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This is the face of a Hull dad found guilty of horrific sexual offences including rape.

Darren Broadbent, 31, of Seafield Avenue, Hull, denied six sexual offences but he was convicted by a jury after a trial of five of them, including rape and offences of assault by penetration.

His victim was left suffering "mental torment" as well as nightmares, flashbacks and night terrors. The abuse had caused "catastrophic effects" on her and the "severe psychological harm" had badly affected her whole life through a "tidal wave" of suffering, Hull Crown Court heard.

Judge Mark Bury said that Broadbent committed the offences when he was much younger but the girl did not report any of them at the time. "She did not appreciate the severity of what you were doing," said Judge Bury.

"You, however, did have some idea because you told her on more than one occasion not to tell anybody. It would be your secret. She was anxious about whether she would be believed."

"The court can see how devastating your actions have been," said Judge Bury. "It has affected every aspect of her life. You took the case to trial and the court is now in a good position to see the harm that you have caused."

The "catastrophic effects" of Broadbent's behaviour on the girl had become clear. "She continues to have nightmares and night traumas," said Judge Bury.

"She has been diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder. She has sadness. Now that you are going to be sent to jail, she will get some closure. Severe psychological harm has been occasioned. You did know you were doing wrong. These are serious offences, as you well know."

The girl said in a statement: "I have suffered with mental torture over the years, which has gradually got worse and worse. What Darren did to me was so wrong. What's happened should never have happened. I suffer with nightmares and night terrors."

She said that she would "wake up dripping with sweat" and this had been happening as long as she could remember. This was the lowest point of her life.

Sometimes she struggled to get out of bed and she struggled to sleep at night. She had suffered a "tidal wave" of effects. "This is not the life I should be living," she said.

"The nightmares, flashbacks and night sweats continue, along with intrusive thoughts. My family have given me so much support throughout this. He has taken too much from me and put me through too much hurt."

Charlotte Baines, mitigating, said that there had been no repeat of the offending. "He does not pose a high or significant risk to children at this particular time," said Miss Baines.

Broadbent had a lack of previous convictions, including for anything similar. He was married, had a daughter and had been working.

Broadbent was jailed for six years and must register as a sex offender for life.

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A sex offender who was twice caught with sickening images of children has been warned that he is now a "marked man" because of his "perverted" behaviour.

He narrowly avoided being sent to prison, even though he later assaulted a policeman after becoming aggressive towards him and had a knife with him, Hull Crown Court heard. Norman Winduss, 34, of Boothferry Road, Hull, denied six offences of making indecent pictures of children and another of possessing an extreme pornographic image but he was convicted by a jury after a trial.

He admitted later offences of assaulting a police officer as an emergency worker and possessing a spring-lock knife as an offensive weapon. Recorder Anthony Hawks said that police found indecent images of children, including in the most serious Category A, during a search after going to the home of Winduss in January 2020.

More indecent images were discovered during a second visit in December 2020 after it was found that he had access to a second phone. There were "far more" Category A images in the second raid than the first one.

"What makes your position worse is that you would not accept your guilt and insisted on having a jury trial," said Recorder Hawks. "That was your right." Winduss had been convicted by the jury on the "plainest possible evidence".

Police searched the home of Winduss in June this year. He had "no business" having the offensive weapon. "You became aggressive and assaulted a police officer, who was simply carrying out his duties," said Recorder Hawks.

"The police are entitled to go about their lawful business searching premises and the like without being harassed and assaulted by people like you. You have been in some trouble with the police in the past.

"There is some light at the end of the tunnel because the probation officers think that you may be developing some insight into your perverted behaviour. You are lucky that she takes the view that you can be safely managed in the community.

"You are now a marked man. If you do anything like this again, you are going to go to prison for a significant length of time."

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A social worker at a Derbyshire children's home has admitted grooming and sexually assaulting a teenage boy more than four decades after the victim reported the abuse. Derby Crown Court heard how after being assaulted by Paul Harvey, the victim was told to keep quiet by the now 73-year-old defendant.

But instead he reported the abuse and was not believed at the time and has spent more than 40 years telling others of the ordeal he went through while in care. In 2017 a second man who also sexually assaulted him at the same home was jailed for 10 years for carrying out sex attacks on him and four other care home children.

Now he finally has his justice on Harvey who was likewise jailed in the 1980s for similar offences. Handing him a 12-month jail sentence, suspended for two years, Judge Michael Fowler said: "You served a significant custodial sentence in 1984 for similar offences committed against other boys in a children's home.

"You were a member of staff at Greenacres, in Clay Cross, a social worker responsible for the counselling of (the victim) who was in there as he had suffered sexual abuse at the hands of another. You had responsibilities and you groomed him."

Robert Underwood, prosecuting, said the sex attack happened when the victim was in his mid-teens and the defendant was a social worker at Greenacres, which was run by Derbyshire County Council. He said the then teen was at the home after allegations of sexual assault by a different man led him to being convicted of assault .

The prosecutor said: "He had authority and responsibility over his young charges and we say he groomed him (the victim) with kindness and attention. One night he took him to a flat he was using that night and gave his lager which caused this young boy to suffer some memory loss.

"He says the next thing he recalls was waking up on his front with his trousers and pants down and the defendant on top of him (sexually assaulting him). He (later) said this made him remember the pain he suffered when he was sexually abused before."

Mr Underwood said: "The defendant sent him back to his room with the instruction not to tell anyone but he did make a complaint to another member of staff but, sadly, that was not believed and he was moved to Moorfields Children's Home, in Sinfin." He said the local authority did carry out an investigation but "formed the view" that no action needed to be taken.

The prosecutor said: "But the complainant continued to tell people for years he had been sexually abused in care. He went on to say a second man at Greenfields, called Duncan Ritchie, has sexually abused him and in 2017 he (Ritchie) was jailed for more than 10 years (after he was found guilty of eleven sexual charges involving five teenagers following a trial)."

Mr Underwood said a police investigation into Harvey, then of Pilsley, was launched in 2019 after the victim disclosed to officers what happened when they spoke to him about an unrelated matter. The defendant, now of Dayton Road, Hull, was interviewed, denied the allegation and told officers he recalled the victim was moved from Clay Cross to Derby as he "was a trouble maker".

But he later pleaded guilty to sexual assault. In 1984, he was jailed for 30 months for similar offences against boys at the children's home, Mr Underwood said. John Dunning, mitigating, said: "Actions speak louder than words and there is no way what I say can compensate for what (the victim) has suffered over the years."

As well as the suspended jail sentence, Harvey was also ordered to pay 1,000 compensation to the victim and was handed a four-month curfew confining him to his home address each daytime between 11am and 10pm. He was also handed a 10-year sexual harm prevention order and will be on the sex offender register for 10 years.

In 2017, after Ritchie, then 71 and of Highfields Way, Holmewood, Chesterfield, was jailed for 11-and-a-half years, Derbyshire County Council issued an apology to his victims saying we deeply regret if there have been complaints that may not have been dealt with as they should have been at the time they were made.

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A Yorkshire sex offender who preyed on girls between six and seven years old died from heart failure while serving a sentence at HMP Hull a report has revealed.

David Raymond May, 57 at the time of his death, was jailed for the historic offences, carried out between 1996 and 1998, in November 2019. He was given five years behind bars for what was described as "a sickening sexual assault on a very young and vulnerable girl".

In January 2021, May was reported to be suffering from a persistent cough chest pain but tested negative for Covid-19. Further investigations at Hull Royal Infirmary found that he was suffering from widespread cancer.

May would eventually succumb to heart failure in September of that year with his condition being linked to a chemotherapy drug. He was also suffering from testicular cancer which contributed to, but did not cause, his death according to the report.

May had initially received a six-year prison sentence at Lincoln Crown Court in May 2005 for indecent assaults on a seven-year-old girl between 2003 and 2004. He would later be hauled back before the courts in 2019 for the historic offence committed between 1996 and 1998.

North Yorkshire Police said May's victim was aged about six or seven when the attack happened and the offence was first reported to them in 2018. May had denied the attack until the first day of his trial in November 2019 when he pleaded guilty.

May, formerly of St Phillip's Grove in York, groomed the girl by offering money. He isolated her in part of the house where he indecently assaulted her.

May was sentenced to five years behind bars and was sent to HMP Hull. At the time of his conviction Detective Constable Alastair Foy, of North Yorkshire Police, said: This was a sickening sexual assault on a very young and vulnerable girl which had a massive and lasting impact on every aspect of her life."

A report from the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman published in July this year has revealed that May died while serving his sentence for the attack. He first complained of chest pains and a persistent cough in January 2021.

Tests for Covid-19 proved negative but blood tests returned abnormal results and later investigations at Hull Royal Infirmary found May was suffering from widespread cancer. On April 25, he was transferred to St Jamess University Hospital, where he was diagnosed with testicular cancer.

May was treated with a combination of chemotherapy medication and on July 25, he was discharged from hospital and was taken back to Hull. On July 29 he fell ill in his cell once again with symptoms consistent with post-chemotherapy.

May was sent to hospital for assessment on another occasion during in August before a marked deterioration on August 25 when he once again complained of chest pains and was weak with shortness of breath. There was a four hour delay for a non-emergency ambulance call during which time his condition deteriorated further.

His call was upgraded to an emergency call and he eventually arrived in hospital at 2.35am the following morning. Mr May was taken to St Jamess University Hospital and he was treated for community acquired pneumonia.

On September 16, it was confirmed that Mr May had died in hospital. The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman said: "The pathologist gave Mr Mays cause of death as acute cor pulmonale (heart failure) caused by bleomycin toxicity (a recognised complication that can occur with the use of a chemotherapeutic drug, bleomycin). He also had disseminated germ cell tumour of testis (testicular cancer), which did not cause but contributed to his death."

Mr May was the 14th prisoner to die at HMP Hull since September 2019. Of the previous deaths, five were from natural causes, seven were self-inflicted and one was drug related.

The report concluded that there were no significant similarities between the findings in the investigation into Mr Mays death and findings from the investigations into the previous deaths. The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman did not find any non-clinical issues of concern.

The report said: "The clinical reviewer concluded that the clinical care Mr May received at Hull was of a reasonable standard and equivalent to that which he could have expected to receive in the community. She made a number of recommendations about the need for healthcare staff to accurately record clinical observations using the NEWS2 tool, ensuring that specialist services are updated when a prisoners health deteriorates and that staff complete appropriate assessments when a prisoner returns from hospital."

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An obsessed ex-soldier started touching up and kissing a teenage girl after pulling her towards him while he was sitting in the opened-up side area of his camper van.

Sexual predator James Dyson parked up at St Andrew's Quay and grabbed the girl and cuddled her after they had arranged to meet following earlier online contact. But little did he know that he was being watched on CCTV by an eagle-eyed security guard who became suspicious and alerted the police to what was going on, Hull Crown Court heard.

Dyson, 36, of James Reckitt Avenue, Hull, admitted sexual assault on August 7, 2020. Daniel Penman, prosecuting, said that a security guard at St Andrew's Quay, Hull, saw a white camper van in the car park, with Dyson sitting inside the opened side door area of it.

Two girls were nearby and the guard zoomed in the pictures to see what was going on. Dyson pulled a 14-year-old girl towards him, kissed and cuddled her, put his arm around her and put his hand on her leg.

"She tried to get off him but he pulled her towards him," said Mr Penman. "The defendant remained sitting inside the van."

The security guard noted the van's registration number and the police were alerted. Dyson was found a short distance away and he was arrested. It transpired that the girl had met him a few times before via Snapchat.

"She felt scared about what was happening," said Mr Penman. "She couldn't sleep afterwards due to constantly thinking about it."

The girl's details were on Dyson's phone. He had looked at the websites of paedophile hunters to see if he was being tricked.

He claimed that he thought the girl was 16 when they arranged to meet up but he admitted that he knew that she was really 14. He admitted grabbing the girl and cuddling and kissing her while she was sitting on his knee.

"He said that he couldn't believe what he had done and that he had really f***ed up," said Mr Penman. "There was a significant degree of planning, given the Snapchat chat."

Dyson had convictions for drink-driving and theft. Rachel Scott, mitigating, said that Dyson had been in the Army between the ages of 16 and 23 and served in Northern Ireland, Canada and Germany before leaving to start a family. He had a 10-year-old son.

"He is extremely remorseful for his actions," said Miss Scott. "He is disgusted in himself. He knows that his reputation is in tatters. It was a disgraceful offence.

"Clearly, the victim was extremely vulnerable in this case, given her age. There was contact on Snapchat beforehand. They did arrange to meet. He does not want a repeat of this offending."

Dyson was given a 16-month suspended prison sentence, 200 hours' unpaid work, 30 days' rehabilitation and a 35-day programme. He was given a 10-year sexual harm prevention order and must register as a sex offender for 10 years.

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A former school teacher has been jailed for a string of historical sex offences against young girls after he handed himself into police 36 years later.

Solihull man Peter Jenkins, 53, who also ran a church holiday club with his wife, groomed schoolgirls before subjecting them to sexual assaults between 1984 and 2005.

One of his victims was a 12-year-old girl who Jenkins befriended while he was at university and another was abused when he became a teacher.

A teenage helper at the holiday club he ran with his wife later became a babysitter for the couple and following years of grooming he also began abusing her at 16.

A court heard his interest in underage started in his teens and continued into his 20s when he got married where his offended continued over the space of 21 years.

His crimes eventually came to light when a solicitor contacted West Midlands Police to say their client wanted to disclose offences he had committed.

Detectives began to try and trace the women Jenkins claimed to have abused as young girls and identified and contacted four victims.

He went on to admit 15 charges, including rape, indecent assault, sexual assault, unlawful sexual intercourse and inciting a girl to commit an act of gross indecency.

Jenkins, also known as Peter Greenham, of Solihull, West Midlands., was jailed for 13 years at Warwick Crown Court on Friday (12/8).

He will also be on the Sex Offenders Register for life.

Detective Constable Gemma Rowan, of West Midlands Police, said: We always treat cases with the utmost sensitivity but this was especially true with this investigation as we had to contact the women who Jenkins had identified, out of the blue.

Our initial enquiries were largely carried out during the pandemic, when many people were already feeling isolated and vulnerable, so our specialist officers were at pains to ensure the women were supported and guided through the process as carefully and considerately as possible.

We felt it was important that the women who had been subjected to Jenkins abuse were given the opportunity to come forward and talk about their experiences.

It is testimony to the strength and power of these women that they supported this successful prosecution and have now been able to see Jenkins locked up for many years.

We know that Jenkins groomed these girls at a time in their lives where personal circumstances made them vulnerable and he used his position of power and trust to abuse them.

The effects of this type of behaviour have long lasting and scarring effects. We do not underestimate how traumatic this can be.

We work with a range of other agencies who can support victims of sexual abuse, no matter how long ago it happened.

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Kristofer Mitchell, from Hull, 'didn't care' that one of his victims was asleep - she woke up in total shock to find him raping her and latest discovered she was pregnant from the attack A vicious double rapist sobbed as he was convicted for forcing himself on sleeping women - and impregnated one of them. Kristofer Mitchell imposed frightening scenes of sexual violence on his innocent victims, who were meant to feel safe in the comfort of their own homes. Mitchell's victims were too scared to try and stop him during the terrifying ordeals, with one of the women finding out she'd become pregnant after being raped by him, Hull Crown Court heard. Mitchell, 34, of Hessle Road, Hull, denied five offences of rape but was found guilty on four counts after a trial. Two of the rapes involved one woman and he was convicted on a majority verdict on one of the charges, but cleared of the other. The sex offender denied a further three rapes against a second woman and two charges of assault by penetration, and was convicted of all these offences. Simon Reevell, prosecuting, said: "He committed these offences because he had absolutely no concern for their wishes or their feelings. Instead, he chose to prioritise his sexual desires." During the second incident, the victim was asleep when Mitchell raped her. Mr Reevell said Mitchell "didn't care that she was asleep" and "just began to have sex with her and without any consideration for her". She later told police: "I woke up and he was raping me. I didn't know what to do. I just pretended it wasn't happening. I was forced to have sex. I remember waking up and tried to push him off but I couldn't. "It was all about him. He didn't care. He was on top of me. He had sex with me and I couldn't move. I just remember waking up and seeing him. He was looking at me. I was trying to say 'get off me, get off me'. I didn't want it to happen. He called me all the names under the sun. It was awful, absolutely awful. It was quite a shock." The woman later discovered she was pregnant after the rape. "I woke up and he was having sex with me. I didn't consent to it. I was just scared to say anything. I woke up. I didn't say anything. I just remember feeling a bit sick. He woke me up, having sex with me. I was scared of him," said another of his victims. The court heard Mitchell denied having sex with the women without their consent or while they were asleep. But, he was convicted, and starting crying in the dock after the verdicts - before being remanded into custody before sentence. Judge Sophie McKone told him: "You have been convicted by this jury of a number of serious offences. You know it's inevitable that you will receive a very lengthy custodial sentence."

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A violent bully "launched a vicious sexual attack" on a terrified naked woman and pinned her down in her own bed after he "invaded her home" while she was sleeping.

Angry and fired-up Stephen Clavering was in a "highly sexualised state of mind" and had been watching pornography before he entered her home and brutally attacked her at a time when she "simply didn't stand a chance" against him. She could not breathe and told him to get off her before she eventually managed to put some clothes on and flee barefoot to a neighbour's home to raise the alarm, Hull Crown Court heard.

Clavering, 47, of Kingsbury Way, Hull, denied sexually assaulting the woman and assaulting her, causing actual actual bodily harm, in April 2020, as well as trespass with intent to commit a sexual assault and sending offensive messages to her, but he was convicted by a jury on May 2 after a trial. He admitted assaulting a female police officer.

Jeremy Evans, prosecuting, said Clavering sent a barrage of highly intimidating, menacing and threatening voice messages to the woman. He was in a "highly sexualised state of mind" when he went on his bicycle to her home.

"He walked into the house through the unlocked front door," said Mr Evans. Clavering took his underwear off and pulled back the bed covers before forcing himself on her."

"She was terrified," said Mr Evans. "She had ear plugs in and she couldn't make out what he was saying." He added: "She simply didn't stand a chance. He was on top of her."

Clavering pinned her down, but his victim struggled and told him to get off her. He put his hand over her mouth and she was struggling to breathe.

Mr Evans said: "She recalled the defendant telling her not to scream. He released her with the promise that she wouldn't scream. She took the opportunity to reach for her mobile telephone.

There was a tussle over the phone, said Mr Evans. "He used his superior strength and size to overpower her, assault her and pull her by her hair." He added: "She ended up in the living room with the defendant still clutching at her mobile. She realised that she needed to get away. She was able to put on some clothes but, barefoot, she had to run from her own home.

"She knocked on her nextdoor neighbour's window, raising the alarm as to what was going on in her own home. The defendant followed her outside."

Clavering threatened to hit the woman with a bicycle chain before cycling away. He later denied what had happened and tried to "lie and mislead his way" out of trouble, said Mr Evans.

The woman said in a statement: "I was still in shock during interview. Every time I looked in the mirror, I saw what he had done." She suffered flashbacks and was in constant fear that Clavering would come back. She was terrified and had a panic alarm installed, but said she was "refusing to let what he did have a negative impact" on her life.

Clavering had previous convictions, including wounding in May 1998, involving headbutting and stamping on the victim's head, causing a broken jaw. He also had convictions for assaulting police and criminal damage, but none for sexual offences.

Dale Brook, mitigating, said that Clavering still denied the offences. "My instructions are that he is innocent," said Mr Brook. The sexual part of the incident was very short-lived, he added.

Clavering's last conviction for assault was 18 years ago. "This is his first prison sentence since the 1990s," said Mr Brook. "He seems to have turned his life around." Clavering had built up a business through hard work, but it had failed because of the case and being remanded in custody since May 2 after being convicted by a jury.

Judge John Thackray QC said Clavering had sent the "most horrendous" messages to the woman and they were the "most disgusting and vile messages", before going to her home while she was asleep.

"You invaded her home while she was sleeping," said Judge Thackray. "She was entitled to feel safe and secure in her own home. You attended in her bedroom. You launched a vicious sexual attack upon her. You attacked her physically.

"She may never fully recover from the effects of your offending. Your offending has had a profound effect upon her."

The court heard that Clavering had been looking at pornographic websites before and after the incident. He was jailed for seven-and-a-half years and was given an indefinite restraining order. He must register as a sex offender for life.

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A convicted sex offender who posed a "very significant risk to children" was found to have a 10-year-old boy living in his house in blatant breach of a court order.

When the authorities visited Francis Dawson's house after a tip-off they found him home alone with the boy who was in the kitchen. Dawson had a lifelong ban on having children in his house after a series of sex offences against boys and girls.

Hull Crown Court heard Dawson was "ultimately responsible" for ensuring that he did not flout the order but he brazenly ignored it even though he knew the consequences after being previously jailed for the original offences. Police and social services intervened to get the boy removed for his own safety but he was found living there again with his mother just two days later, the court heard.

Stephen Welch, prosecuting, said that Dawson was jailed in 2008 after being convicted of a series of sexual offences against male and female children. He had been given an indefinite sexual harm prevention order restricting him living in the same household as children under 18 or arranging contact with them.

But a woman and her 10-year-old son began living with Dawson and his wife on May 12 as a favour to them but in breach of the order. Social services and police became aware of the matter a fortnight later. The boy was found in the kitchen of the house in Ings Road, east Hull getting some food while his mother was out at work.

They were moved into accommodation provided by social services. But on May 27, police were contacted by social services to say that the mother and her son were missing from the hotel where they had been staying.

Dawson's address was checked by police and the door was answered by the missing woman. The boy was there doing school work on a tablet computer. Dawson was arrested because, as a registered sex offender, he was not allowed access to children. "Having been removed, the mother and child returned there a couple of days later," said Mr Welch.

Dale Brook, mitigating, said that Dawson's wife had been keen to help others by providing somewhere for the mother and son to leave but it was his responsibility to make sure that he followed the court order.

"He is ultimately responsible for ensuring that he complied with the order," said Mr Brook. "It's no excuse. He turned a blind eye to it but he knows there is an order and he knows there is a child in the house. He has been imprisoned as a result of it."

The sexual offences conviction related to matters many years ago. "There has been no offending in the intervening years of a sexual nature," said Mr Brook.

Judge John Thackray QC told Dawson: "You do not accept responsibility for your offending behaviour. You said the situation was out of your control and you had no influence on the outcome. I don't accept that. You represent a very significant risk to children and you breached the order and the notification requirement, placing that 10-year-old child at risk of sexual harm. There is no actual harm.

"You were well aware of your requirements and that the onus was upon you to make sure that you did not reside with a child. I am not satisfied that your risk can be managed in the community and I am not satisfied that you can be rehabilitated in the community. My priority here is to protect the public."

Dawson, 61, admitted breaching a sexual harm prevention order between May 12 and 27 and failing to comply with his notification requirements as a sex offender. Dawson, who had been in custody on remand, was jailed for one year.

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A twisted sex offender who targeted three lone victims in three days has been jailed after a transport police investigation.

The incidents occurred in March on-board trains in Essex.

In the early hours of Tuesday, March 15, the first victim was travelling on a London to Southend service when Izat Ullah, of Queens Road, Hull, approached and sat opposite her.

During the journey the 25-year-old began touching himself over his trousers and as the victim got up to leave he blocked her path, grabbed her and threw her back into the seat.

He then put his hand on the victims upper torso and attempted to kiss her before she managed to break free and run into another carriage.

Officers arrested Ullah at Southend Victoria station and conveyed him to custody for questioning.

In interview Ullah refused to speak but laughed throughout.

At just after 8am on Wednesday, March 16 he was released on conditional police bail stating he could not use the railway network in England or Wales.

Later that day, at around 8.30pm, Ullah was again on a train in Essex and approached the second victim, an 18-year-old woman who was on her way home.

As he was sat opposite her, he exposed himself before placing his hand in his trousers and began masturbating.

He then leant over and tried to touch the victim who said, dont touch me, to which Ullah replied, Im sorry, Im sorry.

The victim then moved away from him and as she did so he touched her inappropriately.

Just hours later, in the early hours of Thursday March 17, Ullah approached the third victim on a service travelling to Southend.

Throughout the journey he continuality stared at her and when she alighted at Southend East station he followed her until she got in a taxi outside the station.

He was arrested outside a childrens nursery the same morning for failing to comply with the Sex Offenders Register.

Ullah appeared at Hull Crown Court on July 1 where he admitted to three counts of sexual assault, one count of exposure and failing to comply with the sexual offence register requirements.

A judge at the same court sentenced him to 16 months imprisonment on July 20.

He was also placed on the Sex Offenders Register for 10 years.

Detective Constable, Lucy King, said: Ullah is a twisted offender who prowled the railway targeting lone victims for his own sexual gratification.

He is clearly a danger to women and their right to travel safely and without fear. Im pleased we were able to quickly arrest Ullah and put him before the courts.

I would like to thank the three victims who bravely reported his actions and supported our investigation. No one should be subjected to this abhorrent behaviour on the railway.

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Rapist who was allowed to stay in care home attacked dementia victim, court hears. A convicted rapist sexually assaulted a woman with dementia after he was allowed to live in a care home despite his shocking criminal history, a court heard yesterday. Care home manager Katie Daysley was told he was a registered sex offender who had served jail time and had a history of sex attacks, violence and drug taking. But instead of being moved out of the residential home in Hull specialising in the care of elderly people with dementia, Robert Carpenter was allowed to stay. No plan was put in place to protect other residents, Beverley magistrates court was told. After six months living in the home, and five days after it was visited by a police officer checking up on him, Carpenter was found committing a sex assault on an elderly woman resident with advanced dementia. He was later convicted for an offence of engaging in sexual activity with a person with a mental disorder. Yesterday Miss Daysley, 41, of Hull, went on trial after denying a charge under the Health and Social Care Act 2008 of failing to protect a service user from abuse and improper treatment resulting in avoidable harm. The homes owner the HICA Group pleaded guilty to a similar offence of failing to protect service users from abuse. Jemima Stephenson, prosecuting for the Care Quality Commission, said Carpenter, now 68, was accepted into the care home for short-term respite care in January 2018 after being found by council officials living in appalling conditions and suffering from burns as a result of self-electrocution. He told officials his criminal past was jail time for a drug-related stabbing. In April 2018, social worker Claire Stewart discovered he had in fact served three jail terms with convictions for criminal damage, assault, wounding, grievous bodily harm and sexual assaults. In March 1979, he had targeted a woman walking home from work, forcing a scarf into her mouth to stop her screaming before breaking her jaw, raping her and throwing her over a fence. He was arrested in 2009 following a cold case review of forensic evidence and later jailed for 18 months. Mrs Stewart said she immediately told Miss Daysley of his full criminal history, realising there was a strong public interest concern. A deputy manager was also given details of his criminal past, the court heard. The court was told that Miss Daysley failed to carry out a full risk assessment or implement adequate mitigating steps to deal with the very clear risk. She left her job in May 2018, a month before Carpenters serious sex assault. A Hull City Council safeguarding manager said her department, which referred Carpenter to the care home, found out about his rape conviction only after the sex assault. Had they known earlier they would probably have recommended he be moved out, the court heard. The case continues.

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A young girl was pressured and bullied into committing degrading sex acts with a predatory 17-year-old who had already taken advantage of another teenage girl three weeks earlier.

She had been left scared that nobody would believe her if she told anyone what Callum Hilton did to her. She kept quiet about what happened for 10 years before finally speaking up, Hull Crown Court heard.

Hilton, now 30, of Hull, admitted causing or inciting a girl to engage in sexual activity on June 21, 2009. Richard Butters, prosecuting, said that Hilton was aged 17 at the time and the girl was 14, with no sexual experience of any sort before the incident.

Hilton kissed her and asked her to commit a sex act on him. Because of her naivety, she did not know how to do that and Hilton showed her and told her: "You do it just like that." He encouraged her to touch him intimately.

"She was of an age where she didn't have a clue what was going on," said Mr Butters. The girl did what Hilton asked.

"She kept all of this to herself for many years," said Mr Butters. It was not until 10 years later, in June 2019, that the girl spoke to a friend and her mother about what happened and the police were alerted.

The victim later said: "I had not had any sexual experience and I had not received any sex education. I didn't even realise it was wrong. I wanted to report what happened to me so many times but I was so scared that I would not be believed.

"It has affected my confidence and self-esteem. I have always tried to block out what happened but had to constantly think about it over the last couple of years. I feel so relieved that it is finally over and I can move on and rebuild my life."

Hilton had a previous conviction for an offence of unlawful sex with another girl, aged 13, committed in 2009 three weeks before this matter. The girl consented to what happened on that occasion but it was illegal because of her age. He had been locked up for six months.

Hilton had been recalled to prison until December on another matter. Richard Thompson, mitigating, said that Hilton was 17 at the time of the sexual matter but had since committed other different offences regularly over the years and was serving the balance of a prison sentence imposed in March 2020.

"He has been in custody for getting on for a over a year now," said Mr Thompson. "He was recalled for breaching his licence conditions. His earliest date of release is December this year."

Hilton was jailed for five months and will have to register as a sex offender for seven years.

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He previously raped a female cyclist on her way home from work in Hull A notorious Hull rapist struck again and sexually assaulted a woman and beat her with a metal bar after he was released from prison. Evil Phillip Weaver was jailed for six years for raping a woman after he pounced on her as she cycled to work in east Hull in August 2015. Weaver targeted the woman on a cycle path running between Chamberlain Road and Leads Road. He followed her, before pulling her off her bike and raping her, Hull Crown Court heard. He was released from prison after serving his sentence, only to strike again. This time he sexually assaulted another woman and hit her with a metal bar, causing injuries to her face. Weaver, 32, of Cottingham Road, Hull, admitted to sexual assault, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and the breach of his sexual offender notification requirements, when he appeared at Hull Crown Court on Monday. In a victim impact statement read out to the court, the woman said: "If he had hit me in the wrong place, I could have died. It is hard to wrap my head around that." Nick Peacock, mitigating told the court the defendant initially pleaded not guilty, but ended up pleading guilty before the trial was meant to be held in June this year. Judge Mark Bury described Weaver as dangerous and aggressive and said he posed a "significant risk of harm" to women. He was jailed for five years and also handed an extended four-year licence which will start after his release. Detective Constable Annabel Devall, from Humberside Police, said: "The courage and bravery that this victim has shown throughout the entirety of this investigation has been incredible. This dangerous offender caused the victim great physical and mental harm. "I know nothing will take away the suffering that Weaver has caused the victim, but I hope the outcome at court will provide them with some closure in knowing that he is now behind bars and unable to attack anyone else. If you have been the victim of sexual violence, there are various ways you can report it to the police. You can speak to independent charity Crimestoppers anonymously, or you can report directly through our 101 number, or 999 in an emergency. You will be listened to. We will work with you and we will continue to take action against offenders.

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A twisted and perverted elderly man with a string of sex offences groomed and abused two young girls, leaving one victim suffering from nightmares and insomnia.

Raymond Paterson, 77, who had history for grooming young girls took advantage of his three victims and manipulated them after he had failed to change his ways following a mercifully low six-year prison sentence for raping another girl.

Creepy Paterson exploited the mother of two of his victims after the woman took pity on him after he told her that he had battled cancer, which she tried to help him with.

Paterson, from Hull, admitted two offences of sexual assault between March and November last year and four offences of breaching a sexual harm prevention order, between July and November.

Louise Reevell, prosecuting, said that Paterson twice tapped the younger of the two girls on her bottom and told her to be a good girl, making her feel uncomfortable and causing her to run away from where he was.

On earlier occasions, he kissed his fingers and touched her face every day for more than a month. The incidents had left the girl suffering nightmares and finding it difficult to sleep, according to Hull Live.

In separate incidents, Paterson sexually assaulted another girl after befriending her mother, who felt sorry for him and tried to help him after he told her that he had suffered cancer.

He grabbed and rubbed his hand on the girls chest area on three or four occasions and made sexualised remarks.

He also grabbed her face, rubbed her hand against his cheek and stroked her hair. She had been left suffering from anxiety.

Paterson allowed girls into his home in breach of an indefinite sexual harm prevention order made in July 2011 when he was jailed for six years for raping a girl under 13 and causing a girl to engage in sexual activity. He had convictions for 15 previous offences, nine of which were sexual offences.

David Godfrey, mitigating, said that a pre-sentence report on Paterson was grim reading and it seemed, from it, that he was in denial but he had made admissions. He is someone who accepts his offending, said Mr Godfrey.

Paterson had, apart from these offences, led a decent existence but his 2011 conviction was worrying. He hoped to move into sheltered accommodation when he was released from prison.

He is somebody who has distorted views, that is clear, said Mr Godfrey. He wanted to say sorry. He feels bad about what he has done and he regrets what he has done.

Judge John Thackray QC told Paterson: In 2011, you received a mercifully low sentence of six years imprisonment for very serious offences, including the rape of a child under 13.

Despite receiving that mercifully low sentence, you have gone on to commit further offences against children.

I have no doubt, and the probation service have no doubt, that you represent a very high risk of causing sexual harm to children. During an eight-month period of 2021, you set about targeting young children.

You set about befriending a woman who you knew had children. You were manipulative and dishonest in doing so.

Paterson was jailed for three years after being branded a dangerous offender. He will be on extended licence of five years after his release from prison.

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A man has been jailed after kissing a teenage girl who suddenly turned up at his home in the "middle of the night".

Aurimas Turcinavicius took advantage of the 14-year-old girl and started "messing around" with her after she went to his home for shelter after a "blazing row" at her home. He ignored a police warning to stay away from her and pictures of the two of them, including one where they were in bed together, were later found on her phone, Hull Crown Court heard.

Turcinavicius, 36, of Milldane, Orchard Park estate, Hull, admitted two offences of sexual activity with a child between August 17 and 27 and between October 26 and 29. The case was originally listed for trial but he changed his pleas two weeks before it was due to start.

David Godfrey, prosecuting, said that Turcinavicius groomed the teenage girl by buying her things and, on two occasions, kissed her in a sexual way. He was interviewed by Humberside Police in August because of concerns about their relationship and was warned about his behaviour, but he went on to commit the second offence.

It happened when she turned up at his home. The girl took pictures of them that seemed to be sexualised and showed them kissing in different locations. "There is one of them in bed together," said Mr Godfrey.

The girl's sister had made a statement saying that the girl had become a lot more introverted since the incidents. The girl herself had not assisted the police and did not want to do so.

Nick Worsley, mitigating, said that Turcinavicius, who is Latvian, claimed that the most that ever happened was that he and the girl kissed a couple of times and that there was no sexual touching. "I kissed her once on her birthday," he claimed. He realised that he should not have done so and he bitterly regretted his behaviour.

Turcinavicius had split up from his long-term girlfriend, with whom he had a four-year-old daughter. He was on good terms with them and had not been able to see them because he had been remanded in custody since the end of October.

"He understands that it has come about through his own actions," said Mr Worsley. "This was some ill-advised kissing on a couple of occasions. It went no further than that."

The reason that the police became involved was because the girl left her home after a "blazing row" and went round to see Turcinavicius in the "middle of the night" for shelter.

The police came knocking there because the girl had gone missing. She had become "not obsessed with him", but was pursuing him.

"It was not deliberate and persistent flouting of a shot across his bows," said Mr Worsley. "This is the girl coming to him when there had been troubles at home."

The girl took photographs of them together. "She jumped on to the bed and took a selfie with him," said Mr Worsley. "It's not him that has taken the photograph. This is not contact that was taken further. It's messing around."

Turcinavicius was hard-working and had always worked, apart from a couple of weeks, and was a "model prisoner" in custody. He had a conviction for criminal damage.

Judge John Thackray QC said that Turcinavicius kissed the girl in a sexual way, using their tongues, in what "used to be called French kissing".

He told Turcinavicius: "You became very close to your 14-year-old victim and you kissed her in a sexual way on two occasions. There was a very significant disparity in age of over 20 years. You continued to have contact with your victim despite a previous warning.

"Only appropriate punishment can be achieved by way of an immediate custodial sentence. It must be an immediate custodial sentence. A clear message must go out in cases like this."

Turcinavicius was jailed for 16 months. He was given a 10-year sexual harm prevention order and must register as a sex offender for 10 years.