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He billed himself as a “special guy” and lavished a young girl with attention and affection.

Within just a few weeks, through endless conversations over the Internet, he had told the 13-year-old how much he cared for her and even convinced her they should meet. But behind the façade, the man she thought had become her boyfriend was in fact a 29- year-old paedophile grooming her for sex.

Depraved Robert Ive is today starting a four-year jail term after luring the vulnerable girl into his clutches and having under-age sex with her on three occasions.

It’s thought the girl, who had been bullied at school and “sought solace” in her laptop computer, had only been in contact with him for a matter of months, if not weeks, before she succumbed to his charm.

It’s not the first time Ive has been hauled before the courts for sickening behaviour with a child, having previously been convicted of sexually touching a ten-year-old girl he approached in a swimming pool.

At Southampton Crown Court he was described as “a real danger to young children”.

Judge Tom Longbotham told Ive, who pleaded guilty to three counts of sexual activity with a child aged 13-18, his conduct had been predatory.

He said: “You identified her and you had sex with her. It seems that was the only reason to contact her. You took every opportunity to have sex with her.”

Ive’s behaviour – thought to be the first Facebook grooming case in Hampshire – was only uncovered by detectives when a hunt was launched for the 13-year-old who had vanished from her Southampton home.

Some 30 police officers were involved in the search, after she stormed out of her house following a family row over who she was contacting on social networking sites.

The girl, who cannot be identified, then rang Ive who picked her up and took her to his north Hampshire home to spend the night.

Her disappearance sparked a major investigation involving specialist units examining her phone and computer to see who she was in contact with.

The girl’s mother also made desperate attempts to contact her daughter before Ive drove her back to the outskirts of the city the following morning and left her to make her own way home. She then revealed how she had been having sex at Ive’s instigation, at her home when her mother was asleep, as well as at his rented bedsit in Cambridge Road, Farnborough.

Ive told her he was 26 and though she warned him she was 13, he reassured her: “Age doesn’t matter.” Before his capture, Ive, who worked as a cloakroom attendant in Yates’ Wine Lodge, was spending hours online.

He used Facebook – under the guise of “special guy” although he never showed his picture or gave his real name – and also MSN, where he nicknamed himself “kute_guy69” and somehow befriended the girl.

Detectives believe Ive could have more victims across the country and say investigations are continuing to determine if he has been in contact with other schoolgirls on his computer.

He is now behind bars and has been banned from working with under-age girls in the future, and placed on the sex offenders’ register indefinitely.

But the case is one that will shock parents and raises the question of just how safe children are on the Internet, and what can be done to protect them? Ive’s conviction comes as Facebook has unveiled plans to transform its privacy settings, making it easier for members to stop their personal information being viewed by people they don’t know.

Detective Inspector Simon Baker, who led the investigation, said: “Children want to grow up so quickly now and some girls in their early teens can have a tendency to think they are older and more independent than they really are.

“They think they know their minds, that their parents don’t know what’s best for them and they go off on their own. They don’t realise they are incredibly vulnerable in these situations and there are people out there who will take advantage.

“The method of choice for paedophiles wanting to engage with young females is through the Internet.

“They can hide their true identify and make false promises to their potential victims, making them believe that they love them, care for them and will look after them. These men will say anything to try and gain the trust of those they are conversing with, all the time hiding their true intentions.”

A spokeswoman for Facebook said: “We are deeply concerned by both the crimes committed by Robert Ive and his determination to groom young people online. We have co-operated with the police in this matter and disabled his profile when this came to light, and will continue to work with them in any ongoing investigation.

“This case serves as a reminder that all Internet users must use extreme caution when talking to or meeting people they only know via the Internet.

“Facebook’s top priority is to maintain and improve safety for our users.

“Educating young people about safety online is vital and that is why we recently launched the UK’s biggest campaign on this issue. This involves a £5m initiative aimed solely at teaching young people to take responsible decisions online.”

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A former librarian and union official from Bath, who had more than 60,000 indecent images of children on his computer, has been sent to jail for six years.

Neil Rosser, 41, of King Georges Road in Twerton, admitted owning photographs and videos featuring children as young as four months old, and using the internet to meet young boys.

He used the instant messaging site MSN to speak to adolescent boys across the world, sending them images of child pornography, and committed obscene acts in front of a webcam.

He had also arranged to meet up with a 15-year-old boy from Essex and even went as far as booking a hotel room and paying for train fares before his potential victim changed his mind.

Bristol Crown Court heard that Rosser had known he had been attracted to young boys since the age of 19, but had been able to manage his urges until he bought a computer ten years ago.

After that his behaviour spiralled out of control as he downloaded, saved and printed off tens of thousands of indecent images.

Investigating officer DC Geoff Colvin told the prosecution that some of the pictures and videos were the most disgusting and depraved he had seen in his 24-year career.

Neil Treharne, prosecuting, said Rossers offending had spanned the period between 2001 and November 2008, when he was arrested during a joint operation involving the Avon and Somerset and Greater Manchester forces.

During interviews he admitted many more details about his behaviour than police officers would have been able to find out during their own investigation, because of the sheer number of files on his computer.

Rosser, a former Unison official who represented staff working for Bath and North East Somerset Council but was sacked when the offences came to light, told police that he had fantasised about the young boys in school uniform he would see during his job as a librarian, but that he would never have approached them.

He admitted he had posted a picture of a bare-chested teenage boy with blonde hair as his profile picture on MSN, but said he had later told the boys he was speaking to about his real age.

Paul Connell, defending, said Rosser was aware of the seriousness of his actions and had been seeking help from the Lucy Faithfull Foundation, which works with sex offenders to help them change their behaviour. He said: It is a genuine desire to get to grips with managing his sexual motivations.

Rosser will have to serve at least half of the jail term, and Judge Mark Horton said he hoped he would continue to get help.

He said: Those images and films featured the most depraved abuse of young children under the age of 13. It included children less than 12 months old and one of four months old.

These were the worst seen by the investigating officer in 24 years and certainly the worst seen by this court.

I hope this sentence does involve you receiving the treatment and help that you so clearly need and require, and so clearly are now ready to take. It is a tragedy for you and this court that you didnt seek that help in 2001 when these offences commenced.

DC Colvin, who was commended by the judge, said he thought it was a fair sentence.

He said: One of the things he said to us was that he wouldnt have stopped offending until such time we came through the door and made him stop. If he hadnt been arrested and stopped then he couldve easily gone on to commit contact offences.

Rosser has been put on the sex offenders register and given a sexual offences prevention order for life.

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He pleaded guilty to six counts of indecent assault, four of those counts related to offences committed between 1980 and 1985 against his cousin, then a girl aged from 7 to 11 years. The indictment asserted that she was a girl under the age of 13 which was then of relevance to the maximum sentence.

The other two counts related to offences committed between 1988 and 1994 against his niece, when she too was aged from 7 to 12 years old. On 18 June 2010 His Honour Judge Hooton imposed a Community Order with a supervision requirement for three years. A Sexual Offences Prevention Order was imposed to run indefinitely, the precise details of which have no bearing on the Reference. The offender was also made subject to the requirements of the Sex Offenders Register.

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A rapist has been jailed after he was caught when a DNA sample given by his daughter for an assault implicated him in an attack in 1990.

Police had exhausted all leads when a sample from Keith Davison's daughter linked him to the rape of a 24-year-old waitress in Ryde on the Isle of Wight.

Davison, 52, of Ryde, was convicted of rape in January and jailed for eight years at Portsmouth Crown Court.

His daughter gave a DNA sample when she was cautioned for an assault in 2006.

A technique known as familial searching linked DNA from the crime scene to his daughter's sample.

Davison, of Binstead Hill, voluntarily provided a sample which showed a match and he was charged.

The victim had started to walk home along Ryde seafront at about midnight following her shift at a fast food outlet on 4 August, 1990, the court heard.

"I hope my experience can encourage more victims to have the confidence to report rape offences"

Keith Davison's victim

Davison approached her from behind, put his T-shirt over her head and attacked her.

Police had no suspects until advancements in technology meant a DNA profile from material found at the crime scene was obtained in 2004, but there were no matches on the national database.

The breakthrough came when Davison's daughter gave a sample in 2006.

Davison's victim, who legally cannot be named, said: "Eight years in prison is a good result but no sentence will undo the harm I have suffered.

"At least now I can hope to move forward.

'Suicidal thoughts'

"I hope my experience can encourage more victims to have the confidence to report rape offences."

The court heard the victim knew of Davison as their children went to the same school.

"He was just someone I would see across the playground.

"I only ever saw a brief glimpse of the attacker but Davison was always someone I felt jumpy near and avoided."

Judge Ian Pearson told Davison: "[The attack] has had a significant effect on her life, depression, anxiety attacks, suicidal thoughts, panic attacks.

"The scientific evidence was overwhelming but you chose to challenge that evidence.

"You attacked a lone woman at night, blindfolded her and gagged her."

Det Ch Insp Bob Maker, head of CID on the Isle of Wight, said: "It is a very serious crime and our thoughts are with the victim and victim's family.

"In some ways this is some closure for the victim and that's our primary concern."

Davison was also put on the sex offenders register for life.

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A Milford Haven man was jailed for 17 years yesterday (Monday) for a string of rapes and other sex offences.

Steven Ronald Williams, aged 45, was found guilty of 16 counts of rape, four counts of indecency with a child and four counts of indecent assault, at Cardiff crown court on December 15th.

Williams, of Marble Hall Road, Milford Haven was formerly the licensee or manager of several pubs in the Newport, Gwent area.

He denied all the offences, which took place over a number of years.

Judge Neil Bidder QC said Williams posed a high risk of serious harm to children and ordered that he be imprisoned for the publics protection.

He must serve a minimum of eight-and-a-half years before being considered for parole.

During the trial jurors saw footage of the victims interviews in which she said she was first raped when she was a child.

The girl said Williams told her nobody would believe her if she told anyone.

Prosecutor Jennet Treharne, said that at the age of 13 Williams was given a two year supervision order for inciting a child to commit an act of gross indecency.

He also had a caution in 2006 for battery.

Mary Parry-Evans, defending, said Williams was someone who struggled with the complexities of life and said he would face real difficulties if he did not get the help he needed.

She said he would continue to deny the offences, which was likely to delay his release on parole, and asked Judge Bidder QC not to impose an indeterminate sentence.

Judge Bidder QC described Williams as determined, dishonest and cunning and said the damage he had done to the victim was unfathomable.

You show absolutely no remorse, he said. I have no doubt that this terrible and protracted abuse had a significant effect on the victim her poor school attendance, drinking and self harm can be laid to your abuse of her.

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A suspended sentence handed to a paedophile deemed too fat to go to jail is to be reviewed by the Court of Appeal.

In December former church elder John William McConaghy, also known as Jack, was sentenced to two-and-a-half years behind bars for a litany of sex attacks on a young girl beginning when she was just 10 years old — but the jail term was suspended for three years as the judge ruled he was too ill to go to prison.

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AN OXFORD paedophile has been jailed for five years after repeatedly targeting a vulnerable teenage girl over a three-year period.

Paul Saunders, of Furlong Close, Blackbird Leys, was sentenced at Oxford Crown Court for charges of engaging in sexual activity with a child, making indecent images of a child and two counts of sexual assault.

He admitted the offences, which took place between 2006 and 2009 when his victim was aged between 15 and 17.

Sam Mainds, prosecuting, told the court 47-year-old Saunderss offending was uncovered after he was jailed for eight weeks for benefit fraud in May last year.

His partner discovered a number of photographs of the victim on his mobile phone.

Judge Julian Hall jailed Saunders for five years and ordered him to sign the Sex Offenders Register for life.

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A SENIOR Midland councillor who kissed a girl of 16 as they danced at a birthday party has been forced to sign the sex offenders’ register.

The sexual assault, in a “moment of utter madness” by former Solihull Council deputy leader Ian Hillas, had ruined his life and reputation, Wolverhampton Crown Court was told.

Hillas, who represents Castle Bromwich ward, was given a 12-month conditional discharge by Judge Michael Challinor following the assault in Cradley Heath. The Judge told Hillas, who had been suspended from the Conservative group after his arrest, that he had been “branded as a sex offender”.

Sarah Buckingham, defending, said: “He has suffered public humiliation and he has been socially and professionally excluded.”

She told the court that politics had been Hillas’s life and he had been devoted to serving the needs of the community.

She said: “There was no planning or sinister intent behind the offence.

“In a moment of utter madness he kissed her on the cheek and on the neck.

“Almost immediately he was embarrassed and appalled by what he had done and he pulled away.”

Hillas, 43, of Oakwood Croft, Solihull, admitted sexual assault.

He was also ordered to pay the girl £500 with £2,151 costs and told to register as a sex offender for a year.

The Judge said Hillas was not a public danger and did not ban him from working with children.

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An osteopath has been convicted of seeking sexual gratification by molesting seven male patients.

Keith Grieve, 58, of Inverness, was placed on the sex offenders' register after being found guilty of assaulting patients at a clinic in the city.

Sheriff Gordon Fleetwood found him guilty on seven counts of sexual assault at Inverness Sheriff Court.

Grieve had denied the charges and claimed he was the victim of a vendetta from a rival professional.

Sheriff Fleetwood found two charges not proven, while another was dropped by the Crown during the 15-day trial.

The court had heard how police were finally contacted by one patient who had concerns about the osteopath's work with teenage footballers bidding to join professional teams in the Highlands.

I do find these offences had a significant sexual content
Sheriff Gordon Fleetwood
Once one victim had come forward, a series of others followed.

Grieve had originally been accused of sexually assaulting 10 men by removing their underwear without their permission and molesting them.

Sheriff Fleetwood said a prison sentence was not uppermost in his mind, but it was not being ruled out until he considered a social inquiry report.

He told Grieve: "I do find these offences had a significant sexual content. I am going to call for background reports because you are a 58-year-old first offender.

"Having been convicted, you are now subject to the sex offenders' register. You must notify the police of your address within three days."

Sentence was deferred until 25 March.

Earlier, the court heard how Grieve had lost his business after the case came to court.

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A CROSS-dressing paedophile who sexually abused a six-year-old girl while wearing a wedding dress has been jailed for a total of 15 years.

Stephen Owen, aged 62, was yesterday found guilty of four counts of indecent assault, three charges of indecency with a child, and two counts of attempted rape committed against two girls in Bolton in the 1980s and 1990s. The court heard he wore his wifes dresses and shoes before touching one of the girls and forcing her to perform sex acts.

He later gave her money for sweets and told her that it was their little secret, the court heard.

Owen gave the second girl money after forcing her to perform sex acts, the jury of six men and six women heard.

One of the girls is now in her mid 30s and the other in her late 20s and cannot be named for legal reasons.

The abuse took place when they were aged nine to 15 and six to 11. The case came to light after one of the victims saw an article in The Bolton News about Owen, who was jailed for nine years in 2008 after being found guilty of 13 sexual offences against a third young girl.

Owen was sentenced to a further nine years for the latest offences and given an additional six years to run consecutively to his existing sentence, totalling 15 years.

Detective Constable Mike Mather, of Bolton CIDs Public Protection and Investigation Unit, said: Owen was quite clearly a danger to the public and todays sentence reflects that.

His crimes were heinous and I just hope todays result will give some comfort to his victims who were brave enough to come forward and report him.

I also hope that this conviction will act as a ray of hope to other victims of sexual abuse and encourage them to come forward to police.

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A SOUTHAMPTON club promoter forced two women to strip to their underwear and take part in a sex game before raping one, a court heard.

The prosecution claim however that the woman was not the first to be raped by Reggi Said. About ten years earlier, he had assaulted a naked student asleep on his sofa, it is alleged.

Prosecutor Matthew Jewell told Southampton Crown Court that in 2000 Said met the student who was a dancer.

They and a friend of his went back to his flat where she wound up naked after having sex with the other man.

After he had gone into the kitchen, she fell asleep and then woke to find someone having sex with her and then realised Said was on top of her.

Mr Jewell said that in 2005, he assaulted another dancer, who he had known for a couple of years.

One night she got into his car and after being plied with alcohol, went back to what she thought was his flat, where she saw him taking lines of cocaine. She woke up naked in his bed and he told her how she had wanted to party with him and had taken two grams of coke.

In interview, he told police that on both occasions there had been sex stopping short of intercourse, which was fully consensual. On neither occasion was he prosecuted.

Mr Jewell said that last February, he threatened two women unless they took cocaine at his flat where they had a substantial amount to drink and took part in a truth or dare game.

After one had fallen asleep, he took the second girl into his room on the pretext of talking about work but there he removed her underwear and had sex with her.

In a prepared statement, he said the women had helped themselves to the drugs and sex had been consensual. I am shocked by the allegations. I have not done anything wrong.

Said, of Lower Banister Road, Southampton, denies two counts of rape, two of supplying drugs and one of sexual assault.

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Jason Elton John Waller, 33, was convicted in 2000 of indecent assaults against three children and sentenced to three years in prison.

But he went on the run from his home in Plymouth in March this year.

Today Waller was placed on the Most Wanted website run by the UK’s Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) as Devon and Cornwall Police attempted to track him down.

Detective Superintendent John Clements, head of public protection at the force, said: “By going missing the risk that Waller poses to children is increased.

“So far we have done our level best to find him through conventional police means and now we want to extend our hunt for him and are using the power of the internet to do just that.”

Waller, who lived in Basingstoke two years ago at no fixed address, is known to live a nomadic lifestyle that has taken him to a number of towns and cities in England and Wales.

He is described as white, 5ft 8in, overweight, with short brown receding hair and speaks with a West Country accent. He has previously had a moustache and beard.

Waller is wanted for failure to comply with notification requirements of the Sexual Offences Act 2003, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison.

CEOP chief executive Jim Gamble said that since the Most Wanted website was launched three years ago, 14 out of 17 offenders posted on the site have been located.

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A PAEDOPHILE whose case caused uproar when he was allowed to go free because of apparent police blunders was back in court today.

Child pornography pervert David Berry was hit with an order which means his activities will now be monitored and restricted by the authorities.

Judge Michael Taylor sparked fury in September when he spared 61-year-old Berry, despite saying: “This man fully deserves to go to prison.”

He blamed Cleveland Police for taking so long to bring the case to court and for an officer turning up late to show him the indecent images of children.

The judge also refused to impose a Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO) on Berry because he said the terms were “incomprehensible”.

Today, a new draft SOPO was put before the court, and Judge Taylor imposed it, telling Berry: “It will apply for the rest of your life.”

The order bans the sex offender from having unsupervised contact with under-18s, and fitting anti-forensic software to his computer.

Berry will also have to allow police risk management officers access to his Hartlepool home and let them examine the contents of his computer.

He was given a community order in September after he admitted 16 charges of making indecent images of children and possessing more than 500 others.

Police found the pictures and short films on six different storage devices during a raid at his home in Lowthian Road, Hartlepool, in July 2007.

Wheelchair-user Berry, who was jailed in 1988 for indecently assaulting a child, was also ordered to undergo a sex offenders’ treatment programme.

At Teesside Crown Court yesterday, controversial Judge Taylor again criticised the prosecution, describing it as “totally unsatisfactory”.

Berry’s barrister, Peter Sabiston, said: “I have discussed the draft SOPO with my client, and the prohibitions seem to be workable and reasonable.”

Last night, Berry’s daughter, Jayne, who criticised the decision to spare her father prison, welcomed the move to carefully monitor his activities.

The 35-year-old said: “He should have gone to jail last time, but I’m glad the order has finally been made, and hopefully it will prevent a repeat.”

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A CHILD-killer and paedophile responsible for a New Forest murder has died at an old peoples home.

Albert Goozee, 86, was sentenced to death after his landlady and her 14-year-old daughter were found dead following a picnic near Cadnam more than 50 years ago.

The paranoid schizophrenic was saved from the hangmans noose when the Home Secretary intervened. He was sent to Broadmoor, but following his release in the 1970s, he was later convicted of other crimes including sexually assaulting girls aged 12 and 13.

Just last month it was revealed that Goozee was living in Cedar Court care home in Wigston, Leicestershire, where his dark past was not known.

A national newspaper claimed Goozee had been refusing food and lay in his bed clutching rosary beads. He is thought to have died on Wednesday.

Goozee, a fitters mate and former serviceman, had been lodging at the Alexandra Road, Parkstone, home of Thomas Leakey, his wife Lydia, 53, and daughter Norma before the killings.

On June 17, 1956, motorists discovered Goozee on a forest road with stab wounds, leaning over the bonnet of a car. A trail of blood led to the bodies of his landlady and her daughter.

In court prosecutors told jurors how Mrs Leakey, who was 20 years older than Goozee, had been his lover, and he had decided that the only way out was to kill her and her daughter.

In his defence, he claimed Norma had gone to pick bluebells. He claimed that on her return she had found him with Mrs Leakey and axed her mother, who went wild with a knife.

Jurors took less than four hours to convict him of murdering Norma and a second charge of murdering Mrs Leakey remained on file.

The double murders were depicted in the film Intimate Relations, starring Julie Walters and Rupert Graves, which caused a storm on its 1996 release.

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25th October 2009

Sex offender could live in the same road as victim

A TEENAGE girl who was the victim of a frightening sex offence in her own home is terrified that her attacker may soon be moving into a house just doors away when he is released from prison.

Daniel Oliver, 21, is serving a four month prison sentence for sexually touching the girl, who cannot be named, at her Southampton home last December.

He had already been jailed for three years for attempting to rape a woman in a garage in 2006 and was on licence from a young offenders’ institution when he carried out the latest offence on the young girl.

Oliver – who has been placed on the sex offenders’ register for life – pleaded guilty to kissing the girl on the lips and putting his hand near her breasts as he embraced her...

28th October 2009

'Don’t offend sex attacker' said police, claims victim's mother

A MUM who launched an online petition to stop her daughter’s sex attacker from moving into her street says she has been asked to remove it in case it “offends” the attacker.

The woman, whose 15-year-old daughter was the victim of a sex offence in her own home, has collected more than 200 signatures protesting against Daniel Oliver living nearby when he is released from prison.

Police have confirmed they have made the request to the victim’s family, but said they did so to avoid causing further tensions in the wider community.

Oliver, 21, was sentenced to four months in prison for sexually touching the young girl, who cannot be named, last December.

10th June 2008

Attack victim speaks out as attacker is freed to live nearby

A WOMAN who was subjected to a terrifying sex ordeal two years ago has discovered her attacker will be released from prison today - and will be living just minutes away from her home.

Mum-of-two Christina Noller, 42, was bundled into a garage and sexually assaulted by teenager Daniel Oliver in April 2006.

Oliver was 19 when he attempted to rape her, leaving her with cuts and emotional scars she is still struggling to overcome.

Now Christina is furious that Oliver will be leaving prison after just 18 months of a three-year sentence and living just a short walk from her Swaythling home.

She is "fuming" at police suggestions that she move house to avoid her attacker and cannot believe she was given just 24 hours' notice that he would be living just down the road...