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A known sex offender who was caught with images and videos of child abuse and bestiality on four separate occasions over the course of four years has been jailed.

Andrew Sawyer escaped a prison sentence in 2013 after being caught but continued to search out the vile material, Leeds Crown Court heard.

The 44-year-old admitted 23 separate offences dating between July 2016 and February 2021.

Judge Mushtaq Khokhar told him this week: "These are very serious offences that you have been committing repeatedly.

"In 2013 you were sentenced for possessing indecent images of children and received a non-custodial sentence and you did the sex offending programme.

"You learned nothing. You knew you were in trouble but you carried on and you were not concerned about the consequences.

"The time has come to learn that you can't go on committing these offences, it's about time you changed your lifestyle."

Prosecutor David McGonigal said that police first arrested Sawyer in September 2017 and found hundreds of images that he had downloaded to his phone over a 10-month period.

They included Category A - the most serious child abuse pictures - along with Category B and C, prohibited pictures of children and extreme images of people performing sexual acts with animals.

During interview, he told police that he "must have felt horny that day" and there would be "no harm in looking".

He was arrested again while on bail in April 2018 and his phone seized, leading police to find hundreds of abuse images and videos and more bestiality images.

Officers found that he had also been chatting to other perverts online and shared material.

He was arrested again at his home in Outwood in April 2020 when more images and videos were recovered.

Hundreds more images were found on two phones when Sawyer, of Mountbatten Crescent, was visited again by police in February 2021.

Satpal Roth-Sharma, mitigating for Sawyer, said he had been a hard-working man who worked in telesales but lost his job in 2009. He began to drink heavily and started trying drugs.

She said: "He has an addictive personality, he spent a lot of time looking at adult porn and that progressed.

"His explanation for doing this was to simply fill his days and occupy his time."

A probation report said there was a high risk of Sawyer offending again.

Jailing him for 40 months, Judge Khokhar said: "I would be failing in my public duty if I did not impose a custodial sentence."

He also said he would be subject to an indefinite sexual harm prevention order, which will limit his internet use, make it illegal for him to delete his search history, and gives the police access to his electronic devices at any point.

The court heard that he had been held on remand since February last year.

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A RAPISTS supporter shouted you lot are d***heads from the public gallery as a judge jailed his friend for four-and-a-half years.

Clayton Moiloa, 27, had denied raping the girl, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, when he was in his early teens in the late 2000s.

But jurors at Oxford Crown Court found him guilty of two counts of rape in January. He was acquitted of other, similar, charges.

On Monday, as Judge Maria Lamb told Moiloa you are a sex offender and would remain on the sex offender register for the rest of his life, a man in the public gallery was heard to snort and repeat hes not.

All you lot are d***heads, he said.

Hes not a sex offender. Hes not.

During the trial, jurors heard that the victim initially told a friend with whom she played computer games online about Moiloas assaults.

Her mother spoke to her in 2016 about going to the police, but it wasnt until after she disclosed the assaults to a support worker in November 2019 that detectives became involved.

The girl was said to have suffered flashbacks to what happened.

Mitigating, Alistair Grainger said his client had had a shocking start in his life. He was exposed to domestic violence at an early age and suffered it himself, the court heard.

As a youth and young man, he was in and out of court. However, he had no convictions for serious violence or sexual offending, Mr Grainger said as he tried to convince the judge that Moiloa should not receive an extended sentence as a dangerous offender.

Sentencing Moiloa to four-and-a-half years imprisonment, Judge Lamb noted the defendants mitigation, including his educational difficulties and mental health problems.

You were somebody who experienced domestic violence both by witnessing it [happening] to other family members and you also experienced it and were a recipient of domestic abuse violence towards you as well in your young years, she said.

You were clearly a troubled youngster. The report both of the psychologist and the author of the pre-sentence report makes that clear.

Judge Lamb said that, had Moiloa been an older youth when he carried out the assaults, she would have taken a starting point of nine years imprisonment.

However, she reduced it to four-and-a-half years bearing in mindthat you were very young, you were very troubled at the time.

She said she was not finding Moiloa to be a dangerous offender, as he had not gone on to commit offences that would attract an extended sentence.

Moiloa, now of HMP Bullingdon but formerly of Oxford, was made subject to indefinite sexual harm prevention and restraining orders limiting his access to children and banning him from contacting his victim.

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A MAN has been jailed for a series of sexual offences, including two rapes, against a young boy over a ten-year period.

Over a period of time, Simon Berry groomed a child in his local community, who was aged under ten.

Having gained the boys trust, Berry, who was in his early 20s at the time, systematically assaulted him for nearly ten years.

Detective Constable Stewart Cameron, of the Brighton and Hove safeguarding investigation unit, said Berry denied all wrongdoing, which meant that the victim, now himself in his twenties, had to give evidence at court.

Now aged 33, Berry has been sentenced to 13-years in prison having been convicted of 16 counts of sexual assaults on the boy, including two rapes.

In addition, Berry, of Whitehawk Road, Brighton, will also serve a further two years on extended prison licence.

At Southwark Crown Court, he was told that he will be a registered sex offender for life and was given a Sexual Harm Prevention Order, also to last for life, severely restricting his access to children and to digital communications devices.

Detective Constable Cameron said the victims evidence was pivotal in securing Berry's convictions.

"He has now faced justice at last, another example of the way in which we can successfully investigate such predatory offenders and safeguard local communities, he said.

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A man has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a teenage schoolgirl.

Carl Briggs, 20, appeared at Teesside Magistrates' Court on Monday changed with three counts of sexual assault on a female. Briggs, of Essex Street, Middlesbrough, spoke in court to confirm his identify and enter his three guilty pleas.

During the short hearing, the court heard the three incidents took place between June and December 2018.

The charges say Briggs 'intentionally touched a girl aged 14 and that touching was sexual when she did not consent and he did not reasonably believe that she was consenting.'

No further details of the case were outlined.

District Judge Helen Cousins granted Briggs unconditional bail and ordered for a pre-sentence report to be prepared for a hearing on April 27. The case is listed for mention on April 14.

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An Aberdeen councillor who was convicted of sexual assault has gone back on a vow to seek re-election in May.

Alan Donnelly pledged to fight to retain his Torry and Ferryhill seat in a TV interview last February.

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He had a history of other flashing antics

A serial flasher grinned at a shocked woman as he brazenly exposed himself to her while she was walking through Hull city centre on her way to work.

Michael Lee pulled his trousers down as he sat on the pavement, leaving the woman upset and scared by what he had blatantly done in broad daylight.

He had a history of other flashing antics, including more serious incidents involving children, and he had served previous prison sentences, Hull Crown Court heard. Lee, 38, of The Crossings, Great Union Street, Hull, admitted exposure on July 29.

Richard Thompson, prosecuting, said that a woman was on her way to work at 8.50am after parking in Hull City Centre and was walking along Freetown Way. She saw Lee sitting on the pavement.

"She was wary of him because of the way he was hanging around and his general appearance and demeanour," said Mr Thompson. "As she passed, he asked if she had any spare change."

The woman noticed that, while he was speaking to her, he was exposing himself and all his private parts were visible. "It looked as if he had pulled his trousers down and he was holding the waistband of his trousers in order to expose himself," said Mr Thompson.

"She was shocked initially and felt scared and anxious. Before she turned away, she noticed that he was looking at her and smiling. She called him a 'dirty b*****d' as she walked away."

The incident lasted a few seconds only. She carried on walking throughout the incident so as "not to entertain his behaviour" but, when she got to work, she spoke to a colleague and the police were alerted. The woman had since decided to park closer to work but this would now cost her money because she would have to pay for her own parking if she parked nearer to work.

"It was hard to say how it would impact her in the future," said Mr Thompson. The woman had said: "It will definitely affect my confidence walking around on my own, especially in quiet areas."

Lee has three previous convictions for exposure and had been jailed by Hull magistrates for six months in 2006. That offence had been committed shortly after he was released from a previous prison sentence.

Cathy Kioko-Gilligan, mitigating, said that Lee had a troubled history and a 19-page pre-sentence report on him was not at all positive in suggesting ways of helping him.

Judge Mark Bury told Lee: "You clearly have some serious issues that need to be urgently addressed because, unless they are addressed, I can see you committing more of this type of offence."

The latest exposure offence was not as serious as some of Lee's other ones because no children were involved this time and he was not committing any sex acts. Lee was jailed for 14 months but, because he had been in custody, he was expected to be released as "time served" shortly. He must register as a sex offender for 10 years.

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A PERVERT pestered eight girls aged as young as 11 for naked pictures and even attempted to meet up with two for sex.

But, unbeknown to him, shop worker Jordan Hince was actually being ensnared in a paedophile hunter sting.

The 22-year-old, from Orford, was jailed for two-and-a-half years on Friday, March 25, for his seven-day campaign of online grooming.

Liverpool Crown Court heard that the defendant was involved in lewd chats with the decoy Facebook profiles, who claimed to be aged between over the space of a week in August last year.

He also sent a number of the accounts images in which he was exposing himself.

Hince, of Poplars Avenue, told them that they would become really cool if they sent him indecent images claiming that all girls do it.

The B&M shelf stacker urged a 12-year-old to open her legs and send a picture of her fu fu and pleaded with her not to tell anyone, adding that it would be a secret between them.

He said that doing so would make her the most popular and queen of every school.

Hince suggested to an 11-year-old that they meet up and walk around town before going to her grandmas house for sex.

The paedophile told her that all she had to do was get naked and he would do the rest and that he would help her learn before their meeting.

He also asked one 14-year-old if she would be his secret girlfriend, telling her: I love you babe.

Hince then made arrangements to meet up with her at Central Station so that they could have secret sex and invited her to stay the night after asking if he could undress her slowly and take pictures of her naked.

But he was instead confronted by the paedophile hunters, who made a citizens arrest before calling the police.

The defendant who has no previous convictions confessed to officers that he knew what he was doing but wasnt a bad person and admitted that he was turned on.

Hince admitted eight counts of attempting to engage in sexual activity with a child, four of attempting to cause a child to look at sexual activity and two charges of attempting to meet a child after grooming during an earlier hearing.

Defence barrister Michael Bagley told the court: Its a depressing and saddening picture.

It seems he has become a socially isolated individual.

Hes a lonely individual and he has a difficult background. Hes not academically a high-flying individual.

Over the course of seven days, hes done something of which hes deeply ashamed.

He didnt seem to understand the seriousness of it at the time. He is 22, but a good deal younger than that emotionally and intellectually too.

Because of his character, it may just be possible to suspend the sentence with a view to actively engage with him so that societys concern in the long run can be addressed.

But Hince who was supported in the public gallery by his mum and granddad was imprisoned and handed an indefinite sexual harm prevention order, as well as being told to pay a victim surcharge.

Sentencing, judge David Hale said: Over the period of about a week last summer, you engaged in contact with a number of Facebook profiles purporting to be girls aged 11 to 14 years old.

You did that quite deliberately.

As it turned out, none of them were real children but you werent to know that. You rapidly moved the conversations towards sexual matters.

Worryingly, two of them you expressed an interest in meeting.

In relation to the 14-year-old, arrangements were made and you went to see her hoping to have sex with her.

Fortunately, they were paedophile hunters who behaved very respectfully. You were arrested and nothing in the event happened, but you wanted it to.

If you found a 14-year-old girl, you wanted to have sex with her.

You have led a lonely and unhealthy life, only supported by your mother.

The number of attempts you made to contact children and the fact that you did eventually go and meet one and make plans for another make it impossible for me to release you today.

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A boy who woke to find a paedophile performing a sex act on him has finally got justice - nearly 20 years later.

The victim, then aged just 14, was sexually abused by Jeff Knibb while he slept one night in the early 2000s.

But when he told his mother, a judge said it seemed she 'didn't want to take matters further and said he shouldn't be saying things like that'.

Two decades later, the now-adult victim saw a newspaper article in September 2019 about Knibb being jailed for similar sexual offences.

Knibb, 50, from Huyton, had been locked up for nine years for molesting two boys - one while he was sleeping - in the 1980s and 1990s.

Liverpool Crown Court heard seeing Knibb's face made the victim physically sick but also led to him making a formal complaint to the police.

Martine Snowdon, prosecuting, said the boy told officers how he had woken up to find Knibb in his bed molesting him.

She said: 'The defendant appeared to be shocked to be discovered and told him to go back to sleep.' Ms Snowdon said a victim personal statement outlined how 'terrifying' the abuse was at the time and how anxious it left the boy feeling.

She told the court the victim described in particular 'the impact he felt when he saw the report of the other offences in the newspaper'. Ms Snowdon said: 'He had flashbacks, was physically shivering and was physically sick reading about those offences.'

At his sentencing in September 2019, the same court had heard how Knibb abused two children when he himself was aged between 16 and 21.

That included molesting one boy up to 20 times, including an occasion when the victim woke up to find the pervert abusing him.

That victim said the abuse ruined his life and left him contemplating suicide and self-medicating with alcohol. The other victim said being molested affected his whole life and that he blamed himself for what happened.

Knibb admitted 12 counts of indecent assault and two counts of indecency with a child in respect of those offences. Sentencing him on that occasion, Judge David Aubrey, QC, said he had 'destroyed their childhood' and 'scarred' his victims 'emotionally and psychologically for the rest of their lives'.

When arrested over the latest attack, which happened when he was in his 30s, Knibb said he would confess, but then gave a no comment interview to police.

Knibb, most recently of Paynesholme, Paston, Peterborough, later pleaded guilty to one count of indecent assault.

Kevin Liston, defending, asked for credit for Knibb's guilty plea, which he entered at a plea and trial preparation hearing. Mr Liston accepted his client would receive a prison sentence consecutive to the term that he was already serving.

However, he asked the judge to take into account that Knibb was serving 'a lengthy sentence already'. He told the court the earliest date his client could be released was currently January 28, 2024.

Recorder Ian Harris paid tribute to the courage of Knibb's latest victim. The judge told the paedophile: 'He said he's now felt a weight off his shoulders now he's spoken out.

'He said when he saw your face in the Liverpool ECHO he went shivery and cold and vomited - to know other people had suffered as he had. He is to be praised for his bravery in speaking out.'

Recorder Harris sentenced Knibb to two and a half years in prison, to be served consecutive to his existing sentence. This will have the effect of extending his release date by 15 months.

Knibb already has to sign on the Sex Offenders Register indefinitely.

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A man who groomed a teenage girl by plying her with alcohol has been jailed. Jordan Robinson, 21, met the girl at the park before he began inviting her and her friends back to a flat in Manchester.

He plied them with alcohol, namely vodka, Minshull Street Crown Court heard. The girl, 13, then began visiting the flat alone where Robinson continued giving her alcohol with the intent to commit a sexual offence.

Following a trial, he was found guilty of being an adult meeting a child following grooming, and was acquitted of an offence of rape and supplying cannabis. On Thursday (March 17) he was jailed for two years.

The court heard that the girl was having problems at home when she met Robinson, then 19, in the park. He befriended her and the group she was with and invited them back to a flat in Manchester, which he had essentially moved into in Autumn 2019.

The flat operated as a free house for the children in that it gave them a space to congregate away from parental eyes and to drink alcohol, prosecutor Jon Close said. The victim drank vodka that was provided by the defendant and was attending the address 2-3 times per week initially with her other friends, but then, at his invitation, she began to visit alone again 2-3 times per week.

Robinson continued providing her with alcohol to the extent that she needed a period of hours to sober up before she went home due to her being in a heavy state of intoxication. By virtue of the jurys verdict, Robinson intended to commit a sexual offence.

During the trial, jurors heard evidence of a friend finding the girl intoxicated or having consumed cannabis, in Robinsons company and in a state of undress. In a victim personal statement, the girl said that her life had been ruined and everything had been taken from her'. She said she was shaken up and said that her childhood had been taken away from her.

Robinson was said to have no previous convictions. Mitigating, Mark Fireman said that although his client was 19, he was a young 19 and had problems of his own. He perhaps wasnt behaving in a manner a 19-year-old would behave, he said.

He was diagnosed with ADHD, and is somebody with particular difficulties. He chose to spend lots of his time with people younger than himself. Mr Fireman added that his client started drinking alcohol and was perhaps not used to it.

Sentencing, Recorder Michael Hayton QC said: You chose to associate with them, on the conviction of the jury, for the purpose that it was for some sexual gratification of some sort in the future. Whatever rights and wrongs, your behaviour had an enormous impact on a young girl.

It is very clear she will be scarred by your actions for many years to come, perhaps throughout her life. What you were doing with these young girls was attempting to engage in sexual gratification in the future.

Having heard your evidence, it is quite clear you are capable of manipulating the facts and circumstances. You suggested you were offering friendship and care to those who came to the flat in their early teens, who were plied with drink by you. I feel I am not able to do anything other than impose a sentence of immediate imprisonment.

Robinson, of Haddon Green, was jailed for two years, made the subject of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order for 10 years, and must sign onto the Sex Offenders Register for 10 years.

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A paedophile who downloaded more than 14,000 images of kids being sexually abused was caught with a manual detailing how to rape children.

Roy Neilson collected a trove of images on his laptop showing children as young as two being subjected to horrendous abuse. The 66-year-old, from Wirral, later said he had downloaded the images out of interest but had later developed an obsession with child abuse.

Derek Jones, prosecuting, said police traced Neilsons IP address from a tip off about indecent images being downloaded to a computer. They later seized an HP laptop from his Moreton home and recovered 14,670 indecent images, including 1,296 which fell into the most serious Category A.

Liverpool Crown Court heard a number of the images showed children clearly in distress or pain. In addition, Neilson had also downloaded parts of a manual on how to rape children.

Mr Jones said: It seems he had visited a Japanese pornographic website for the guide and bookmarked the page so he could return to it. He said the document contained an image of a child being raped and provided instructions for potential sexual abusers.

Mr Jones said: It is quite a shocking document. Bernice Campbell, defending, said there was little apart from Neilsons guilty plea that could be used as mitigation in his case.

She said Neilson had downloaded the disgusting pictures first out of curiosity but had then become addicted to looking at photos of child sexual abuse and was shocked by the number of photos recovered by police. Referring to the paedophile manual, Ms Campbell said Neilson had looked at it out of interest as opposed to having an intention to commit physical abuse against a child.

Appealing to the judge not to send him to prison, Ms Campbell referred to a pre sentence report which said he could be rehabilitated. She also pointed to the fact that he had taken no steps to cover up his offending and said that if he were to go to prison he would likely be exposed to more serious offenders who could impede any progress addressing his behaviour

Judge Stuart Driver QC said the amount of images, the age of the children and the clear distress of many of the victims in the images meant only immediate custody was appropriate for Neilson. Referring to the paedophile manual, he said: The court see many cases of indecent images but that is an unusual and most unpleasant feature of this case."

Neilson, of Fairmead Road, Morton, was jailed for 12 months.

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A convicted paedophile caught with a schoolgirl in his car walked free from court.

David Griffiths, 31, is not allowed to have unsupervised contact with children due to the terms of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO). He received the order when he was spared jail for causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and making indecent images of children.

Griffiths was also told to sign on the Sex Offenders Register when he was handed two years in prison, suspended for two years, in September 2017. But he breached his notification requirements and the SHPO when police spotted him driving a red Land Rover Discovery at "high speed".

Martyn Walsh, prosecuting, said officers stopped the vehicle in Wavertree, at around 7.30pm, on September 7 last year. They found Griffiths at the wheel with a "young girl wearing school uniform" sitting in the front passenger seat, who was aged 15.

Liverpool Crown Court heard the girl was related to a young woman, who was the foster daughter of Griffiths' brother. Officers were speaking to Griffiths about his driving when they realised he was subject to the SHPO.

They then entered a home in the street he had been living at and recovered two mobile phones, which also fell under restrictions of the order. Mr Walsh said the phones had not been subjected to forensic examination by the police.

The judge, Recorder Ian Harris, commented: "There were difficulties with the PINs and identities. A curious tale, but I cannot make any adverse finding in relation to the use of those phones."

Griffiths admitted failing to comply with the notification requirements of the Sex Offender Register by not informing the police he had moved to Bannerman Street on September 5. He also admitted three counts of breaching his SHPO, by having unsupervised contact with the 15-year-old girl, failing to make the mobile phones available to police for inspection, and possessing the two devices.

Griffiths, now of Earle Road, Wavertree, pleaded guilty on the basis he had met the 15-year-old girl at nearby shops to collect items from her for a family member. He said he told her not to get in the car, but she got in anyway, and that she was only in the car for 10 minutes when he drove her back to the street where he was living.

Griffiths explained that he drove "erratically" and at high speed because he knew the girl shouldn't have been in the vehicle alone with him. He said the mobile phones belonged to his brother's foster daughter, who made them available for him to use, and he didn't realise he should have told his offender manager.

The court heard he has four previous convictions for six offences, included possessing cannabis with intent to supply in February 2018, for which he received an 18-month community order. Frank Dillon, defending, suggested the breaches were a product of "insouciance" - meaning a casual lack of concern - for the order "rather than calculation".

Recorder Harris said a pre-sentence report from when Griffiths was sentenced in 2017 noted he had an IQ of 65, numeracy and literacy issues, and "a lesser capacity to self regulate social behaviour". The judge said: "I think that has an effect on the degree of culpability."

Mr Dillon also pointed out his client had served the equivalent of a short prison sentence while on a qualifying home curfew. Recorder Harris told Griffiths he was "sailing close to the custodial wind" after avoiding prison sentences for his past sexual offences and drug dealing.

He said the author of a pre-sentence report said: "Mr Griffiths' recent offending highlights a disregard for sex offender registration, suggesting that he lacks awareness of the situation he is in and is willing to ignore preventative measures, put in place to reduce the risk he poses to others.

"It also demonstrates clear deficits in his thinking and behaviour. He's clearly not thought of, or he has chosen to ignore, the consequences of this offending behaviour."

The judge said: "If any of these offences had been linked with a more serious issue then I wouldn't have been able to suspend the sentence I'm going to impose on you." Recorder Harris said a psychiatric report placed him in an "extremely low range" of intelligence and a GP letter noted he cared for his mother, who is unwell.

He handed Griffiths 12 months in prison, suspended for two years, with a 25-day Rehabilitation Activity Requirement to offer him "fairly intensive support", plus 100 hours of unpaid work and told him to pay 250 towards court costs.

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A school teaching assistant had sex with a 15-year-old boy after telling him: "Age is just a number." Rebecca Williams made contact with the teenager online and they exchanged flirtatious messages and told one another: "You're fit," a court heard.

Prosecutor Richard Edwards told Mold Crown Court the 21-year-old defendant had picked up the boy in her car one weekend and took him to her home. They watched TV before the defendant took him to her bedroom, he said. He described the first time as a little awkward.

The court heard the pair kissed and had sex and the boy stayed overnight. Mr Edwards said Williams had later messaged the boy asking to meet up again. They went straight upstairs to her bedroom and had sex. But the court heard Williams wanted more of a relationship and the victim ended up blocking her on messaging apps.

Mr Edwards said :Rumours started circulating among staff that the defendant had slept with a pupil. The head of the school questioned the defendant directly about the information. The defendant denied anything untoward had gone on.

Social services and police were alerted and the boy confirmed the pair had had sex. The prosecutor added that some of the messages between them must have been exchanged on school grounds.

Jemma Gordon, defending, said Williams had been quizzed early last year and confessed. But a postal requisition for the case was only sent in January. Williams admitted two offences of sexual activity with a boy of 15 and abusing a position of trust.

Williams had a new job in construction, working all over the country, and was doing well, the court was told. She was also receiving help for her mental health. She was described in a pre-sentence report as a low risk of re-offending. Miss Gordon added: Shes in a new relationship which has helped her.

Judge Nicola Saffman imposed a 12-month suspended jail term with rehabilitation and 150 hours unpaid work. Williams, who showed no emotion in the dock, has to pay 576 costs, must register as a sex offender for 10 years, and cant work with children again.

Judge Saffman said there had been grooming. She told Williams, of Gerddi Arfonia, Criccieth, Gwynedd: You knew what you were doing. You were working up to engage in a sexual relationship with him.

The boy broke off the relationship with her but the defendant was keen to carry on. Some of the messages were carried out on school grounds which is an aggravating feature, Judge Saffman said. But the judge acknowledged there was a delay in the case and she had rehabilitated herself.

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A lonely motorcycle instructor who was desperate to make friends online was found with more than 3,370 sickening images and videos of child pornography and 280 of bestiality.

Socially isolated paedophile Daniel White exchanged X-rated online messages with a woman who had sent him a picture of her daughter and asked her whether she had done anything sexual to the girl.

He was helping to fuel the "disgusting trade" in the sexual abuse of young children because he was "deriving pleasure" from the vile images, Hull Crown Court heard.

White, 23, of Jenthorpe, Orchard Park estate, Hull, admitted making and distributing indecent images of children and possessing extreme pornography between 2015 and 2020.

Charlotte Noddings, prosecuting, said that police received information that White had been using a Twitter account to upload images of children to the internet. A mobile phone was also linked to this.

White had 1,314 images of children in the most serious Category A, 629 of which were videos, and 1,021 images in Category B, with 125 of them movies, as well as 1,036 images in Category C, including 66 videos.

They showed "extremely young girls" aged between six and 14. He also had 280 images of extreme pornography showing bestiality, one of them a movie.

White had been involved in online sexual conversations, including one with a woman who had sent him a picture of her daughter. He had asked her if she had done anything sexual with her.

White claimed to the police that he became aware of the images by accident. "He didn't report them because he didn't want anything to come back to him," said Miss Noddings.

"He denied any sexual attraction to children."

Charlotte Baines, mitigating, said that White originally used social media sites because he had been socially isolated and wanted to make friends. "He is an emotionally lonely man and has never had an intimate relationship with someone," said Miss Baines.

"He had a desire for a relationship and belonging somewhere, attitudes that enabled this type of offence. He was then drawn in to an online world where sexualised chats were commonplace.

"It all took a much more sinister turn in the commission of these offences. He did not extricate himself and actively participated in sexual behaviour."

White, a qualified mechanic, had worked as a motorcycle instructor but could no longer do that because he would be training or instructing people who might be under 18.

Judge Peter Kelson QC told White: "This crime which you have committed is not a victimless crime. Just because we don't have the children in this courtroom giving evidence of what was done to them does not mean that there are no victims. Quite the contrary.

"These images of those children that you were deriving pleasure from are evidence of crimes being committed.

"There were victims and you were furthering this disgusting trade by sharing these videos. Appropriate punishment can only be achieved through immediate custody."

White was jailed for two years and was given a 10-year sexual harm prevention order. His mobile phone, laptop and tablet computer will be forfeited.

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A former Army Corporal has avoided jail after admitting making and possessing indecent images of children.

Philip Francis McLernon claimed he couldnt remember looking at the explicit photos and videos.

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Two bouncers working at a nightclub in Wolverhampton have been jailed for rape.

Hassan Bockarie, who is from Erdington in Birmingham, and Iyoseph Derry, of no fixed address, were sentenced to almost 20 years in prison collectively after taking advantage of a woman in her 20s who had been enjoying a night out.

The woman had been drinking at a works Christmas party in December, 2018, and visited a nightclub later that evening, where Bockarie and Derry were working as doormen.

The pair targeted the woman, who was with another woman, after seeing her intoxicated and bought her more drinks before offering to take both women home just after 4am the following morning.

Being bouncers, the women trusted them to get them back safely.

They dropped one of the women home, but then instead of taking the other woman back home safely they drove her to a flat in Birmingham and raped her.

Both men denied the allegations, however after three years of investigative work, officers from the West Midlands Police Public Protection Unit were able to prove their actions and how they abused their position of trust.

Bockarie initially denied any knowledge of the women, however intelligence checks and forensic work, including DNA evidence linking him to the crime, later saw him change his account.

Bockarie 34, of High Street, Erdington, was found guilty of rape and sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in prison at Birmingham Crown Court on Friday (4 February).

Iyoseph Derry, 33, of no fixed address, was also found guilty of rape following a trial, as well as aiding and abetting rape, and jailed for 10 years.