July 2007
Pervert stunned at 11-year term
A PAEDOPHILE who groomed a 10-year-old girl before subjecting her to sickening sexual assaults has been jailed for 11 years.
Thomas Frederick Antley was visibly stunned and stared from the dock in disbelief as Judge Christopher Llewellyn-Jones QC handed down the sentence at Cardiff Crown Court.
In May the jury found the dental technician Antley guilty of three charges of committing a sexual assault on a girl under 13, but not guilty of rape.
He was also found guilty of causing or inciting her to engage in sexual activity and sexual touching.
Cardiff Crown Court heard Antley, of Cwrt Newydd, Broadlands, Bridgend, still continued to protest his innocence.
He did not give evidence during the trial but jurors heard from the schoolgirl victim that Antley was fond of massaging people, both adults and children, at parties where groups of people were around and he had offered to massage her when she found herself in his company.
The court heard Antley, who appeared in court wearing a dark grey suit, white pinstriped shirt and black tie, encouraged the girl to perform sex acts on him and showed her pornographic films on a computer.
The girl claimed Antley told her: “Don’t tell anybody or we could get into serious trouble.”
Judge Llewellyn-Jones told 53-year-old Antley: “That material included the very type of sexual abuse to which you subjected her.
“It was the sort of material that no young girl of that age should ever have seen.”
The judge ordered the paedophile to sign the sex offenders’ register for life, never to work with children and never to be alone with children.
Antley’s trial heard the girl complained to her parents “bit by bit” after watching a Heartbeat episode on television in which a boy had a secret he could not tell his mother.
