April 2014

Barnsley man jailed for 12 years for rape of girl aged nine

A man now in his 30s has been jailed for 12 years for raping a nine-year-old girl 21 years ago when he was just 19.

Jason Woodhall, now aged 38, was a teenager when he took advantage of the youngster and began a ‘relationship’ with her.

The court heard he groomed the child into believing she was his girlfriend and agreed to sexual activity.

Sheffield Crown Court heard the offences took place during a six-week period in 1993.

They were reported to South Yorkshire Police at the time, but the girl didn’t want to press charges because she believed Woodhall was her boyfriend.

But she reported him again to the police in 2012 after realising his conduct was criminal, and after a spate of high-profile historic sex cases.

Woodhall, of Lilydene Avenue, Grimethorpe, Barnsley, was found guilty of two counts of rape and four of indecent assault by a jury at Sheffield Crown Court.

After the hearing, Detective Sergeant Heather Stocks, who led the investigation, said: “The sentence handed to Woodhall reflects the appalling nature of his crimes and demonstrates our commitment to locking up those who sexually exploit children.

“The victim has shown great courage coming forward and I hope this sentence offers her some closure after what has been a very difficult and traumatic experience for her.”

■ Anyone who has been affected by sexual abuse can get free, confidential advice by ringing Sheffield Rape Crisis on 0114 2447936.

April 2014

Former lifeguard rapist who carried out sex attack at knife-point after being deemed safe to work in the community is given SECOND life sentence 

A notorious rapist who carried out a savage sex attack at knife-point after being let out of prison for a day on ‘work experience’ has been given a second life sentence

Nicky Suddons, 26, was jailed for life aged 17 for a rape and six other serious assaults on women and a girl aged 13 in Manchester in 2004.

But after being deemed safe to work in the community, he assembled a ‘rape kit’ containing a knife, balaclava and rubber gloves.

Left unsupervised during his lunch break, he then tried to rape a woman in her 50s as she walked her Labrador in a park near Grantham, Lincolnshire.

The victim was only saved because the dog turned on the former lifeguard.

Now, Suddons has been handed a second life sentence with a minimum jail term of six years – but has been warned he may never be deemed safe to be released into the community.

Sentencing him at Lincoln Crown Court, Judge Sean Morris said: ‘I stress that is the minimum term you will serve.

‘I strongly suspect that the lesson in your case has been learned, and it will be many years, if not decades – and it may be never – when it comes to considering your release.

‘You are an extremely dangerous human being. I am convinced you will sexually assault and rape women in the future if you are released.

‘In this case your victim has been severely traumatised. She has not been able to return to work. She has been diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder.

‘She cannot now go out of her house without the dog and without a rape alarm. That is severe psychological harm.’

After his initial crime spree in 2004, Suddons became known as the ‘Yellow Brick Road’ rapist based on the area of Manchester where he carried out the attacks.

He later boasted about his crimes on social media sites, saying he carried out the knifepoint assaults for kicks and regarded himself as ‘untouchable’.

He was handed a life sentence in September 2005 – with the judge warning he had ‘an extremely high risk of reoffending’ and was a ‘highly dangerous young man’.

But in Spring last year, Suddons was deemed safe to be let out of North Sea Camp open prison near Boston, Lincolnshire, to carry out painting and decorating work in Grantham.

By that time, he has completed a sex offender treatment programme designed to deter him from committing further sex attacks.

Under the day release arrangement, Suddons slept at the prison every night, but was allowed out during the day to carry out his work placement.

While out of prison, he collected together the ‘rape kit’ – including condoms to stop police tracing him through DNA – before attempting to rape the middle-aged woman during his lunch hour.

David Outterside, prosecuting, said Suddons had left his work renovating an old property for a church, before making his way to Queen Elizabeth Park where he lay in wait for a victim.

After changing his clothes, he then confronted the woman as she walked her pet Labrador through a wooded area.

The woman told the jury how she turned round to find herself face to face with a masked man brandishing a knife. She said she fell to the ground and screamed while her dog started barking.

Suddons stood over her and warned ‘Don’t scream’, the court heard.

The woman told the jury: ‘My eyes were fixed on the knife and the mask. His thumb was on the Stanley knife as if the blade was ready to be flicked.’

Suddons backed off as the dog lunged at him and then fled, but was caught and later arrested after a cyclist stopped him from leaving the park.

Mr Outterside said that Suddons had carefully planned the attack and had hoped his rape kit would help him avoid the mistakes he had made leading to his arrest in 2004.

‘What was on his mind was rape,’ he said. ‘This time he was prepared and was absolutely determined not to be caught. He thought he could get clean away with it but he was caught red-handed.’

Suddons, originally from Abbey Hey, Manchester, received his first life sentence at Manchester Crown Court in September 2005 after admitting a rape and six sexual assaults on victims aged between 13 and 28.

Several of the attacks were at knife point taking place in a local park and in an area close to a canal.

He was ordered to serve a minimum of just four years because he was a juvenile aged 17 when he committed the offences.

In his latest case, he denied attempting to rape the middle-aged woman on 28 June 2013, but the jury took less than an hour to convict him.

In evidence, he claimed the last time he had had sex was when he raped a 28-year-old woman in East Manchester ten years ago.

He told the jury: ‘That was the last time I had sex. I think about sex the same as every bloke. I don’t think about it all the time. Not daily.’

Suddons’s conviction in December sparked a review of the prisoner day release scheme by Justice Secretary Chris Grayling, who described the case as ‘horrifying’.

‘This is a truly horrifying case and one that needs to be investigated thoroughly,’ he said.

‘I’m determined to get to the bottom of what went wrong and to take forward any lessons learnt from the reviews I have commissioned.

‘In future when people are released on temporary licence I want to see them tagged so we can better monitor where they are and where they have been.’

Last month, it was announced that day release from prison is to be scaled back following a series of serious crimes committed by offenders temporarily out of jail. 

Tighter rules about who is eligible for the scheme are to be introduced, while prisoners will only be allowed out for a specific purpose, such as gaining work experience, the Ministry of Justice said.

Day-release prisoners will also have to wear electronic tags, once technology is made available, the department added.

For prisoners with a history of serious crimes, there will be a new ‘restricted’ level where they will undergo stringent risk assessments by probation officers and other professionals. 

Suddons’s case was the second high profile case involving an life sentence inmate from North Sea Camp on work placement.

In October 2012, Lee Cyrus went on the run after being let out on day release for work.

He was only arrested after going on a crime spree and was subsequently convicted following a jury trial of five counts of exposure, wounding with intent, unlawful wounding, affray, aggravated burglary, robbery and burglary.

He was jailed at Southwark Crown Court in December when he received a new life sentence and was ordered to serve a minimum of 11 years.

November 1989

Choir pervert ‘too ill for jail’

A choirmaster who sexually assaulted a 15 year old girl escaped a prison sentence because of a heart condition

John Cooper, 51 yrs old of Colling Avenue, Seaham in County Durham attacked the schoolgirl pupil after a choir practice session at a care centre

Cooper admitted indecent assault and was given a nine month suspended sentence and fined £200 at Teeside crown court. Mr Peter Schofield, defending said prison might kill him

November 1988

Spiritualist jailed for sexual abuse of 14 year old girl

Spiritualist Robert Shaw-Marsh of Kirkheaton in West Yorkshire who tricked a 14 year old girl into sex saying it would give her supernatural powers was jailed for three years and nine months 

March 1987

‘He stole my childhood and my innocence’ 

A teenage girl told last night how a village church verger and former choirmaster used her as a sex slave for 11 years

The girl now 18 and a civil servant, said that from the age of six to 17 she stayed silent because she was too afraid to speak out. She could not even confide in her family and closet friends

But yesterday, after 49 year-old Gary Wenham of Hornhurst, Rotherfield, East Sussex, admitted in court that he indecently assaulted her, she told of her ordeal

She said: ‘That man took away all my innocence – he robbed me of my childhood. He has always been there, it has been going on for as far back as I can remember. I feel so angry and there is nothing more I can do.’

Wiping away tears she went on: ‘He used to ask us to go round after church for a glass of orange. That was how it started out. He would start by fondling and touching., and it ended with him sexually assaulting me on many, many occasions. When I got older he would say that if I didnt do what I was told he would beat me up. He said he had been in the army.’

The girl said her parents split up when she was young and she did not know what a male role was in a family. ‘He was stepping in and I looked up to him,’ she said. ‘I thought I should do anything he wanted to keep him happy, and he played on that. He always told me not to tell anybody and, at that age, you do what you are told. I didnt know any better.’

The girl who met Wenham through St Denys C. of E church in Rotherfield (pictured below), said: ‘I used to look around at school and wonder “Who the hell does it happen to here?”

‘I began to realise that I was alone. But I was terrified to say anything because I was afraid of him, of what he might do. He was always at my church.’

The girl who had a nervous breakdown and is still seeing a psychiatrist said a friend eventually persuaded her to go to the police

Yesterday Wenham pleaded guilty to two specimen charges of indecently assaulting the girl when she was aged under 15 years old

Magistrates at Mark Cross, East Sussex heard that Wenham subjected his young victim to a series of assaults that included sexual intercourse.

Magistrates adjourned the hearing until April 14 for social inquiry reports and remanded Wenham on bail.

It is not the first time Wenham has appeared on a sex charge. In 1960 he was put on probation by magistrates at Uckfield for indecently assaulting a nine year old boy

Last night the vicar of St Denys, the Rev Bruce Hayllor, refused to say whether Wenham would be allowed to continue his duties. He said: ;That is my business. You will have to come to church on Sunday to find out.’

November 1988

Sex case vicars jailed

Pictured above from left: Rev Dennis Allison, Gary Clough and Rev James Bent

Two vicars, a choirmaster, a church server and a fifth man have been jailed for sex offences against young boys

But last night the wife of one of the clergymen vowed she would stand by him

As father of three, the Rev Dennis Allison, 58, began a 30-month prison sentence, his wife Ann, who was recently hounded out of their home by angry neighbours, said: ‘He’s totally penitent. I’ll be waiting for him.’

Mrs Allison, now living at a secret address, said her children would ‘have to make their own decision’ about how they felt about their father.

Allison, vicar of St Peter and St Paul’s Wymering, Portsmouth (pictured below) was jailed at Winchester crown court after admitting seven indecent assaults involving two boys.

Mr Justice Swinton told him: ‘How you came to commit these offences really passes any comprehension.’

Allison’s friend, the Rev James Bent, 57 of West Derby, Liverpool was jailed for six months after admitting two indecent assaults on one boy.

The three other offenders were all from Portsmouth

Solicitor Stuart Eager, 39 of Farlington, a choirmaster at Allison’s church received nine months for two indecent assaults

A server at the same church, Gary Clough, 25 of Hilsea was jailed for 12 months for five sexual offences 

Professional musician Raymond Fullalove, 42 of Copnor, a friend of Eager’s was jailed for two years for five sexual offences 

One of the boys was first assaulted by Allison at the age of 12 years old and then abused by all the other men over a four year period. 

The second boy was just seven when assaulted by Allison

April 2014

Teenager raped six-year-old child claiming he was ‘curious’

A teenager who admitted raping a six-year-old girl claiming he was “curious” has been remanded in custody

Jay Wicek attacked the child at a property in Grangemouth, Stirlingshire last year.

The child eventually told her mother sparking a police investigation.

It led to Wicek admitting at the High Court in Glasgow to raping the child between March and May last year.

The 16-year-old, of Camelon, Stirlingshire, was remanded in custody and will learn his fate in May.

The court heard how the victim’s mother had noticed changes in her daughter, including her not wanting to visit the bathroom or go to bed.

In early May, the child then revealed what Wicek had done to her and police were alerted.

Wicek was later quizzed and said he had not wanted to hurt the child, but that he had been “curious”.

Prosecutor Margaret Barron told the court the young victim continues to suffer nightmares and is not coping well at school.

Judge Lady Rae deferred sentencing for reports and also placed Wicek on the sex offenders register.

April 2014

British man jailed for sex with girl, 13 in USA

A man from Oxford who authorities say travelled to the US to have sex with a 13-year-old Maine girl he met on the internet has been sentenced to 17 years in federal prison.

Nicholas Cheese was sentenced on Monday in the US District Court in Bangor on a charge of producing child abuse images because he recorded one of the assaults on the girl. He was also sentenced to five years of probation upon release. He pleaded guilty in October.

Federal prosecutors say the 27-year-old met the then-12-year-old girl in an internet chat room in 2012.

Authorities say he travelled to Bangor last June to meet the girl and had sex with her in a hotel room.

The girl’s parents reported the assaults to Maine authorities.

October 2013

Englishman pleads guilty to photographing sexual assault on Maine girl

The Englishman charged photographing his sexual assault on a 13-year-old Levant girl met online in a Harry Potter chat room waived indictment and pleaded guilty Friday to one count of production of pornography.

Nicholas Cheese, 26, of Oxford, England, faces a mandatory minimum of 15 years in prison and a maximum of 30 years. He also could be fined up $250,000. A sentencing date has not been set.

Cheese will be held without bail at the Penobscot County Jail pending the resolution of his case.

He initially was charged July 1 with one count each of gross sexual assault, a Class A felony, and sexual exploitation of a minor, a Class B felony, according to a previously published report. Those charges were dismissed by the Penobscot County District Attorney’s Office in September when Cheese was charged in federal court.

Cheese came to the attention of law enforcement June 30 when the girl’s parents reported she had been sexually assaulted by a 26-year-old man from England, according to an affidavit filed in U.S. District Court. In an interview with a detective from the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office, the girl said she met Cheese online in April or May 2012.

According to the prosecution’s version of events to which he pleaded guilty, Cheese told the girl he was coming to Texas for a convention and would stop in Bangor to see her. The two met at Cheese’s motel room June 26, 27 and 28, when he assaulted her.

When interviewed by investigators, Cheese admitted that he knew the girl was 13, that he had traveled to Bangor to have sex with her and that he had previously asked the girl for nude photos and videos. Those and at least one sexually explicit photo taken in Cheese’s motel room were found on his cellphone and iPod, according to court documents.

April 2014

Trowbridge man, 24, admits having child abuse pictures on computer

A man who had indecent images of children on his computer has been released on bail by a judge.

Ashley Meaden has also been ordered to register as a sex offender after pleading guilty to a string of offences at Swindon Crown Court on Friday.

Meaden, 24, of Arras Close, Trowbridge, admitted making and possessing indecent images of children and possessing extreme pornography.

Judge Douglas Field adjourned the case to Friday, April 25, to give the probation service time to compile a pre-sentence report and released him on bail.

July 2013

Pervert jailed for filming 13-year-old girl changing in Dundee

A 56-year-old Dundee man, who secretly filmed a 13-year-old girl undressing with hidden camera and then complained about the picture quality, was jailed for more than three years 

Graham Macfarlane, from Dundee, was also found in possession of more than 4,600 child abuse pictures and 759 videos.

Police made the discovery through an online conversation the 57-year-old was having with someone in Canada.

They then raided his house to find the illegal content.

MacFarlane told police he had become obsessed with indecent images of children after being introduced to them at a sauna in Edinburgh.

He said he used pre-paid mobile broadband dongles while sitting in his van, to hide evidence of the downloads.

Officers discovered a video showing a young girl changing – which Macfarlane admitted he had made by hiding his mobile phone in his trouser pockets, before hanging them up with the phone poking out and the video camera switched on.

The court heard how the former building maintenance firm manager complained about the poor quality of the video he had filmed before his arrest.

They also heard that MacFarlane had taken part in online conversations with other paedophiles and shared images while his young granddaughter was present.

Fiscal depute Isma Mukhtar told Dundee Sheriff Court that 67 of the still images and 25 of the videos found on his computers were at the top end of the scale used to measure their severity.

Macfarlane admitted three charges on indictment that between 30 June 2011 and 30 June 2012 he downloaded and distributed indecent images of children and that on 13 January 2012 he recorded without consent a girl under the age of 16 removing their clothing with the intent of him or others viewing the image.

Rosemary Scott, defending, said: “He hadn’t thought through the seriousness of this, but now he’s fully aware of it”.

Sheriff George Way jailed Macfarlane for three years and four months, imposed a two-year extended sentence upon his release and placed him on the sex offender’s register indefinitely.

He said: “I regret to note that you were disappointed when the video you made was of poor quality.

“You became ensnared in child pornography while in establishments connected to the live sex trade.

“You acquired a separate netbook and mobile dongles while in your van to conceal yourself from detection.”

He added: “The content of the images was totally disgusting and I won’t even attempt to describe it in detail, but it showed extremely young girls in scenes of rape and bondage.

“You went to great planning to avoid detection, and only a custodial sentence will mark the court’s efforts to denounce this vile trade.”

April 2014

Stanley man facing prison sentence after admitting sex offences with young girls

A MAN is facing a prison sentence after admitting a series of sexual offences involving young girls.

Appearing at Durham Crown Court via video link from prison, Colin Golightly, 56, pleaded ‘guilty’ to six counts of indecent assault and seven charges of sexual assault.

Sentence was adjourned to allow for the preparation of both a background report on Golightly by the Probation Service and assessment by a psychiatrist.

Judge Christopher Prince, therefore, adjourned the case for two months to allow both reports to be completed.

He also ordered Golightly, of Nightingale Place, Stanley, County Durham, to sign the Sex Offenders’ Register.

But he told him: “How long you remain on the register will depend on the length of the sentence you receive.”

Judge Prince agreed that Golightly’s sentencing hearing, on Friday June 6, can be via the prison video link system to prevent the need for him to be brought to court.

April 2014

Judge rebukes pensioner over indecent images of children

A PENSIONER who downloaded indecent images has been told by a judge he was “creating a market” for the abuse of children.

Brian Brinkley, of Welford Gardens, Abingdon, admitted one count of making indecent photographs of children and was sentenced yesterday at Oxford Crown Court.

Henry James, prosecuting, said the 65-year-old was arrested on March 12 last year after he used a website that was being monitored by the police.

He said officers found 339 images on his laptop, including 53 and three videos which were classified as being level four, the second most extreme category.

Mr James said Brinkley broke down in tears when the police arrived.

He told them he had tried to stop accessing the images, even asking his wife to remove computers from the house.

Tom Stevens, defending, said: “This is a man of otherwise good character who is filled with a tremendous sense of shame. A man deep with regret who has shown a genuine sense of remorse for becoming involved in this.”

Judge Ian Pringle said: “Anyone who thinks there is no real victim in these cases is deluding themselves.

“People who download such images are creating a market for the abuse of young children.”

Brinkley received a community order for two years with supervision, a sex offender programme requirement and was made subject to a sexual offences prevention order. He will also be on the sex offenders’ register for 10 years.

April 2014

Man who sexually molested a young girl to be sentenced next month

A 36-year-old man who sexually molested a young girl in Shipley in the 1990s will be sentenced by a judge next month.

The Recorder of Bradford, Judge Roger Thomas QC, told Paul Morrow that he did not know what sentence he would receive and he needed a comprehensive pre-sentence report from the probation service. He was released on bail until his sentence hearing on May 6.

Morrow, of Longroyd Crescent, Huddersfield, had been on trial at Bradford Crown Court accused of sex offences committed in Shipley against two young girls, who cannot be identified for legal reasons.

The jury heard that he had already admitted sexual assault charges relating to one of the girls, but denied any further offending against her and two allegations relating to a second complainant.

At the end of his trial yesterday the jury convicted Morrow on two further charges of indecent assault in respect of the girl he admitted molesting.

But he was cleared of 11 further charges of indecent assault and one of attempted rape in relation to that complainant.

The jury also found Morrow not guilty of the two allegations of indecent assault made by the second complainant.

At the conclusion of yesterday’s hearing Judge Thomas confirmed that Morrow would now have to register as a sex offender with the police

April 2014

Schoolgirl strangled and molested by violent sex attacker as she fed a baby

Jeffrey Mills left a schoolgirl in fear for her life by choking her until she blacked out then molesting her while she was looking after a baby

Savage sex attacker Jeffrey Mills throttled a schoolgirl until she passed out and molested her while she was feeding a baby.

Mills pounced on the teenage babysitter and tried to kiss her despite the fact she was giving the tot it’s bottle.

When she tried to push him off he tightened his hands around her throat then flung her to the floor, even though she still had the baby in her arms.

As the terrified teenager tried to flee to safety, Mills dragged her into a passageway, kneeled on her stomach and choked her again, Newcastle Crown Court heard.

The girl eventually blacked out and woke to find her trousers and underwear around her ankles and the baby on the floor crying, Katherine Dunn, prosecuting told the court.

A court heard the teenager made a harrow 999 call and was convinced Mills was going to kill her.

Now dangerous Mills, who once attacked three members of his own family with a knife, has been jailed at Newcastle Crown Court for six years and eight months.

His victim has been left deeply traumatised by the attack and told in a victim impact statement read to the court how it has affected her.

She said: “I think about it every day, I often think about what I could have done to change things. I get terrified someone else will assault me like he did.”

The teenager was babysitting at a house in Newcastle when Mills turned up and attacked her on the evening of October 27 last year.

Despite the fact she was giving the baby a bottle, he suddenly jumped on her, kissed her and put his hand down her trousers.

She had bruising to her neck, shoulder, arm, face and inside her eyelids, caused by the forceful strangulation. She also had grazes to her lips and a carpet burn on her back.

Mills, 27, of Briarside, Westerhope, was originally charged with GBH with intent and attempted rape but pleaded guilty to attempting to cause GBH with intent and sexual assault. Jailiing him up and putting him on the sex offender register, Recorder Ben Nolan said Mills is dangerous. Anne Richardson, defending, said Mills’ family don’t condone what he did but are standing by him.

April 2014

Paedophile dad-of-three was caught in online trap

A 48-year-old father-of-three was trapped by an on-line paedophile investigator when he arranged to meet a 14-year-old child called “Little Laura” after grooming her on the internet, Bradford Crown Court heard.

Donald Campbell, a Royal Mail computer software engineer, was filmed on a camcorder when he turned up in a park to meet the “schoolgirl” and the evidence handed to the police.

Campbell was brought in custody to court yesterday afternoon to be sentenced for attempting to meet a child following sexual grooming, between June 26 and July 10 last year, and 11 charges of making indecent images of children.

Prosecutor Richard Smith said Campbell, of no fixed address but formerly of Glendale Close, Buttershaw, Bradford, called himself Don Campbell NSA to speak to “Little Laura” on the Badu internet chat site.

Mr Smith said NSA stood for “no strings attached.”

Paedophile exposer Griff Roberts set up the “Little Laura 18” identity to trap perverts into revealing themselves.

The court heard that “Little Laura” told Campbell she was 14 the first time they chatted.

He said he was looking for “a regular young girl” and asked for her breast measurements and if he could touch her sexually.

On June 28, he asked for “a sexy pic” and told “Little Laura” he wanted her to wear a thin top when they met.

Campbell went to Shibden Park, Halifax, on July 9 thinking he was going to meet the child, after telling her: “I want you bra-less.”

Instead, he encountered Mr Roberts who filmed their meeting, in which Campbell admitted he was there to meet “Little Laura”.

The camcorder footage and evidence of the internet conversations were handed to the police.

Campbell told detectives he was drunk every night when at his computer.

Police seized computers from his home that contained more than 50 child porn movies as well as indecent photos of children.

Mr Smith said the films showed infants as young as four and adults having sex with children.

In mitigation, Campbell’s barrister, Jayne Beckett, said he had been in prison on remand for six months.

“There was a real element of entrapment as far as the case was concerned,” she said, adding: “He has a wife and children and desperately needs rehabilitating.”

She said Campbell was not allowed back to the family home or to have unsupervised contact with his two children and stepchild.

Judge Colin Burn sentenced him to a three-year community order with supervision, including 60 days of high intensity treatment for sex offenders.

“You have fallen prey to offending that is considered by every member of the public as abhorrent,” he said.

April 2014

St Austell paedophile Barry Walling who ‘had it in his make’ up to be attracted to children jailed for having indecent images

August 2007

MOTHER ABUSED BOY, 13 – Sex assault on son’s pal

A MOTHER sexually assaulted her son’s 13-year-old friend when he stayed at at a house in a ‘sleep over’, a court heard.

Housewife Della Corser, 41, of Guernsey Drive, Chelmsley Wood, sneaked into the boy’s bed in the middle of the night and began kissing him.

The lad protested and asked her to stop, but she carried on molesting him, and performed a sex act on him in a 45-minute ordeal, Warwick Crown Court was told.

But her estranged husband found out what had happened and told the lad’s parents.

Warwick Crown Court heard Corser’s husband had left her and she had been experiencing psychological problems before the incident last October.

Corser, who admitted indecent assault, later threatened the boy telling him not to tell anyone.

Adrian Keeling, prosecuting, said the boy was staying overnight at the home of a friend and Corser was also spending the night at the address.

Judge Marten Coates said she was guilty of a “serious breach of trust.”

She was given a three-year community order and was placed on the sex offenders’ register for five years.

April 2014

Plumstead child rapist released near victim’s home after just 6 years in jail

A rape victim has been left devastated and terrified at news her attacker is being released from prison back to an address near her home.

Moses Aghedo, now 22, was just 16 when he brutally raped two 14-year-old girls – in Plumstead High Street and Plumstead Common.

Just six years later he is being released from jail and is due to move back to Plumstead later this month.

One of his victims, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told News Shopper how the two-hour ordeal left her with internal injuries and a sexually transmitted disease.

She also admits hearing voices in her head and has attempted suicide several times since the attack.

She said: “I feel like I have been torn in half. My heart has been ripped. I feel broken.

“He has ruined my insides. I bleed every single day.

“He turned me mad.

“I haven’t slept a whole night in six years.”

The victim added she is effectively “imprisoned” in Mottingham, Eltham and Thamesmead – as he is banned from visiting these areas.

Aghedo dragged one of his victims into a car park near Plumstead High Street and raped her twice while banging her head against a skip on April 2 in 2008.

Greenwich police found forensic evidence at the scene linking him to this rape as well as another on a 14-year-old girl near Plumstead Common two months earlier.

The nightmare continues for the families who say they have received death threats and been attacked in public areas.

A relative of one of the victims said: “It is wrong that he should be able to go back to the same area where he raped a 14 year old girl.

“We are trying to change the decision that he is allowed to go back to the area where he committed the crimes.

“This man is a serious, serious predator.

“These girls need to know justice will be done.”

Eltham MP Clive Efford, who “wept” upon hearing their story, has backed their mission and aims to take the case to parliament.

He said: “It is wrong this person should be released and able to return to an area where he could come across his victims.

“There has to be some limitation on the threat he can pose to their future well-being.

“We cannot assume he would commit another crime, but certainly his presence has a huge impact on the quality of their lives.”

Aghedo was jailed for 12 years at Inner London Crown Court on December 12 in 2008 after being found guilty of three counts of rape. He has only served half his sentence.

A Probation Service spokesman said: “Serious offenders on licence are subject to strict conditions and can be recalled to prison if they breach them.

“Conditions can include exclusion zones or banning them from contacting individuals.”

April 2014

Ryan Heaphy caught with 23k indecent images of children by his wife in Brentwood

A PAEDOPHILE caught by his wife with 23,000 indecent images of children on a computer in Brentwood fled his home armed with a knife and threatened to commit suicide.

Ryan Heaphy, 32, pleaded guilty at Basildon Magistrates’ Court on Monday (April 7) to one charge of making indecent images of children in relation to the thousands of vile pictures and another charge of making indecent images in relation to the discovery of 101 movies.

The vile images, some of which featured girls as young as 10, were discovered by his wife on a computer in Shevon Way, Brentwood on January 28, whilst he was at work.

Prosecutor Samantha Doyle said: “Mr Heaphy’s partner had contacted him at work telling him to come home immediately.

April 2014

Paedophile jailed for six years for abducting and sexually assaulting children as young as four

A paedophile has been jailed for six years after abducting children as young as four and sexually abusing them in the flat he shared with his wife. 

Martyn Littell, 40, lured five boys, aged between four and 10, into his West Croydon home and enticed them into undressing using sweets and chocolate. 

A jury at Croydon Crown Court today found him guilty of two counts of sexually assault, two counts of child abduction, engaging in sexual activity with an eight-year-old boy, nine counts of making indecent videos of children and possession of indecent images of children.

During his trial, which began last week, the court heard how Littell groomed the boys by playing football with them near his house. 

The jury heard Liddell inappropriately touched two of the boys, then aged eight and nine, in an underground car park. 

The next day Littell performed a sex act on the eight-year-old, who admitted to his mother what happened after she saw them emerging from behind a fence.

The jury also heard one of the victims, aged six at the time, recall how Liddell offered him sweets if he undressed.

The boy said he refused but saw his friends putting their clothes on in Liddell’s bedroom.

Littell denied all the allegations, suggesting they were revenge for him shouting at the boys for breaking a jar in his flat. 

But he was convicted of every charge.

Judge Jeremy Gold sentenced Littell, who moved to West Wickham following the abuse, to six years in jail and placed him on the sex offenders register indefinitely.