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A paedophile pensioner was told you thoroughly deserve it by the judge who caged him for 29 years.

On Friday, sick sex offender Rick Passway was finally made to pay for a catalogue of abuse against six women and girls in the 1970s and 1980s.

They included the rape of one woman in Faringdon in the mid-80s just days after she had a hysterectomy operation in Swindon to remove part of her womb. Passway, then a taxi driver, had driven her home from the hospital before raping her on the floor of her living room.

Another victim was a child and teenager when she was repeatedly sexually abused by the man over the course of several years.

He also pawed four other victims, who were aged eight to 14 when they were touched by him.

'No mercy'

Sentencing the 77-year-old at Oxford Crown Court on Friday, Judge Nigel Daly blasted: Your treatment of your [first victim, who was repeatedly raped as a child] was despicable.

Youve heard what she has to say about that. Youve taken away her childhood. You have ruined her adult life.

The rape of your [second victim, who was sexually assaulted in the mid-80s] was shocking in the extreme.

In respect of the other offences, it is quite clear you were unable to keep your hands off young women and would sexually assault them at any opportunity, repeating it again and again and again because you never got caught and you were never punished.

You showed your victims no mercy. You showed them no compassion and you have displayed no remorse or contrition since - either at trial or since.

Sending him down for 29 years, the judge added: That is the sentence upon you. You thoroughly deserve it.

Mitigation

Earlier, John Cammegh QC said: I have asked Mr Passway whether he has remorse. I am bound by my instructions.

I am afraid I cannot, despite having spoken to Mr Passway just now, offer any remorse flowing from him because he denies the majority of these offences took place.

He added: Mr Passway knows he is going to die in prison.

Passway, of Bunce Road, Swindon, was found guilty over two trials of rape, indecent assault and indecency with a child. He was sentenced for 22 counts in total, including six counts of rape.

The offences were committed in Wantage, Faringdon and Fairford.

Judge Daly imposed an extended year on licence, but noted that the defendant would be well into his 90s before he was eligible for release on parole.

Senior Crown prosecutor James Bailey-Woodward for the Crown Prosecution Services Rape and Serious Sexual Offences unit said: Rick Passway unashamedly preyed on young girls for years, creating a culture of fear and intimidation to ensure that they would not speak out about his despicable crimes, allowing his offences to become more and more serious. He then denied any wrongdoing.

Its thanks to the courage of his victims that we were able to put him before a jury who found him guilty.

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A crossdresser exposed himself to a teenager before targeting other young ladies outside a college near from his home in Swindon, a court heard.

Andrew Keen, 41, was sentenced at Swindon Magistrates Court yesterday (27 April), after admitting an indecent exposure offence and two charges of causing harassment, alarm or distress.

Prosecutor Kate Prince said the defendant, of Clanfield Road, Park North, approached a lone 17-year-old girl just 250 metres from his address and asked her for the time on 26 September last year.

But things turned odd when Keen who was wearing womens clothing asked if he could have her top and bottoms for a charity. She declined, and he went on to ask if she could sign his skirt.

After bending down to sign his skirt with a lipstick he provided, he lifted his top and showed her his genitals which were poking out of his skirts waistband.

Shocked, confused and scared, she agreed to his second request for her to have a photograph with him, which she took on her own mobile phone. He asked if he could put this arm around her, but she said no.

The next day, Keen ventured out again this time targeting a 16-year-old girl outside New College.

He asked her: Will you take your clothes off so I can have them?, claiming it was for charity, before asking her for her phone number. The victim called the police to report the encounter.

On 28 September, he accosted a 17-year-old girl as she got off the bus on Queens Drive, near New College. He asked her for the time before asking if he could borrow her clothes for charity. He went on to request that she takes her clothing off.

Worried about his behaviour, she ran into the college and reported the incident. In a statement to police, she said she is now scared and anxious about going to college.

Mr Prince said the defendant was identified by the photograph the initial victim was asked to take on her own mobile phone.

Defending, Sam Arif described her client as a loner, who was struggling with his sexuality. She said older generations of his family could not accept it.

She added that Keen saw the approaches as opportunities to talk to young women who he believed would be more open to his sexuality.

Ms Arif said he stopped offending as soon as she was spoken to by the police, who were investigating the spate of concerning incidents.

She said Keen has a myriad of issues and learned about things via the internet, rather than via the appropriate channels. She added that he has found it difficult to deal with his family situation and with who he wants to be.

Ms Arif said his crimes could have been worse claiming they were very short encounters.

Chief magistrate Martin Clarke told the defendant that the bench was considering sending him to prison for his crimes.

Weve been thinking long and hard about what to do with you.

Whats worrying here is that you deliberately target certain young females, these are young girls, young ladies, very young.

One of them has actually said she was shocked and confused, she didnt have a clue what you were talking about. Thats worrying Mr Keen.

Our range is from a community penalty to sending you to prison today, thats how serious this is serious.

Mr Clarke imposed a 24-month community order and banned Keen from going near both New College sites for 12 months which will be monitored by a GPS tag.

He must also complete 15 rehabilitation activity requirement days, 200 hours of unpaid work and register as a sex offender for five years.

Talking about the order as a whole, Mr Clarke added: If you break that and end up in that area, you could be going out that back door instead of the front door.

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A SWINDON paedophile described as a monster for abusing friendships with women to sexually assault their young daughters and take indecent pictures of them has been jailed for 50 months.

Prosecutor Anjal Gohil told Gloucester Crown Court Shaun Couling of The Green, Highworth, had become friendly wth a number of mothers in the Cotswolds town and that enabled him to get access to their daughters.

The first victim was aged 11 and was the daughter of a woman friend and when he was in their home he got hold of the young girls breasts and bounced them up and down and warned her not to say anything to anybody, the prosecutor said.

On the second occasion he put his hand down her pants and touched her private parts, but did not penetrate her. She knows that on that occasion Couling had been drinking and he accepted in his police interview that he had probably been inebriated at the time.

The second victim was another girl who was photographed in the familys pool and had been wearing a white top that had become see-through. His photograph concentrated on the girls breasts and not her face.

"On August 28 2021 Couling sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl who was another friends daughter. The girl expressed an unwillingness to spend time in his company, but eventually agreed.

He plied her with gin while he stroked her legs in a sexual manner while they were sitting on a sofa together. This lasted for about half an hour and only stopped when the girls mother arrived home early.

Couling basically abused the trust of his friends, the mothers of the young victims. He told both girls not to tell anybody about his sexual abuse with them.

The court was told that following his arrest his digital devices were anaylised and Couling was found to be in possessing of large quantity of indecent images of children. There were 171 images of Category A (deemed the most severe), 237 category B and 1,070 images of category C.

In a statement the mother of the 54-year-old's first victim said: My world has turned upside down. I didnt believe it at first.

My emotions go from being angry to feeling utter gilt that I didnt protect my little girl. I hope to wake up from this nightmare soon.

My home is not the sacred place it once was. Family times no longer happen as my daughter shuts herself in her room. I dont know what to say or do.

I have felt so alone during this process. There appears to be no light at the end of the tunnel.

My daughter is brave, but she will not talk to me. I know deep down this situation is not my fault. Im scared she will go off the rails if she doesnt open up to somebody.

The mother then spoke directly to her daughter and said: I am sorry I have let you down as a mother. I will always protect you. Im so sorry I let a monster come into our home. I will go to my grave blaming myself for what happened.

The second victims mother said: I feel betrayed. This has caused me to question my own judgement in that as a mother I got it so wrong.

"My daughter now has an obsession of locking all the doors and windows. She has also been suffering from nightmares. She still thinks that Couling placed cameras around the house.

The third victims mother said she felt that she didnt protect her daughter enough in front of Couling and that her daughter has never worn the clothing that she wore in the pool after she was shown the photographs obtained from Coulings phone by the police.

Joe Maloney defending said: You cant lock people up forever. Couling may have an interest in young girls, but he has admitted his guilt to these charges.

He has listened to my legal advice that because of the strength of evidence he pleaded guilty, saving the young victims given evidence at his trial.

He was acquitted by a jury in a trial of a similar nature a long time ago. This charge shouldnt be taken into account for this sentencing as he was found not guilty at this trial.

Couling doesnt wish to minimise his offending and he accepts he will be receiving a custodial sentence today. He is embarrassed by what he has done. There are measures that can be imposed to stop this happening in the future.

Judge Ian Lawrie QC interjected: Sometimes people are reluctant to concede their frailty. The court normally looks for somebody who recognises their wrong doing and is prepared to work with other bodies to make sure it never happens again.

His pre-sentence report makes no acknowledgment of this. He has spent a lot of time minimising his involvement. The report is effectively an attempt at damage limitation.

Couling pleaded guilty to two charges of sexual assault of a girl under 13 in the Cotswolds area, The sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl on August 28 2021. He also pleaded guilty to possessing 1478 indecent images of categories A, B and C.

In sentencing Couling, Judge Lawrie pointed out that because he was acquitted of a very similar offence in Hampshire in the past that he must be considered of good character for this sentencing hearing. But he added that the alleged offence there was identical in every circumstance and therefore he considered the defendant as dangerous in the legal definition.

Judge Lawrie told Couling: You have been before the courts before for a similar offending for which you were acquitted by a jury. As I have explained you are dangerous and your primary mitigation is that you pleaded guilty and that you didnt subject your victims in giving evidence at trial.

"You need to be sentenced for a variety of sex offences. The pattern was the same in that you gained access to the girls because you were friends with their mothers.

"One of the young victims gave an account of two sexual assaults while you were in the girls bedroom and touched her private parts. Even though she said no, you ignored her and carried on anyway.

You also told her not to tell anybody about what had been going on. It is clear from the text on her phone that you wanted to take things further. Luckily that never happened as she told her father what you had done.

I think you targeted both victims and exploited your arrangements with the girls parents.

"You assaulted the second girl by plying her with gin in a bid to try and weaken her defences. It was clear what you were trying to do as you stroked the girls legs in a sexual manner for about half an hour.

The girl felt pressured to take the gin and your activity only came to a halt because the girls mother arrived home early.

Your explanation has little credit and you still fail to recognise what you did was wrong. Your actions showed signs of grooming.

You still maintain you didnt take the picture of the semi-nude girl in the swimming pool on your phone. You didnt think it was inappropriate.

I believe all your actions were because you have a fixation for young girls and were doing all this for your own sexual gratification.

Despite your guilty pleas, you still have not confronted your offending. It is clear from the victim impact statement that both the victims are likely to suffer from long-term psychological impact.

The judge sentenced Couling to a custodial term of four years and two months and extended his term on parole for an additional three years, which means he could be recalled to prison anytime until June 2029.

Judge Lawrie concluded: I have extended the sentence because I believe you pose a risk to young children in the future.

The judge placed Couling on the sex offenders register for life and made him subject to the terms of an indefinite sexual harm prevention order.

After the hearing, Detective Constable Ross Webb from the Gloucestershire Police Indecent Images Unit said: The sentencing of Shaun Couling is welcomed and shows how hard we work to bring justice for victims.

It doesnt bring closure to his young but brave victims however it does allow them to close one door. Unfortunately they will never forget the horrible crimes that Couling subjected them to.

I ask that that people respect the privacy and anonymity of Coulings victims and their families by not speculating about who they may be.

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A 35-year-old man has appeared in court charged with three child sex offences.

John Edward Iles faces charges of attempting to cause or incite a child to engage in penetrative sexual activity, attempting to cause a child to watch an image of sexual activity and attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child.

Nataline Cheeseman, prosecuting, told Swindon Magistrates Court this morning (30 March) that the defendant had allegedly spoken to a 13-year-old girl online.

However, the girl was actually a paedophile hunter from Justice for Innocence.

Whilst a sting was not carried out on Iles by the group, evidence of his alleged illicit behaviour was handed to Wiltshire Police to investigate.

On hearing that one of the offences is indictable only and the other two charges are inextricably linked, all three charges were sent up to Swindon Crown Court.

Iles solicitor, Terry McCarthy, indicated that pleas of guilty would be entered.

The defendant, of Marlow Avenue, Swindon, was released on bail with conditions not to have any unsupervised contact with children under the age of 18.

Iles can have supervised contact with children under the terms of the conditions. However, the childs parent must be informed of the allegations before the court.

He will appear at Swindon Crown Court next month for a plea and trial preparation hearing.

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A SERIAL sex offender with a perverse sense of entitlement left a vulnerable woman feeling disgusting and awful after he raped and sexually assaulted her.

Mustafa Naro Ali exploited the sex worker after seeing her in his street, approaching her and arranging to have sex with her for 20.

But when they got inside, Ali treated her like a ragdoll, trying to rip her clothes off and was so aggressive she began to cry.

It left her with internal injuries and the 30-year-old was described as having little if no regard for the victims of his crimes referring to her as just a sex worker in a pre-sentence report.

He was jailed for 10 years at Portsmouth Crown Court on Friday (March 18), with Recorder Simon Foster labelling him dangerous.

Ali, now of no fixed abode but previously of East Street, had been convicted of one count of rape and one count of sexual assault in a trial at Swindon Crown Court last year.

Prosecutor Rob Welling said the victim, an alcoholic and heroin user, was near Alis address collecting a debt in April 2021 when he approached her. The defendant very quickly established in his own mind she was a sex worker, and arranged to have sex for 20, he told the court.

They went back to his flat, and once they were alone, almost immediately he tried to rip her clothes off, treating her like a rag doll.

Mr Welling continued: [He] treated her so aggressively that she protested and cried, but he didnt care. She said she was crying throughout and when the defendant eventually left, he left the flat telling her he was going to get some more alcohol.

He said that the defendant knew from her appearance she was a drug user and exploited [her] as a result].

His attitude was he paid for it, he was going to have it, regardless. That is borne out by his attitudes with the author of the pre-sentence report.

The court was also told about Alis previous crimes. Among the list of his sexual offences include licking his lips and asking a group of 13-year-old girls if they wanted to come back to his flat to smoke drugs, masturbating on a bench in public and pressing himself against two women shopping in Boots.

This was a defendant that could not contain his sexual urges and had little if no regard for the victims of his crimes, Mr Welling concluded.

In a victim impact statement, the victim said: What happened to me made me feel disgusting and awful, I was scared to report what happened because I am ashamed of what I am.

My life is a mess and I sex work on the street. I didnt think the police would believe me and I thought Id be laughed out of court.

My experience was very different. On the date I found out the verdict I felt I had some worth as a human being.

The outcome of my case has helped me to remind myself that I have to be positive and work towards recovery.

Sentencing Ali, Recorder Foster said that Alis aggressive behaviour led to the victim withdrawing consent for sex.

The ongoing effects of what you did to her are only too evident, he continued. As I have said she was plainly a person in a vulnerable state.

Your antecedence revealed in my judgement a troubling past. The author of the report has come to the conclusion that you are a very high risk of serious harm to the public, that harm being of sexual abuse and sexual violence.

Your attitude to this offence bears that out. In interview you denied, as you did at trial, there being any penetration. You claimed consent, and your attitude which was made plain in the course of the preparation of the report, illustrated what you went on to say, that she is just a sex worker.

You acted out a perverse sense of entitlement, and attitudes like that are abhorrent to all right-thinking members of the public.

Ali was jailed for eight-and-a-half years for rape, and three years for sexual assault, which will be served concurrently.

However, Recorder Foster also sentenced the defendant for a separate assault, where in 2020 he hit a prison officer with a mop and bit an officer on the shoulder at HMP Bullingdon. The attack has seen the officer look for another job.

He was given another one year and six months for assault occasioning actual bodily harm and assaulting an emergency worker which he admitted and will serve the sentences consecutively.

It resulted in a total jail sentence of 10 years. On release, Ali will be subject to an extended licence period of four years and a sexual harm prevention order.

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A Swindon sex offender has uploaded dozens of photographs featuring girls and women to social media following his conviction for sexually assaulting women on a train.

The images are believed to have been captured by Dr Prabhat Sakya, 50, who was sentenced to a suspended prison sentence for touching women he trapped by sitting next to them.

Before and after his conviction, he has kept his personal Instagram account up to date with buildings, art and females many, very obviously, aged under 18.

Whilst it is legal to photograph or video record anybody in a public place, including children, his photographs have caused some concern in the community.

The images posted rarely include males unless they are accompanied by a female. Others feature young girls wearing school uniforms, or teenage girls walking alone in the street.

One set of photographs posted on 11 October last year featured two schoolgirls wearing uniforms walking down the street. One photograph was captioned Schoolgirls, whilst another said Fair maiden.

Weeks prior to his court hearing, he also added an image of a womans lower body, which appears to have been taken while the photographer was sitting next to the female. The caption said: Morning flirt.

Despite his conviction at Swindon Magistrates Court in October last year, photos of young females are still being posted on the Instagram account.

On New Years Day 2022, he uploaded a photograph of an adult woman wearing black knee-high boots and added the description Kinky boots.

Several days later, he added an image of two young girls estimated to be in their early teens sitting on a bench at Swindon Railway Station.

A woman, who wishes to remain anonymous, alerted Wiltshire 999s to the social media account some months ago and, despite it appearing to be legal, it was reported to the police.

Its really quite concerning that a man can be convicted of sexual offences and then walk around the streets photographing young girls, she said.

Adding: Something must be done to stop him, its creepy. It should be allowed when he is a registered sex offender.

The police should be looking into it but I know they wont as they say hes doing nothing wrong.

At Swindon Magistrates Court on Thursday (28 October 2021), he was sentenced to 52 weeks imprisonment suspended for 24 months and told to register a sex offender for ten years.

Sakya, of Bude Road, targeted women on a train between London and Swindon, and had a bulge in his crotch area, which he was touching with his hand during one of the attacks.

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A man communicated with two young girls unsupervised in the street despite being banned from having contact with children under the terms of his sexual risk order (SRO).

Serial offender Patrick Cunnington, 24, admitted a ninth breach of the SRO which was granted in 2018 and prohibits him from communicating with anyone under the age of 16 at Swindon Magistrates Court this morning (8 September).

The defendant, who was on bail for two other breaches of his order, was brought before the court after being arrested on Tuesday (7 September) and remanded in police custody overnight. He was supported in the courtroom by his girlfriend of eight months.

Crown prosecutor Pauline Lambert said Cunnington, of Prospect Hill, Old Town, was living in a shared house and whilst outside the property, he would talk to his neighbour who was unaware of his offending history and her two children aged 9 and 11.

In the mothers statement, she described him as very friendly as he always took the time to speak with her children, asking about what they did over the school holidays and about their new hamster. She estimated hed spoken to the children on around 30 occasions between April and 5 September this year.

He added his new neighbour on Facebook on 21 August, and she accepted. When the woman posted a photograph of her girls on the social platform wearing their school uniform, Cunnington left a comment saying Awh, have fun, along with laughing emojis.

The womans ex-partner contacted her and asked why she was friends with him on Facebook, but she was completely unaware of his history. Immediately Googling him, she said the results made her feel sick and she contacted Wiltshire Police to report his behaviour.

For most of the occasions he communicated with her children, she was present in the background, but for many others, they were alone and Cunnington was unsupervised with them.

When police attended this address armed with this new information, he lunged at them with his fists clenched. He was restrained and handcuffed to prevent any assaults. After hed calmed down, his handcuffs were removed and he was transported to custody.

Ms Lambert asked magistrates to refuse the defendant bail due to the fact this new offence was committed whilst on bail ahead of sentencing on 21 September. She also asked that the case was sent to the crown court for sentencing, concerned the benchs powers would be insufficient.

He does not comply with this order, the current order, and does not comply with his bail conditions, she told the court.

Adding: There are no bail conditions which could be in place to stop him re-offending. He should be remanded in custody for fear of further offending.

The court heard how Cunnington is categorised as a high risk of harm to children.

Charlotte Frizzell, defending, opposed the remand application made by the prosecution, saying sending her client to prison would not help him.

Every day in passing, he says hello, and he does converse with them.

He admits hes seen them on their own and would say hello. He feels it would be odd that he does not speak to them when their mother is not around, he feels it would make them think theres something wrong with them.

There is no underlying cause, he was being neighbourly, they spoke a lot.

She [the childrens mother] has been around and asked his girlfriend to babysit her children. He told his girlfriend, who is in court supporting him, that it could not happen.

Hes quite immature for his age and he has significant trust issues with people in authority.

Magistrates, after retiring for a few minutes to discuss the matter, decided to remand Cunnington into custody. They committed the case for sentence at Swindon Crown Court in October.

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A CHILD rapist from west Swindon has been jailed for 19 years.

Jailing John Whelan at Swindon Crown Court on Monday, Judge Jason Taylor QC told him: Your grooming and manipulation was nothing more than a selfish and perverted desire to prioritise your sexual gratification over their welfare.

Recent changes to the law mean that the 64-year-old will spend at least two thirds of that 19 year sentence behind bars. Once he is released he must spend a further two years on licence.

Whelan was found guilty earlier this month of indecent assault, gross indecency with a child and rape. The offences were committed between the mid-1990s and 2000s against two girls, both of whom were under 11 when the abuse began.

His younger victim, who was raped by Whelan after being made to perform sex acts on him while they played games in his man cave, told the court on Monday that she had felt totally and utterly powerless.

She said: I have carried around the weight of the world on my shoulders for most of my life.

The older woman said Whelan had stolen her childhood and the person she could have been.

Mitigating, Whelans barrister Clare Evans said her client had been a hardworking family man whos done everything he can to support his family.

John Whelan's custody shot Picture: WILTSHIRE POLICE

During the trial, jurors heard how Whelan turned his abuse of the children into games, including instructing one seven-year-old girl to play hide and seek with his private parts after covering his genitals with a blanket.

The abuse was perpetrated from the mid-90s to mid-2000s.

The older girl claimed Whelan had occasionally babysat her while her mother was out at work and she had also been looked after at his family home.

Jurors were told he had arrived to babysit her at her home with what he called special films pornography that he would make her watch while she sat on his lap. He was said to have molested her; touching her sexually and getting her to touch him.

The touching continued at his own home, as they played video games in his man cave, although he would not expose himself at the house. Opening the case to the jury last week, prosecutor David Scutt said: She said this: It was our secret, it was our little game and that, no doubt was what he was telling her as that young girl.

As she got older she had refused to take part in the games, she claimed. When her mum switched work shifts the girl no longer needed to be babysat by the man. On the occasions she went around to his house she stayed close to her mum, Mr Scutt said.

The older girl said she had noticed Whelan taking an interest in another younger girl. They would both be called upstairs to watch TV in his bedroom. On occasion he would be wearing a towel, she claimed.

The younger girl claimed Whelan had begun sexually abusing her when she was around seven. She said the man had shown her pornographic playing cards and websites.

He had been grooming her, Mr Scutt said. He was getting her to look at it, this is to say the stuff on the computer, and what was described as his game; it was made into play for this young child. He would get her to look at videos, she said, and he told her what he wanted her to do.

The girl claimed she had been made to touch him sexually and perform oral sex on him. On one occasion he raped her, she said. [He said] he was going to make her happy like the ladies in the videos, Mr Scutt said.

One victim said she had experienced urinary problems during her childhood. During Whelans sentencing hearing, the judge suggested that could be the result of a sexually transmitted infection.

The abuse was reported to police in early 2019. In December the previous year, the younger woman had told her mother and father she had been raped by Whelan. Her brother was instrumental in persuading her to go to the police, jurors heard. The woman had told her then partner later her husband about the abuse.

The older woman came forward after being told by her mother that the younger complainant had gone to the police.

Interviewed by police last year, Whelan denied sexually assaulting the girls. He said the pornographic cards belonged to his late father.

Sentencing Whelan, Judge Taylor said: You forced [your victims] to live with this shameful secret for years, knowing as they did that if they ever came forward it would go nuclear.

It took tremendous courage for them to come forward but at last they feel back in control for the first time for 20 and 15 years respectively.

The judge commented that Whelan, formerly of Stamford Close, Toothill, but appearing in court via video link from Bristol prison, had been shaking his head as he summarised the evidence against him.

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The victim of a serial sex offender says when she learned he had offended again she felt "sick to her stomach".

Peter Kis was jailed for two years at Swindon Crown Court on Friday after being caught performing a sex act in front of two young girls.

It was the latest in a string of offences involving young children, dating back to the 1960s.

One woman he abused when she was a girl says she and other victims had been let down by the legal system.

Swindon Crown Court heard Kis's latest offence happened on 2 May when he indecently exposed himself to an eight-year-old girl and her six-year-old sister who were playing near his home in Barnum Court, Swindon.

Kis was arrested the same day and pleaded guilty to one count of engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child.

His previous convictions include an eight-year sentence for indecently assaulting two girls in 1967, a suspended sentence in 1971 for gross indecency with a child and a three-and-a-half-year jail sentence for sexually assaulting a seven-year-old girl in 2018

'Career as a sexual abuser'

Speaking after Friday's sentence, one victim - now in her 30s - said she was shocked to hear he was still offending.

"I definitely didn't consider that he would still be out there doing this to other girls like me," she said.

"I feel let down because I reported this when I was eight and I just feel that perhaps if I had been taken more seriously and Peter had been monitored a bit more then he wouldn't be out there still doing this.

"The legal system has effectively allowed this man to comfortably continue what is a 50-year career as a sexual abuser."

She said that Kis had changed her life, but not destroyed it, and that "short sentences were not enough".

"I really hope the justice system has a serious think about how they sentence dangerous individuals like him. It needs to be done more efficiently and effectively," she added.

A Probation Service spokesman said: "While sentencing is a matter for independent judges, the offender was robustly monitored while on licence by diligent probation staff."

The Crown Prosecution Service said its regional Rape and Serious Sexual Offences (RASSO) team worked closely with police "to ensure justice was delivered swiftly."

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A RAPIST has been ordered back to prison after police found vile child sex abuse images on his computer.

David Stephens was jailed for life in 1999 after he was convicted of five rapes and a series of sexual assaults on children.

The Wiltshire paedophile was released on licence in 2012.

But now hes been sent back inside after detectives found 49 sickening images, including some showing children as young as five being molested.

Sentencing the 64-year-old to a further eight months imprisonment for three counts of making indecent images of children, Judge Peter Crabtree said: Anyone who engages in downloading child pornography is involved in fuelling a business which results in those children being the subject of psychological and harm sometimes over many, many years.

Stephens long history with the courts began in 1971. In 1984 he was accused of presiding over a reign of terror in Chippenham, where he lived at the time, by committing 37 burglaries and thefts from clothes lines taking womens underwear and childrens clothing to satisfy a sick lust.

Stephens also stole documents and photographs belonging to the women from whom he stole, using them to compile dossiers on his victims.

In 1999, he was convicted at Swindon Crown Court of a series of five rapes and eight other assaults, including on girls under-13. His jail term was bumped up to life imprisonment by appeal court justices. He was released in April 2012.

Under his licence conditions, registered sex offender Stephens was prevented from having access to electronic devices capable of accessing the internet except where police gave the go-ahead.

Acting on a tip-off, police officers raided Stephens home on August 28. They seized a number of electronic items including a Dell computer.

A forensic trawl of the computer found Stephens had downloaded indecent images of children the day before and had deleted them on the morning of the raid.

Evidence pointed to Stephens searching for terms like barely legal.

Stephens, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent images of children.

Alistair Haggerty, defending, said his client had made full admissions, pleaded guilty at the first opportunity and was remorseful.

Seven years had passed without incident since Stephens was released from prison on licence, he added. By comparison to many similar cases that come before the courts, Stephens was in possession of relatively few indecent images.

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A JEHOVAH'S Witness who sexually abused his two daughters would have faced a lengthy jail sentence had he not been suffering with Alzheimer's Disease.

Judge Jason Taylor QC described Dennis Cottee's crimes as evil, saying the octogenarian's campaign of abuse had had a devastating and debilitating effect on the two women.

The Broad Town 85-year-old, who was convicted alongside son Jacques Cottee, can now be identified after his two victim's asked to partially waive their right to anonymity to ensure their dad and brother were named publicly. The Adver has agreed not to name the two women.

Earlier this month, 57-year-old Jacques was jailed for three years and 10 months after a Swindon jury found him guilty of incest, molesting the elder of his two sisters as they returned from watching a film at The Savoy cinema in the early 1980s.

Dad Dennis was ruled unfit to plead, after a court heard he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's and was receiving palliative care.

The jury found proven 12 charges against him, including raping his elder daughter and repeatedly abusing the younger girl.

Judge Taylor sentenced Cottee to a two-year supervision order, with the defendant placed under the eye of the probation service. He must sign onto the sex offender's register for five years.

He said the impact of Cottee's actions on his two girls had had lifelong consequences: "It's clear to me that these actions have had a devastating and debilitating effect on their lives and will continue to do so as they move forward.

"They are emotionally and psychologically scarred and they always will be."

The Swindon court heard that had Cottee been ruled fit to stand trial he would likely have received a significant custodial sentence and may well have died in jail.

"It was with a heavy heart that I could not pass a far more punitive sentence on Mr Cottee for what is obviously incalculable pain and harm he has caused his daughters," Judge Taylor added.

The court heard Dennis Cottee had begun abusing his older daughter after she started at secondary school. The dad had got her to perform sex acts on him as he drove back to their farm, had simulated sex and finally when she was in her mid-teens had raped her.

The abuse of the younger daughter began when she was just four-years-old, with Cottee getting the youngster to perform a sex act on him as they were parked in his car outside shops in Cricklade.

He had simulated sex with her in the animal sheds on the family farm, north west of Swindon. On one occasion, he had molested the girl on an upstairs landing in the farmhouse. In a nearby room, a friend of the girl's mother lay dying of cancer. She said: "While he was doing this I had to listen to her dying. She was gargling. She was rattling."

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Stuart Eager, 70, of Lady Lane in Swindon, was convicted by a unanimous jury verdict of three counts of indecent assault at Portsmouth Crown Court.

The court heard that Eager, who denied the allegations, had assaulted the boy on three separate occasions in 1988 at Budds Farm in Havant, where he allowed the victim to sit on his lap and steer his car around. The boy had been 11 or 12 years-old at the time.

Judge William Ashworth sentenced Eager to four years in prison with indefinite licence conditions.

Following the sentencing, Detective Sergeant Julia Nicol, who led the investigation, said: “The horrific manipulation and abuse perpetrated by Eager has had a significant impact on this young boy’s life.

“He was only 11 or 12 at the time of these offences, which makes them all the more shocking and depraved.

“The boy, now a grown man, harboured this secret for decades, during which he struggled to cope with life and school, his identity, and suffered terribly with his mental health.

“His childhood was stolen from him, and his adult life was spent trying to come to terms with the trauma.

“It is only in the last couple of years that he has found the courage to come forward, and I wholeheartedly commend him for that.

“I have no doubt that there are many people out there that have suffered similar abuse, and spent decades struggling with the trauma, that have not yet found the confidence to report it to police. I would like to assure those people that they are not alone, and we are here to listen to them and support them if they wish to make an allegation.”

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THE family of a dementia suffering great grandmother set up covert CCTV in her flat because they thought her carer was stealing from her.

But when they saw the footage they were shocked to find Andy Newman was sexually abusing the 86-year-old widow.

The old lady's granddaughter fitted a motion sensor camera in the hope of catching the 48-year-old taking her food and money.

But when she got an alert on her iPhone she was stunned to see Newman carrying out a series of sex acts on her elderly gran.

The mum said: "I couldn't believe what I was seeing. I was wondering if I was seeing things. I wasn't expecting that.

"I couldn't sleep for three days after that, I had to go to the doctors. I was mortified."

And her uncle added: "We didn't really like the bloke but we didn't think anything like that was going on. We thought he was stealing, but not that.

"No one has ever really liked him but my mum did and he was good at talking to her. She wouldn't hear a word against him. He was very charming to her."

He said after Newman was arrested his mum was in tears after wondering when he was going to come back as the dementia meant her short term memory had gone.

Philip Warren, prosecuting, told Swindon Crown Court how the former neighbour became a carer for the victim after she was widowed in 2004.

Well before he was caught in December 2015 he started visiting to help with domestic chores including washing her hair.

Worried about missing money and food the family set up the covert camera in the house which caught him out.

When he was arrested on suspicion of rape Newman told cops 'I have done nothing wrong', and 'I am her carer'.

In a statement to police he said 'I believe these allegations to be false due to her dementia/mental condition', which Mr Warren said showed he knew about it.

When his computer was searched it not only uncovered a vast amount of 'granny porn' but also some indecent images of children and one of bestiality.

Newman, of Swindon Road, Stratton St Margaret, admitted sexual activity with a person with a mental impairment impeding choice, having indecent images of a child and extreme pornography.

He claimed that about six years before the offending he had been in a sexual relationship with the woman, which her family say they do not believe.

Gareth James, defending, said: "He is clearly a man who has some sort of predilection towards older women."

He said his client, who had taken an overdose before an earlier hearing, accepted he was facing a lengthy jail term.

Sentencing him to ten and a half years in prison Judge Tim Mousley QC said: You know what you did on December 21, 2015, was completely disgraceful.

"She was unable to make an informed decision and that must have been as blindingly obvious to you as it was to everyone else.

I accept it was not your intention that anyone else should see what was going on but the fact is her grandchildren, at least, saw what was going on by seeing it on the camera.

The effect on them as well as the effect on the victim is profound and long lasting. That I regard as a particular feature of this which adds to your culpability.

Newman must also register as a sex offender for life, will be barred from working with children or vulnerable people and must abide by a sexual harm prevention order restricting his liberty.

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A CHILD sex offender who moved to Swindon has been warned he is on his last chance after failing to do his unpaid work.

Daniel Kerwood, 31, who is on a community order for failing to comply with his registration conditions, said a bad back made it too hard from him to get to the appointments.

But a judge at Swindon Crown Court told him that the problem with the order was his attitude and said he was getting a 'last chance'.

Andrew Stone, prosecuting, said Kerwood was first put on a six-month suspended sentence in 2014 for sexually assaulting a child under the age of 16.

Soon after it was increased to nine months because he failed to notify the authorities of where he lived, as is required under sex offender registration.

Then last year Kerwood, of Alpine Close, Shaw, was back before a judge for again failing to comply with the requirements by having contact with a child.

Mr Stone said the defendant, then living in the Andover area, was told as part of the order he must not have contact with a child for more than 12 hours at a time.

"Mr Kerwood tells me he accepts misunderstanding, he thought it was being alone with a child," he said.

After admitting the breach he was put on a 26-month community order with supervision from probation.

But he first breached the order in September last year, then again shortly before Christmas when 60 hours of unpaid work was added to it.

Mr Stone said he failed to turn up for the work on December 28, February 23 and 24 and the first three days in March.

He said the defendant had told him that he lives an hour's walk from the unpaid work centre and he has sciatica.

"He says the distance is beyond him with his back in that condition," adding that Kerwood couldn't afford public transport.

"He tells me he has applied for universal credit. He applied in January but the checking is still going on."

Passing sentence Judge Tim Mousley QC said: "You have breached this order yet again.

"As I have said the underlying reason for you not doing what you were ordered to do was because your attitude towards it.

"It is suggested in the pre-sentence report that your compliance with this order has been nothing but problematic. That is putting it mildly.

"You are now on your last chance, do you understand that. I am going to add 40 hours of unpaid work. That makes a total, less any you have done, of 100 hours.

"That is the position you find yourself in. You must do it. There are no more excuses. If you come back before the court, as I have said, you have run out of chances."

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THOUSANDS of disturbing images and movies of child abuse found on a council worker’s computers have put him behind bars for two years.

Jamie Osborn, 41, of Gooch Street, had amassed the catalogue of media over a seven-year period and distributed them to like-minded people over the internet.

Canadian police provided a tip-off to Wiltshire officers after the North American force busted a firm selling paedophilic DVDs around the world.

Osborn, who worked as a sports assistant with Swindon Council, said he was distributing the material as a courtesy to an online community which shared his interests.

Officers in Toronto had raided a company which sold the DVDs and pictures. They found Osborn splashed out £650 on 25 movies with the firm.

Tessa Hingston, prosecuting, told Swindon Crown Court the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre received the initial tip off.

After a search of his home in December 2013, officers discovered he had stored more than 250 videos and at least 2,450 pictures of abused children, some as young as two.

Two computers were taken away and found to be loaded with the material.

There were saved searches on his internet browsers such as ‘young boys sex’ and ‘naturalist boys’.

It emerged Osborn had sent more than 1,500 of the files by email to 16 different people he had come into contact with over the web.

Ms Hingston said five of the films sent across the Atlantic contained illicit material, with the others showing child nudity.

Osborn pleaded guilty to eight counts of making, five counts of distributing and one of possessing indecent images of children.

Rob Ross, defending, said his client had already sought help for the problem from the Lucy Faithfull Foundation.

“Everything one learns about Mr Osborn suggests to me he is a man who has lived the life of a loner for a very long time,” he said.

“He was able to divide this interest in looking at images from any suggestion that he would contemplate any physical contact.

“Immediately after he was confronted he began to seek assistance in how to put himself back on track.

“Whatever sentence he gets he won’t have a job as a recreational assistant with Swindon Borough Council. He has to rebuild his life at the age of 41.”

Jailing him for two years, Judge Peter Blair QC said: “You are likely to be barred from ever working with children by the barring authority.”

He also imposed a sexual harm prevention order restricting Osborn’s liberty for five years and told him he must register as a sex offender.