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A paedophile referee turned up to children's football matches and started running the line and giving offside decisions.

Roman Fletcher has a history of grooming youngsters and is subject to a 10-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO).

The 21-year-old, formerly known as Peter Burns, was previously locked up for using his role as a wrestling referee to target victims.

But he then started using his training as a football official to get closer to children - only to be spotted by an eagle-eyed coach.

Liverpool Crown Court heard FA coach Natalie Pinnington coaches a girls under 14 team, Brookvale United, in the Warrington area.

Cheryl Mottram, prosecuting, said Ms Pinnington worked with Fletcher, of Halton Road, Runcorn, when he was 14 or 15, because he refereed games she was involved in.

However, she hadn't seen him for a number of years and knew he wasn't allowed to work with children and that she should contact the FA if she saw him at youth football pitches.

On September 26 last year, while coaching at Orford Jubilee Neighbourhood Hub in Warrington, she spotted a man with a Sports Direct carrier bag.

Ms Mottram said: "Ms Pinnington had thought he was either the referee or an assistant of some sort, as he had stood about the side of the pitch and at one point, he gave a decision on an offside."

Ms Pinnington saw the man talking to a fan aged around six, then playing football with a group of youths aged around 10 to 12, before she was told it was Peter Burns.

On October 10, Fletcher returned to the hub and was spotted by Ms Pinnington at the side of the pitch.

Fletcher was told to leave and wait outside, which he did, but at the end of the game he came back and went in goal while playing football with a group of children aged between eight and 13.

The court heard Ms Pinnington took a photo of him on her phone and contacted the FA.

Ms Mottram said Fletcher returned to the hub again on November 7, when he played football with boys aged between nine and 12. This time Ms Pinnington called the police and Fletcher fled.

When arrested and interviewed, he accepted breaching his order but "stated he had no intention of causing any child sexual harm".

Fletcher admitted three breaches of his SHPO.

In 2017, Fletcher was given a youth referral order for four offences of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, relating to one boy and three girls.

In 2019, he was locked up for 12 months for one offence of the same charge, relating to a boy, when he was hit with the SHPO.

Ms Mottram said: "Those offences involve this defendant engaging with children under 13, around 11 or 12, in fact under the guise of wrestling and inviting them to perform wrestling moves with him, to the extent of sitting on his face during the wrestling moves. That is the modus operandi for all of those offences."

Recorder Ian Harris said police examined Fletcher's phone in November and found texts in which he told a friend if police found out he was attending children's football matches, "he was going to go anyway".

The judge said in a "contradictory" pre-sentence report Fletcher said he wasn't blaming his diagnosis of autism for the offences, but also denied any sexual attraction to children.

Recorder Harris said a probation officer found his account "implausible" as he has "a history of grooming behaviour towards children".

Jeremy Rawson, defending, asked the judge to bear in mind his client's autism and "pathological demand and avoidance syndrome".

Mr Rawson said: "He suffered significant bullying whilst he was a young boy, to such an extent he has difficulty in relating to those of his own age."

The lawyer said Fletcher was "football obsessed" and when he came out of prison, tried to join an FA scheme called Man v Fat, set up to help people with weight issues.

But the FA found out about his convictions and barred him from the scheme, so he was "left very much at a dead end as far as football was concerned".

Mr Rawson said Fletcher, who lost a job because of physical issues, expressed "regret and remorse".

Recorder Harris said Fletcher "attended a children's football pitch and seemed at least on one occasion to be helping to referee", but was spotted by Ms Pinnington.

He said: "On October 10 she actually approached you. You said you were helping to run the line."

The judge said Ms Pinnington later called the police, adding: "She is to be commended for her behaviour."

He told Fletcher: "It's a persistent breach that may, and in my judgement would, have led to harm."

Recorder Harris said the pervert's criminal record and latest offences showed a continuing "sexual attraction and infatuation with children".

Jailing him for 16 months, Recorder Harris found Fletcher's mental state and diagnoses didn't affect his culpability.

He said: "You were cunning and deceptive in your actions when you breached the order on those three occasions and you knew full well what you were doing.

"I have no doubt a future form of paedophile offending would have occurred."

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A SMIRKING paedo walked free from court after admitting hiding secret cameras in his stepdaughters room to spy on her when she was just 13. David Brown, 57, smirked as he was spared jail for leaving Zara Montgomery, 19, damaged by taking covert videos in her room in Pollokshields, Glasgow. He recorded her through a gap drilled in her wardrobe and the keyhole of a chest. And the creep also videoed her on holiday with a tiny device inside her bedside clock. Brown was tagged for four months and placed on the sex offenders register after pleading guilty to voyeurism at Glasgow Sheriff Court. Sheriff Lindsay Wood told him: These were planned. They led to, you admit, sexual arousal and you taking alcohol to disinhibit yourself. Your behaviour was utterly shameful. Its had a profound impact on your victim and her family. You have a significant sexually deviant problem which needs to be addressed. Zara who has waived her right to anonymity was eight years old when Brown met her lawyer mum Nadine Allam, 47, in 2010. The victim discovered his vile scheme by a reflection from a blanket box when she was 15. The teen was left confused when she played back footage on a Samsung phone which showed him switching it on. And she later found the handset taped to the inside of a wardrobe door after spotting a hole drilled through it. Zara would spend hours locked in the bathroom and would stay late at school to keep away from the weirdo. But she kept the abuse to herself over fears he would turn violent and the discovery would break up her family. Former taxi driver Brown was finally nailed when the teen bravely confided in her mum in January last year, after the couple split in 2019. Cops raided his home and found pictures of the girl including images taken by a camera hidden in an alarm clock at their holiday home in Florida. Zara previously told The Scottish Sun: He did what a dad never should. Brown, of Cumbernauld, near Glasgow, last month admitted tampering with furniture and hiding his phone to record videos between August 2015 and April 2017. BIZARRE CLAIM He also pled guilty to filming Zara in Florida from August to December 2018. Defence lawyer Jacqueline White bizarrely claimed her client was monitoring the girl for her own safety. She said: It has taken him quite some time to recognise what he did. Sheriff Wood spared the pervert a jail stretch because he had no previous convictions but barred him from meeting with anybody under-17 alone. He added: You should realise what you did for your own sexual gratification caused untold harm to a young lady. Brown was placed under supervision and ordered to complete 200 hours of unpaid work.

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A man who subjected a young girl to a string of sickening sexual assaults rang police almost two decades later to report what he had done.

Kenneth Kesans, who also goes by the name Kenneth Rowles, told officers he needed to "come clean" about what he had done in his past.

Swansea Crown Court heard the abuse he subjected his victim to in the early 2000s has had a devastating effect on her life.

The 43-year-old defendant has now been given an extended sentence as an offender of particular concern.

Carina Hughes, prosecuting, told the court that Kesans carried out a series of indecent assaults on the girl over a lengthy period which culminated in an attempted rape of the crying child. On occasions he plied the girl with alcohol, made her perform sex acts on him, and threatened her into silence.

The court heard the abuse went unreported for almost two decades until 2021 when Kesans rang the police from a public phone box in Swansea 's Maritime Quarter. During the call he told officers he couldn't stop thinking about what he had done, adding: "I need to get it off my chest - I need to come clean."

Miss Hughes said police tracked down the victim of the abuse, and went to her house to speak to her. The woman told them she had always been terrified that if she did report the abuse it would her word against his, and nobody would believe her.

In a statement from the victim which was read to the court she detailed the devastating impact the abuse has had on her life, saying she as a youngster she became socially isolated and withdrawn, then started self-harming and suffered nightmares of having snakes in her bed. She said she had felt embarrassed and ashamed at what had happened but it wasn't until she had gone to university that she had sought counselling - though even then she had not disclosed the abuse to her counsellor.

Kenneth John Kesans, of Heol Frank, Penlan, Swansea, had previously pleaded guilty to one count of attempted rape and to seven counts of indecent assault when he appeared in the dock for sentencing.

David Singh, for Kesans, said the fact the defendant had contacted the police to report the offending demonstrated a degree of "responsibility, remorse and regret" for what he had put the complainant through.

Recorder Mark Powell QC told Kesans he had committed extremely serious offences, offences which meant he was regarded as what is known as an offender of particular concern.

He said it was clear from what he had heard and read about the victim that she was a young woman of "considerable fortitude", and he said she should feel no shame of guilt over what the defendant had done to her.

With one-third discounts for his guilty pleas Kesans was given a 13-year extended sentence comprising 12 years in custody with an extended one-year licence period. He will be a registered sex offender for the rest of his life, and was made the subject of an indefinite sexual harm prevention order.

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A "sexual predator" who raped five women he met on dating app Tinder has been jailed for a minimum of 12 years. Tom Rodwell initially appeared as "perfect partner material", police said, but manipulated his victims, who he met between 2017 and 2020. The 31-year-old trainee paramedic from Middlesbrough had previously admitted 10 rapes as well as one attempted rape and sexual assault. Judge Paul Watson sentenced Rodwell to life at Teesside Crown Court. The judge described the defendant as a "callous, unfeeling sexual predator" who was "addicted to a sense of power" and only interested in his own gratification. He described Rodwell as a "significant danger" to women and said he had left his victims with "long lasting emotional scars which would take years to heal". During the hearing it emerged that the former Royal Navy and HMRC employee, who has no previous convictions, faced similar charges in Scotland in 2018 but was acquitted.

Raped on second date

Richard Bennett, prosecuting, told the court Rodwell contacted the first woman and told her he was into "rough sex" but "did not realise or seem to care that he needed consent". Rodwell admitted raping her four times. He told his second victim her wanted to get her pregnant and attacked her on their second date, after which he messaged her asking when he could "rape her again", Mr Bennett said. The third said she considered killing herself having been raped by Rodwell several times. The fourth recalled that Rodwell raped and hit her in a hotel. He later claimed he could not remember what happened but said his "ex liked it", Mr Bennett said. The final victim said Rodwell had wanted to "own her" and "choke her", the court heard.

'Doubt themselves'

Det Con Rick Sainsbury, from Cleveland Police's domestic abuse unit, said Rodwell came initially across as "perfect partnership material". The victims, some of whom were university students, were not just physically abused by Rodwell but also manipulated emotionally, leaving some to believe they were to blame for his violence. Det Con Sainsbury said: "He'd ask them to marry him, have kids with him, and it would be within a few days of meeting. "That would soon change - sometimes even by the second meeting - when he would start to manipulate them, make them doubt themselves. "If they had some doubts about themselves already he would centre in on that and exploit it. He's managed to get into their heads so much they've doubted what was happening to them." He praised the bravery and strength of the victims who came forward and urged any women who have been subjected to any kind of abuse to contact police.

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A man already serving a jail sentence for sexual offences against a girl has been convicted of abusing two other child victims years earlier.

Ian Bennett, 57, was jailed for 24 years in 2016 after being found guilty of a campaign of sexual abuse against a young girl between 2005 and 2015.

But Bennett, currently of HM Prison Bure, was back in court after admitting 11 sexual offences against another child, between 1987 and 1992 and two offences against another girl between 1999 and 2001.

Will Carter, prosecuting at Norwich Crown Court, said there was a period of 25 years when Bennett was "routinely abusing young girls"

The offences, which occurred in Norfolk as well as Lancashire, included two counts of gross indecency against one girl as well as two counts of sexual intercourse with a girl under 13.

Bennett also admitted six counts of sexual assault as well as well as indecency with a child and indecent assault.

In an impact statement one of the victims, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said her confidence and self-worth were "shattered into pieces".

She said what happened was "terrifying" and "still haunts me today" adding she had "wanted to die".

Another woman, who was abused by Bennett between 1999 and 2001, said the defendant "ruined my life".

She said her "childhood was not a childhood" and that she had been a "scared little girl".

The woman felt "disgusted" at the thought of what Bennett had done to her and wished she could have a normal life.

Judge Katharine Moore said Bennett was already serving a sentence for "the most appalling sexual abuse" and was to be dealt with for "serious sexual abuse" against two other young girls in the preceding years.

Bennett was sentenced to an extended determinate sentence of 28 years made up of 20 years custody, and eight years extended licence.

The sentence, which is concurrent to the sentence he is currently serving, means he will not be eligible for parole until 2035.

Andrew Oliver, mitigating, said Bennett stands by his guilty pleas.

He said Bennett's pleas have spared two women from having to give evidence about highly traumatic events.

Bennett, who must sign on the sex offenders register indefinitely, was also made the subject of a restraining order prohibiting him from contacting either victim directly or indirectly.

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A man has been jailed for raping two women in attacks that took place several years apart.

Alexander Philip Rowley, 26, of Easingwold, repeatedly denied the offences and claimed his victims were lying.

However, he was convicted of two counts of rape by a jury and sentenced to 11 years in jail today.

Rowley's victims, both young women, were targeted in separate attacks at residential addresses in North Yorkshire. Both happened in recent years.

He was sentenced by a judge at Hull Crown Court today. Upon his release, he will have to sign the Sex Offenders' Register for life.

Speaking after sentencing, Detective Constable Gillian Gowling, who led the investigation by North Yorkshire Police, said: "Both of Rowley's victims have shown great courage and tenacity in coming forward and working with us, especially given Rowley's constant denial of what happened.

"While this is never an easy process for victims, I hope today's sentencing gives them some degree of closure. It also takes a sex offender out of our communities, which ensures no-one else can come to harm."

DC Gowling urged anyone who believed they may have been raped or sexually assaulted to seek support and advice.

"Regardless of how long ago it happened, there are advice services available to help people explore their options, which may involve prosecution or may involve emotional and practical support, or a combination of all," she added.

"Those decisions are always made by victims, so I want to ensure people know what help is available to them."

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A Halloween-loving pervert who enjoyed cosplay dressing up has been jailed for having sexually abused multiple underage girls over a number of years.

Billy Bradshaw, who dressed as a vampire for his own wedding, devastated the lives of his five victims by assaulting them in a string of revolting attacks that spanned a decade.

The 31-year-old's offending, which began when he was a teenager, was exposed when two girls told the police he had assaulted them in 2019.

Subsequently, three more victims bravely came forward alleging he had also abused them when they were children.

Bradshaw, of no fixed abode, and a father of four, had denied the offences and took the matter to trial, cruelly forcing his victims to relive their experiences in the courtroom.

Despite his denials, a jury at Derby Crown Court took just 90 minutes to find him guilty of all offences of which he was accused.

A number of his victims were in court to bravely face their attacker as he was imprisoned for more than a decade for his vile crimes on Friday, January 7.

Barnaby Shaw, prosecuting, described the devastating toll on Bradshaw's victims through their impact statements in court.

One said how she had been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and suffered from anxiety and depression as a result.

"I just wanted him to tell the truth about what happened," she said.

"[When I found he pleaded not guilty] it broke me. I wanted him to tell the truth.

"I want a normal life, I feel this is unlikely to happen because of what he did to me."

Another victim said how she hated things that reminded her of him including alcohol, menthol and Halloween - a seasonal event he liked so much he had a Halloween-themed wedding.

She said: "I became depressed and would feel unworthy. It has had a devastating effect on my family.

"I see the pain in my mum's eyes feeling she didn't protect me enough and the anger in my father's."

Another of his victims said she missed the person she used to be before the incident.

"After what happened to me I couldn't bear living in my own skin. I tried to take my own life because of what happened.

"I try to cut the pain physically from my skin. I don't like the way my body feels.

"I have outbursts of rage which I cannot control.

"I hope one day I may be able to live some kind of normal life. I want to be the person I was before all this happened and not as I am now."

All victims said they no longer trusted men and could not stand physical contact such as hugging or people touching them.

He was found guilty of three counts of indecent assault of a girl under 16, three counts of sexual activity with a child, one count of assault of a child under 13 by penetration, one count of sexual assault of a child under 13 and one count of causing/inciting a child under 13 to engage in sexual activity.

Ian Way, defence counsel for Bradshaw, said he could offer "no real mitigation" for the offending, but added his client had health problems including depression, anxiety and gout.

"He will know that by having a trial he is deprived of any discount or credit," he said.

"What perhaps is the most significant factor for him - he is the father of four young boys, he won't be seeing them or having contact with them for a considerable time.

"The sentence is inevitably one of custody measured in years, not months.

"There's precious little else I can say."

Recorder Adrian Reynolds said Bradshaw's offending was "despicable".

"You had the chance to think of your wife and children when you decided whether you were going to admit what you had done," he said.

"You showed no compassion for them [his victims], I will give none to you because you don't deserve it.

"If I passed the sentences that your individual offending merited and made them consecutive, tempting as that might be, the overall sentence would be disproportionate. That may be difficult for your victims to understand."

Describing his actions as "appalling", Recorder Reynolds said he had torn apart the lives of his victims.

He added that one the victims movingly said how "her dignity and soul were robbed by what you did" and that another had tried to take her own life.

He jailed Bradshaw for a total of 12 years, with an extended licence period of an additional year.

He also ordered that he sign the sex offender's register for life and imposed a Sexual Harm Prevention Order until further order.

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A convicted rapist has avoided deportation back to Afghanistan because the Taliban 'take a dim view' of sex offenders.

Ibrahim Ahmadi was stripped of his refugee status when he was jailed for preying on a sleeping woman in Glasgow. But he has now won the right to remain in the UK after judges decided he might incur the anger of the hardline Taliban regime if he were returned.

The 29-year-old successfully claimed he would be persecuted in his homeland for being a member of the minority Hazaras ethnic group, even though two members of the sect have been appointed to the new Afghan government.

The judges also decided that it was 'reasonably likely that the Taliban would take a dim view of an individual who had committed a violent sexual offence in a Western country'.

Ibrahim Ahmadi (pictured) was stripped of his refugee status when he was jailed for preying on a sleeping woman in Glasgow

The ruling has sparked fury. Russell Findlay, the Shadow Community Safety Minister in Scotland, said: 'This judgment is extremely concerning and suggests the human rights of a rapist are deemed more important than the safety of the public.

'Most people couldn't care less about his sob story on how the Taliban treat sex offenders. They would rather see him removed from our streets and put on the next available flight to Kabul.'

Ahmadi arrived in the UK in 2007 as a 15-year-old, claiming he had been held hostage by the Taliban but had escaped. He was refused asylum but won an appeal and was granted indefinite leave to remain in 2014. That same year, he was arrested for threatening a woman in Lanarkshire and was given addiction counselling.

But just months later, he carried out a vile sex attack on a 25-year-old woman as she slept in her flat.

He was convicted of rape and jailed for seven years. The sentence was later reduced to five years on appeal, although reports by social workers said he continued to pose a high risk to women.

The Home Office ordered Ahmadi's deportation in 2019 but he used taxpayers' money to fund a legal challenge that was given a boost when the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan last August – just days before the hearing. In their judgment, Upper Tribunal judges Hugo Norton-Taylor and Tom Wilding accepted that Ahmadi 'represents a danger to the community of the United Kingdom [and] there remains a very strong public interest in deportation' but ruled that 'recent events in Afghanistan' meant sending him back would breach his human rights.

Despite efforts by the Taliban to assimilate Afghanistan's six million Hazaras into their regime, for example by including them in the country's new government, the judges concluded that Ahmadi would 'be placed directly into the hands of an extremist Sunni organisation with a history of persecutory treatment of Hazaras and/or Shias'.

Ahmadi received £13,562 in legal aid to fight his rape case and appeal, and has had a further £1,330 to support his deportation challenge with the ruling made in November.

The case has echoes of previous deportation sagas, including that of Iraqi paedophile Howri Hamad Garib, 47, who indecently assaulted three 14-year-old girls in a swimming pool in Airdrie, Lanarkshire, in 2004.

He contested a deportation order issued by the Home Office in 2008 and, following an eight-year legal battle, was allowed to remain in the UK because his crimes were not deemed technically serious enough to warrant expulsion.

In another controversial case, Mr Norton-Taylor was one of two judges who last year granted Kosovan drug-dealer Shaban Binaku leave to remain in the UK.

The 41-year-old had already been deported once but re-entered Britain and set up a car-wash business in London before he was arrested in 2018. The Upper Tribunal ruled it would be unreasonable for the two children he fathered while in the UK illegally to relocate to Kosovo.

The Home Office last night said it may try again to deport Ahmadi if circumstances changed in Afghanistan. 'We always try to remove heinous foreign criminals from this country, but we can be prevented from doing so by the European Convention on Human Rights and Human Rights Act,' it added.

'This individual no longer has refugee protection and we will continue to explore all options to remove him from the UK.' Ahmadi's lawyer was approached for comment.

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A sex offender who once gave two schoolgirls love bites has been jailed for breaching a suspended prison sentence.

Serena Ransom was found guilty by a jury in 2015 of making sexual advances towards two young girls.

The 27-year-old was convicted of sexual assault, causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and two of sexual activity with a child.

She was sentenced to 18 months' detention in a young offenders' institution and made subject to a sexual harm prevention order banning her from work or unsupervised contact with under-16s.

In May last year, Ransom was hauled back in front of a judge at Teesside Crown Court for breaching her notification requirements.

The court heard how the qualified bricklayer created a profile on video sharing app TikTok in October 2020 and failed to notify police.

She also stayed overnight in a house where children also regularly stayed and did not tell the police.

Ransom was handed a 12 month prison sentence, suspended for 18 months and made subject to a six-month curfew.

She was also ordered to undertake 120 hours unpaid work and carry out 30 rehabilitation days.

On Wednesday afternoon, the defendant made a further appearance at the court in Middlesbrough.

Ransom, of Brompton Street, Middlesbrough, pleaded guilty to breaching her suspended sentence.

Miss Recorder Kidd partly activated the 12 month sentence and sentenced her to six months behind bars.

Teesside Live reported in 2015 how Ransom's first and youngest victim was described by a judge as being "particularly vulnerable" when Ransom sexually assaulted her by giving her love bites.

The court heard how Ransom gave the second older girl love bites, kissed her on the lips and asked her to touch her intimately.

During the hearing last year, the court heard how the notification breaches were Ransom's third and fourth.

She was caught after a man, who knew about her criminal past, saw her TikTok profile and sent a screenshot to police.

Nigel Soppitt, defending, said the breaches were "reckless rather than malicious" and that Ransom has "no sexual interest in children".

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A depraved foster carer has been locked up for a campaign of sexual offences against teenage girls.

Paul Robertson, 64, from Holsworthy, filmed himself having sex with one girl, groped and kissed another and set up secret cameras to film a third girl naked.

The judge jailing him at Exeter Crown Court said: "You abused them horrendously and treated them however you wished for your own sexual gratification."

He was sent to prison for eight years and three months.

Judge Anna Richardson also highlighted safeguarding failings of the children and chances missed to stop the abuse earlier.

Two of the victims reported what Robertson was doing but they were not believed.

Prosecutor Mr Nigel Wraith said Robertson, of Coles Mill Avenue, and his wife became carers in 2009. In 2019, police searched his home and took away a number of devices for analysis. They discovered Robertson had used mini cameras in jewellery boxes to record children and also filmed himself sexually abusing them.

He also had images of extreme pornography, bestiality and one of him having oral sex with his dog.

Robertson had repeatedly sexually abused one of the girls when she was aged between 15 and 17. He filmed himself having sex with her.

He pleaded guilty to a total of 17 offences. They included sexual activity with child by person in position of trust, voyeurism, taking indecent photos of child, making indecent photos of a child, possession extreme pornographic images and three sexual assaults.

He denied three offences relating to kissing and groping another victim but was found guilty by a jury at a trial in December.

The victim told the court the abuse had caused her mental health problems. At the time she knew it was wrong and his behaviour 'would make my stomach clench'.

Ms Mary Aspinall-Miles, defending, said Robertson had been a law abiding citizen until committing the offences. He had made early pleas to most of the charges and was entitled by law to a 25 per cent discount in his sentence.

He was now in poor health and did not present the same high level of threat to girls as he once had.

A Sexual Harm Prevention Order and notification requirements will mitigate the risk he poses and monitor his behaviour when he is released.

Judge Richardson said Robertson had taken advantage of children who were particularly vulnerable.

She said there was a sorry background of a lack of effective and coordinated safeguarding.

One victim had raised the alarm in 2012 but she had not been believed and it was not taken any further.

Another victim had flagged his behaviour in 2013 but, despite a council meeting, no further action had been taken.

Robertson was registered with a private care provider.

A spokesman for Devon County Council said after the case: “Mr Robertson was not, and never has been a Devon County Council foster carer. He was an independent foster carer registered and employed by an independent fostering agency.

“A safeguarding referral into allegations of misconduct by the individual was made to our safeguarding team in 2013, and we followed an investigatory process. Insufficient evidence at the time meant that no charges were brought, and it was the fostering agency's responsibility subsequent to that investigation to decide whether they would continue to employ him as a foster carer.”

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Derby Crown Court heard how Wayne Russell was himself only a teenager when he carried out both sets of illegal offences.

He placed his hand down the first victim's pyjamas and pants but she did not come forward and disclose this for a number of years.

In the meantime, the now 22-year-old, of Alvaston, had consensual sex at least twice with the second girl, once in a field.

Handing him a 27-month prison sentence, Judge Nirmal Shant QC said: "On four occasions you put your hands in her (the younger victim's) pants and 'tickled her privates' as she said and demonstrated during the trial.

"In relation to (the second victim) it is accepted this was consensual but I make it plain the law is there to protect young girls."

Stuart Lody, prosecuting, said the first victim was touched sexually when she was under the age of 13 by Russell.

He said it happened on "four or five occasions" but after she found the bravery to make a complaint to the police the defendant denied it.

This meant she had to relive her ordeal giving evidence about what happened to her at a trial.

On that occasion a jury found him guilty of sexual assault of a child aged under 13.

Mr Lody said Russell pleaded guilty to sexual activity with a child in relation to the second complainant - who at the time of the offences was much closer to his age than the first victim.

Steven Taylor, defending, said his client attempted suicide when the allegations arose in 2019.

"He has no qualifications and therefore the work he does do is manual.

"He is someone who would benefit from intervention and I don't suggest he is suicidal now.

"He is in a much more stable position now."

As well as the jail term, Judge Shant handed Russell, of Wensleydale Road, a sexual harm prevention order for 10 years.

He will be on the sex offender register for the same period of time.

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Ian Jordan pounced on one victim at a house in Glasgow's Jordanhill after claiming he could help with a medical condition. Years earlier, Jordan molested a patient at his then practice in Ayr.

A shamed optician who sexually assaulted two patients walked free from court yesterday.

Ian Jordan pounced on one victim at a house in Glasgow's Jordanhill after claiming he could help with a medical condition.

Years earlier, Jordan molested a patient at his then practice in Ayr.

The 64-year-old had denied the crimes during a trial at Glasgow Sheriff Court.

But, he was found guilty of charges of sexual and indecent assault last September.

Sheriff Lindsay Wood put Jordan under supervision for 24 months and tagged him for six months keeping him indoors between 9.30pm and 6am.

Jordan, now of county Durham, was also ordered to pay each victim £5,000 in compensation and was placed on the sex offenders register for five years.

The sheriff told him: "The offences you know are bad enough and caused considerable stress to both women.

"Matters are made worse in that they were committed on your patients when presenting as an optician and you breached the trust of the women.

"It was quite shocking what you did and it seems to me that you are still in denial and have not expressed any remorse in your background report."

In 2018, the optician was struck off having controversially claimed to be able to help people with autism and brain injuries using tinted lenses.

He had seen thousands of patients from across the UK and abroad.

But, the General Optical Council slammed Jordan for a "disregard for the scope of his practice and the potential risks" to others.

The two sex attack victims meantime bravely testified against Jordan.

A 42-year-old woman recalled how Jordan had unexpectedly visited following an earlier conversation about her neurological disorder.

She told prosecutor Mark Allan how he walked in as she was trying to get dressed.

They then sat on the sofa to initially discuss different lenses.

But, the woman went on: "He did not seem interested in that - the conversation was rude and lewd.

"He was asking about my sex life. He started touching me, put his hand under my t-shirt onto my back.

"He was moving it up and down my back to the side where he touched my breast.

"He said 'you enjoyed that'."

The victim told how Jordan then asked her to lie on the living room floor.

She added: "He said he could sync his body with mine by laying on top of me. It would help with my neurological symptoms.

"He then stood me up told me to balance on one leg for him to check my balance, trying to spin me around and make me dizzy while wearing these lenses."

The woman later spoke to a relative about what happened before police were alerted.

In August 2010, Jordan subjected a woman to what she called a "bizarre" incident at his shop in Ayr.

The 37-year-old said Jordan had not been her usual optician.

She recalled him touching her, asking inappropriate questions and quizzing her on a body piercing.

The woman added: "He said: 'If a man saw you walking down the street, he would think you were nice. If he saw this, he would change his mind'."

Jordan was said to have probed her on her schooling and being bullied.

After she began crying, he started getting "excited, clapping his hands, jumping up and down on the chair".

The woman was left "confused" and it was years later before she went to police.

Kelly Dooley, defending, told the sentencing: "This is still a very serious charge.

"He has no previous convictions and there has been no offending since between the offences or since he was convicted."

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A WEST Cumbria man must sign the sex offenders register with immediate effect after admitting a raft of crimes against a person he thought was aged only 13. William Beech, 51, faced a total of 13 charges when he appeared in front of a judge at Carlisle Crown Court. During a short hearing, Beech pleaded guilty to 12 of those. Three of the offences he admitted concern attempts to incite a child to engage in sexual activity. Four involve attempting to engage in sexual activity in the presence of a child; three are attempts to cause a child to watch a sexual act; one was attempting to communicate sexually with a child; and he also admitted making indecent category C photographs of a child. Beechs crimes were committed on a number of different days around the turn of November last year. They are said to involve communication with a vigilante group decoy the defendant thought was a 13-year-old girl. Judge Nicholas Barker adjourned the case and ordered the preparation of a probation service pre-sentence report which will give background on the defendant and his offending. Beech is due to be sentenced at the crown court on February 4, and must sign the sex offenders register in the meantime. The precise duration of those requirements will be determined on that date, said the judge. Beech was granted bail on condition that he both lives at Hilton Terrace in Whitehaven, and has no unsupervised contact with any person aged under 18.

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A paedophile who failed to tell police where he was staying claimed he was sleeping under a hedge and had no idea what day it was.

Paul Kemp was given a suspended jail sentence after offering to pay two teenage boys to take part in sexual activity in a McDonald's branch.

He has now been locked up for not complying with the terms of that sentence.

Kemp was handed a nine month suspended sentence in November over his illicit approach to two 14-year-old boys.

Louise Santamera, prosecuting, said Kemp had admitted two counts of attempting to cause a boy to engage in sexual activity.

While he avoided an immediate jail term, his freedom was subject to him abiding by a series of conditions.

He was placed on the Sex Offenders Register for 10 years and, as a result, Kemp had to regularly update police of his whereabouts.

Liverpool Crown Court heard he did so twice and said he was homeless and had no mobile phone - but suggested the Adelphi Hotel could be a point of contact.

However, later checks with the hotel revealed he had not stayed there for several weeks and he failed to attend St Anne Street police station on November 29 and failed to attend for probation supervision.

He was located on December 3 at the Mercure Hotel in Little Sutton, Ellesmere Port and was arrested.

When interviewed he said he had returned to that area where he had grown up and had been sleeping under a hedge.

The 64-year-old claimed a religious couple found him and paid for him to stay the night at the hotel.

Miss Santamera said: "He admitted he failed to comply with the requirements and said it was due to his mental health problems and did not know what day it was… The prosecution say it was a deliberate failure to comply.

"He undoubtedly knew he was expected to go to St Anne Street or any police station."

The court heard Kemp had five previous sexual convictions include two indecency offences when he was in the Army in 1977 for which he received 84 days detention and was discharged from the forces.

He was also convicted in 2012 for sexually assaulting a boy.

Bernice Campbell, defending, said Kemp had been on remand for the sex offences last year and after being freed he ended up in a hospital for two days, had no contact details for probation and unsuccessfully asked the police for help to contact them.

Kemp said he had thousands of pounds in his bank account but he had difficulty obtaining hotel accommodation as he had no photographic identification. He claimed he left a hostel by the police station as screaming in the night exacerbated his mental health problems.

Ms Campbell pointed out that Kemp had twice reported to St Anne Street police station despite being homeless and having a chaotic lifestyle.

However, Recorder Ian Harris, QC, told Kemp: "Bluntly you have shunned opportunities given to you by the court and deliberately flouted notification requirements."

The judge said: "You hoped to melt back into the community and you no doubt continue to be a threat to young children.

"It was a deliberate failure to comply with the requirements….Your convictions show you are a predatory paedophile and a risk to children."

The judge added: "The author of the pre-sentence report says you cannot be managed in the community and you had deliberately evaded your responsibility. Your mental health did not impair your ability to make rational choices."

Recorder Harris activated seven months of the suspended sentence handed to Kemp in November and imposed a further five months for the breach, making a total of 12 months imprisonment.

Kemp, of no fixed address, had pleaded guilty to breaching requirements of the Sex Offenders Register and admitted being in breach of the nine month suspended prison sentence.