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THE driver of the bin lorry which crushed and killed a Worcester pensioner in the Shambles was jailed for raping a child in a disturbing case heard a year ago.

Nathan Beauchamp, then aged 41, was jailed for 12 years in January last year in a case which shocked readers in Worcester. The paedophile was found guilty of raping the boy three times between January 21, 2018 and January 20, 2019.

He was also found guilty of having sexual activity with a second boy aged nine and 10 between the same dates.

However, he was acquitted of a further charge of raping a child under 13 in a hot tub. Beauchamp, of Elsdon, Kempsey, near Worcester, was the driver of the lorry which killed Sylvia Russell, aged 69, in September 2014. He was cleared of causing her death by careless or inconsiderate driving in 2016.

Beauchamp had denied all the sexual offences, which allegedly took place in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, but a jury found him guilty of four of them after a four-day trial at Gloucester Crown Court.

Prosecutor Anna Midgley told the jury that Beauchamp occasionally took care of the boys after school and his role "developed from being a child minder to being a mentor.

The boys liked being looked after by Beauchamp as he had a hot tub in the back garden.

But over time it is alleged that he took the elder boy into the bedroom and raped him.

The 12-year-old later told the police that it occasionally happened in the bathroom and once in the hot tub.

And on another occasion in the hot tub he is alleged to have sexually assaulted a younger boy aged between nine and ten.

The court heard that the authorities became involved when the older boy got upset at school in June this year and told a teacher that he had been raped by Beauchamp.

The teacher immediately informed the relevant bodies and Beauchamp was arrested. The prosecutor added that the abuse has had a psychological effect on the older boy and there are signs he is becoming sexually deviant.

Sophie Murray, defending, said that prior to offences Beauchamp had a happy family life.

Judge Michael Cullum said to Beauchamp: You have been convicted of some of the most serious offences it is possible to commit - the rape of a young child.

The lad was clearly fond of you and your wife by the way he enjoyed coming to your house and being around your family.

You were entrusted with a degree of responsibility of parenting by being something of a father figure to him, until you abused him.

You are openly bi-sexual and looked at pornographic sites and concentrated on looking for young males. However, you did not look for images of children.

You created the scenario to act out your fantasies when no one else was around and rape him. As weve heard you did this repeatedly.

You repeatedly took the older boy into the bedroom for punishment and subjected him to anal sex.

You took the opportunity to build on the trust between you to groom this boy, even though you may not have gone looking for it.

There is no real evidence of physical harm to the older boy, but a 12-year-old who has been raped and having to go through the humiliating process of telling his school, his mother, grandmother, the police, a jury and a judge, he is bound to suffer psychological harm.

Luckily he was brave enough to tell all those people and there is a question of your abuse having altered his sexual compass.

This is why the sentence is very harsh.

Judge Cullum jailed Beauchamp for 12 years and made him subject to an extended sentence by ordering an additional year on parole licence after his release.

The judge ordered that he sign the sex offenders register for life and imposed a sexual harm prevention order, also for life.

Beauchamp was found not guilty of causing the death of Mrs Russell at Hereford Crown Court after a five day trial.

He was living in Churchill Grove, Tewkesbury, at the time and was driving a Smiths Waste Management refuse truck.

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A 68-year-old man convicted of abusing two boys at a primary school in South Gloucestershire, where he worked as a caretaker, has today been jailed for 18 months. The sentencing of Brian Kelly, from Kingswood, follows a trial at Bristol Crown Court at which he was found guilty last month of four non-recent offences of sexually assaulting a child. Kelly committed the abuse on the boys on the school site where he worked as a caretaker and also looked after the schools sports clubs. The victims were aged between eight and ten at the time. Investigating officer Det Con Louise Macpherson said: Brian Kelly abused his position at the school to abuse two pupils in an outbuilding within the school premises. These offences amount to a grotesque breach of trust and he would ask the victims not to disclose the offences hed committed on them, sometimes giving them presents to help buy their silence. Id like to praise the bravery of the victims in this case, as well as the affected school and local authority, for their unflinching support and assistance with our inquiry. I hope this case acts as a reassuring reminder to other victims that sexual abuse of any kind will always be thoroughly investigated. You will be believed and supported. If you have any information youd like to provide to the inquiry team, contact North East Investigations via 101 and quote reference 5371015. Victims of rape or sexual assault, recent or non-recent, can also self-refer to The Bridge, a Sexual Assault Referral Centre available 24/7 365 days a year. Visit thebridgecanhelp.org.uk or call 0117 342 6999. The Bridge provides medical care and emotional and practical support to anyone affected by rape and sexual assault. You can call for help and decide about talking to the police later. You can also visit thisisnotanexcuse.org for details of charities and organisations who are experts in supporting victims.

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A primary school head teacher who used a spy pen to film pupils in the toilets at his school has been jailed for two years and eight months.

Ashley Yates, 45, of Filton, used the device to record images in the toilets of The Tynings Primary School in Staple Hill, South Gloucestershire.

He admitted six counts of voyeurism and three of making indecent images of children at Bristol Crown Court.

The offences relate to seven girls, two boys and six adults.

'Sexual monster

They came to light after a child found a pen inside a disabled toilet at the school and handed it in to a caretaker.

The court heard that in total the married father filmed 22 adults and nine children and had confessed to his wife that he was a "sexual monster".

The judge accepted that Yates' main sexual interest was in adults urinating, but said he must have realised that children were also going to be caught on his camera.

Judge Michael Longman described Yates' behaviour as "devious" and as a "significant" breach of trust.

During the investigation, additional adult victims were identified by police.

'Lasting impact'

Det Insp Louise Boyce, of Avon and Somerset Police, said: "Yates totally abused his position of trust to feed his own personal desires.

"He set up the recording device in a toilet knowing that both children and adults would be using the facilities."

She added she had "no doubt" that Yates' crimes will have "a lasting impact on his victims and their parents".

A letter to parents on the school's website said: "These victims came to light after items were seized by police during the course of the investigation.

"If any further victims are identified during the course of the investigation they will be notified immediately."

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A BRAVE 12-year-old who became Britain's youngest mum after a horrifying rape ordeal told The People: "I love my baby to bits - what happened to me is not his fault."

The schoolgirl was just 11 when she was brutally attacked by family friend Russell Tovey, 31, in her own home.

At first the young victim - we'll call her Stacey to protect her identity - was even too frightened to tell her own mum she had been raped.

But speaking for the first time about her torment, she vowed: "This won't stop me having the normal feelings of a mum.

"I hate Tovey for what he did to me and I feel like ripping him apart.

"My baby will have to know what happened one day - but he will NEVER call him Dad."

Cuddling baby Max, blonde Stacey revealed how she:

HAD no idea she was pregnant until only two weeks before she gave birth'

INVENTED a rape story to cover up for Tovey who had threatened revenge if she shopped him' and

GAVE up her baby for adoption - but begged to take him back after only one night apart.

Father-of-two Tovey, 31 - who is now behind bars and facing life in jail for the savage crime - was a close friend of Stacey's family.

He regularly took the youngster and her brothers for bike rides, swimming lessons and theme park outings.

But one night last summer he raped Stacey while her divorced mum was out at work then brutally terrified the 11-year-old into silence.

Stacey said: "He told me that if I said anything he would drive me into the middle of nowhere and dump me there. He said no one would ever find me.

"He was so trusted by the family that I didn't think Mum would believe me if I told her what he'd done. I just kept it to myself.

"I didn't like sleeping in my house any more if Mum was at work so I'd go and stay with my dad. I felt safer."

But Stacey's weight soon rocketed -and the truth began to dawn.

She said: "I started to wonder if I was pregnant but didn't want to believe it.

"I felt awful all the time and looked fat and horrible. But I had never felt the baby moving inside me, so I just tried to forget about it."

A GP eventually confirmed that Stacey was expecting.

But the stunned youngster recalled Tovey's threats - and made up a story about being raped when two men dragged her into a graveyard.

Two weeks later she had baby Max at her local hospital. Stacey recalled: "I talked it over with Mum and we decided it would be for the best if the baby was adopted.

"Bringing it up myself was always going to be a reminder of what had happened.

"And I didn't want to relive it every time I changed a nappy."

But Stacey changed her mind hours after Max was taken away from her.

She begged social services chiefs to return him - and has never regretted the decision.

Showing a courage and maturity way beyong her years, she said: "It has been really hard but all my friends at school have been great.

"Everyone is so interested in the baby and how we're doing - and no one has made fun of me at all.

"In a way, having Max has helped me get over what happened because he makes me laugh and smile."

She added: "I know I've got to be more responsible than other girls.

"Sometimes after I've done my homework I have to push my baby around the village to get him to sleep.

"It's not a game, not like playing with dolls - especially when he cries."

Stacey's 36-year-old mum - who we are calling Jane - said she had first suspected problems after her daughter missed one of her periods.

She recalled: "They had been as regular as clockwork and when they stopped I mentioned it to the GP.

"He said don't worry, she was young and her body would sort itself out.

"Then last Christmas we started to notice Stacey was putting on weight.

"I suggested she should stop eating so much and her gran even offered to pay her #1 for every pound she lost.

"Kids at school began teasing her, calling her Porker and joking she was pregnant. I even said myself that if she wasn't so young I'd have thought she was expecting."

Jane went on: "One day Stacey's gran said she was sure Stacey was pregnant.

"She'd felt her tummy - but it wasn't soft and wobbly with fat, it was hard.

"It didn't make sense because apart from a few little crushes Stacey had never shown any interest in lads.

"And I run a tight ship - she was always in bed at 9pm on the dot."

Jane went back to the GP, who suggested a pregnancy test.

The worried mum told Stacey she needed a urine sample, claiming it would help the doctor find out why she was putting on weight.

To Jane's amazement, the DIY pregnancy test was positive.

She said: "I was gobsmacked but I didn't tell Stacey because I wanted to get it confirmed by a doctor. I bundled her into the car and took her to the local surgery.

"The doctor ushered us in and I said, 'I think my daughter is pregnant'. Stacey became hysterical, crying and screaming, but the doctor calmed her down and led her away to do a test.

"Within minutes they were back and again the result was positive.

"Stacey was crying and wailing, saying she couldn't be pregnant because she hadn't done anything."

The next day Stacey told her mum the graveyard rape story.

Jane recalled: "I was sickened but of course I believed every word she said.

"Stacey didn't want me to go to the police but I said we had to - these men had to be caught."

Stacey was interviewed and told that DNA tests on her baby after it was born might identify her attacker.

Hospital scans revealed she was already 35 weeks pregnant. Jane added: "She was still a child herself, too young to be a mum.

"Watching my daughter go through that at such a young age was horrible but she hardly made any fuss. She had a little boy - but neither of us was prepared for how gorgeous he was.

"My heart went out to him. He'd had a rotten start in life but we were going to make sure he was loved."

Stacey spent two days with Max in hospital before a foster mum took him away.

Jane said: "The house felt so empty the night we came home and we cried and cried. In only a couple of days we had fallen in love with him.

"The next morning I took one look at Stacey and knew we had made the wrong decision. We phoned social services and said we wanted him back.

"I hadn't seen Stacey smile so much in months."

The family then waited for the results of the DNA swab taken from Max.

Meanwhile, Tovey had been involved in a car accident which left him fighting for his life in hospital.

Jane said: "I visited him a few times and told him what was going on.

"He never batted an eyelid when I said I was concerned the DNA test was taking a long time.

"I even took the baby in. y held his hand and coo-cooed over him."

A week after Tovey was sent home, detectives knocked at Jane's door to tell her he was the rapist.

The stunned mum said: "I was devastated that a man I had trusted with my kids could do this. Stacey kept saying it wasn't him. But later she opened up to a close friend.

"She said he had raped her twice while I was at work and that he had frightened her into keeping quiet."

This week Tovey, from Cinderford, Glos, was given a tough new "indeterminate" sentence after admitting two counts of rape at Gloucester Crown Court. He can only be freed if a parole panel deem he is no longer a danger to the public. Judge Jamie Tabor QC branded the crime "undiluted wickedness".

Jane said: "The only good thing to come out of this is the baby.

"I'm responsible for a lot of his day-to-day care because I feel it's important that Stacey is still allowed her childhood.

"As she gets older, she will have to take on more and more responsibility.

"But she knows that whatever happens, I will always be here for her."

And Stacey added: "I know it's going to be hard work - I'm still at school and I want to do well.

"But I also want to give my baby all the love and attention he needs."

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