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A Poole woman who took indecent photographs of a child to stop her sick lover exposing their affair has today been jailed for nine years.

Married Katie Weeks, 36, was persuaded by Gareth Southcombe, 42, to send him vile abuse images of a young child.

After sending the pictures the 'depraved' pair then chatted about them online and 'revelled' in their content.

Officers from the National Crime Agency were already on to Southcombe as he had a history of downloading child pornography and began investigating Weeks, an illustrator and designer who produced gift cards.

Her unsuspecting husband Martyn knew nothing about his wife's sickening double life until police arrived at their luxury home on the edge of Poole Harbour to arrest her in May 2018.

A victim impact statement was read out at Bournemouth Crown Court by Mr Weeks' father in which he said his son had been 'destroyed' by the matter.

In a police interview Weeks blamed Southcombe for what she had done.

She said she felt coerced and was worried that he would confront her husband if she stopped sending the images.

Weeks denied charges of causing a child to engage in sexual activity, taking indecent photographs of a child and distributing those indecent photographs but was found guilty following a trial.

Southcombe, who owns his own boating building company at Poole Marina, admitted possessing indecent photos of a child and possessing 43 indecent images of a child relating to pictures found on his desktop computer.

Today Weeks wept as she was jailed for nine years while Southcombe was jailed for two.

Judge Stephen Climie said: "This is a case which involves offences of the utmost gravity, which have had a devastating impact on others.

"It is difficult to understand how and why such depraved ideas would be repeated by anyone.

"The messages demonstrated you both revelled in the exchanges."

Afterwards Hazel Stewart, the NCA operations manager, said: "These were awful crimes.

"It doesn't matter what walk of life an offender is from, we will do everything in our power to catch them."

The court heard Weeks sent the pictures to Southcombe between August and October 2017.

James Horder, prosecuting, said: "Katie Weeks was having an affair with Gareth Southcombe, a man who did nothing to disguise he had a sexual interest in children.

"Not only did they discuss sexual behaviour, she sent him images which are subject to this indictment.

"He didn't disguise any delight in receiving these images.

"In May 2018 the National Crime Agency were investigating Southcombe and arrested him at his work at Poole Marina.

"The images they discovered led them to arrest Weeks at her home. Her unsuspecting husband opened the door and she was arrested.

"Police found a message from her to Southcombe asking him to delete the images."

In a victim impact statement read out in court, Mr Weeks' father Ken said: "This has caused so many sleepless nights and tears. It is heartbreaking to watch how this has destroyed my son."

Audrey Archer, defending, said Weeks had never shown an inappropriate interest in children before and accepted she deserved to go to jail.

She said: "She regrets putting everyone through a trial and accepts her wrongdoing in sending what she did to Mr Southcombe.

"She is deeply ashamed of what she has done and deeply sorry for the pain, hurt and devastation her offending has caused.

"She fully accepts that lives of others have been greatly shaken by her actions.

"The real sorrow she feels is visible in her appearance today."

Peter Cowley, defending Southcombe, said: It is plain that they fed off each other. I dont accept that he manipulated Katie Weeks.

Gareth Southcombe is a man of good character who has not offended since and pleaded guilty at the first opportunity.

Twenty years of his life has gone into his business and if he is given an immediate custodial sentence it will fail.

Both Weeks and Southcombe were given indefinite sexual harm prevention orders.

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A TEACHER who had an inappropriate relationship with a pupil has been jailed and placed on the sex offenders register.

Dorset teacher Katherine Malyon, 28, engaged in sexual activity with the girl, then aged 15, sent her explicit messages and took her on days out, Bournemouth Crown Court was told.

The relationship began in 2017, when the girl confided in Malyon and sought support.

Initially, their relationship was healthy, but it crossed the boundaries and was noticed by others at the school, including its headteacher, said Rob Welling, prosecuting.

Mr Welling said Malyon had been trained in safeguarding requirements and knew the risks of relationships with pupils.

She was warned on several occasions by the schools headteacher about having too much contact with the girl.

It was a chance meeting at the school at the end of the academic year in 2017 that began the relationship.

Malyon kissed the girl and from there a relationship developed, said Mr Welling. They contacted each other in secrecy; Malyon allowed the girl to visit her at her home and took her on a trip to London.

In June 2018, the girl then 16 told her mum what had happened after a friend saw a photo of her and Malyon kissing on her laptop. The teacher was suspended and police became involved.

Mr Welling said: This was a very clear abuse of trust. [Malyon] was very aware of [the pupils] vulnerability.

David Swinton, defending, said Malyon, a teacher of two years, was respectable, well-qualified and hard-working.

But she had suffered mental health problems, such as depression and OCD, and things came to a head from 2015.

When questioned by police, Malyon said she loved the girl and believed they would marry, the court heard.

Mr Swinton said: [Malyon] has a great deal of remorse. She is understanding and coming to terms with what she has done. She got very emotionally involved. She found it difficult to deal with but did not want to shut that door.

Mr Swinton added: She was a very dedicated teacher shes lost that now.

Judge Brian Forster QC said the pupil was a vulnerable girl who confided about serious matters and understandably, needed support from staff at the school.

He said Malyon was fully aware of the girls vulnerability, and while she initially gave appropriate support, she then crossed a clear boundary and developed a sexual interest in the pupil.

He said concern from the headteacher made it clear Malyon should not meet the girl and clearly stated the measure was to protect both of you.

Despite this, you met the girl and pursued a relationship with her, he said.

Judge Forster said Malyons was an unusual case, saying she was a high-achiever who comes from a family where members have dedicated themselves to teaching. Not, he said, someone you would expect to behave in this manner.

He told her: You have lost your career as a result of your own actions and I have no hesitation in accepting you bitterly regret what has taken place.

Anyone in a position of trust, such as a teacher, is expected to honour that trust. That involves protecting your pupils.

He said by crossing the clearest of boundaries and allowing a relationship to develop, Malyon had betrayed the trust of the pupil, parents and the community.

Malyon was sentenced to two years and four months for engaging in sexual activity with a child and 16 months, to run concurrently, for two counts of sexual activity of a person aged under 18 while in a position of trust. She admitted the offences.

She was also put on the sex offenders register for 10 years, given a restraining order for 10 years and made subject of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order.

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A LONG-SERVING paramedic and Scout volunteer allegedly posed as his 'widowed wife' online to find a young girl to abuse.

John Pattison was on leave after being injured working for the South Central Ambulance Service when he began using chatrooms to discuss abusing children, prosecutors said.

He began speaking with someone he believed was the father of a girl, but was in fact an undercover police officer, and arranged to meet at a branch of Sainsbury's, it was heard.

When he was arrested, his laptop and phone were seized. Indecent images of children were discovered.

Pattison, of Mallow Close in Christchurch, admitted nine counts of possessing indecent photographs of a child and one of possessing an extreme pornographic image.

The defendant, who previously helped at the 49th Bournemouth Air Scouts, appeared at Bournemouth Crown Court for sentence on Monday.

Rob Welling, prosecuting, said: "The defendant engaged with an undercover police officer looking for those who would be attracted to meeting with young children.

"There was chat between him and this officer.

"It resulted in the defendant going to Sainsbury's to meet a man he believed was called John, John's wife and John's young daughter."

Mr Welling said Pattison and 'John' had discussed their desire to abuse children.

"There was conversation by the defendant, who was pretending to be his widowed wife - something he had done on previous occasions," Mr Welling said.

"On previous occasions, he had been 'let down'."

Pattison was not charged in relation to the offences relating to 'John'.

During police interview, the defendant, 44, told police the images found on his devices had been sent to him by others.

He did not find images of abuse "sexually alluring" and had tried, on several occasions, to report the image as abuse "to bring those who sent it to justice", he said.

Nick Robinson, mitigating, said Pattison has no previous offences.

"He is deeply ashamed and has expressed remorse," Mr Robinson said.

"He accepts how serious this is. He is demonstrably ashamed and incredibly emotional."

Judge Brian Forster QC told the defendant: "Following injury in the course of your duties, you have been at home, possibly with too much time to fill.

"You have become, in a sense, addicted to going to the chatroom that has brought about this appearance before the court today."

Pattison, who clutched his chest and shook during the hearing, covered his face as Judge Forster said he still had the support of family.

"You are fortunate," the judge said.

"I have been able to consider not only the content of the pre-sentence report, but the references which have been provided to me.

"They speak of this being totally out of character."

Pattison was sentenced to a three-year community order with a 60-day sex offenders programme. He will also be the subject of a sexual harm prevention order, and must comply with notification requirements for five years.

A spokesperson from The Scout Association said: "The association is aware of the court proceedings involving John Pattison and has co-operated fully with the statutory agencies throughout this investigation.

"It is appropriate that he has pleaded guilty and will be suitably punished for his crimes. Pattison was suspended from all involvement with the Scout Movement as soon as we were made aware of the investigation.

"Pattison will never be allowed to volunteer with us again. It has been confirmed to us by the relevant authorities that none of Pattison victims in this case were Scouts and his offences have no connection to Scouting."

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A CONVICTED sex offender who tricked women into emailing him intimate pictures before threatening to post them online has been jailed for two and a half years.

Former archaeologist William Neil Summerson used social media and popular online dating services such as Tinder and Plenty of Fish to approach five women, before enticing them to send him topless and naked images.

Two of the women were even duped into performing sex acts on themselves during live Skype calls with the pervert.

The court also heard how Summerson, of West Moors Road, Ferndown, had been convicted of similar offences - when he posed as a top model agent - just three years previously.

One of his latest victims, who was tricked into sending intimate pictures of herself on Christmas Day, later considered suicide when she realised shed been conned.

Summerson posed online as a potential suitor, a female modelling scout and even an American businessman to snare his victims.

After he built up trust and they emailed him images, he threatened to create a website with the material and send it to their personal contacts - which included close family, friends and work colleagues - unless they failed to comply with his demands.

One of these demands was for a victim to engage with him on a private Skype call, another victim was told to secretly record herself having sex with a stranger for his gratification. However, both of these women refused his demands.

After one of the women went to the police, they traced Summersons IP address, questioned him and seized his computer. Months afterwards other women, from across the UK, also reported being tricked and he was arrested.

The 31-year-old, who was already on the sex offenders register at the time of these latest offences, appeared at Bournemouth Crown Court on Thursday, October 19.

He admitted a string of charges, including causing women to take their clothes off, causing them to take pictures of themselves in various states of undress and causing them to perform sex acts on themselves.

Judge Peter Crabtree, who described the crimes as carefully planned deceptions told Summerson You acted out of a compulsion to get sexual gratification.

The judge also said he believed Summerson, who targeted the five women between August 14, 2015, and December 25, 2016, posed a high risk of reoffending.

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A "HORRIFIC" sex offender who presents an "unquestionable danger" to the public has been handed a life sentence.

David Francis Shepherd was convicted of a string of offences involving young girls in the Philippines, including four offences of rape of a child under 13 and must serve a minimum of 14 years in prison.

Evidence emerged after police received information that an individual identified as Shepherd had been in contact over the internet with someone who was facilitating the sexual abuse of children.

Shepherd was arrested on November 10 last year at the Loders Arms near Bridport where he was living as pub landlord.

After the defendant was cautioned and various equipment was seized he said: "I know what youre talking about, Ive been chatting on the internet but Ive never followed it through."

Prior to the trial, he had pleaded guilty to inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, four counts of making indecent photographs of a child, four charges of arranging or facilitating the commission of a child sex offence and one count of paying for sexual services of a child.

Shepherd, aged 60, was found guilty of 13 counts, including four offences of rape of a child under 13, attempted rape, three counts of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, two of taking indecent photographs of a child, assault of a child under 13 by penetration and arranging or facilitating the commission of a child sex offence.

Following the verdicts in the first trial and further legal arguments, Shepherd pleaded guilty to nine further charges of arranging or facilitating the commission of child sex offences and two counts of making indecent photos of a child.

An extensive examination of his computers and digital storage devices uncovered hundreds of thousands of indecent images and videos of children.

It also revealed his involvement in directing at least 76 live sex shows involving Filippina children and that the full extent of his offending had been going on since 2007.

Chat logs revealed Shepherd had expressed an interest in children as young as six with one involving the discussion of a 17-month old baby.

The court heard that during police interviews Shepherd denied visiting and meeting the children in the Philippines, despite evidence including videos of him abusing children, travel tickets and financial records indicating otherwise.

It was established that between April 20 2011 and September 9 2015 Shepherd transferred 18,510.87 to the Philippines. In total 12,014.01 was transferred to the facilitators of child sex. The prosecution considered this a minimum figure.

In interview Shepherd had said he knew it was wrong but "just couldn't stop [himself]" when it came to looking an indecent images.

Judge Peter Johnson said: "This was a long period of cynical exploitation. I reject your claim that you believed the children were aged 13 or over. I reject all your evident in relation to the children you abused. Your claim about checking to ensure children were above the age of consent was nonsense.

"You have no moral boundaries. You have shown no remorse.

"Your performance shows you as an intelligent, arrogant and devious man.

"It is grotesquely false that the girls were willing sex workers.

"You were prepared to say anything, no matter how absurd to save your own skin.

"Your acts will haunt your victims for the rest of their days. Their innocence has been taken from them.

"You have a deeply engraved sexual interest in young children.

"You are unquestionably a danger.

"This life sentence reflects the public abhorrence for your shocking crimes."

An NSPCC spokesperson for South West England said: This extremely distressing case involved horrendous sexual abuse of numerous children in the Philippines.

Not only did Shepherd own and share these despicable images and videos, but he also personally arranged, financed and photographed the abuse himself.

The youngsters in these pictures and films are the victims of unspeakable abuse and the harrowing experiences they endured for the sexual gratification of Shepherd and other offenders should not be underestimated.

His appalling crimes have only helped fuel this disgusting trade in images which destroys children's lives, wherever in the world it takes place.

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A TAXI driver who raped a 14-year-old girl and sexually assaulted a 20-year-old woman has been found guilty of biting another inmates ear in prison.

Terence Collins, 62, was sentenced to 16 years in prison last July after being found guilty of two charges of rape and one of sexual assault at Bournemouth Crown Court.

He has now appeared at Dorchester Crown Court to face charges of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm over an incident in HMP Dorchester in August last year.

Victim Stephen Jelly was bitten on the ear during an altercation at the county town jail and claimed he felt like he was being eaten alive.

The attack left part of Mr Jellys ear cartilage exposed and it later required sewing up.

Collins was found not guilty of the charge of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm but was convicted by the jury of a lesser alternative charge of unlawful wounding.

However, Recorder Peter Fraser ordered that his sentence be served concurrently to the lengthy sentence he is already serving so Collins will not be spending any additional time in prison as a result of the attack.

Collins, who is currently serving his sentence at HMP Isle of Wight, told jurors in the trial that the alleged victim Mr Jelly was the aggressor in the confrontation.

He said that Mr Jelly had butted him and gone to punch him and when they were grappling together he had gone to butt him again.

Collins said: I pre-empted it coming and I just bit his ear.

I just thought I have got to stop the situation.

When Collins was shown pictures revealing the extent of Mr Jellys injuries in police interview, he said: I didnt bite him to sort of lick his ear.

I wasnt making love to him.

The defendant added: I did what I felt I had to do at the time to protect myself.

The court also heard from another inmate who witnessed the incident and described the defendant as a bully.

Recorder Fraser said he accepted Collins had been subject to provocation but said it was clear his response had been excessive and he could not be said to be acting in lawful self defence.

He said: It was without doubt excessive violence that you used but I accept you were resisting an attack and I accept it was not pre-meditated.

Despite ordering that the sentence be served concurrently, Recorder Fraser warned the defendant: As a prisoner you must not believe that because you are serving such a long period already it gives you impunity to act as you want.

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A British man caught in an undercover US and UK police operation has been jailed for trying to arrange for a child to be abused to order online.

Mark Luscombe, 29, of Verwood, Dorset, contacted a US Homeland Security officer who was posing as a paedophile.

He offered to send the officer indecent images of children in exchange for watching a girl being abused on webcam.

Luscombe was sentenced to five years in jail after pleading guilty to 16 sexual offences at Bournemouth Crown Court.

'Wired differently'

When he was arrested at his home near Bournemouth in December, police found more than 150 indecent images of children on his computer.

During questioning Luscombe told officers he was "wired differently".

Matthew J Etre, attach for US Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in London, said: "Protecting children from exploitation is one of the most important missions we have and, as this case demonstrates, it takes the collaboration of law enforcement agencies around the world to tackle this crime."

At a previous appearance, Luscombe pleaded guilty to sexual activity with a child and arranging or facilitating the commission of a child sex offence, as well as eight counts of making indecent photographs of a child and five counts of distributing indecent photographs of a child,

He also pleaded guilty to another offence of possessing an extreme pornographic image.

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A BULGARIAN man who dragged a young woman down an alleyway and raped her in a late-night sex attack in Bridport has been jailed.

Mustafa Mustafa, 24, was labelled wicked and disgraceful by Judge Roger Jarvis as he sentenced him to 56 months in prison at Dorchester Crown Court.

Prosecutor Megan Topliss told the court that Mustafas victim, who was in her early 20s and suffered from a mild form of Aspergers, had gone out for a walk at around 11pm on August 13 when she walked past the defendant, who was sitting outside Bridport Kebab House in East Street.

Miss Topliss said the young woman had seen Mustafa before but did not know him and when she walked past he said hi.

She then became aware of him following her as she walked towards Symondsbury.

He came alongside her as they walked out past the Bridport Medical Centre before she told him she wanted to go home and started heading back towards town.

Miss Topliss said: They started to walk back until they reached an alleyway.

The defendant stood quite close to her and went to kiss her, she pulled back and tried to walk past him but he grabbed her arm.

Miss Topliss said Mustafa was gesturing towards himself and then her and said sex but she repeatedly replied no.

She said he then dragged her down the alleyway and pulled down both their trousers before raping her.

After around a minute she was able to push him away. Miss Topliss said Mustafa then tried to force her to perform a sexual act upon him but she resisted and he also put his hands down her trousers before forcing her to touch him.

She added: She said he was pretty aggressive throughout the incident.

After the attack Miss Topliss said the defendant went back to town while his victim went home and contacted the police the next day.

Mustafa was arrested on August 15.

Tim Shorter, mitigating, said Mustafa, of East Road, Bridport, had only entered the country around two months before the rape as he sought to work to earn money for his family back in Bulgaria.

He said his client had entered a guilty plea to the offence at the earliest opportunity at court and had shown genuine remorse since the incident.

Mr Shorter said: He has not sought in any way to deny his guilt.

As he passed sentence Judge Jarvis told the defendant: You behaved in a wicked and disgraceful way.

Court told of impact on life of young girl

THE COURT was told of the devastating impact of the sex attack upon Mustafas victim.

Miss Topliss said in a victim impact statement the young woman described how she no longer felt safe at night and suffered from anxiety and panic attacks to the extent that she has to take medication.

She added that the woman, who had never had sex before the rape, had been having trouble sleeping and experienced flash backs on a daily basis, while the ordeal had impacted on her education as she was studying in the hope of going to university but now found it difficult to concentrate.

Judge Jarvis said to Mustafa: There has been a profound impact upon your victim, the full extent of which we can only imagine.

There will be a lifelong impact upon her from what it is that you have done.

And Bridport police Inspector Mike Darby said: I am very pleased with the sentence of Mustafa for this offence which was serious and incredibly impactive on the victim.

Mustafa took advantage of a person who was vulnerable and the judge has imposed a significant sentence in light of this.

He added that offences of this nature are rare in West Dorset.

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A VIOLENT rapist from Poole has been locked up for nine years for battering, raping and falsely imprisoning two women.

Poole man Jermaine Kraftner, 27, of Poole Road, Branksome, and cousin Corrie Pinney, 35, took it in turns to rape the women in two separate attacks at Pinney’s London flat.

Sentencing the pair at Croydon Crown Court, Recorder of Croydon judge Warwick McKinnon, said: “I can’t predict if ever it will be safe for you to be let out of prison.

“You both launched a series of horrendous attacks... the attacks were designed to degrade and instil terror for your own power and sexual gratification.”

He said the attacks were utterly depraved and the two rapists had shown no remorse at all.

Their first victim, a 17-year-old, was lured back to the flat after a date with Pinney in July 2009.

When she refused sex, they pinned her down and raped her.

During the second attack in April last year, the cousins subjected a 22-year-old woman to a “degrading and humiliating” five-hour ordeal, torturing her and making threats of sadistic violence.

They threatened to cut off her hair, douse her in boiling water or stab her with a Samurai sword.

After an evening of drinking and smoking cannabis at the flat in Sutton, Kraftner, known to friends as “Striker” and “J”, flew into a jealous rage at around midnight, the court heard.

The woman was made to stand on one leg in the corner of the room, as the men began to humiliate and attack her, the jury was told in June.

In June, they were convicted on 14 counts of false imprisonment, sexual assault and one ABH charge each, following a trial.

Pinney was convicted on four rape charges and one of attempted rape and was also jailed for nine years.

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SENTENCE on a 40 year old man who exposed his penis and masturbated in a Shetland swimming pool was deferred for reports when he appeared before Lerwick Sheriff Court, on Wednesday.

Mohamed Nurul Haque, of 23 Crane House, Verwood, Dorset, pled guilty to a charge of public indecency at the Clickimin Leisure Complex on 27 April 2010.

The court heard that Haque had been alone in the steam room when he started masturbating himself.

He was seen through a glass door by two receptionists who alerted a male member of staff who asked him to leave.

Procurator fiscal Duncan Mackenzie said that Haque had told the police he had been attempting to alleviate pain for a sensitive condition.

Clearly the intention was to gratify himself, he said, adding that there had been a significant sexual aspect to this.

Sheriff Philipp Mann deferred sentence until 25 August for social enquiry, community service reports as well as a restriction of liberty assessment.

A decision on whether Haque has to be put on the sex offenders register will be made on the day of sentencing.