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Jozef Janczura 39
20 year extended prison sentence for rape in Riverside Park, Southampton
20 year extended prison sentence for rape in Riverside Park, Southampton
Riverside Park in Southampton, Laburnum Road, SO16
Jozef Janczura, aged 34 of Laburnum Road, Southampton has been given a 20 year extended sentence today (31 January) for raping and assaulting an 18-year-old woman in Riverside Park in Southampton on December 2, 2018.
More than a year after this terrible crime happened to a young woman, a Jury at Southampton Crown Court delivered a unanimous verdict of guilty on both counts on December 11, 2019.
Appearing at court today to be sentenced, the judge handed Janczura a 20 year extended prison sentence for the brutal attack.
The sentence comes after the woman reported that whilst she was walking along Woodmill Lane in December 2018, a man unknown to her grabbed her neck and raped her in a wooded area in Riverside Park between the skate park and tennis courts.
Officers investigating the case immediately launched an appeal for witnesses including residential CCTV and dash cam footage.
The woman was supported by specialist officers and forensic evidence obtained was sent off for fast track analysis. On Dec 7, officers found out that the DNA found did not match any other DNA on the national police database. Following this news, an extensive CCTV strategy was planned alongside consultation with the National Crime Agency in a bid to identify the man responsible.
Pervert caught with indecent images of young kids.
International Way, Southampton, SO19
A SOUTHAMPTON teenager was caught with "sickening" images of young girls and asked others to share them.
Ryan Maidment was caught with dozens of indecent images of some young girls – the youngest thought to be aged between four to six years old.
Now aged 20 Maidment, who was aged between 17 and 18 at the time of his offending, also "traded" images with other paedophiles via an online chat site and used a mobile application aimed at hiding private photographs or videos.
At Southampton Crown Court, he was given a suspended sentence.
The court heard how Maidment was arrested in May 2018 after police received information that an internet connection linked to his flat in International Way, was being used to share indecent images.
Police found more than 60 indecent images on his Samsung mobile phone, the majority of which were category C – the least serious category.
Officers also found moving images and that Maidment had shared images in group messaging chats.
This meant he had committed an offence of distributing indecent images – a more serious offence than possession.
Maidment admitted three counts of possession of indecent images, ranging from category A to C, and three counts of distributing indecent images, again ranging from category A to C.
In mitigation, Gemma White said Maidment was an "isolated" teenager at the time of the offences and had spent much of his time gaming.
She said Maidment had since managed to get a job, though did not disclose where, and had formed relationships and had began to socialise with his work colleagues.
She urged Judge Peter Henry to follow a pre-sentence report by the probation service recommending he suspended the sentence and allow Maidment to take on a programme aimed at helping paedophiles ¬– which he would not be able to access in prison.
In sentencing, Judge Peter Henry described the images as "sickening".
He said: "Any right minded person will think someone like you deserves severe punishment.
"But on the other hand you are young, you have no previous convictions and you were, as I find, isolated in some sort of fantasy world.
"It's clear the most serious offences took place when you were 17."
He added: "I have to find the balance between the punishment best for the public interest against the best way to protect society."
Judge Henry imposed an 18 month prison sentence, suspended for two years.
He also put an "onerous" order of 160 hours of unpaid work, ordered Maidment to complete the Horizon programme and 20 days or rehabilitation activity requirement.
Maidment was also made the subject of notification requirements and a sexual harm prevention order and ordered to pay costs of £670.
Jasmine Hope (Melissa Noon) 43
Sex offender once found guilty of offences relating to an international paedophile ring linked to Hampshire has been hauled back before the courts.
Sex offender once found guilty of offences relating to an international paedophile ring linked to Hampshire has been hauled back before the courts.
Howard Road, Southampton, SO15
A SEX offender once found guilty of offences relating to an international paedophile ring linked to Hampshire has been hauled back before the courts.
Jasmine Melissa Hope, previously known as Melissa Noon, pleaded guilty to breaching a Sexual Harm Prevention Order by deleting the internet history on her mobile phone.
Appearing at Southampton Crown Court, the 38-year-old, of Howard Road, Southampton, was sentenced to a 12 month prison sentence, suspended for two years.
The order was imposed on Hope by Portsmouth Crown Court in 2011 after she was found guilty for her part in an international paedophile ring based in Hampshire.
As previously reported in the Echo, the group committed "horrific" crimes against two young children in the UK and one in Australia.
Hope was found guilty of 11 charges including causing a child to engage in sexual activity.
Following a six week trial, ringleader Robert Hathaway, 37, then of Tyseley Road, Portsmouth, was given an indeterminate sentence of 12 years.
That was later quashed and replaced with a life sentence with a minimum term of 10 years.
Hope, who was Hathaway's partner, received four years.
This was later doubled to eight years on appeal through the unduly lenient sentence scheme.
Three other defendants became involved by meeting the couple over the internet to carry out the abuse and were jailed for a total of 15 years.
As previously Hampshire police launched their investigation into the ring after being tipped off by the authorities in Australia, who had uncovered a "mirror image'' ring in Brisbane and Sydney which also abused at least one young child.
Hathaway had been in contact with this ring and shared images with them and one of the charges faced by Noon was for encouraging the Australian child to engage in sexual activity.
A total of 2,000 pages of chat logs were uncovered by police, as well as 14,000 indecent images of children and 300 videos of children being abused.
Darren Salmon 46
Gardener Darren Salmon has been sentenced for indecent exposure offences in Dorset.
Gardener Darren Salmon has been sentenced for indecent exposure offences in Dorset.
Sarisbury Green, Southampton, SO31
A GARDENER claimed his trouser zip was broken or he had been stung by an insect before exposing himself to women he was carrying out work for in Dorset.
Darren Salmon, of Salisbury Green, Southampton, was admitted eight counts of indecent exposure and was sentenced at Bournemouth Crown Court on Monday, November 11.
The 41-year-old, formerly of Bridport, was sentenced to a three-year community order, with a requirement to attend a 35-day accredited programme and a 30-day rehabilitation activity requirement. Salmon was also placed on the sex offenders register for five years.
The defendant was working as a gardener in the Bridport area when he exposed himself to a number of people he was carrying out work for at various addresses.
The offences occurred between Wednesday, August 1, and Thursday, September 6, 2018, and his victims were women aged between 19 and 92.
After claiming his trouser zip was broken or an insect had stung him, Salmon asked for assistance and at this point the victims realised he was exposing himself.
The incidents were reported to police and Salmon was arrested on Sunday 9 September 2018.
PCKerry Cordier, of Dorset Police's Volume Crime Team, said: "These incidents were distressing for the victims involved and I would like to thank all of them who came forward and assisted our investigation.
Richard Townsend, Mark Metcalfe 62,61
Jailed for total of 30 years after being found guilty of sexually abusing young boys.
Jailed for total of 30 years after being found guilty of sexually abusing young boys.
Copsewood Road, Southampton, Hampshire, SO18
A SOUTHAMPTON couple have been given jail sentences totalling 30 years after being found guilty of sexually abusing young boys.
Richard Townsend (pictured right) even filmed his partner Mark Metcalfe performing a sex act on one of their victims, believed to be in his mid-teens.
The pair also repeatedly abused two boys, under the age of 16, between 1998 and 2005.
A court heard one of their victims took his own life earlier this year – with the stress of the investigation being put forward as a possible factor in his suicide.
Both Townsend and Metcalfe denied any sexual activity with children.
But Townsend, 57, who works as an accountant, was found guilty of 14 counts relating to child sex offences following a trial at Southampton Crown Court.
In the same trial, Metcalfe, 56, was found guilty of three charges, including two counts of indecent assault and one count of sexual assault.
Yesterday, Townsend was jailed for 18 years, with an extended five-year sentence.
Following the pair's sentencing, the family of the victim who died earlier this year said they were "relieved" that Townsend and Metcalfe had been jailed and that "justice had been done".
The family said: "This is the best thing that could have happened because nothing is going to bring him back.
"After he told us about what had happened he was positive, he wanted to move forward.
"He wanted to go into schools and tell children that if it has happened to you then you need to tell someone because they will believe you."
Earlier this week, Townsend and Metcalfe, both of Copsewood Road, Southampton, were found guilty following a three week trial at Southampton Crown Court.
Townsend was found guilty of four counts of indecent assault of a child, five multiple incident counts of indecent assault of a child, one count of indecency with a child, one multiple incident count of assault by penetration of a child, one count of rape of a child and two counts of sexual assault of a child.
Metcalfe was found guilty of two counts of indecent assault on a child and one count of sexual assault.
The investigations were carried out by the National Crime Agency (NCA).
NCA operations manager Graham Ellis said: "This is a deeply harrowing case.
"It takes immense courage to come forward, and the victims in this case have been incredibly brave in doing so.
"The NCA and our law enforcement partners are relentless in our pursuit of child sex offenders whose actions wreck so many lives.
"We have no greater priority than protecting children from sexual abuse."
Sexually assaulted and attempted to rape female teenager.
Not reported.
A WOULD-BE rapist who 'strangled' a woman during a violent sex attack after a night out has been jailed.
Sex offender Khaled Meridja, of Brampton Road, Oxford, had denied one count of attempted rape, one of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and two of sexual assault.
At the end of his trial at Oxford Crown Court in August jurors took four hours and 31 minutes of deliberations to find him unanimously guilty of all counts.
At his sentencing hearing at the same court today his defence barrister revealed that the 29-year-old still 'stands by his instructions' despite his conviction.
During the case, prosecutor Sally Hobson told jurors the attack on the woman – who cannot be named for legal reasons – began with a night out.
The victim was out in Oxford with a friend on the night of October 21 last year before going to Euro Bar and then on to JT’s Cocktail Bar & Club.
It was not long after that in the early hours of the following morning they met Meridja, neither having met him before and neither knowing him.
While at Meridja’s home the assaults on the teenage victim and attempted rape all took place.
Detailing her ordeal the victim said it made her feel like she was 'going to die.'
She said: “[Meridja] was grabbing hold of my breasts and I [said] ‘what the hell are you doing get off me’ and then he pushed me up against the wall.
“Then he was strangling me so much I could not breathe.
"He was just strangling me and I didn’t know what to do.”
She said that she tried to fight him off and during the incident he sexually touched her and tried to pull down her trousers.
Describing how she felt she said: “I just thought I was going to die.”
The court heard at yesterday's sentencing how the attack had 'forever changed' the woman who said she also now suffers sleep difficulties as a result of her ordeal.
In mitigation defence barrister Graeme Logan said his client 'stands by his instructions' given during his trial.
He added, however, that Meridja 'understands he has to be sentenced'.
It was also revealed that Meridja had first come to the UK illegally in a lorry after fleeing Algeria before travelling through France.
Sentencing, Judge Maria Lamb called the offence a 'determined attempt' to rape the teenager.
She added: "This incident only ended because she got away from you and not because you desisted.
"She fled and fell down the stairs during the course of it [...] and was helped by a bus driver who took her to St Aldate's .
"I commend the public spiritedness and responsible [action] taken by the lady bus driver who helped a young woman clearly in distress."
He was jailed for a total of seven and a half years and must sign the sex offenders register for life.
Jailed for 24 years for abusing young footballers.
Southampton FC, Peterborough FC
Stephen Nicholson 30
A lodger who raped and murdered a 13-year-old girl to stop her exposing him as an abuser has been jailed for life.
A lodger who raped and murdered a 13-year-old girl to stop her exposing him as an abuser has been jailed for life.
Southampton, HMP Wakefield
Sex offender convicted of sexual activity with a child.
Summit Way, Southampton, Hampshire, SO18
Pensioner who sexually abused a six-year-old girl.
Victoria Road, Netley Abbey, Southampton, Hampshire, SO31
A PAEDOPHILE pensioner who sexually abused a six-year-old girl has been told he is likely to die in prison.
Thomas Cattermole also attempted to sexually assault another vulnerable child while in his 80s.
The 84-year-old was jailed for seven years by Judge Christopher Parker QC, who described his behaviour as monstrous.
In sentencing, Judge Parker said Cattermole, who has a number of illnesses and conditions, was likely to spend the remainder of his life behind bars.
Southampton Crown Court was told how Cattermole had targeted two girls, one in the 1960s and another in 2017.
The court heard how Cattermoles first campaign of abuse began in the early 1960s, when his victim was six.
Prosecutor Rose Burns said Cattermole had forced the girl into performing various sex acts on him.
He also sexually touched her, when she was 15.
His victim said the abuse had left her with urges to take her own life.
She said: I wanted to escape the abuse that haunted me.
Childhood should hold the happiest memories, but that isnt the case for me.
The victim said she did disclose the abuse as she was scared of Cattermole.
His crimes finally came to light in 2017, when he attempted to abuse another child, aged six.
The court was told he invited the girl, described as especially vulnerable, to sexually touch him on a number of occasions.
Cattermole was caught when the girl disclosed the abuse. His other victim then came forward.
The former delivery driver denied the allegations.
A jury found him guilty of three counts of indecency with a child, one count of indecent assault and another of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.
Mitigating, Sarah Jones said Cattermole suffered from a number of illnesses and conditions, including hypertension and diabetes, and was likely to die in prison.
She said: For him, it is a bitter end to a life which other than this has been lived working and getting on with things in a relatively unobtrusive and unremarkable way.
His offending has caused desperate pain, not only to his victims, but to his wife.
Judge Parker said Cattermole legally had to be sentenced for his historic offences in line with legislation at the time when they carried significantly lower sentences.
He later described Cattermoles behaviour as outrageous.
Judge Parker said: Your victim grew up bearing the scars of your abuse and kept it from others for years. She was wrongly, but understandably, feeling ashamed.
She had nothing to be ashamed about, you had much to be ashamed about.
(Your second victim) you must have understood she was especially vulnerable.
Judge Parker said Cattermole, of Victoria Road, Netley Abbey, would serve three and a half years of his seven year sentence behind bars.
Cattermole was also made subject of an added one year extended licence period.
jailed for attempting to groom young girls
Millbrook Road West, Southampton, Hampshire, SO15
A SHOP worker attempted to groom 'girls' as young as 13 on a controversial teen dating website, once dubbed a "playground for paedophiles".
Simon Barker used MyLOL.com, said to be the number one teen dating site in the UK, to send explicit messages and pictures to what he thought were underage girls.
The 18-year-old was actually speaking to police officers, who had set up fake profiles in order to snare lurking sex offenders.
Barker was eventually arrested by police after engaging in sexual conversations with three fake profiles, all of which depicted 13-year-old girls.
But Barker continued his sordid actions once released under investigation by officers.
Last week, Baker was sentenced to 20 months in a young offenders institute, following an appearance at Southampton Crown Court.
The court heard how police came across Barker on MyLOL.com, a dating website aimed at youngsters between 13 and 18.
The website is is said to be visited by more than 300,000 users a month.
It has faced criticism in the past, including by children's charity the NSPCC, which has previously dubbed it a "playground for paedophiles".
Prosecutor Dawn Hyland said police used their fake profiles to connect with Barker.
In each of the conversations, he turned the conversation to sex, sent one profile an explicit image of himself and attempted to make arrangements to meet all three.
Speaking about one of the conversations, Ms Hyland said: "He asked her to come round to his flat.
"He said that when she came to pretend that she was his cousin to his flat mates, because he said it was 'illegal and weird'."
Police later arrested Barker and searched his computer, but found no indecent images.
After he was released under investigation, Barker began messaging a real 15-year-old, who he first contacted through Facebook.
Barker later began bombarding the girl with a mixture of friendly and explicit messages.
The pair then met at Barker's flat after he agreed to lend her £20.
Ms Hyland said at the end of the hour-long exchange, Barker unexpectedly lunged at her and kissed her.
In mitigation, John Dyer said Barker had trouble communicating with people in a social situation and had been assessed by doctors as likely to have an autistic spectrum condition.
He said Barker, a former Eastleigh College student who previously worked in a retail job at Westquay, had trouble empathising with people.
Mr Dyer said: "His use of vulgar language in the messages at times was child-like.
He added: "He didn't understand the seriousness of what he was doing.
"He wants to apologise to his victim for what he did."
Barker, of Millbrook Road West, pleaded guilty to three counts of attempting to engage in sexual conversation with a child, one of engaging in sexual communication with a child and one of meeting a child after grooming.
Sentencing Barker to 20 months in a young offenders institute, Judge Peter Henry said: "I hope while you are in custody you take advantage of the courses there and you come out understanding the affect these sort of offences can have."
Barker was also made the subject of a ten-year sexual harm prevention order.
Andrew Portelli 55
A “FOOLISH” Southampton sex offender lied to police about his real address, because he was afraid of losing his home and job.
A “FOOLISH” Southampton sex offender lied to police about his real address, because he was afraid of losing his home and job.
The Elizabeth House, The Avenue, Southampton SO17 1XP
A "FOOLISH" Southampton sex offender lied to police about his real address, because he was afraid of losing his home and job.
Andrew Portelli was given a suspended sentence just last month after attempting to meet what he thought was a 14-year-old girl at a supermarket car-park in Southampton.
The 49-year-old was told to register his address with police, as part of the requirements of his sexual harm prevention order.
But he gave police the wrong address, because he was living and working as a night porter at The Elizabeth House Hotel, on The Avenue, in Southampton.
Portelli believed he would lose both if his job and accommodation if his employers found out.
But police later informed them of Portelli's sentencing, which was reported in the Daily Echo, and he was sacked.
Appearing at Southampton Crown Court, Portelli was given a six week prison sentence by Judge Gary Burrell QC, who described his actions as "astonishingly stupid".
The court heard how Portelli had breached the order just days after his sentencing, on February 8 this year.
During that sentencing, it was revealed how Portelli had sent inappropriate messages to a member of a paedophile hunter group, posing online as a 14-year-old girl.
He sent messages inviting the girl to shower with him before arranging a meeting at an Aldi car park in Portswood, where he was confronted by the paedophile hunters.
He was given a six-month suspended sentence after admitting to engaging in sexual communications with a child.
Just days later, he was found to have lied about his address.
In mitigation, Gemma White said Portelli had been "foolish".
She said: "He was concerned for his employment at the hotel if he made them aware of these matters and he would lose that accommodation, which was source of stability for him."
Judge Gary Burrell QC also described Portelli's actions as "astonishingly stupid".
He said: "You must have realised that not giving police the right information would have caused a breach of your order."
Portelli, who had been in custody for a month since his arrest, was jailed for six weeks as punishment, meaning he was eligible for immediate release.
He was also ordered to complete an extra 50 hours of unpaid work, which will be added to his previous punishment of 100 hours.
His six month suspended sentence remains in place.
Sexually communication with a child.
Bitterne Park, Southampton
Cleaning company manager Micheal Harris from Bitterne Park in Southampton has escaped an immediate prison sentence after sexually communication with a child.
The court heard that the communications took place between the 16th June 2018 until the 4th August 2018
At the hearing at Southampton Crown Court.
Harris was sentenced to 6 months imprisonment suspended for a period of 24 months.
He must also comply with the following requirements to register under S.92 Sexual Offences Act 2003 for a period of 7 years.
Must participate in the HORIZON programme.
He will also have to undertake all rehabilitation activity requirements as described by an authorised provided of probation for 10 days.
Harris was also placed on the Sex offenders register for a period of seven years.
The court ordered Harris to pay a surcharge of 115 to fund the victim services along with 500 prosecution costs .
Southampton taxi driver who raped woman in his car.
Derby Road, Southampton, Hampshire, SO14
Lewis Westbrook 26
Groomed vulnerable teenager after meeting through Instagram
Groomed vulnerable teenager after meeting through Instagram
Lionheart Way, Bursledon, Southampton, SO31
A MAN groomed a vulnerable teenage boy after first making contact through social media.
Lewis Westbrook used his Instagram page 'Littlebooboo15' to make contact with his 15-year-old victim.
The 20-year-old later talked his victim into sending an indecent picture of himself, after promising him a threesome with an older woman.
He was caught after carers inspected the boy's phone and found the messages.
At Southampton Crown Court Westbrook admitted one count of sexual communication with a child and another count of inciting a child into sexual activity. He was given a two-year detention in young offenders institute.
He was also given an extended two-year licence period by a judge, who deemed him a danger to children.
Southampton Crown Court heard how initial contact was made through Westbrook's Instagram page, which had around 1,000 followers.
The pair began messaging about parties, vaping and drugs, before Westbrook turned the conversation to sex.
Prosecutor Dan Sawyer said Westbrook then requested an indecent picture of the victim, before sending one back, as well as a video showing adult pornography.
Westbrook continued to groom his victim during the day-long conversation, which included an offer of a threesome with an older woman.
Mitigating, Mary Aspinall-Miles described the conversation as "fantasy" on behalf of Westbrook.
She said: "This is clearly fantasy.
"For example, he he says to the young man at one point 'be right back, I've got to go to the shop to get some petrol and munch'.
"He hasn't even got a car."
Ms Aspinall-Miles described her client as having a number of learning conditions, which caused him to be "immature".
She said that Westbrook was homeless at the time of the offence, in September last year, and was living a "chaotic existence" by sleeping rough in a multi-storey car park in Southampton.
Judge Robert Pawson sentenced Westbrook, listed by the courts as of Lionheart Way, Bursledon, to two years' detention in a young offenders institute.
He also handed down an extended two year sentence, which he will serve on licence.
Judge Pawson said: "I have to decide if you pose a significant risk of causing serious harm to child.
"It is in my view that an extended sentence is necessary in this case to protect the public and protect children."
Two further counts, one of possession of an indecent image and another of inciting a child to view pornography, will lie on Westbrook's file.