other man’ had been spreading rumours about her sexual behaviour.

She believed Broatch had done her a favour by telling her and became a good “mate”, chatting with him innocuously on Facebook and through text messages, prosecutor Gerard Rogerson told the court.

She then agreed to his suggestion that they should meet, telling him that it would be an excuse for her to “get out of the house”, so he started taking her for rides in his car.

But, after telling her he was “getting sick” of his long-time girlfriend he was soon texting her on a daily basis, telling her he would like to “do stuff” with her, Mr Rogerson said.

She took that to mean sexual activity, he said.

“She went along with it because she didn’t want to lose him as a friend and have no one to go out with,” he said.

But on one evening, while she was with him at his mother’s bungalow he started to rub her leg before sexually molesting her. Then – while she was “frozen in shock” – Broatch pulled the girl on top of her and had sex with her, he said.

The girl eventually told her teacher, who informed her parents and the police.

Broatch, who is now 25 and lives in Kells, Whitehaven, pleaded guilty to sexual grooming and sexual activity with a child.

Passing sentence Judge Paul Batty QC said Broatch’s bogus identity was an aggravating feature of the case because it showed he used “manipulative and devious subterfuge”.

The judge said that what Broatch did fell some way short of rape but “she felt pressurised and coerced because she was in a vulnerable position in your house”.

Broatch, who had never been in trouble before, was ordered to sign the sex offenders’ register indefinitely. He was also banned for the next ten years from having unsupervised contact with any girl aged under 16, apart from members of his own family.


Peter Widdowson – Belper

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August 2013

Paedophile’s terrified victim ‘wanted to die’

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A PAEDOPHILE was jailed for nine years and told by a judge that his victim’s life had been blighted.

Six years of abuse only ended when she was in her mid-teens, leaving her suicidal and feeling helpless, a court heard.

Judge Andrew Hamilton told 65-year-old Peter Widdowson: ”She has been robbed of her childhood. I am afraid there is nothing I can do to give that back.

”It was a most awful experience – there was nothing she could do to avoid it. Nobody can blame her whatsoever. She must feel no guilt whatsoever.”

Widdowson, of Brookside, Belper, admitted six charges of sexual abuse ending in 1992.

He was put on the Sex Offenders’ Register and banned from unsupervised contact with any girl under 16.

Gareth Gimson, prosecuting, said in a statement, the victim said: “I can remember saying ‘stop it’ but he kept going.

”He just ignored me when I said ‘stop it.’

“I just could not escape him.”

Mr Gimson told Nottingham Crown Court the victim was left feeling suicidal and described ”several times she wanted to die”.

He said: ”Her childhood was stolen from her. It scarred other relationships.

”She was feeling violated, terrified and terribly disempowered. He was initially trying to make it some sort of game.”

Gurdial Singh, for Widdowson, said he was not involved in religion at the time of the offences but told the judge: ”In 2000, he found God.

”He is now a religious man. He accepts he is going to go into custody and has come here with a bag today.

“He stands by his faith which has enabled him to come to terms with his criminality.

”He entered prompt guilty pleas at the first opportunity. He entered those pleas and avoided any trial.

”He is someone who is well thought of. He knows he is going to be punished,” added Mr Singh.

Widdowson had no previous convictions.

Detective Constable Emily Town, who investigated the case, said: ”I praise the bravery of the victim for finding the courage to come forward.

“I hope the sentence will allow her to put this behind her and move forward with her life.

”Being sent to prison reflects the severity of the crime. Derbyshire police always take reports of sexual abuse very seriously and offences like this, which were committed many years ago, will be investigated thoroughly,” she added.

During the hearing, the judge said Widdowson had to be sentenced under old laws because of the dates of the offences. It meant a ten-year term was the maximum.

But now the normal range of prison terms was between 11 and 17 years.

The judge added: ”It indicates the serious nature Parliament takes of people who commit this type of offence.”


Jim Dargavel – Chippenham

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August 2013

Chippenham pensioner jailed for sexually abusing teenage boys

A widower who held an open house for teenagers where he supplied them with alcohol and cigarettes has been jailed for five years for abusing two boys.

Jim Dargavel, who used to be on the PTA at John Bentley School in Calne and a helper at Trowbridge Town, targeted the lads when they had passed out through drink.

But when the victims came to they found the old soldier, now aged 70, carrying out a sex act on them.

Dargavel, of Stockwood Road, Chippenham, pleaded not guilty to indecent assault on a child under 16 and indecent assault.

He insisted his teenage victims, now men in their late 20s, were wrong and the incidents they described never took place.

But following a trial at Swindon Crown Court earlier this year he was found guilty on both counts.

The first victim was just 15 when he and other boys from the area used to go to Dargavel’s flat to drink and smoke in the mid to late 1990s.

The boy would often pass out, through alcohol, or frequently be asked to stay back ‘for one more drink,’ as his friends left and then lose consciousness.

On at least five occasions he woke to find Dargavel, then in his 50s, sexually assaulting him, but he was too weak to force him off, the court was told.

The second victim had been a visitor to the flat at around the same time and bumped into Dargavel in a pub some time around the turn of Millennium.

After having a drink together the boy, then just 17, agreed to join him in his flat for one more, and took an ecstasy tablet before going there.

Like the other victim, he too passed out and woke to find he was being sexually abused by his host.

The court was told he managed to fight off his attacker and fled, being physically sick as he went.

Simon Burns, defending, urged the court not to impose a jail term describing his client as ‘an old fool’.

He said were he to receive a jail term he would lose his accommodation and struggle to find somewhere to live when he came out.

After six years in the army and six in the reserves he said he left with an honourable discharge and had a number of jobs including qualifying as a bus driver.

He said he also worked in the community including being thanked by the community for his work on the PTA at John Bentley.

Dargavel also helped out at Trowbridge Town, he said, and took part in amateur dramatics in Bradford on Avon.

Character witness Michael Davies, a retired lieutenant commander in the Royal Navy, said: “He is a very decent caring individual who wants to help people.”

Jailing Dargavel, Judge Euan Ambrose referred to the younger victim’s statement saying: “He said being sexually assaulted by you completely messed up his life.”

He told him “I do not accept the submission that these were totally opportunistic. This was repeat offending with a number of aggravating features.

“On your behalf I have been asked to consider either a suspended sentence of imprisonment or a direct alternative to custody in a community order.

“Quite simply these offences are far too serious for that, they are so serious that only an immediate custodial sentence can be justified.”

As well as jailing him for five years he also barred him from working with children.



Edward Lowe – Sandhurst/Barton-upon-Humber

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A 68-YEAR-OLD man has been jailed for 12 years after raping a teenage girl in Sandhurst.

Edward Lowe was sentenced at Reading Crown Court on Friday, August 2 to 12 years in jail for indecent assault and rape.

Lowe, of Elswick Gardens, Barton-upon-Humber, Humberside, was convicted Wednesday, July 10 of three specimen counts of indecent assault on a girl under 16 which took place from 1977 to 1979.

He was also convicted of raping of a girl under 16 between 1978 and 1979.

Lowe sexually assaulted and raped a teenage girl between May 1975 and May 1980 while he was living in Berkshire.

Investigating officer Detective Constable Eddie Hurley from the Windsor Child Abuse Investigation Unit said: “Firstly, I want to commend this lady for her bravery in coming forward, telling police what happened to her and then re-living it all in court.

“These were heinous crimes against a young girl who should have been enjoying her teenage years but instead lived in fear of this man.

“Hopefully the fact that he is about to spend a long time behind bars will offer her some form of comfort, however slight that may be.

“I want to take this opportunity to ask any other victims of sexual abuse out there to come forward.

“No matter how much time has passed, we will take you seriously and we will do everything to bring offenders to justice.”


Robert Ryan – Huntingdon

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Former MET officer jailed for child-related sex offences

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A FORMER police officer has been jailed for two years after he admitted a string of child-related sex offences.

Robert Ryan, of Great Northern Street, Huntingdon, was charged with two counts of making or possessing indecent images of children, two counts of attempting to cause a child to engage in sexual activity and attempting to arrange a child sex offence.

The 48-year-old, who appeared at Peterborough Crown Court for sentencing on Wednesday (July 31), had pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing.

Prosecuting, Andrew Howarth said Ryan, a father-of-two, had been a detective sergeant with the Metropolitan Police and his duties, although not linked to the charges, had included supervision of registered sex offenders.

He was arrested at home in Huntingdon in December 2010 after a 17-year-old girl, who he had met online, contacted police.

The pair had a sadomasochistic sexual relationship and engaged in ‘age play’, when he pretended she was a little girl, said Mr Howarth, but she became concerned.

“The defendant asked her whether she could find him a 15-year-old girl for sexual purposes,” Mr Howarth addded. “Such was her concern that she reported it to police.”

Officers seized two laptops and found a number of indecent images of girls, believed to be under 16.

Further examination of the computers revealed Ryan had been on internet chatroom sites in 2006 asking others for images of young girls.

Another log from the same year showed a girl, known only as Katie, asking: “Are you ok with me being 14?” He replied: “Yes.”

The court heard that explicit conversation followed, while web cams were in use. Mr Howarth added: “He asked whether he could meet Katie, the suggestion being they would meet for sex.”

For Ryan, Felicia Davy said he had shown genuine remorse and a willingness to seek help to rehabilitate himself. Having recognised he was addicted to pornography, he had been referred to a clinic by his GP, she said.

Significant matters that affected his childhood continued to affect him psychologically and emotionally, she added, and he had been dismissed from the Met and was in debt.

Sentencing, Judge Nic Madge said: “Making or possessing indecent images is a serious offence which involves the corruption, degradation and infliction of pain on real children.

“Lives are wrecked as a result. You must be aware of that given your work as a police officer.

“Sexual abuse of the girls whose photos appear on the internet would not have happened if it were not for people like you prepared to watch such images. It is not putting it too high to say you are indirectly responsible for their sexual abuse.”

He also condemned Ryan for being “directly responsible for the abuse and ongoing corruption of a girl who you believed to be aged 14”.

Ryan was sentenced to a total of two years in prison and made the subject of a five-year sexual offences prevention order.


Ibrahim Ali – Docklands

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A paedophile who described his addiction to child abuse images as ‘an evil within me’ has been jailed for two years.

Ibrahim Ali, 29, kept separate folders of boys and girls to store nearly 2000 sickening images of children to share online with perverts.

One horrific picture showed a baby being raped by an adult, Snaresbrook Crown Court heard.

Ali logged himself in to a file sharing network as ‘Candy Believer 69′ and distributed passwords ‘sex’ and ‘sex1′ to users depending on whether they wanted pictures of boys or girls.


Nicholas Smith – Dagenham

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Nine years prison for pervert who abused young girl while wife was at bingo

A pervert who sexually abused a schoolgirl while his wife was out playing bingo has been jailed for nine years.

Nicholas Smith, 46, told the youngster she was beautiful in order to take advantage of her.

Smith also told the girl her parents did not care for her and he was the only one who could protect her.

The assaults began when she was just 11 and ranged from hugging and kissing to acts of oral sex

Smith was also told he must sign the sex offenders register for life


David Broom – Merthyr Tydfil

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Man jailed for 14-year ‘campaign of abuse’ against vulnerable children

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A man has been jailed for 16 years after being found guilty of a campaign of sex assaults against three different victims.

David Broom, 64, of Cross Blanche Street, Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil denied 25 counts consisting of 16 for indecent assault, eight for rape and one of attempted indecent assault over a 14-year period.

They took place between March 19, 1974 and August 30, 1988 against three girls, who cannot be named for legal reasons and came to light at the end of next year.

But he was found unanimously guilty in a matter of hours of each count, many of which were sample counts representing a course of conduct over a period of time.

The jury had heard that Broom targeted two of the girls and that the third victim had been indecently assaulted just once by mistake.

The Recorder of Cardiff Judge Eleri Rees told him: “This was a campaign of abuse against two vulnerable children.

“You robbed them of their innocence and childhood.

“You left indelible memories that have haunted them into adulthood. The abuse ruined their lives.

“There has been a delay. Much was due to the fear and shame felt by the complainants instilled in them by you.”

Elizabeth Pearson, prosecuting at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court, said one of the victims had suffered difficulties and had sought medical and psychiatric help as a result of the abuse.

“She described how the abuse has totally destroyed her life.”

Ms Pearson said: “He [Broom] was a controlling and aggressive man who used threats to ensure their silence.”

She told the court he started to abuse one of his victims when she was just five years old.

She said Broom would take her out in the car to a remote location, but while there would indecently assault her.

“She never told anybody what happened to her as a child. She bottled it up,” said Ms Pearson.

Ms Pearson told the court Broom had also tried to abuse the girl, now married and a mother, not long after she had given birth.

The jury of four men and eight women was told that Broom had managed to keep her quiet about the abuse by threatening her.

“He would blackmail her that she would lose her child because he would go to social services and say that she was an unfit mother,” said Ms Pearson.

Giving evidence, one of the victims broke down in tears as she recounted how scared she was at the time, telling the jury she had known Broom to be nasty and violent.

The court heard some of the abuse of the two victims overlapped, with the second victim enduring more rapes.

Dyfed Thomas, defending, said Broom was not in good health and added that the abuse had ended some 20 years ago.

Broom will have to sign as a sex offender for life and will be released after serving two-thirds of the sentence, unless considered for release after serving half.


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