Latest Offenders Wiltshire

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A SEX offender with links to Wiltshire is on the run.

Police are hunting Krzysztof ODonnell, also known as Krystoff ODonnell, 33, for failing to comply with the Sex Offenders Notification Requirements.

The 33-year-old was last seen in Bristol on January 28 and also has links to South Gloucestershireand South Wales.

He is described as a white eastern European man, 6ft 1ins, of proportionate build, with shoulder-length fair/brown curly hair, with a moustache and goatee-style beard, with blue eyes.

He is originally from Poland and speaks with a Polish accent.

Police are advising the public not to approach him, but to report any sightings of him immediately via 999.

If you have information about where he may be, please call 101 and quote crime reference number 5216024447.

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Derek Packham has been sentenced to a total of 13 and a half years, eight and a half of which will be in prison, for a string of serious sex offences. Packham, 50, of Chippenham, pleaded guilty to nine counts of sexual assault, nine counts of sexual activity with a child, one count of inciting a child to commit sexual activity of making indecent images of children and one count of having indecent images on his phone. He was sentenced yesterday to eight and a half years in prison and a further five years on extended licence at Swindon Crown Court. Packham pleaded guilty at the same court on July 9, 2015, and all the offences in the case took place at the original home address of the defendant in Corsham. Following the sentencing, Detective Constable Julia Dickson, from Wiltshire Police, said: Wiltshire Police welcome todays sentencing as it reflects the seriousness of these offences and the impact they have on the children involved. Derek Packham preyed on his young victims; he became their friend, he groomed them by purchasing them gifts and providing alcohol, he gained the childrens trust. His actions have had a huge impact on these children - local agencies will be working hard to give his victims as much support as possible while they come to terms with what he did to them. Wiltshire Police would like to thank each of the victims for their bravery in coming forward and recounting what is obviously a very distressing and traumatic time in their lives. We are also not ruling out the possibility that there are more victims out there if that is you or someone you know then please come forward. "You will be dealt with sensitively by one of our specially trained officers and I can assure you that any information you give will be treated in the utmost confidence and will be followed up. "We are determined to catch anyone who carries out such crimes. Blair Keltie, Child Sexual Exploitation Manager at Wiltshire Council, also welcomed the sentence and praised local schools for their support of the victims. She said: We work with our partners to do everything we can to stop and prevent CSE, and this case gives a clear message that this will not be tolerated in Wiltshire. I would also like to give great credit to the local schools who have supported their children through what has been an extremely distressing time."

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A former Devizes mayor who sexually abused a boy repeatedly during the 1970s was jailed for three years today.

Timothy Price, 57, of Waiblingen Way, Devizes, was found guilty of four counts of indecent assault and one of indecency with a child at Salisbury Crown Court on January 22.

Sentencing Price, Recorder Edward Burgess said: It was only a matter of time before the dark secret of what you had done to [the victim] was broken.

He added: It was a shame you did not have the decency to spare [the victim] the pain of a trial by pleading guilty.

Price, who has terminal prostate cancer, has just 12 months to live so may now die in prison.

A GPs report said going to prison would make it difficult for him to undergo successful treatment.

Recorder Burgess said his sentence was very considerably shorter than it would have been if Price had been in good health.

Prosecuting, Matthew Scott read from the victims impact statement, which said: I have spent most of my life pretending to myself I was not subject to the most horrendous sexual abuse.

I shut the disgusting memories of the things he made me do in a box inside my head.

A separate charge of possessing indecent images was ordered to lie on file.

Representing Price, Stephen Dent said his client had been very young at the time and had been experimenting with his sexuality.

He added that Price never forced his victim to comply.

It does have all the hallmarks of teenage sexual exploration, the problem being, of course, that one party was seven years older than the other, he said.

Mr Dent said Price had done a great deal of good public work and had enjoyed the respect of the community.

This is a tremendous fall from grace for him, he added.

Price was 16 and the boy, from Durrington, was nine when the five years of abuse started.

The victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, broke a 34-year silence when he confronted Price by email in August 2013.

Price responded an hour later, admitting and appologising for his crimes, but later denied them in court.

The judge said Price mentally tortured and bullied his victim to comply with his selfish sexual demands.

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A convicted sex fiend caught by so-called "paedophile hunters" is behind bars after he admitted travelling more than 300 miles to try to meet up with 14-year-old girl.

Roger Lee, who previously got a 12-year-old pregnant and was branded a danger to children, thought he was chatting to a teenage girl called Rebecca over the internet, but it was a pair of online vigilantes.

The pervert sent naked pictures of himself and "couldn't get to Newcastle" - 310 miles from his Basingstoke home - "fast enough" after "the girl" said she was being left home alone when her mum went away.

But Lee, 45, was filmed by the duo who call themselves Dark Justice when he turned up at the city's Millennium Bridge.

At Newcastle Crown Court, he admitted attempting to meet a child following sexual grooming through website Badoo and was jailed two years and four months.

Judge Sean Morris said: You entered into a conversation with them on the internet and they pretended the female was 14 and you went for it.

You arranged to come to Newcastle from Basingstoke to have sexual intercourse with a 14-year-old child. That is extremely serious.

There was in fact no child involved at all, which limits the category into which your offending falls.

That will be quite difficult for some people to understand and I dont blame them.

Im firmly of the view that you are a dangerous individual to young children.

The court heard Lee, using the moniker ForHire, contacted Rebecca in October on Badoo, which is meant for over 18s.

Prosecutor Tim Gittins said: "These men, who describe themselves as undercover journalists, worked together in order to set up a sting operation to identify and catch paedophiles.

"They set up a false female profile on internet website Badoo. It is meant for over 18s but once he contacted her she indicated she was only 14.

"He stated he liked young girls and had previously had a relationship with a female aged 12.

"The messages continued over several days and began to become sexually explicit, at the defendants instigation and he sent a picture of his penis.

"She then said her mum was going away on October 8 and he couldnt get up here fast enough."

Lee arranged to meet Rebecca at the Millenium Bridge at 9am on October 9.

Mr Gittins said: "He was confronted by the two men, who were recording the confrontation.

"Not surprisingly, he realised that the game was up and immediately fled the scene.

"The two men reported the matter immediately to the police."

After running off, Lee sent a text message saying he was going to kill himself before being arrested on the A1 heading south.

Lee, of Pewsey Road, Rushall, Pewsey, Wiltshire, was also given an extended licence until 2020, a sexual offences prevention order, and must sign the sex offender register indefinitely.

The court heard he was convicted of having sex with a 12-year-old girl who he got pregnant in 1998.

Andrew Walker, defending, said: "This was not entrapment but it was a set up, it was a sting operation. That means there was no child anywhere near this offence or this offender. This was a website for adults and it was not even a dating website, although it was used for those purposes.

Clearly the objective of the young men on the other side was to perpetuate the conversation and give him the opportunity to propose the activity in the way he did.