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Colin Mark Hollands, aged 60, from Aylesbury, was sentenced to 24 years’ imprisonment at Aylesbury Crown Court today (22/12).

On 29 August, Hollands pleaded guilty to seven counts of adult sexual activity with a female child, four counts of assault of a child by penetration, three counts of rape, two counts of rape of a child, two counts of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity. He also pleaded guilty to one count each of; indecent assault, sexual assault, causing a child to watch a sexual act and causing or inciting a child under 13 to engage in sexual activity.

Hollands was arrested for the offences on 8 June 2023 and charged on 14 June 2023.

The offending occurred over a number of years in Aylesbury.

Investigating officer Detective Constable Collette Parker said: “This sentence brings justice to the victims and appropriately punishes Hollands for his reprehensible behaviour over a number of years.

“The horrific control, manipulation and abuse perpetrated by Hollands has had a significant impact on the victim’s lives.

“I would like to thank the victims in this case who have shown great courage, determination and dignity in their support for the investigation.

“We would not be where we are today without them taking that step forward and providing the vital evidence needed to prosecute Hollands. With their strikingly similar compelling accounts, a strong case was built against Hollands and he had to admit what he had done. 

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A 34 year old man from Aylesbury has been jailed after being found guilty of committing sexual offences against children.

Following a 16 day trial at St Albans Crown Court in May of this year, Mike Martin  was found guilty of nine counts of sexual activity with a child, which related to two vulnerable girls.

On Thursday 31 August, Martin appeared back at St Albans Crown Court, where he was sentenced to 11 years in prison. He will also be on the Sex Offenders Register for life and subject to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order.

Both victims were young teenagers living in the Dacorum area of Hertfordshire when they first met and were groomed by Martin. The first offences date back to 2012, when Martin was 23 years old.

Commenting on the case DC Vicky Draper from the Child Sexual Exploitation Unit said: “This was a complex and protracted investigation, with both victims being supported by specialist officers from our HALO team and we commend them for their bravery in agreeing to take part in the investigation.

“Perpetrators like Mike Martin pray on vulnerable girls, be-friending them when they need help and support and then abusing the trust they have built up with them, to take advantage of them sexually.

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An architect who molested a drunken fellow-graduate while she slept on a sofa after an all-you-can-drink 'bottomless Prosecco brunch' has been jailed for three and a half years. 

Oliver Smail, 31, who has a Master of Architecture qualification from Kingston University, groped the 29-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, after they met on an all-day bar crawl.

When questioned by police Smail admitted: 'Obviously she is a pretty girl and I am a man so I may make a few moves.'

One of Smail's university friends even sent a text to a mutual friend saying the architect was: 'literally attempting rape on the sofa.' 

An Inner London Crown Court jury convicted Smail, of Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire of sexual assault by penetration at a two-bedroom apartment in Walworth on September 8, 2019.

The judge discounted the sentence by six months because Smail, a former Planning Support Officer with Aylesbury Vale District Council, had to wait over two years for the Crown Prosecution Service to charge him. He also placed him on the Sex Offenders' Register for life.

Judge Benedict Kelleher told Smail: 'You all ended up at a flat of your friend's. You had consumed a very large quantity of alcohol and took cocaine as did the victim, who also took ecstasy.

'By the early hours she had fallen asleep on the sofa and there can be no doubt she was asleep when you committed this offence.

'You had shown an interest that afternoon and evening in her and were attracted to her, but you had not behaved inappropriately and had not concerned her.

'You took that opportunity to assault her and when she woke she found you were penetrating her with your finger and had pulled down the underwear that she had been wearing.'

During the trial the woman told the jury from behind a screen: 'I remember him trying to touch me and moving to the other side of the sofa,' adding she woke at 6.30am with her underwear and tight spanx shorts around her knees.

She felt his hand between her legs and kicked him off the couch. 'I woke up and that's what was happening. There was a point in the night I was aware of him.

'I was aware of this because of the way he was touching me. I think he was completely out of it. Very intoxicated.'

The woman told the trial she began drinking in Dalston's trendy 'Jones & Sons' which offers a two-hour 'Off The Wagon' brunch of never-ending Prosecco.

'We were drinking for two-and-a-half hours,' she told the court.

She was celebrating a birthday and she and her two female friend's joined Smail's mostly male group and continued drinking cocktails at the nearby 'Three Sheets' bar.

Smail and friends Tom Madden and Alexander Hodgson-Doughty, who was celebrating his birthday, all know each other from the University of Kent.

They moved onto other local pubs and bars, continuing to drink and both the woman and Smail snorted cocaine during the evening and she also took an 'ecstasy' pill.

'I have been very honest that I took 'ecstasy' and cocaine. I have no recollection of who gave it to me, it was one of the three men.'

The group then took a minicab to Elephant & Castle with the vague idea of going to the Ministry of Sound nightclub, but instead bought a bottle of gin from an off licence and continued drinking at Alex's flat.

'I am not denying I was drunk,' she added, recalling a short chat she had with Smail that evening. 'I got the feeling he was flirting, but from early on I was not interested and made that clear.'

After a few rounds of gin and tonics at the flat Alex disappeared into his bedroom with the complainant's friend, leaving her to sleep on the living-room couch.

The next morning she burst into the bedroom to complain about Smail to her friend, who asked him: 'Did you finger my friend while she was asleep? Did you do that?'

The friend said Smail tried to hide under a pillow and replied: 'I thought she consented.'

When cross-examined he insisted he was referring to her consent to leg touching and nothing more intimate.

He quickly put his jacket on and left the apartment as the complainant's friend continued shouting and demanding the police be called.

Smail, who runs his own design firm, told the jury all he did was rub the woman's leg when he woke up in the middle of the night to find it in his crotch.

He was also drinking in 'Jones & Sons', where he also confessed to taking cocaine. 'It is not something I regularly do, it was pushed towards me during brunch.'

Regarding the complainant he said: 'I didn't find her sexually attractive,' but admitted texting a friend during the evening to describe her as 'cute.'

'I was really quite drunk,' he admitted, explaining his motivation for squeezing onto the couch was to sleep and not any sexual motive.

'I woke up with something rubbing against my crotch.

'I was in a very deep sleep, very hazy and my reaction was to feel the leg. I kind of rubbed it, squeezed it like a massage just to see if it was a girl or a guy or a reaction of some sort.

'She kind of squeezed my hand and rubbed it and nothing was said by anyone.'

Smail claims he got up to sleep in the spare room, but Alex told him it was being rented via Air B&B so he returned to the couch.

'When I woke up I was being kicked in the head. It was not a hard kick and I took it as a meaning she did not want me on the sofa I had been rubbing her calf earlier on.

'I was so dazed and confused. I did not understand why I was being kicked.'

Smail denied pulling down the woman's underwear. 'I was not aware of what she was wearing under her dress. I never moved any of her clothing.

'I only had one hand that was free at any time.'

He was questioned two weeks later and charged over two years after that. 'It was upsetting. I remember my heart racing and having this massive weight on my shoulders and having to trust in this system that I am going through.'

Insisting he would do nothing without the woman's consent he recalled the moment she kicked him in the head. 'I remember thinking: 'Oh God. I totally misread that situation.'

'I grabbed a pillow and slept on the floor until I was woken up by her friend pulling it away.'

In her victim impact statement the woman said: 'I don't think the assault will be something I can ever comprehend. I often wonder if there was more I could have done.

'I was vulnerable when he decided to assault me. I was asleep and had no way of defending myself.

'Since the assault I suffer panic attacks and drive myself into a state of panic. I have serious issues sleeping and wake up with night terrors.

'He waited until I was asleep and vulnerable before he attacked me. I believe his ego was hurt by me rejecting him earlier that night and took matters into his own hands.'

Smail's KC Chris Henley told the court: 'This is very sad in many respects. This is a man who has been through a great deal.

'He has a great deal of remorse and empathy for what this woman went through and his letter to the court is heartfelt with a real degree of understanding.

'His life is very different now than in September, 2019. He bitterly regrets going out with these people.'

Smail felt sorry for birthday buddy Mr Hodgson-Doughty's lack of guest numbers and felt obliged to stick with him that night, despite the evening descending into drunkenness and drug-taking, the court heard.

'He still finds it shocking and shaming what he did that night,' added the KC. 'His behaviour just wasn't out of character, it was off the scale.

'He has built up a business, but has found it very difficult to focus on that since the conviction and is on anti-depressants.

'It has been a publicly shaming experience with reports in the national press and Mr Smail has struggled to leave his house, wondering if photographers were waiting for him.

'When he last left court there was a man outside with a camera and he could not believe he was there to take a picture of him.'

Judge Kelleher told the first-time offender: 'The offence you committed was brief and there is nothing to say it lasted for more than a moment.

'You were still under the influence of alcohol and drugs at the time. It was not a planned offence, but in an uninhibited and intoxicated state you made that fateful decision to do that.

'You were a man of completely good character with no convictions and many people have spoken very highly of your personal qualities.

'Your letter to the court expresses genuine and serious remorse on your part for what you did, but this is a case where your victim being asleep was particularly vulnerable.'

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A paedophile ex parish councillor, 78, who sexually and physically abused four youngsters and forced them to fight in makeshift boxing ring until they 'drew blood' has been jailed for 12 years.

Peter Orme, 78, spent almost 15 years physically, emotionally and sexually abusing children and today started a 12-year jail sentence.

Orme used to be chairman of Woughton Community Council in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire.

He was found guilty of sexually and physically abusing children from the 1970s to the 1990s.

Judge Geoffrey Payne was told details of the abuse, including details of the boxing bouts two young children took part in.

Jailing Orme, Judge Payne said: 'You would arrange chairs in the living room into a form of boxing ring and would require the children to fight each other and goad them on, encouraging the boy who was under 10 years old at the time, to fight with the girl. The aim was to draw blood.'

Orme stood in the dock at Aylesbury Crown Court as the judge heard how he had abused three girls and one boy from 1977 to 1992.

Orme had also forced a boy, aged under 13 at the time, to perform a sex act on him in the bathtub and sexually assaulted a teenage girl after buying her vodka and waiting until she passed out.

He was convicted by a jury of two counts of gross indecency with a boy under 14 years, one count of neglecting a child likely to cause unnecessary suffering and four counts of indecent assault on a girl under the age of 14 years.

He was also convicted of one count of indecent assault on girl under 16 years and one count of taking an indecent photograph of a child.

Orme will also be on the Sex Offender's Register for the rest of his life.

One of Orme's victims, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said: 'I think what he did has destroyed me. My mind is a total wreck. It's always going through my mind.'

Another said: 'When I look back at my childhood and at the time he came into my life I can't think of a single day I was truly happy.

'He would question me and call me stupid. I found out later on I was dyslexic but I had thought I was just thick.'

Defending him, Tania Panagiotopoulou said Orme had lived in 24-hour hospital care before his arrest and asked for a 'just and proportionate' sentence.

Sentencing Orme, Judge Payne said: 'As soon as you came into the lives of the children, their lives turned for the worst.

'You mistreated one of the victims and one of the ways was by smacking him on the bottom and bending him over your knee and taking his trousers down to humiliate him.

'All of the children lived in fear. Another victim was kicked by you and you would pull her underwear off and smack her, pulling her underwear off in front of boys, which I'm sure was calculated to humiliate and degrade her.

'One of the victims had low self-esteem and you invited her to the flat and got her drunk.

'I imagine you thought the children would not come forward and if they did they wouldn't be believed and you were proved right to a point - there were complaints to police but no action was taken - a sad indictment of those times.

'Your past conduct has caught up with you now.'

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45-year-old sentenced following National Crime Agency investigation

The safeguarding lead at a childrens football team in Aylesbury has been jailed for more than two years after he was found to have shared vile child abuse images online.

Marc Kenny, of Misbourne Close, Aylesbury, smashed his head onto a table until his head bled as a judge read out to him the sick messages he had sent to other online paedophiles about how much he enjoyed a video of a baby being violated.

The 45-year-old had been caught after distributing the category A image to hundreds of other predators.

He was the welfare officer and director of football at Aylesbury Town Corinthians FC at the time he was making and distributing indecent images of children, a court heard. None of the offences related to anyone connected to the club.

After he was caught by the National Crime Agency (NCA), the Football Association had been called in to help ensure the club was safeguarded and that parents were reassured.

Judge Francis Sheridan, sitting at Aylesbury Crown Court, said there was no suggestion that any of the children at the club had been abused.

Kenny had admitted making 182 category A images, 76 category B images and 227 category C images.

He also admitted distributing one category-A moving image of a baby, aged between eight months and 12 months of age, being horrifically abused.

The court heard that Kenny had sent a vile message along with the image.

As Judge Sheridan read this message out in open court during Fridays sentencing hearing, Kenny started repeatedly banging his head on a table in the video link booth at HMP Bullingdon.

Guards rushed into the room to restrain Kenny, who had a visible red mark on his forehead and was in distress while muttering inaudibly, while Judge Sheridan continued with the sentencing.

Kenny had sent the twisted video to two different group chats between September 17 and September 25 last year - in total it was received by 616 members on the paedophile site.

Sentencing Kenny, Judge Sheridan told him: You were a football coach and a founder of Aylesbury Town Corinthians Footballl Club team. You took control of the safeguarding of that club.

The club have had to work with the FA to make it clear that the club is safe for others and to reassure the parents.

There is no evidence before this court that you abused any of those children but it has been a true worry for that club and the parents as a result of this case.

Kennys wife was initiating proceedings in the family court to ensure the convicted paedophile was barred from seeing his own children, the court heard.

The NCA had discovered that Kenny was part of multiple groups where he would discuss the abuse of children.

Judge Sheridan said: You claimed that it was all fantasy. You also said that you had a problem - understatement of the year.

Kenny, of Misbourne Close, Aylesbury, was jailed for 25 months. He will also be made subject to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order for 10 years and be made to sign the sex offenders register for the same period.

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A man has been jailed for nine years for sexual offences against a child in Buckinghamshire in the 1970s.

Denis Mauger, 75, of Chapel Lane, Chilton, subjected his victim to a number of indecent assaults between 1971 and 1980 when his victim was aged between six and 15 years.

He was convicted on January 22 by unanimous verdict of six counts of indecent assault against a female child and sentenced today (Friday) at Aylesbury Crown Court.

The offences were reported to Thames Valley Police in 2017 and Mauger was charged in July 2018.

Investigating officer Detective Constable Collette Parker, of the Child Abuse Investigation Unit based at Aylesbury, said: I would like to thank the victim for her courage, bravery and determination throughout the investigation, through to the trial.

It has been an extremely traumatic time for her and I hope that the unanimous guilty verdicts and the sentence given, brings her some closure.

I would also like to thank prosecuting counsel Kim Preston for her work in securing this conviction.

This sentence reflects the hard work that is carried out by the Child Abuse Investigation Unit in bringing these offenders to justice and I would encourage anybody who has been a victim of childhood sexual abuse to report it to the police.