July 2015

Child rapist who kept young girl in boot of car jailed for 16 years

A MONSTER has been jailed for 16 years for a decade of sexual abuse against a girl – which included keeping her prisoner in the boot of his car.

Devious Colin Goss, now aged 77, repeatedly raped and indecently assaulted the child in a depraved and drug-fuelled campaign, Plymouth Crown Court heard.

He at one stage abducted her and kept her inside the boot of a car while he was at work.

His victim, bravely speaking at court 20 years later, said the abuse had affected here so much that she had been handed a “life sentence”.

Goss first indecently touched her when she was four or five.

She gave three recorded interviews over a decade but police and prosecutors never took her case to court until last year.

Judge Paul Darlow, jailing him for a total of 16 years, said: “The charges against you reflect your depraved, violent, drunken or drugged abuse between the ages of five and about 15.”

He said Goss deceived her and sought to control her as a young girl.

Judge Darlow said Goss must have thought he had “immunity” after he was arrested but not charged with the first offences.

Goss, of Stuart Road, Stoke, pleaded guilty to one count of indecency with a child, two counts of indecent assault and three charges of rape between 1985 and 1995.

Jo Martin, for the Crown Prosecution Service, said Goss tricked the girl aged four or five into touching him indecently, claiming he would otherwise fall ill and need to go to hospital.

Goss again preyed on the girl in August 1995.

Miss Martin said: “He was hiding her then, both at his flat and when he went to work in the boot of his car at a garage.”

Miss Martin said it was an example of Goss’s controlling nature that he wanted to keep his victim close to him.

Goss admitted two charges of child abduction. He was previously jailed for fraud.

Nigel Hall, for Goss, said: “He is 77, he has the physical and mental ailments that trouble someone of that age. There is very little I can say in mitigation other than he has pleaded guilty.”

MISSED CHANCES

COLIN Goss could have been stopped early in his campaign of sexual abuse if police and prosecutors had acted on his victim’s first complaint.

She gave three separate interviews to police over almost a decade between 1987 and 1996 but he was never taken to court.

She came forward yet again last year to tell her story – and this time Goss was charged and pleaded guilty to the abuse.

The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said she felt “let down” and did not trust the police after making her complaint last year.

Judge Paul Darlow said it “seemed incredible now” that her previous complaint of rape did not result in a prosecution in the mid-90s

Police and the Crown Prosecution Service have said that procedures in dealing with people making sexual complaints has changed out of all recognition since she first came forward.

The girl made complaints to the police four times over a decade.

Jo Martin, prosecuting barrister, said: “On all of these previous occasions, the police and the Crown Prosecution Service took the view that there was not enough evidence to prosecute.”

Goss simply denied all the offences in the 1980s and answered “no comment” in later interviews.

Miss Martin said that it was national policy in the 1980s not to prosecute alleged sex offenders unless there was independent corroboration of a victim’s complaint.

She said that procedure changed in the 1990s.

But her complaint of sexual assault to Devon and Cornwall police when she was 11 or 12 again did not result in a prosecution.

Goss was then free to abuse the girl once again when she was 14 or 15.

Her complaint in the mid-90s, this time to police in Northamptonshire, again did not reach a courtroom.

VICTIM TELLS OF HER LIFE SENTENCE

THE VICTIM, driven to attempt suicide as a teenager, told a court almost 20 years later that her abuse at the hands of Goss had handed her a “life sentence”.

The woman said: “He has sentenced me to a life sentence. He has had his life, I have lost the biggest part of mine and I will never be free.”

She added that she had been “terrified” up until last year, when Goss was finally arrested.

The woman said: “I feel that I have failed miserably. My marriage has been destroyed.”

The court heard that she had gone “off the rails” in her teens because of the abuse at the hands of Goss.

She had a baby at the age of 16.

The woman said: “You feel that all you are worth is between your legs.”

She told the court that marriage had been wrecked by her problems with intimacy.

Goss incredibly sat in the dock without showing a flicker of emotion.

Earlier, she had told the court how she struggled to cope in her late teens.

She told police in a three-hour interview last year: “I was a real mess. I tried to kill myself many times, to the point where they got fed up with me because I never did it right.

“I was taking speed, acid, whatever I could get hold of. I was completely off the rails. I was mixing with the wrong people. I did not want to be me.”

She was on the Emergency Protection Register. She said that police dealt with her so much that officers used to carry little photographs of her.

She told police: “I was pregnant. I could not tell you who. To me, sex was what all guys wanted. That is what I was trained to believe.”

The woman said at the age of 18, she was found accommodation in a big house.

She added: “I did not know what to do, I could not even wire a plug. I let all the wrong people into the house. They were taking drugs.”

Unable to cope, she fell under the influence of the man again. He kept in touch and provided her money – though he never abused her again.

Judge Paul Darlow said it was a testament that her strength as a woman that she had come forward to police time and again

July 2015

Paedophile jailed for sexually abusing girl for over 13-years

A paedophile has been jailed after being found guilty of sexually abusing a female child over a period of 13-years

Patrick cooper, 66, of Birstall was found guilty of 11 charges of serious sexual abuse against a young female and was sentenced to a total of nine years imprisonment

After a trial at Leicester Crown Court, the jury found Cooper guilty of:

• Nine counts of gross indecency with a child 

• Two counts of indecent assault on a female child

The abuse started when the victim was aged just three-years-old and continued until she reached sixteen and a half years old

The offences were committed at houses in Syston and Leicester.

Copper was placed on the sex offenders register for life.

The defendant was also prohibited from having any unsupervised access with any female aged under 16-years-old.

July 2015

Leeds man jailed a decade after carrying out sex assault on 8-year-old girl

A MAN has been jailed a decade after sexually assaulting an eight year old girl.

Scott Heeps was jailed for two years after being found guilty of carrying out the attack on the victim in the Bramley area of Leeds in 2005.

A court heard the incident was reported to police at the time of the incident by the girl’s mother but it was not investigated properly.

Officers spoke to Heeps about the allegation but he denied any wrong-doing and the victim and her mother were never formally interviewed.

Leeds Crown Court heard the girl suffered serious psychological harm as a result of her ordeal and was persuaded to approached police again in 2013.

Heeps was eventually charged with sexual assault and was found guilty of the offence by a jury in May this year.

In a victim impact statement read out on her behalf to the court, the victim said: “I do not believe he deserves the satisfaction to know how he makes me feel but he does deserve to feel guilty for the rest of his life for what he did to me.”

She added: “He kills me inside, day in, day out. I have got to live with what he did to me for the rest of my life.”

Heeps, now 27, of Fairfield Hill, was told the offence was so serious that only an immediate prison sentence could be imposed.

Referring to the delay in Heeps being brought to justice, Recorder Anton Lodge, QC, said: “Nothing further was done by police.

They did not seek to gain evidence from (the victim or her mother) and that delay from 2005 to 2013 cannot be attributed, in my judgement, to you in any way at all.”

June 2012

Galashiels teenager jailed over sex assaults

A teenager from Galashiels who sexually assaulted a young girl and a 15-year-old boy has been jailed for two years at the High Court in Edinburgh.

Jordan Pearson, 18, was found guilty last month of attacking the pair over a four-and-a-half-year period.

The court had heard he began abusing the girl in May 2006, when she was aged nine, and had started to take advantage of the boy when his victim was 12.

Judge Lady Clark of Calton said she had no other option but to jail Pearson.

She added that authorities should monitor him for four years following his release from prison.

She said: “Plainly these offences are very serious.

“They were committed over a period on a number of occasions in relation to vulnerable children.”

Last month a jury unanimously convicted Pearson of three charges of sexual assault.

Update: Connor Ronayne was released in August 2014 for ‘good behaviour’ after serving just 10 months

October 2013

Perverted teen jailed for sexually assaulting four-year-old boy

A teenager has been locked up after finally admitting guilt for sexually assaulting a 4-year-old boy.

18-year-old former soldier Connor Ronayne (09.06.1995) of Acocks Green, Birmingham had continued to deny sexually abusing the boy, forcing the family of the victim to go through months of emotional turmoil.

Ronayne finally pleaded guilty at Birmingham Crown Court to the sexual assault of a child aged under 13-years-old after DNA swabs proved that he was responsible for the sex attacks.

The court heard the sexual abuse involved oral sexual activity on the young boy, molestation and indecent exposure. 

The charge of indecent exposure was however left on file.

Ronayne was sentenced to 20 months in a young offenders institution on 18th October 2013.

Throughout the investigation Ronayne showed absolutely no remorse for his actions and a total lack of empathy for his victim

He was ordered to sign on the sex offenders register.

July 2015

61-year-old man admits charges involving nearly 8,000 child abuse images

A 61-year-old man faces an anxious wait for his sentencing after admitting he made nearly 8,000 indecent images of children

Christopher Skinner, of Holly Lane, Rushmere St Andrew, also admitted being in possession an extreme pornographic image featuring a dog.

Skinner pleaded guilty to three charges of making indecent photographs of a child when he appeared before South East Suffolk Magistrates Court in Ipswich.

The court was told all four of the charges he admitted to related to the period between January 1, 2013 and November 6 last year.

One of the child abuse images charges involved 46 images – including 17 movies, another offence involved 7,257 images, and the third 534 images.

More than 2,000 of the images were said to be categorised as Level A – the most serious grading of indecent images of children.

Prosecutor Colette Harper said Skinner was arrested on November 5 when a search warrant was executed at his home.

Computer equipment was then seized and examined by police.

Larissa Hutson, representing Skinner, said she would be making no representations on her client’s behalf at the hearing.

Skinner’s case was committed to Ipswich Crown Court for sentencing due to the seriousness of the offences.

The date has yet to be fixed.

Skinner was released on conditional bail. The condition is that he must not have any unsupervised contact with children under the age of 18.

July 2015

Pervert found with indecent images of children and animal porn avoids jail

A MAN who was found with more than 1,000 indecent images of children on his phone and computer devices has avoided prison.

Scott Magee was found with the images after police received a tip-off about his email account.

After raiding his computer devices at his home in Sandpiper Drive, west Hull, officers discovered 96 indecent photos of children with the most serious category A status.

He also had 70 photographs of extreme pornographic images involving an animal.

In total, Magee, 20, had 1,483 indecent photographs on his laptop.

Stephen Welch, prosecuting at Hull Crown Court, said: “Information had been received that an email address owned by Magee was used to upload indecent images of children over the internet.

“On November 27, a warrant was executed at the defendant’s home and he was arrested.

“He was interviewed regarding possession or downloading of indecent images and made no answer to all questions asked of him.”

During the raid, officers confiscated an iPod, iPad, computer tablet, a Nokia phone, a memory stick and a HP laptop.

“When these were examined, all of them were found to contain photographs of children or indecent images of children,” Mr Welch said.

“The defendant was interviewed following the recovery of the images. There are a very substantial number of images of Category A photos.”

Stephen Robinson, defending Magee, said his client recognised the severity of the offence.

“In many respects, he appreciates he should be locked up,” Mr Robinson said.

“But a rehabilitation order could, for the long term, be the best thing to ensure he does not get involved in this sort of thing again.

“He has been frank about his involvement, and many people in similar experiences deny what is going on.

“This defendant accepts he has got a problem, which is unusual in this sort of case. Admitting having a problem is a first step to treating it.”

Mr Robinson said Magee started to look at the images following the break-up of a relationship.

“He is a shy and lonely young man, and the offences were committed following the end of the first relationship he had,” Mr Robinson said.

“He took that hard and started looking at pornography generally, and after a while started looking at this sort of thing and realised he didn’t have a problem with looking at it.

“He realises that such behaviour is horrible and he feels bad and guilty about what he has done.”

Magee was ordered to complete a 36-month supervision order and was signed up to the Northumbria Sex Offenders’ Group Programme.

He was also placed on the Sex Offenders’ Register for five years.

July 2015

‘Jekyll and Hyde’ cyber paedophile jailed

A cyber pervert from Widnes who described himself as a ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ personality with a sexual interest in young children has been caged.

Jack Sefton, 26, of Milton Road, was sentenced today at Chester Crown Court for 14 charges relating to sick images of youngsters as young as three.

Anya Horwood, prosecuting, said the vile collection ranged across the spectrum of images from Category C pictures to the worst type Category A.

The court heard Sefton made ‘frank admissions’ to police following his arrest on March 17, 2014, including that he had a particular interest in an image of a boy of about six years old being abused by a ‘father figure’.

Cops busted Sefton after a West Midlands police operation linked an online account in the name of ‘JustJack2A’ to the distribution of indecent images using the ‘Gigatribe’ file-sharing system and website.

Officers visited the defendant at home after his account logged on to access vile pictures at 8.08am.

Straight away he told them: “I know all about that.”

Police arrested and cautioned him and seized his Dell desktop PC and a memory stick.

The devices contained about 1,000 depraved images of children being abused including stills and video footage.

These included 353 images and 252 videos in Category A, 423 images and 139 videos at Category B and 287 images and 9 videos at Category C.

Investigators also uncovered pictures and rolling footage of extreme prohibited imagery such as bestiality.

They also found that Sefton had used search terms specifically looking for images of children.

He accrued a network of 18 contacts with whom he ‘traded’ pictures.

The court heard Sefton admitting pleasuring himself while looking at the images.

Sefton told police he was ‘appalled’ with himself and would sometimes stop himself from ‘finishing’ viewing the images.

He also installed and removed the Gigatribe software five times as he fought to contain his predilection.

Philip Martin, defending, said his client was of previous good character, had pleaded guilty at the earliest opportunity and had sought counselling and help to deal with his ‘sickness’ following his arrest.

He added that the public interest might be best served by not imposing an immediate custodial sentence as this would make him eligible for rehabilitation courses whereas these would not be available unless he had a sentence of four years.

Judge Roger Trigger, presiding, said every image contained a victim.

He added that the court ‘faced a dilemma’ between the need for rehabilitation in the public interest and the duty to mete out justice.

Sentencing Sefton to two years in total, reduced from three years because of his guilty plea, he said: “What you have to appreciate is for each of these images there’s a real victim, a real victim who will be traumatised by the experience in the knowledge that images of that young man or young woman will be there for ever, distributed by others to see.”

He added: “I regret to have to tell you that these offences are simply too serious to afford a sentence that does not immediately bite but I have taken the view that the starting point is correct and shouldn’t be increased.”

July 2015

Sex pest faces jail after being convicted to sex offences

Sex pest plumber Malcolm Nix escaped jail two years ago for a vile attack on a woman… but now he is behind bars.

The 55-year-old Dover man has been convicted of eight more offences – and has been told to expect a long prison sentence.

Malcolm Nix’s premises and seizing a laptop containing 160 indecent images of children after he had searched for the pictures using terms such as “teen nudes”, “Japanese school girls” and “Chinese teen p****”.

Also facing jail is his 84-year-old father Horace Nix, who was also found guilty of sex offences by a jury at Canterbury Crown Court.

Horace, of Manley Close, Whitfield was given bail until the sentencing hearing next month but his son, of Holt Street, Nonnington was remanded in custody pending reports on what danger they both pose.

In 2013, Malcolm, who was then living in Canterbury Road Lyddon had been convicted of sex assault.

In an exclusive interview after the plumber received a suspended sentence the victim, from Thanet, said: “He should have gone to jail – even if it was just for a day. He needed teaching a lesson. 

“He is now walking about free, while I have to live with the consequences of his vile behaviour. This isn’t justice.” 

She had to relive her ordeal twice after the first trial was stopped for legal reasons and had to be re-started weeks later. 

The woman added: “During both trials, he made me out to be a liar, claimed that I had made the whole thing up. 

“At least I have the satisfaction now that the jury believed me and everyone knows that he is the liar and a sex pest.” 

Police began a new investigation after receiving complaints from two other victims telling how they were attacked by the pervert pair.

Father and son denied 14 offences – but the jury convicted them on every charge after hearing how police found disgusting images of children on Malcolm Nix’s computer.

Prosecutor Peter Forbes revealed how one of the children made allegations against Horace Nix in the 1990s after calling Child Line.

Charges were never brought after the girl was made to believe the attack was just a dream and she retracted her claims.

Some years later the victim told how she “freaked out” after watching an episode of the soap Hollyoaks in which the issue of child sex abuse was part of the storyline.

Again no charges were brought against Horace.

But when one of the victims heard via Facebook about the 2013 sex attack, they asked the police to start a new investigation.

That led to officers raiding Malcolm Nix’s premises and seizing a laptop containing 160 indecent images of children

Both men denied the allegations claiming the victim’s complaints were “a pack of lies” and Malcolm tried to blame two lodgers for the illegal images. The jury rejected their stories.

Two years ago, Malcolm – who had earned £28,000-a-year from his plumbing work at Shorncliffe Barracks in Folkestone – had been given a nine-month prison sentence, suspended for two years.

January 2014

Offender jailed for sex abuse

A MAN has been locked up for 11 years after being found guilty of sexually abusing young girls.

Robert Greenway, of Clifton Terrace, Holyhead, had denied 20 charges against girls as young as three years old covering a 10 year period from 2002 until 2012 But a jury at Caernarfon Crown Court found the 61-year-old guilty after a trial earlier this week.

Sentence had been adjourned until yesterday.

Jailing Greenway for a total of 11 years Judge Merfyn Hughes QC said there were a number of aggravating features in the case.

He said: “You systematically abused each one when they were very young.

“You have destroyed their lives.”

The judge ordered Greenway must sign the sex offenders register for an indefinate period.

Greenway showed no emotion as he was led from the dock to begin his sentence.

July 2015

Orpington man jailed for sexual assaults on young girl

An Orpington man has been jailed for historic sexual assaults on a young girl.

Peter Honour, of Alma Road, was sentenced to four years imprisonment at Croydon Crown Court on July 3.

The 74-year-old was found guilty of two counts of sexual activity with the girl who was under 16 at the time.

The woman, who came forward in August 2013, was assaulted by Honour between the ages of 11 and 14 when she was visiting his family home.

Officers arrested and interviewed Honour and he was charged on January 3, last year.

Detective Constable Ben Briselden said he hoped this police investigation would give other victims of sex offences the courage to come forward.

He said: “The bravery of his victim in coming forward should be commended.

“Without her and the support she gave to the investigation and subsequent trial, Honour would not be facing the lengthy prison term he is today.”

March 2007

Sex offender avoids prison

A TEENAGER who enticed young girls into sexual activities has escaped jail.

Christopher Lawson, 18, of no fixed address, carried out the offences in January last year in the Chequerfield area of Pontefract.

At Leeds Crown Court on Friday, Judge Kerry MacGill handed him a three-year community order – with a condition to live at Ashdene, in Wakefield, a hostel which helps ex-offenders – and made him subject to a sexual offences prevention order (SOPO), with no time limit.

David Dixon, prosecuting, told the court that in January 2006, a 17-year-old Lawson lured two 12-year-old girls and a seven-year-old girl to fields and told them to wait by a fence.

He took one of the 12-year-olds away and told her to lift up her top so he could touch her breasts, before doing the same with the other 12-year-old girl.

Lawson then exposed himself and performed a lewd act in front of all three girls, but was eventually arrested after they told his then girlfriend.

He pleaded guilty on July 11 last year to two charges sexual assault of girls under 13 and two charges of causing or inciting a child under 13 to engage in sexual activity.

At a later hearing at Leeds Crown Court in October, Judge MacGill released Lawson to a bail hostel in Dewsbury on an interim SOPO to await sentencing.

But Mr Dixon told the court that two days after Lawson signed the order – which banned him from contact with females under 16 – he breached it with a 14-year-old schoolgirl.

Mr Dixon said Lawson bought alcohol for the girl, which they drank together, and then kissed outside his hostel.

But concerned members of staff at the hostel called the police and Lawson was again arrested for breaching the order.

The court heard he had previous convictions for cycling up to adult women, on three separate occasions, and grabbing either their breasts or bottoms before riding away.

Samuel Andrews, mitigating, said Lawson was aware he would be made subject to a SOPO.

He said: “If he commits further offences in the period of the order, he knows that the sentence of this court is likely to leave him with a life sentence. And that is a prospect that he is aware of and one he doesn’t wish to entertain.”

Judge MacGill told Lawson he would rather have sent him to Ashdene in October, and not the bail hostel, but beds there were “scarce.”

He said: “I released you on bail for a short period – four weeks. And what did you do? Went almost straight back to the kind of activities that got you here in the first place.”

He added: “Your offending has escalated from older women, who are more able to protect themselves, to young girls, who, particularly when drink is involved, are less able to do so.

“I want you to go to Ashdene to learn about your bevahiour and improve your attitude and to recognise there is the potential to commit serious sexual offences unless you are helped.”

July 2015

Photographer had vile sex abuse images of children

A professional photographer who was caught with over 1,000 vile images of children and babies being horrifically sexually abused has been sent to prison.

Colin Butterfield, 46, was jailed for 12 months after a court heard he made internet searches using terms including ‘boy rape’.

Police went to Butterfield’s home on Agbrigg Road, Wakefield, after receiving intelligence from authorities in Canada that he had been accessing indecent images of children.

Computer equipment was seized and found to contain 1,165 illegal images.

James Weekes, prosecuting, told Leeds Crown Court that 106 images and 16 movies were at category A – the most serious level of offending.

Some images featured babies as young as 18 months old being sexually abused.

Butterfield was arrested and admitted to officers that he had been accessing the illegal material since 2008 and got sexual gratification from the images.

He pleaded guilty to 16 offences of making indecent photographs of children.

Michael Jowett, mitigating, said Butterfield was a freelance photographer but had now closed down his business as his work had brought him in contact with children and young families.

He said Butterfield had been honest with police about the offences and had been for counselling to help him understand his behaviour and prevent him re-offending. He said: “Mr Butterfield is not under the illusion that this is something that can be cured. He realises that it is a serious problem that needs to be addressed.”

Recorder Andrew Stubbs, QC, said: “There are some offences that come before the court that are so serious only an immediate custodial sentence can be passed.”

July 2015

Erskine pervert had sick images of children

AN Erskine man is facing jail after he was caught with a sickening stash of “extreme” pornography of children at his home.

Allan Morton, of Park Hill, was nabbed with the horrifying illegal images in his terraced home in October last year.

And he has now been placed on the Sex Offenders Register after pleading guilty to possessing extreme child abuse images when he appeared at Paisley Sheriff Court this week.

Prosecutors agreed to drop one charge against the 34-year-old but he lodged guilty pleas to the two other charges he faced.

He pleaded guilty to a charge of possessing indecent images of children and a second offence that he was in possession of “extreme pornographic images depicting in an explicit and realistic way acts which include sexual activity between adults and children.”

When he submitted the guilty pleas he was cleared of claims he had made pornographic images of children between July 2011 and October.

It’s thought he was accused of making the pictures by copying them onto his computer when he viewed and downloaded them from the internet.

During the short hearing, Douglas Hamilton, prosecuting, told Sheriff Spy Morton was a first offender.

Defence solicitor Jonathan Manson, representing Morton, said that, due to the serious nature of the offences and the fact that Morton had not previously been before the courts, he would not to be assessed by social workers ahead of sentencing.

Sheriff Spy said: “The facts have to be heard and transcribed and sent to the social work department for preparation with the reports.”

After Hamilton said that the case could be adjourned to a future date for an agreed narrative to be prepared, Sheriff Spy adjourned the case.

He placed Morton on the Sex Offenders Register, released him on bail, and told him to return to the dock later this month for the detail about his disgusting actions to be read to the court.

Morton is the second Erskine man this month to admit possessing child porn at his home in the town.

Steven Keith was found to have thousands of indecent images of children on a laptop in his bedroom at the home he shares with his parents in Mains Drive.

He admitted being in possession of 2,638 sordid illegal snaps when he appeared in the dock last week.

They featured girls aged between eight and 15 in provocative poses and the court heard they were most likely downloaded via a file-sharing application.

Of the images found, four were pornographic films, while the rest were photographs.

Keith was also placed on the Sex Offenders’ Register and released on bail.

He will be assessed by social workers ahead of sentencing, which is due to take place later this month.

April 2006

Prison for pervert who abused schoolgirl

A MAN who carried out a string of sickening sex attacks on a schoolgirl was jailed for three years.

Stephen Bladon, formerly a customer adviser with the AA, was ordered to register for life as a sex offender.

The 42-year-old father of three from Darlaston was convicted at the end of his trial on three charges of sexual activity with a child and another of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.

Judge Frank Chapman told Bladon at Wolverhampton Crown Court: “There must be a significant sentence to reflect the harm you have done.

Bladon, of Rubery Street, was also banned from ever working with children.

October 2004

Child sex offender gets five years jail

A MAN who admitted a string of child sex offences was jailed for five years yesterday.

Terence Douglas Jackson was ordered to register with police as a sex offender for life.

And the 58-year-old, of Kingston Drive in Connah’s Quay, is prevented from working with children under 16.

When he comes out of prison, he will be supervised for a further three years.

Jackson claimed he could not remember much of what he had done

At Mold Crown Court he admitted 14 charges including indecent assault, indecency with a child, and inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.

May 2007

Teacher jailed for sex with schoolgirls

A supply teacher who groomed schoolgirls via internet chatrooms before making videos of himself having sex with them has been jailed for six years.

Anthony Mulhall, 32, from Liverpool, posed as a younger man to prey on the girls, some as young as 14, on websites such as Facebook and MSN Messenger.

The former soldier won the confidence of the teenage girls, convincing them to meet him and have sex.

Jailing him at Liverpool Crown Court, Judge David Boulton branded him “a systematic sexual predator”.

The court heard Mulhall, who also coached American football teams, made a video of a 14-year-old girl, dressed in a short skirt, lap-dancing and performing a sex act.

Mulhall, who told the girls he was only 26, also gave them presents of teddy bears and jewellery and took them on dates to the cinema. During these “dates” he would often video himself having sex with the girls.

The court heard Mulhall, from Ferndale Road, Wavertree, had admitted 12 counts of sexual activity with three girls, none of whom were his pupils, at a previous hearing.

He also admitted four charges of making indecent videos, one count of possessing indecent images and two counts of sexual grooming.

Detectives discovered a further 42 indecent images of 20 unidentified girls in Mulhall’s possession.

Mulhall was also disqualified from working with children and banned from owning or using a computer without permission.

July 2015

Judge warns man guilty of 11 child sex offences he will ‘almost certainly’ go to jail

A pervert, who indecently assaulted six boys when he was living in Saffron Walden in the 1990s, was warned today (Wednesday) that he faces a “substantial” jail sentence.

Brian Gibbs, 46, now of Wingfield Road, Lakenheath, Suffolk, had denied offences of indecent assault or gross indecency on boys aged nine or 11 who he befriended and treated to cigarettes, alcohol and food.

Chelmsford Crown Court was told during the trial that he used to drive them around, take them on trips and, while his parents were out, invite them to his home in Ashdon Road.

Gibbs, who the court was told was of “low average to borderline intellectual ability” and who did not give evidence in his defence, was unanimously convicted by the jury of all offences after deliberations lasting just 90 minutes at the end of a trial lasting nearly three weeks.

Initially there were 24 charges involving six boys, but they were simplified and in the end the jury had to deliberate on 11 offences of gross indecency, indecency with a child and indecent assault relating to the six youngsters.

Judge Patricia Lynch adjourned sentence until August 20 for reports and released Gibbs on bail, but warned him: “It’s likely to be a fairly substantial sentence. You should not be under any illusions about the likelihood of the sentence. It will almost certainly be a custodial sentence.”

The court heard that Gibbs touched the thighs or testicles of some of the boys while they were passengers in his car and on one occasion offered two of the boys 200 cigarettes and a Zippo lighter if they let him pull down their trousers.

One of those witnesses, now aged 34, told the jury his life had been “wrecked” by what happened. He told the court: “I just feel dirty from what I let him do.”

Prosecutor Paul Jarvis said Gibbs’ interest in his “teenage entourage” was sexual. It went beyond horseplay on occasions and included oral sex and masturbation. He said Gibbs took advantage of their immaturity.

The defendant, who suffers from epilepsy and diabetes and has learning difficulties, gave a statement to police when he was arrested in September 2013. In it he denied any sexual activity took place. He admitted he was gay but said he only engaged in sexual activity with adults.

Gibbs was also charged with seven offences of making indecent images of children, which were found on his computer when arrested. The jury was told about those offences but they did not form part of this trial.

He also denied those accusations. He claimed other people had access to his computer.

October 2014

A Suffolk man has appeared in court charged with 12 indecent assaults on six children in Essex over a eight-year period in the 1990s.

Brian Gibbs, of Wingfield Road, Lakenheath, is also facing a string of allegations relating to nearly 800 pornographic photographs/pseudo photographs of children. In total the 46-year-old is facing 19 charges.

All the alleged sex offences are said to have taken place in Saffron Walden and involve boys who were under the age of 16 at the time. The earliest accusation dates from January 1, 1990.

Other indecent assaults are alleged to have occurred on various dates between January 1, 1992 and December 31, 1997.

Gibbs faces four charges relating to one boy, three accusations relating to another boy, and two involving a third child.

He is also accused of one indecent assault on each of the three other complainants.

In addition to the alleged sex assaults Gibbs has been charged seven offences of making indecent photographs of a child.

Each of the charges are said to have occurred on September 5 last year at Lakenheath.

The total number of indecent images alleged to be involved is 762.

Gibbs made his first appearance on all the charges before North East Essex Magistrates’ Court in Colchester.

Due to the seriousness of the allegations his case was committed to Chelmsford Crown Court.

A plea and case management hearing has been scheduled for December 22.

Gibbs is currently on conditional bail.

July 2015

Carlisle man placed on sexual offences register for indecent child images

A Carlisle man has been placed on the sexual offences register after he appeared in court charged with eight-offences of ‘making indecent still photographs/pseudo/photos of a child’.

Casey Robert Chapman, 27, who gave his address as St Anns Road, Carlisle, pleaded guilty last month to four-offences dated between March 25, 2010 and December 2, 2013.

The offences relate to indecent ‘still images’, there are 2-catagory C-images; 1 category B and 1 category A.

He also pleaded guilty to four similar offences in relation to dates between August 18, 2004 and December 2, 2013, the category of indecent images are 2-category B image and 2 category A images.

District Judge Gerald Chalk sitting at North Cumbria Magistrates Court was told all the offences took place at an address in Carlisle.

The severity of the indecent images are categorised as, A is the most serious, down to category B images.

The judge said his powers were “insufficient” to pass sentence on Chapman; he will appear at Carlisle Crown Court to be sentenced on August 24.

July 2015

Pervert photographer avoids jail twice after taking indecent pictures

PERVERT Patrick Mackenzie has avoided jail twice after taking indecent photos of young girls.

Portsmouth Crown Court heard the 32-year-old was previously handed a community order after he took indecent photos of girls at an amusement arcade.

But he was hauled into court again after officers checking up on him weeks after he was sentenced found thousands of indecent images on a laptop at his flat.

Thomas Horder, prosecuting, said Mackenzie, of Bramble Road, Southsea, had been seen at an arcade in Southsea filming a young girl on May 27, 2013.

Mr Horder said: ‘He was accosted by security staff. They asked him to show them his phone.

‘He refused and as a result he was held and the police were called and he was arrested.’

Police then searched his home and a computer tower and hard drive were seized with hundreds of movies, including some filmed by Mackenzie, including footage up young girls’ skirts and of their bottoms.

Mr Horder said 754 movies were found on the tower, with 104 rated as grade four, the more serious type on the scale, 73 at grade three, 79 at grade two and 174 at grade one.

‘Of these videos, 21 videos were found on that computer that had been taken in a public place and appeared to focus on the bottoms of young girls.

‘They were videos that had been taken, some by the defendant, between March 9, 2012 and February 18, 2013.’

The device also contained 8,476 still images at grade one, a single grade three image and a grade four image.

The seized hard drive contained 55 grade one images, 21 grade two images, 15 grade three images and 96 at grade four.

Mr Horder added: ‘A number of videos seem to have been taken up young girls’ skirts.’

Mackenzie’s phone was also found to have 2,090 still images at grade one and 10 videos taken up young girls’ skirts or of their bottoms, Mr Horder said.

He added: ‘In interview he admitted filming girls in public. He didn’t accept any of the images were indecent.’

It was in that court case he was handed a three-year community order and sexual offences prevention order.

Police then attended his flat between 12 and 20 days after the hearing and found 2,681 indecent images, of which 1,733 were unique. Officers also found 10 videos. All of the images were classed at grade C, the new grading system.

In court he admitted 22 charges of making indecent images of children and one of possession.

Mackenzie also admitted a breach of a sexual offences prevention order after deleting internet history on the laptop.

He also breached his notification requirements by failing to register his address with police.

Recorder Anne Arnold imposed a 40-week prison sentence suspended for two years, with £380 costs and an £80 surcharge.

He said: ‘Within a matter of 12 to 20 days from the imposition of that sentence you were not only committing like offences, being found in possession and having made indecent images, but you’d also made a concerted effort to delete the images in breach of the sexual prevention order which had been imposed.’