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Rapist Arron Jackson has been jailed after attacking a sleeping woman.

The 29-year-old went to the woman's Berkshire property to watch a film when she fell asleep.

She woke up while Jackson was raping her.

He immediately left the scene but was charged with rape in 2020.

Jackson, of Grovelands Road in Reading, was convicted of rape by a majority jury at Reading Crown Court in April.

He has now been jailed for six-and-a-half years after appearing before Aylesbury Crown Court last week.

He will also have to sign the Sex Offenders' Register.

Detective Constable Kevin Godding of Thames Valley Police, said: "I am pleased that Jackson has been convicted and sentenced for his crime.

“The victim has shown great courage to come forward and report this crime and I would like to thank her for supporting our investigation leading to Jackson’s imprisonment.

“I hope that this conviction shows that Thames Valley Police will do all it can to investigate sexual offences and bring offenders to justice."

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A CLEANERS life was ruined after a Reading man took advantage' of her and raped her earlier this year.

Dorin Manolache, of Wantage Road, Reading, will serve six years behind bars for his crime.

A court heard how the rape survivor, who had overcome serious [medical] challenges in order to live a normal life by starting a family and getting a job, had been set back an unimaginable degree by the incident.

32-year-old Manolache raped the woman on March 17 in Reading.

He was alone with her when he grabbed the woman, who was saying no to him.

Manolache bundled her into a room and raped her, Reading Crown Court heard.

She managed to get away and Manolache tried to assault her again before he finally decided he would take no for an answer.

The court heard how the woman suffered bruises following the assault, as well as sleepless nights, a loss of appetite and flashbacks.

She had to take HIV treatment tablets as a precaution, too.

Defending, John Simmons said Manolache and the woman had exchanged messages over text and that the 32-year-old had clearly misread the nature of the relationship between the two of them.

Simmons claimed Manolache had been a model human being prior to this incident and said: What a fall from grace for a 32-year-old who has never been in trouble before.

Sentencing, Judge Nott said: Until earlier this year you dont appear to have put a foot wrong in your life.

That is clear to me from glowing character references from those who know you, all of whom are shocked you have behaved in such a way.

You committed an incredibly serious offence.

You misread from her what was friendly communication and you knew that she was married and that she had children.

She got on with life. That is what you have taken away from her in those mad minutes in March.

Your actions have set her back an unimaginable degree.

In all my time on the bench I have never seen such harm flowing from a rape which hasnt involved violence.

I dont think you planned this. You took advantage in the moments she was with you.

She has not been able to work since and can not see a time she would be able to work again.

This is a desperately sad case.

You have ruined two lives; you have ruined your life and you have ruined hers.

Judge Nott sentenced Manolache to six years in prison after he admitted to rape.

He will serve half this time before being eligible for release.

In addition to his prison sentence, Manolache will be made to sign the sex offenders register indefinitely and was handed a restraining order from the woman.

Addressing the woman, the judge said: I hope this verdict will give you some catharsis and you can start moving on psychologically.

Manolache was sentenced at Reading Crown Court on Thursday, May 27.

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Roy Coxhead, of Erleigh Road, Reading, targeted the “vulnerable” boys with money, cigarettes, alcohol and cannabis before having oral sex and attempting to penetrate the first boy on multiple occasions.

The first boy, who became “entangled” with Coxhead when he was “11 or 12” got a sexually transmitted infection from the businessman following the assaults.

Years later, after luring a second boy to his flat, the businessman put his hands down the teen’s trousers and encouraged him to do the same to him.

Reading Crown Court heard how Coxhead’s grooming of the first boy was so “successful” it only came to light after the sexual abuse of the second boy emerged in 2017.

A statement from the second child’s mother read: “We had to move because we felt frightened living where we were.

“I was scared for [my son] and I was frightened someone would get revenge against us.

“I felt embarrassed and ashamed about what had happened. I was devastated somebody could hurt my boy.

“I was so worn down by everything and this hanging over their heads for such a long time.

“I never doubted [my son] was telling the truth about this. He has been so brave.”

A statement from the first boy was also read aloud at Reading Crown Court.

It read: “I’m sorry it took me so long to come forward but I felt I might lose everyone in my life but I’m so pleased my wife and children are still here.

“I’m glad it is done and I’m happy it is over.”

Coxhead was found guilty of multiple counts of sexual abuse following a two-week trial earlier this year.

Defending, Janick Fielding told the court that Coxhead had been abused as a child.

He said: “This was very much a case of victim-turned-abuser.

“He was someone who wanted to have the company of others. But those who he wanted to spend time with were those he should have avoided.

“The defendant accepts the verdict even though he doesn’t accept guilt.”

Mr Fielding claimed Coxhead was a “hard-worker” who had built up businesses and was “effectively a man of good character”.

He added: “There will be a substantial road he must travel in custody before he is released.”

But Judge Emma Nott rubbished these claims, telling the court Coxhead was “dangerous” and that his offences were “repeated, calculated and predatory.”

Coxhead became involved with the first child when he was “11 or 12” after he offered to “look after” him when his family was having trouble at home.

Judge Nott said: “You made yourself indispensable to him by driving him around in your Rolls Royce.

“This child thought his association with you made him seem cool.

“While you offered him status you took his innocence and his self-esteem.”

Addressing the defence’s claim that Coxhead was a “victim-turned-abuser” and that the first boy had lied about the abuse, the judge added: “By suffering abuse, you know how devastating it was.

“You nonetheless showed no remorse to your victims and you continue to paint yourself as the victim.

“You are the manipulator, you are the liar.”

Years later, Coxhead gave the second child a “sanctuary” at his flat, offering him free food, cigarettes and cannabis.

On one occasion at Coxhead’s home, the 14-year-old, who has special educational needs, shouted “suck my c***” at Coxhead before immediately apologising, the court heard.

Coxhead responded: “Come round to mine and I will.”

In May 2017, Coxhead put his hands down the boy’s trousers and touched his penis before encouraging him to do the same back to him.

The 66-year-old was eventually arrested in June 2017 but it took several years for the case to come to trial after the lead police officer "failed to pursue the case with sufficient urgency and determination," the jury heard during the trial.

The court heard how the effects on the boy have been “profound” as he has had to leave his placement at school and he has become addicted to cannabis.

Summing up, the judge added: “You chose individuals you thought would be unlikely to complain.

“I hope the victims can put this behind them and move on with their lives.”

Coxhead was sentenced to 18 years in prison, with at least twelve of these to be served before he is eligible for parole.

The 66-year-old was sentenced at Reading Crown Court after being found guilty of two counts of indecency with a child; three counts of indecent assault on a male person; attempting to commit a serious sexual offence; perverting the course of justice; four counts of sexual activity with a child and two counts of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.

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A DEVIOUS rapist has been jailed for six years after he tricked a woman into thinking they were old school friends.

Noormal Nazari, 31, of Charlville Drive, Calcot, met his victim, a woman in her 30s, for the first time on August 19, 2016 in Reading.

However, after striking up a conversation with her managed to convince her that they had met 17 years earlier.

The 31-year-old was sentenced today (Friday, 6 July) at Winchester Crown Court following what the court heard was a deliberate act of deception.

After saying they had met 17 years earlier, his victim said she thought she recognised him and believed the defendant to be someone she knew from school.

Nazari played along and arranged to meet the woman for a catch up, despite knowing that he had not only never met her but had not even been in the UK when she was at school.

The day following the pairs first meeting, Nazari picked the woman up and took her to Basingstoke where they spent the evening drinking in a pub.

The court heard that the pair later moved on to a club, during which time the victim was bought so much alcohol that she began to feel unwell and asked Nazari to drive her home.

In another act of dishonesty, Nazari claimed he too was too drunk to drive and took the victim to a Holiday Inn on Grove Road in the early hours of August 21, 2016 where he raped her.

Nazari was found guilty of rape following a unanimous jury verdict, and was jailed the same day for six years.

Following the court hearing, DC Clare Hughes, leading the investigation, said: Nazari is a devious sexual predator who thought he could get away with plying the victim with so much alcohol that she would become too vulnerable to protect herself from him.

From the moment he saw the victim he began planning his despicable attack. She thought she was going out for a catch up with an old friend from school. She hadnt seen this person for so long that she did not realise the man in front of her was in fact not the person he was purporting to be.

I am pleased with the outcome of todays hearing and that Nazari is now behind bars.

I want to thank the victim for her unwavering bravery and courage, and the fact that in the face of adversity she has remained strong through what was no doubt a very difficult two year period. .

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31 MAR 2020

Within months of his release the evil pervert tried to meet a 14-year-old girl for sex.

Jon Womack was found guilty by a majority verdict of raping a woman at Reading Crown Court in July

A 'serious sexual offender' from Southcote has been imprisoned for six years after being convicted of rape.

Jon Womack raped a woman in her 30s in Southcote on Wednesday, June 25 in 2014.

He was found guilty by a majority verdict of rape at Reading Crown Court on Friday, July 15, following a 10-day trial.

The 37-year-old, of Coronation Square, was sentenced at the same court on Friday, August 5.

Investigating officer detective Gary Tull said: "Since the incident in June 2014 the emotional impact on the victim has been substantial.

"The victim has had to relive the fear and indignity of the assault when recounting her experience in court."

He added: "This conviction will help her move on with her life and will protect the public from a serious sexual offender.

At the same trial Mr Womack was acquitted of another count of rape and one count of assaulting a female 13 years of age or over by penetration.

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A 29-year-old man from Reading has been jailed for nine years after being found guilty of a string of sexual offences against a 12-year-old girl in Egham.

James Tough, from Landrake Crescent, was convicted on Wednesday, September 30 of a total of five charges between March and October 2013.

These included causing / inciting a girl under 13 to engage in sexual activity – no penetration, making an indecent photograph of a child under 13, sexual assault by penetration and two sexual assaults by touching.

Tough has also been given a sexual harm order and will be on the sex offenders' register for life.

"Predatory sexual offender"

Detective Inspector Paddy Mayers from the Surrey and Sussex major crime team, who led the investigation, said: "James Tough is a predatory sexual offender who groomed and assaulted a 12-year-old girl over a lengthy period of time.

"The victim first reported the offences in October 2013 and has shown extreme courage in coming forward and helping to ensure that he was brought to justice.

"Tough committed these offences after gaining the trust of the victim’s mother and took full advantage of that trust for his own gratification."

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John Saxton, of Southcote Road, was convicted of three counts of raping a child under 13, one of sexual assault and one of causing a child to engage in sexual activity

Judge Peter Ross sentenced a 71-year-old West Reading man to 16 years' imprisonment for raping a child saying it was one of the worst cases he had dealt with.

He released the jurors from ever having to serve on a jury again saying he hoped the case would not "haunt" them.

He described the 999 call made by the girl who was eight when the abuse began and 10 when she hid in her wardrobe and called the police as "harrowing".

John Saxton, of Southcote Road, was convicted of three counts of raping a child under 13, one of sexual assault and one of causing a child to engage in sexual activity.

He was cleared of one count of rape and one of sexual assault.

After deliberating for more than 21 hours after a trial which lasted 14 days, the jury was unable to reach verdicts on the remaining seven counts - of a similar nature - which were left to lie on the file.

Judge Ross said Saxton had committed multiple rapes on the girl for a protracted period of two years.

The rapes involved oral sex and acts of "degradation" in which she described how Saxton took her into the lavatory and "used her as toilet paper".

Saxton also made the girl take part in "sexualised dancing" making her perform pole dancing and striptease sometimes using a game called Eat Me I'm Delicious in which he typed out commands on his computer in a mock TV show.

He said the effects on the girl were "truly terrible".

Speaking of a report sent to the court by a therapist who interviewed the girl, the judge told Saxton: "She used sexualised language and concepts which revealed the depth of corruption you have wrought upon her."

Judge Ross told Reading Crown Court yesterday Saxton maintained his control over the girl with a "truly evil threat" that he would turn on another child "so she continued to place herself in a sense as the sacrificial victim".

He said the girl had a complete breakdown after she reported the matter to the police, although the court heard she had since managed to settle back at school.

"The degree of harm that you have caused is simply enormous," said Judge Ross. "It is almost impossible to put into words the degree of harm."

He added: "She will bear the scars of that for the rest of her life."

The judge said of Saxton that the length of sentence he would impose "would have a not just life-changing, but possibly life-ending effect".

He sentenced him to five years for causing the girl to engage in "sexual dancing", 16 years for each of the three counts of oral rape and five years for sexual assault, all to run concurrently.

Saxton will remain on the sex offenders' register for life.

The judge praised the prosecution and defence barristers, the police officer in charge of the case and the control centre operator who took the 999 call, for their conduct the case.

He also praised the Reading Post/getreading for the way it has reported the trial.

After the hearing, the victim's father said: "We are very grateful to the jury and to the police."

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A school teaching assistant who had sex with teenage pupils after grooming them on Facebook and sending them indecent text messages has been jailed.

Emma Webb, 42, also performed sex acts on four boys, sometimes in a room at the Berkshire school where she worked.

She admitted 30 offences between 2009 to 2012 involving five boys who were aged between 15 and 17 at the time.

The married mother of two, from Kingfisher Drive, Woodley, was jailed for two years and eight months.

Reading Crown Court heard that Webb worked as a study supervisor at the school, which cannot be named for legal reasons.

On one occasion she performed a sex act on a boy in a room at the school, stopping only when the school bell sounded.

'Befriended victims'

She also invited one of the boys to her home to walk her dog but instead had sex with him on the stairs of her family home.

The court heard that Webb befriended her victims before sending them suggestive texts and indecent mobile phone photos of herself using sex toys.

She had been warned to stop contacting the boys via Facebook by a friend who discovered it but continued, the court was told.

Her conduct was also the subject of jokes by some of her victims to their friends with several of the boys knowing about each other's relationships with her.

Judge John Reddihough said she had risked leaving the boys with a "distorted attitude to females and sex".

"It is also likely to have had an adverse effect on them with feelings of guilt, shame and embarrassment on their part," he said.

He added: "You put your thrill-seeking before their interests."

Webb admitted 16 counts of sexual activity with a child whilst being in a position of trust, six counts of causing a child to engage in sexual activity whilst being in a position of trust and four counts of causing a child to engage in sexual activity.

She also pleaded guilty to three charges of causing a child to watch sexual activity whilst being in a position of trust and one count of sexual activity with a child.

She was banned for life from working with children and ordered to sign the sex offenders' register.

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A HEADTEACHER has spoken of the 'shock' and 'disappointment' in her school after a staff member received an 18-month jail term for sexually abusing two boys.

Liz Allen, the head of Altwood School, Maidenhead, said she was stunned when she heard the news about maths teacher Brian Lee who was jailed on Friday.

A packed public gallery at Reading Crown Court heard how Lee admitted seven charges of indecent assault on the boys, neither of whom were students at Altwood.

The victims, now young men in their 20s, told police how the previously respected teacher had sexually abused them over a 10-year period.

Lee, 58, was the teacher who lead Altwood School's Easter 1988 skiing trip to Untersberg, Austria, in which four boys were killed.

Mrs Allen said this week: "I've sent a letter home to parents and spoken to stu- dents.

"It's extremely sad that a 30-year career of committed service to Altwood should end so abruptly.

"In that time he was an excellent maths teacher and supported many of our young people to academic success.

"The students' main reaction was sad- ness and disappointment because he was somebody they respected.

"His colleagues and the students share a strong hope that this will not be a judgement on the school."

Lee, of Glendevon Road. Woodley, Reading, was immediately suspended from work when the complaints were first brought against him in July last year.

During the hearing last week Robert Spencer-Bernard, prosecuting, told how LM'S two victims were touched inde- cently over and under their clothing in a

variety of places.

On one occasion, the court heard, Lee, who also ran a boys football team as well as helping with a Scout group, took a boy into his bi^oom after a ball ended up on the roof of his home. There he indecent- ly assaulted the youngster

Mr Spencer-Bernard added: "The defendant told the boys not to tell their parents.

"After the abuse he would sometimes give them extra money or sweets - there was no suggestion of any threat or any- thing of significance in that direction."

Sheelagh Davies, defending, passed on a raft of references to Judge Stanley Spence from supporters and well-wishes who wanted to register their high regard for Lee.

Mrs Davies said: "He was a gifted and caring teacher. There is no other sugges-tion that other children have been involved. The breach of trust is slightly reduced because the boys were not taught by him.

"He cannot explain why or how he came to commit theses offences. This man gave his time for many years to the betterment of children."

In jailing Lee Judge Spence said: "It is, and I take diose words from your counsel, a case of horror and misery and total loss to everyone concerned.

"There is very clearly genuine remorse by you. You are greatly ashamed, you have lost your employment and, I might add, quite rightly so.

"You have a desire to receive treatment for your problem but there remains a potential risk to the problem, in the shape of young boys.

"The real aggravating feature here is the very long period over which the abuse occurred - 10 years, five for each boy. In each case there was a clear breach of the trust placed in you.

"There was clearly some element of grooming and seduction.

"I note as one young boy decided, of his own volition, that the time had come when he should withdraw from the rela- tionship there was then a switch to anoth- er - highly coincidental with this tragedy in 1988.

"Your victims are still very angry and confused as to their own feelings, one said he broke his silence to save others.

"Very many others have suffered from this - the boys, parents, your own family and friends and many people who know you are greatly shocked and cannot believe it."