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A MAN who had unprotected sex with a 15-year-old autistic girl while on bail for impregnating another underage girl has been sent back to prison.

William Tollan-Townsend, 20, was jailed for 16 months in August last year for getting a 13-year-old girl pregnant after telling her he could not wear protection.

He only admitted that crime after DNA from the foetus matched his.

In July last year, just days before he was due in court to plead guilty to the underage sex, he invited a 15-year-old girl, who was on the autistic spectrum, to the park and persuaded her to have sex with him.

The two were on "friendly terms" and used to exchange messages on social media.

Winchester Crown Court heard how she was "reluctant" to have sex because he had a girlfriend, but he told her that they had broken up.

It was her first sexual encounter and Tollan-Townsend was described as being "persistent".

After the incident he told the girl: "Don't tell anyone because I'm already being done for having sex with an underage girl."

Yet the girl told staff at her school the following day, who were able to obtain the morning after pill, and reported it to the police.

Nick Cotter, defending, said Tollan-Townsend had made a "reckless decision" and his judgement was affected by his impending court case.

Tollan-Townsend, from Bell Street, Andover, was charged by police just days before he was due to be released early on good behaviour.

In sentencing him to a further 18 months in jail, Recorder Alastair Malcolm QC at Salisbury Crown Court told him that it was a "serious case".

He said the crime had been made worse by not wearing protection and that it was committed while on bail.

Tollan-Townsend is already on the sex offender register.

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THE family of a convicted Hampshire rapist has vowed to spend "every penny" it has to help clear his name.

Peter Watch, 26, was sentenced to 12 years in prison at Winchester Crown Court having been found guilty of rape, sexual assault, two counts of assault and putting a person in fear of violence.

Watch, of Amesbury Road, stood accused of assaulting women who he met on dating websites, and taking part in obscene sexual acts.

He denied all the charges against him, but a judge gave him 12 years and an extended sentence of four – meaning he will spend four years on licence - and ruled he must serve at least eight years before parole can be considered.

After the hearing Watch's father, William, said: "I will spend every penny I have to help him.

"It's all down to that Jimmy Savile, courts are now too quick to listen to these accusations and innocent people like my son are suffering.

"He's no angel, but this isn't fair on my boy."

Mr Watch said the case had taken its toll on the family.

He said: "The stress on me and my wife has been huge.

"I'm so run down, I've not been able to work, and what people do not realise is we've got the sentence as well as Peter."

Detective Constable Paul Barry, who led the case, said: "This conviction follows a protracted inquiry involving Peter Watch who has met three women over dating websites and committed serious sexual assault offences against them, which include rape.

"Hampshire Police will proactively investigate all reports of sexual and physical abuse which are initiated by offenders over the internet."

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A WOMAN who suffered horrific sexual abuse at the hands of her older brother over a period of nine years has spoken out after he was jailed for four years.

Nicky Allan, 38, was at Salisbury Crown Court on Tuesday to see Shaun Christopher Allan, 44, admit one count of rape and seven of indecent assault against her, starting when she was just seven or eight years old.

Ms Allan, who waived her right to anonymity to talk to the Journal, said: I just wanted to be heard. I felt nobody had heard my side of the story. It should never have happened and I wanted justice to be done, and finally it has.

The court heard she was adopted by Allans parents when she was five or six and living in her home country of Canada.

The family then moved to Tidworth Road in Ludgershall.

Prosecuting, Rosaleen Collins said Ms Allans first memory of abuse was when she was about seven or eight and her adopted brother was about 14 or 15. He would indecently assault her in her bedroom when their mother was out.

There were years of abuse in that manner and he took the opportunity whenever he had the chance, said Ms Collins.

She was not sleeping at night worrying that he would come in and it was affecting her concen tration at school.

Ms Allan married and left home when she was 18, divorcing two years later and moving back to Canada, where she still lives.

She reported the abuse to police when she heard that Allan had pleaded guilty to a string of sexual assaults against children between 2001 and 2008, for which he was handed a four-year sentence in May 2010.

Sentencing Allan, Recorder Geoffrey Mercer said Ms Allan had suffered continuous humiliation and distress at your hands from this repeated sexual abuse.

Allans sentence will follow on from the four years three months he is already serving and his name will remain on the sex offenders register for life.

Ms Allan said: On Monday, even just hearing his name made me fall apart so Im relieved that he actually admitted it. I am happy with the sentence. I can finally get closure, go back to Canada and live my life again.