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A Thanet man has been given a 12-year extended sentence for a string of child sex offences going back many years.

Mark Lloyd, 47, of Westgate on Sea, sat passively in the dock as one of his victims watched from the public gallery at Canterbury Crown Court just a few feet away.

Lloyd, of Victoria Road, Westgate On Sea had been found guilty of nine child sex offences after a trial at Canterbury Crown Court last month.

The court also heard that when police raided his home they discovered he was growing 72 cannabis plants in three rooms.

The pervert pleaded guilty to cultivating the drug but denied the sex offences.

He was given a 12-year extended sentence made up of a nine-year jail term and an extra three years on licence.

Judge Heather Norton told him he wont be eligible for parole until 2021 and will have to serve up to six years on licence when released.

The judge told him that he posed a significant risk of committing future sex offences against children and the public needed protecting.

Judge Norton said his victims are suffering and will continue to suffer from some years to come.

She added: You have shown no pity or remorse, no insight whatsoever for your offences.

The offences relate to three young victims and took place more than 10 years ago.

Lloyd declined to comment when officers interviewed him about the abuse which took place after he had been drinking and also failed to take to the stand in court at his trial.

The court heard how, following the report of the assaults to Kent Police, officers searched Lloyds home in September 2014 and found 72 cannabis plants growing in the spare room, bedroom and loft.

Also seized from his house were two books on horticulture and how to grow cannabis, two sets of scales, a safe, numerous clear plastic bags, latex gloves and various fertilisers.

"You have shown no pity or remorse, no insight whatsoever for your offences" - Judge Heather Norton

Investigating officer Detective Sergeant Paul Deslandes of Kent Police said: "I would like to commend the victims in this case for their bravery in coming forward to disclose their abuse, in what has been a very emotional time for them all.

"Lloyds abuse has not only affected the victims but also their families and I hope that all those involved can finally begin to move on with their lives, knowing that Lloyd will be behind bars for the foreseeable future."

Lloyd was told he will be on the Sex Offenders' Register for life and was made subject to a sexual harm prevention order to stop him being alone or working with children.

After Lloyd left to start his sentence, Judge Norton praised the victim for her courage and thanked her for attending the sentencing.

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Sick Stanley Gibbs, 35, set up devices to film his female friend - who trusted him like family - in her Glasgow flat without her knowing.

He then uploaded various pictures, including naked photos of her getting out of the shower, on to the internet.

Using the username Psycho Stan he wrote that he got sexual gratification from the pictures and that she had no idea she was being filmed.

But, he was snared when a concerned friend of the girl spotted the pictures on the internet.

Gibbs, from Erskine, pled guilty at Glasgow Sheriff Court to using electronic devices to record the female in a state of undress.

He also admitted uploading indecent footage of her on to the internet and recording her without her knowledge between October 2012 and June 2014.

Yesterday sheriff Andrew Mackie jailed Gibbs for 12 months, reduced from 18 because of his guilty plea.

He told Gibbs: Your behaviour as you know was deplorable and appalling.

It was a gross breach of trust and it was a gross invasion of your victim. The sheriff also put Gibbs on the Sex Offenders register for 10 years and granted a non-harassment order for the same length of time.

The court heard Gibbs and the female had been friends for a number of years and that he regularly visited the flat where she stayed.

In June, last year, a friend of the woman was online when they came across various pictures and recognised her from them.

Procurator fiscal depute Claire Whyte said there was a number of still images that showed the female in a state of undress.

She said Perhaps in the process of getting changed. She added that there was also pictures showing the female getting out of the bath and shower.

Knowing that the victim - who cannot be identified for legal reasons - was uncomfortable with having her picture taken, her friend thought it would be out of character to allow pictures of this nature to be online.

The person who uploaded the images used the name Psycho Stan and claimed that the girl was unaware they had been taken.

The friend saved everything that they found on to a USB stick and contacted the girl to advise her she should leave her flat.

The police were then alerted and a search warrant was granted for Gibbs house.

Miss Whyte told the court that when officers arrived Gibbs said Whatever you need I will give you.

He was detained and interviewed by police before being cautioned and charged.

Electronic equipment was seized including a laptop, hard drive, mobile phone and tablet, as well as a digital camera.

They were analysed and 60,000 moving images found which were taken covertly.

The court heard much of the footage was of day to day business, as well as indecent footage captured.

It was heard that the girl was shocked and disgusted and that "she trusted the accused like family.

Defence lawyer Neil McCulloch said his client has shown genuine remorse for his victim.

He said Gibbs accepts his crimes were unacceptable and inexcusable.

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A MAN who spent more than three years on bail before being charged has pleaded guilty to child pornography offences. Jonathan Barclay, of Chadborn Close, Brighton, has been given a 24-month community order and will be a registered sex offender for five years. His estranged husband has spoken of his upset at learning through this newspaper that his partner had been charged with such serious offences. Barclay, 51, co-founder of a Brighton events management company, pleaded guilty to five counts of downloading indecent images of children and one count of distributing an indecent image of a child. He had been arrested in October 2011 but not charged until January this year due to what police described as a very exceptional series of complex legal and technical issues. His case was used by the chief constable Giles York as an example of why a cap should not be put on the length of time people could be on police bail, arguing some cases were too complex. Mr Barclay had pleaded not guilty to causing or inciting a child between 13 and 17 years old to be involved in pornography and refusing an order to disclose a computer password. The court did not proceed with those charges but they will remain on file. His estranged husband, William Underwood, pictured right, who has changed his name to Christopher Clayton, said he was shocked to learn of the offences through The Argus when the paper first covered the story in January. The 21-year-old, who now lives in London, said Barclay had told him he was on bail after they moved in together but not what for, and he had not pressed the issue. The pair married in April, 2013 after meeting via a dating website that Christmas. They separated shortly after, before Barclay was charged. Mr Clayton said: I did not know how serious it was until I saw it in the paper. I was completely in love with him at the start. Since I got off the train there was a spark with him and I fell in love. He was a lovely guy when it was nice. When it was nice, it was lovely. But when I first found out about the case I felt violated. Now I think my whole wedding and everything with him was based on a lie from the beginning. Under the name Jon Philips, Barclay was featured on the website of Brighton events management company Showbizz, in Cheapside, earlier this year, as a co-founder. He no longer has anything to do with the company, a spokesman said. BACKGROUND The Home Secretary Theresa May is planning to limit the amount of time suspects can spend on police bail to an initial 28 days. Any time beyond that, up to three months, would need to be authorised by a superintendent. A magistrate would have to approve anything beyond three months. Under the changes set to go through Parliament, there would also be a presumption to release without bail during investigations. Sussex Police chief constable Giles York has argued against statutory time limits, saying rushed investigations would see more cases failing at court.

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A chef has been jailed for 15 months after abducting a 15-year-old girl and fleeing to the Isle of Wight with her.

Michael Britten sparked a huge police manhunt when he ran off with the teen in August last year.

The 33-year-old admitted to a judge that he ran off with the girl, which the court heard was 'sexually motivated'.

The girl's mother pleaded for her to come home during the manhunt, before police found them on the island.

A court today heard Britten, of Southampton, was seen on CCTV buying the teenager a ring from Cash Recycle in Newport, Isle of Wight.

The pair later spent the night at a hotel in nearby Shanklin, and were captured on a CCTV camera kissing.

The chef's semen was also found on her underwear, however prosecutors could not be sure how it got there.

In court today they accepted his defence that sexual activity between them amounted to no more than kissing.

Judge Nicholas Rowland described his actions as 'sexually motivated' and today jailed Britten for 15 months after he admitted abducting a child.

Britten was also handed a 12-month sentence after admitting a charge of sexual activity with a child, namely kissing, and 12 months for admitting possessing indecent images of the girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons.

These sentences will run concurrently.

Southampton Crown Court also heard the girl moved out of her family home to live with a friend of her mother before the pair ran away.

Britten, who worked as a chef in Yates's pub in Southampton, was also lodging at the house.

Christopher Stopa, prosecuting, said: "Britten pleaded guilty to sexual activity with a child on the basis the activity was not to do with the semen but related to the kissing on the bus.

"In July 2014, she chose to move out of her family home and stay with her mother's friend.

"On Friday, August 8, the pair travelled to the Isle of Wight and on Friday night they stayed with a friend of the defendant's brother.

"They then went to spend the following night at a hotel in Shanklin, Isle of Wight.

"He was arrested by police on the Sunday and she was taken back into care.

"CCTV footage shows Britten with his arm around her and her with her head on his shoulder.

"Other CCTV footage from Cash Recycle on August 8, 2014, shows Mr Britten buying a ring for her and she can be seen putting it on her finger."

Peter Asteris, defending, said: "Mr Britten is now 33 years old and is someone with difficulties in learning.

"He found himself going down a road and started to panic when the situation became serious.

"He will never go down that road again."

Judge Nicholas Rowland said: "You have pleaded guilty to three counts.

"You kissed the girl as shown on the CCTV from the bus and you accept you shared a bed, which indicates there was a sexual motivation for the child abduction.

"You were 33 and she was 15 - she was troubled and remains a troubled child.

"You went away for three days and went to a hotel and shared a bed, which shows this child abduction was sexually motivated."

Judge Rowland also ordered Britten to sign a sexual harm prevention order for the next 10 years which prevents him being alone with a child under 16.

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A paedophile, branded "calculating and predatory", has been jailed for 15 years for a string of sex attacks on girls as young as six years old. Andrew Hocking, 57, of West Sussex, sexually assaulted four girls, aged between six and 12, from 1976 to 1990 in Gloucestershire and Hampshire. He was found guilty of one count of rape and six indecent assaults following a trial at Lewes Crown Court. Sussex Police said Hocking showed "no genuine remorse" for his actions. "Hocking stands out as cold, calculating, predatory and ruthless," said Det Con Chris Smith. "Despite the strong evidence against him, he put the victims through the ordeal of having to recount their episodes of abuse." Media appeal Detectives discovered records of allegations of indecent assaults on a seven-year-old girl at his home in Alveston, Gloucestershire in 1976 and 1977, while they were investigated him over the making of indecent images of children. Police were contacted by three woman claiming they had been attacked, when they were aged six, seven and 12, by Hocking at his address in Fareham, Hampshire, in the 1980s and 1990, following an appeal for information. Following a trial, Hocking was convicted of one count of rape and six indecent assaults and cleared of one indecent assault. The 57-year-old admitted making indecent images of children and possession of extreme pornography at an earlier hearing. He was ordered to be put on the sex offenders register for life.

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A HAMPSHIRE man has been jailed for having sex with a 15-year-old girl on school premises. Sam Dickety slept with the teenager at Henry Beaufort School in Winchester. The 23-year-old was jailed for four years as his girlfriend, pregnant with his child, wept in the public gallery. The citys crown court heard that the teenager had a crush on him and pursued him with notes and messages. Dickety, of Tadburn Road, Romsey, gave her his phone number and email address. In a message he said he wished she wasn't 15. They arranged to meet on several occasions and first had sex in an area known as The Harbour which only teachers could access, and again two days later in the same place. This continued until Dicketys birthday, when the girl asked another pupil to deliver a birthday card to him. It was intercepted by her mother, who thought it was provocative and reported it to the school. The card said: I love you so much and you mean everything to me, you are my handsome Sam. Ps, youll get your present on Thursday haha. Claire Marlow, prosecuting, said: The headmistress spoke to Mr Dickety who at that stage said that nothing had happened in any way. He was reminded of the safeguarding rules and warned not to have one-to-one contact with her thereafter. But they continued to meet in The Harbour to have sex for another two months, the court heard. Ms Marlow said: This came to light during the school holidays because there was a message on Facebook, which is the parents because they will not allow her to have her own, from him asking whether she was going to be in a particular location that day. Dickety pleaded guilty to five of six charges relating to sexual activity with a child. Mitigating, Rina-Marie Hill said: I proceed with caution that for every good thing I can say on Mr Dicketys behalf theres a downside to it. This is a 15-year-old girl, soon to be woman, at the time who was sensibly consenting to the sexual activity. She added: The impact of this will stay with him for the rest of his life and he will pay the consequences for the rest of his life. Sentencing, Judge Susan Evans QC said it was a significant and serious abuse of trust and Dickety would have been aware of the girls vulnerability - she had previously been sexually assaulted. You took advantage of your 15-year-old victim, you groomed her, the judge said. The location is an aggravating factor because it was on school property and most seriously you failed to respond to the warning you were given. He was jailed for four years and will be released on licence after two years. Dickety will also be on the sex offenders register for life and disqualified from working with children and vulnerable people. The school, a mixed comprehensive in Harestock, and the county council, were asked to comment but had not replied by the time the Daily Echo went to press.

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A VIOLENT and sadistic paedophile who 'pranced and posed' semi-naked in ladies underwear while sexually abusing two children has been jailed for 15 years. Derrick Hooley, 69, dressed up in black suspenders, a basque and French knickers to degrade and humiliate his young victims. He was labelled 'a thoroughly nasty deviant' by the judge sentencing him last Thursday. Hooley, a retired coach painter with Keighley and District Buses, was unanimously convicted of all 17 charges against him by a jury at Bradford Crown Court. They involved the 'sustained, routine and relentless' sexual abuse of a boy three decades ago and the similar abuse of a girl over the same period. The boy, now a man in his 30s, had been 'wholly destroyed' by Hooley, Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC said. Hooley, who wore dark glasses and earphones during the trial, remained impassive in the dock as the jury's verdicts were returned. A victim statement by the male victim said he had been robbed of his childhood and had recurring nightmares. He still leapt out of bed taking swings at the man 'as though fighting him off'. Hooley, of Main Street, Farnhill, abused the children in Skipton in the mid to late 1980s. He was convicted of 12 offences of indecent assault and indecency with a child, relating to the boy, and five charges involving the girl, including indecent assault, indecency with a child, and taking an indecent photo of her. During the trial the jury saw photographs of Hooley 'prancing and posing' semi-naked in women's underwear and male pouches. His passion for photography cemented his downfall when the police seized pictures of him in what the judge described as 'a variety of fairly interesting positions'. "This case is about a thoroughly nasty, deviant man who happened, inappropriately and cruelly, to parade naked and in women's clothing," he said. Hooley told a pack of lies to the police and the jury when the evidence against him was overwhelming. He told the court he was posing in frilly pants and bras to see if they fitted for 'a fancy dress do'. Another outfit, of skeleton body paint, French knickers and a white cape, was to wear at a Halloween party, he claimed. Hooley, who was born in Ilkley, had never been in trouble with the police before, his barrister Robin Frieze said. He had been a self-employed sign writer and then worked at Airedale General Hospital, in Steeton. During the trial, the male victim said he went to the police when Jimmy Savile's sexual abuse was made public in 2013.

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A FORMER engineering student who raped a prostitute in a graveyard has been jailed for eight years. Emmanuel Mutandi had denied raping his victim, and maintains that the two had consensual sex. However, the 22-year-old was convicted of the "violent rape" in the early hours of Saturday, August 2 2014 at the conclusion of a three-day trial at Bournemouth Crown Court. Mutandi had originally agreed to pay his victim 40 for full sexual intercourse, but after the pair walked from Southcote Road to St Clements Church in Boscombe, said he only had a 20 note. The woman - who had returned to prostitution after three years in a desperate bid for money - performed a sex act on him. However, as she attempted to leave afterwards, he grabbed her and told her he wanted full sex, viciously battering her after the rape. She suffered injuries including bruising and damage to her teeth in the assault, which Zimbabwean Mutandi admitted at an earlier hearing before a judge. The not guilty plea forced the woman to relive her ordeal during the trial, and she told jurors she had begged the defendant to kill her quickly. Fern Russell, mitigating for Mutandi, said: "This was a business transaction that went wrong and Mr Mutandi reacted in a way which plainly caused damage to [the victim]. "He is not a man who has engaged in this kind of behaviour before." Mutandi, of Walnut Walk, Kempston in Bedfordshire, has been living in the UK since he was nine. He is currently training to become a pastor in custody, and was studying at Bournemouth University before being charged with rape. Sentencing the defendant, Judge John Harrow said: "You are intelligent and from a good family, and you have brought shame and disgrace on yourself and, no doubt, you have upset all of your family." He added: "You went to a cash machine and accompanied [the victim] to a churchyard. "It was a secluded and dark area. The you made clear to her you were not prepared to pay the agreed price for full sexual intercourse. What happened then is that she submitted. She felt threatened, she felt afraid, she felt she had to agree to sex because she had no option." Speaking after the sentence, Hayley Porter-Straw, senior crown prosecutor for the CPS Rape and Serious and Sexual Offences Unit, said: We would like to thank the victim who had the immense courage to report the crime to the police and who supported the prosecution. Our thoughts are with the victim and hope that she will be able to move on from this terrible ordeal.

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A KIDDERMINSTER man sentenced to 15 months custody for sex offences against a 13-year-old girl will be released in a few weeks, Worcester Crown Court was told. For Thomas Lloyd-Perks had been held on remand in a young offenders institution waiting for his case to come before the court, said his barrister Abigail Nixon. The 20-year-old, of Worcester Road, had pleaded guilty in September last year to sexual activity with the girl and taking indecent photographs of her genitals. He was ordered to sign the sex offender register for 10 years. Judge Robert Juckes QC also made a sexual harm prevention order banning Lloyd-Perks from contact with any child under the age of 16 for five years. Siobhan Collins, prosecuting, said Lloyd-Collins was only 17 in 2012 when he met the girl, who was to become his victim, at an activity group. She lost interest in the group but he continued to bombard her with messages on Facebook. At one stage he invited her to go to the nightclub where he said he was earning 150,000 a year. Her mother had tried to block the friendship and said he could only come to the house after 5pm when she was there. But Lloyd-Perks continued sexual talk and the pair met in secret. He persuaded her to strip so that he could tell whether she was "a girl or a woman" and also took pictures of her private parts. When she told her mother what had happened, the police were informed and analysis of his phone disclosed the pictures he had taken. In an impact statement the girl said she had been made to feel gullible. Miss Nixon, mitigating, submitted references and said Lloyd-Perks was of good character and was well-supported by his family. He was regarded as an ideal prisoner while in custody and had been a pleasure to teach on a mentoring course. Judge Juckes said Lloyd-Perks had been a very manipulative young man who had taken advantage of a 13-year-old girl. There was always the danger that pictures taken in private could get into the social media.

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A convicted sex offender who went on the run after climbing a fence at a secure hospital in Hampshire has been found. Stephen Munden, 54, went missing from an independent hospital in Winchfield on Tuesday evening and Dorset Police was among the forces issuing an appeal for information. Hampshire Constabulary said he handed himself into police in Thames Valley at about 00.45am yesterday. A police spokesman said: "He has been detained and taken to a mental health facility." Munden was described by police as a "vulnerable adult" with mental health treatment needs. Munden was detained at the facility under a hospital order after being sentenced for sexual offences in 2014. These were possessing, making and attempting to make indecent images of children, and sexual assault on a child under 13. The 54-year-old, who was detained under the Mental Health Act, was last spotted leaving Mildmay Oaks independent hospital in Winchfield, near Hook, but he failed to return. It has emerged that Munden climbed over a fence and fled on foot from the hospital grounds. Despite being sent to the hospital by a judge after being convicted of sexually touching a child and possessing indecent images of children, the hospital told the Daily Echo that it did not deem this patient suitable for a secure setting.

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A former Cumbria Police worker has been jailed for possessing and distributing indecent images of children.

David Robinson, 46, used his computer to hunt out images and videos of child sex abuse, Carlisle Crown Court heard.

His conversations with other paedophiles were of the "most sickening nature", Judge Peter Hughes QC said.

Robinson, of Waldegrave Road, Carlisle, was jailed for six years after admitting 20 counts of possession and distribution of indecent images.

The court heard how Robinson had offered to buy a child online in order to abuse them as well as decorating a room in his house for a child before applying to become a foster carer for young boys.

The hearing was also told a number of the images were of children as young as five and were of the most serious "Category A" type.

Judge Hughes said: "Robinson had presented one face to the outside world, another deeply unattractive one online."

Robinson was employed as a front counter worker at Cumbria Police when he was arrested last October. He was immediately suspended and left the force in January.

Det Insp Doug Marshall said: "This prosecution reflects the serious nature of the images which Mr Robinson was viewing and distributing.

"Images of this nature have been created via the suffering and abuse of children and they are criminal offences."

He was also ordered to sign the sex offenders' register and given a sexual offences prevention order for life.

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A 25 year old WROTHAM man has been charged with downloading hundreds of videos and photographs of child abuse.

Lee Drury, of Borough Green Road, was found guilty of 18 offences which prosecutors claim took place between July 7 and August 20 last year.

Some of the images related to pictures classed as level A the most serious classification, which can include content involving bestiality and sadism.

Drury who lives opposite two schools in the Wrotham area of Kent was sentenced to 16 months at Maidstone Crown court

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A Birmingham grammar school teacher has received a suspended jail sentence after admitting making and possessing indecent images of children.

Oliver Downes, 40 and from Erdington, had also pleaded guilty in court to the production of a Class B drug, cannabis, following his arrest by police.

He had taught for more than 13 years at the prestigious Bishop Vesey Grammar School in Sutton Coldfield, a role which included him coaching rugby to pupils.

The teacher was suspended after the police investigation and he resigned from his post last July.

In a statement after the court case, a Bishop Vesey spokesman said: “The school has co-operated fully with the police. The offences relate to the former teacher’s behaviour outside of school and there is no evidence to suggest any child from the school was involved in any way.

“The member of staff was suspended and resigned on 18 July with immediate effect.”

Downes had appeared at Birmingham Crown Court where he pleaded guilty to nine counts of making indecent images of children and nine counts of possessing indecent images of children. He had also admitted production of a Class B drug, cannabis.

He received a 12 month jail sentence for making indecent images, suspended for two years, along with concurrent suspended sentences of nine months for possession of indecent images and two months for the drugs charge.

He was ordered to carry out 100 hours of unpaid work in the community. He was also ordered to attend a sex offenders’ work programme for 50 hours and was placed on a two-year supervision order.

Bishop Vesey is one of the oldest schools in the West Midlands, founded in the 16th Century. Today it caters for more than 900 pupils and has almost 100 full and part-time members of staff.

Downes, an avid football fan, had joined the school in 2001, having graduated from university in 1998.

He had previously been a student at King Edward VI School in Aston.

On his Facebook site, Downes describes himself as single and as ‘‘chilled, different, fun, intense, work that out.’’

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A JUDGE branded a serial offender as a potential danger to women when he jailed him for 20 months for sexually abusing a student in a Southampton supermarket.

David Lunn, 28, pictured, distracted the 20-year-old as she was approaching him on stairs in the Asda city centre store before groping her.

He then dropped his trousers when she walked past him on the street outside.

Lunn, of no fixed abode, admitted sexual assault and exposure.

He further pleaded guilty to stealing £190 from a cashpoint machine after taking an acquaintance's bank card.

The court heard Lunn had 36 previous convictions for 78 offences, 11 of which were for sex related offences.

As the judge told him that he was probably unaware of the affect he would have had on his victim, Lunn interrupted, shouting. "Yes, I can."

He then bawled: "You're wasting my time. I just want to be sentenced."

In addition to the jail term, Lunn was also placed on the sex offenders register for 10 years.