May 2014
Sex offender jailed after travelling to France
A REGISTERED sex offender has been jailed for failing to notify the police when he travelled to France.
Gordon Leicester, 63, breached the Sexual Offences Prevention Act by not making officers aware of the trip abroad, St Helens Magistrates’ Court heard.
Leicester, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty and magistrates sentenced him to 20 weeks in prison, stating that he had a record of previous offending.
May 2006
Man jailed for sex assaults
A MAN who indecently assaulted two schoolgirls has been jailed for 30 months.
Gordon Leicester, 55, was convicted at Liverpool crown court of seven charges of sexual assault.
Henry Riding, prosecuting, said four of the charges related to the sexual abuse of a five-year-old girl and three a nine-year-old.
Leicester used his interest in naturism as an excuse to encourage his victims to cavort naked with him.
Leicester, of Syers Court, Warrington, had denied the offences, but now accepts his guilt.
Jailing him for 30 months, Judge John Phipps ordered him to sign the sex offenders’ register indefinitely and disqualified him from working with children
