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A convicted child sex offender extradited from Mexico has been sentenced to a further 16 months in prison.

Andrew Jeremy Eden (15/08/58) was ordered to serve another 16 months for failing to notify police of his intention to travel abroad under the Sexual Offences Act 2003.

Eden was convicted of indecently assaulting a seven-year-old child in June 2001. He was sentenced to four years in prison, with a further three years to be served on licence, and forced to sign the Sex Offender's Register.

In February 2005, he was recalled to prison after breaking the conditions of his registration under the Sexual Offences Act. Officers went to his address in Rochdale to arrest him but he was not there and could not be traced.

He was traced to Mexico after a tip off from a member of the public who saw his details on the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre's "Most Wanted" website.

Officers contacted the Mexican authorities to establish whether he was living there. On 13 September 2008 Mexican authorities confirmed they had arrested him and extradition proceedings began.

The extradition was granted in December 2008 but Eden appealed against it. He lost his appeal and officers from GMP's extradition unit travelled to Mexico on Monday 29 June to bring him back to the UK.

He arrived back in Manchester on Thursday 1 July and was immediately taken to a police station.

Detective Inspector Debbie Conlon Houldershaw from GMP's Sex Offender Management Unit, said: "Eden has been proven to be a danger to children. He thought by travelling abroad he would be able to escape the restrictions imposed on him in the UK.

"This shows that Greater Manchester Police will do everything possible to bring these offenders back to the UK.

"This process is not easy and the officers involved have put a lot of work into getting him back so he can be properly monitored and avoid putting any further children at risk."

Jim Gamble, Chief Executive of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre said: "Once again we have seen the benefit of engaging the public through CEOP's Most Wanted website. Our Offender Management team have worked alongside officers from Greater Manchester Police to locate and trace a high risk child sex offender who thought he could avoid being managed in the UK by travelling to Mexico.

"This should send a clear message to other missing child sex offenders; however far they travel, we will track them down and bring them to justice."

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A PAEDOPHILE who abused children over three decades has been jailed for eight years. Alan West, 55, showed no emotion as he was sent to prison at Manchester Crown Court. He had pleaded guilty to 17 sexual offences against children.

A PAEDOPHILE who abused children over three decades has been jailed for eight years.

Alan West, 55, showed no emotion as he was sent to prison at Manchester Crown Court.

He had pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to 17 sexual offences against children.

His abuse began in 1974 and spanned more than 30 years. Two of his three victims, a boy and a girl, were eight and nine when West began sexually assaulting them. But now grown up, they felt compelled to speak out.

His third victim, a girl of eight, was abused in May 2007.

David Toal, prosecuting, said: "Some of the abuse occurred many years ago in the 1970s and 1980s when the defendant was in his 20s.

"However, he also admitted abuse that occurred in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and also an incident more recently in 2007 when he was a married man."

West, of Cheadle, Stockport, pleaded guilty to 13 counts of indecent assault, three counts of gross indecency with a child and one count of sexual assault on a child under 13.

The victims' families were in court as details of his horrific abuse were read out. In a victim impact statement, part of which was read out in court. One of the victims said West's abuse had `haunted' her.

Barry Grennan, defending, said West's wife had left him and he had twice tried to take his own life after the abuse came to light.

He said West did feel `responsible' for what he had done and did have `insight' into the effect he had on his victims.

West will have to sign the sex offenders' register for life. He was also placed under a sexual offences prevention order, which stops him having unsupervised contact with children. West will be placed on licence when he is released from prison.

Judge Roger Thomas QC told West his offences had had a `devastating effect' on his victims' lives.

Det Con Claire Beach, who led the investigation, said: "West was in his 20s when his abuse started in the mid-70s, and he used the age-gap to take advantage of these defenceless children, robbing them of their innocence.

"However, the victims found the courage in adulthood to come forward and thanks to their bravery, his crimes have finally caught up with him and he is where he belongs - in jail.

"I hope the verdict demonstrates that if people are arrogant enough to think they can commit these horrific crimes and get away with it, they are wrong, and we will pursue people no matter how long in takes.

"I applaud the victims who came forward and would encourage anyone who has been a victim of sexual abuse to speak up."

Christopher Bradford, reviewing lawyer for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: "Working closely together with police, the CPS Service has ensured that Alan West has faced justice for the inexcusable acts he has committed."

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A man who violently raped a Manchester student with an accomplice is starting a prison sentence. Ali Majid Kadir, aged 21 of Upper Chorlton Road, Whalley Range, was found guilty of three counts of rape and has been jailed for 12 years for each count. These sentences will run concurrently.

A man who violently raped a Manchester student with an accomplice is starting a prison sentence.

Ali Majid Kadir, aged 21 of Upper Chorlton Road, Whalley Range, was found guilty of three counts of rape and has been jailed for 12 years for each count. These sentences will run concurrently.

He has also been ordered to sign the Sex Offenders' Register for life.

The victim, who was 20 at the time, had been at a friend's house in the Longsight area on Sunday 21 September 2008.

She left the house and began to walk home.

She spent around an hour walking around before she asked Kadir and another man for directions and they offered to help her find her way.

The three of them walked around for about another hour before they led her to Alexandra Park.

Kadir and the other man began drinking alcohol and smoking cannabis. The victim became uncomfortable and attempted to walk off. She was grabbed by one of the men, stripped naked and repeatedly raped.

After the men left the woman got dressed and made her way onto a nearby street where she hailed a taxi which dropped her off outside the Queen of Hearts pub on Wilmslow Road.

She was met by a friend who described the victim as being 'hysterical' and 'shaking vigorously'.

Police were called and an investigation was launched. DNA samples taken from the victim matched that of Kadir. He was subsequently arrested and charged.

Detective Constable Charlotte Nutter, of Longsight CID, said: "The victim was clearly lost and becoming upset when she came across Kadir and the other man.

"He used the situation to his advantage and subjected the woman to a completely vile attack.

"Understandably the victim is still haunted by what has happened but I hope today's sentence will help her move on in some small way.

"I am pleased Kadir will now spend many years behind bars where he belongs."

Police are still hunting Mamand Rasoulpour in connection with the attack.

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A PAEDOPHILE who groomed young girls online before persuading them to perform sex acts in front of a webcam was jailed for five years by a judge sitting at Salisbury Crown Court yesterday.

Gary Palmer, 28, of Hazel Close, Salisbury, who met his victims through Internet chat rooms, was also found in possession of 513 pornographic photographs of children and 355 movies between levels one to four, with level 5 being the most serious type of image.

He was jailed for five years and will be on licence for a further three years.

Palmer will also remain on the Sex Offenders Register for life, was made subject to a 10-year sexual offences prevention order and was barred from having contact with anyone under 18 on his own.

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A HOMELESS man who fled from justice after having sex with a vulnerable drunken teenage schoolgirl has been locked up for four-and-half years. Laurence Joseph Stringer left his under-age victim so traumatised by her ordeal that she took an overdose of paracetamol the following day.

A HOMELESS man who fled from justice after having sex with a vulnerable drunken teenage schoolgirl has been locked up for four-and-half years.

Laurence Joseph Stringer left his under-age victim so traumatised by her ordeal that she took an overdose of paracetamol the following day.

But after being charged with having sexual activity with a child he was granted bail - and fled to the South Coast where he spent two months on the run.

The 50-year-old, who was tracked down in Surrey, was sentenced to four and half years at Manchester Crown Court after admitting what he had done.

The court heard that on August 15 last year Stringer lured the girl, who has learning difficulties, back to the tent where he lived near a canal towpath on the outskirts of Hyde.

Earlier that evening she had been boozing with friends in the town centre after an argument with her family.

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Stringer was loitering in the area and when he heard that she did not want to go home, and knowing she was drunk, he invited her to go back to the tent with him.

After fleeing from Stringer's clutches the girl slept rough outside a B&Q store.

After returning home and taking the pills she was rushed to hospital, where she told police what had happened to her.

A DNA match identified Stringer and the victim was later able to show the police his lair in the bushes.

Stringer, who has a previous conviction for unlawful sexual intercourse, was arrested on September 3 when his tent was searched.

There, officers found a scrapbook of pictures of young teenage girls around the age of 13 and 14 that had been torn from magazines.

Stringer's victim has been plagued by nightmares of her ordeal, the court heard.

Defending, Neil Usher said that although Stringer had a previous conviction for sleeping with an underage girl it was not 'something he regularly engages in'.

He added that Stringer maintained he had not raped the victim.

Sentencing, Judge Anthony Hammond told Stringer: "Force or otherwise, you had no business having intercourse with girl of that age and that's the moral situation.

"Had you been convicted of raping this girl you would be facing a dickens of a sentence. As it is it's a serious offence to have intercourse with a girl of this age. This was a girl with terrible problems in respect of personality and intellectual capacity and you took advantage of her."

Ordering Stringer to sign the sex offenders' register for life, Judge Hammond told him that when he was finally released from prison he would have said he still had to keep police informed of his movements even if though he went back to sleeping rough. was a rough sleeper.

He said: "If you live on a park bench you tell them you are living on a particular park bench and if you change it you tell them again. Otherwise, you will be in real hot water and you will be going down for a very long time."

Last month an MEN exclusive highlighted the problem of bail-jumpers. 1871 people - including at least one murderer and a number of sex offenders - are currently at large.

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A JUDGE fired off a clear message about the seriousness of underage sex by sending a 30-year-old man, who repeatedly had intercourse with a girl half his age, to prison for three years.

Tim Posey had a sexual relationship with the 15-year-old, from Grays, over a number of months, Basildon Crown Court heard.

Standing in the dock yesterday, Posey, of no fixed address, was told by Judge John Lodge, that underage sex was a “serious matter”.

Despite Posey’s mitigating counsel saying the girl had consented to sex every time, and the pair had formed a “boyfriend/girlfriend relationship”, Judge Lodge told Posey: “You embarked on a sexual relationship with a girl who was 15.

“It matters not that she instigated sexual contact on some occasions. The law is there to protect children and that is what 15-year-old girls are.

“You are a 30-year-old man and this was a serious matter indeed.”

The court heard how Posey began having sex with the girl after moving to Grays from his home in Scotland to live with a different woman, in September last year.

The court also heard how Posey, who had no previous convictions and plans to return to Scotland once he is released from prison, now realises his behaviour “should never have happened”.

Posey pleaded guilty to four counts of sexual activity with a female child under 16 at an earlier hearing.

He also admitted an offence of failing to comply with the requirements of a sexual offender’s notification order.

He was told he will serve half his prison sentence before being considered for parole.

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A convicted sex offender who sexually molested a six-year-old girl over a five-year period should be locked behind bars for life, his victim’s mother has said.

Coleraine man James Moore was yesterday sentenced to five years imprisonment after being found guilty of indecently assaulting the young girl over a five-year period. His victim, who is now 15, was just six years old when she was first abused by Moore.

The 64 year-old from Ballyness Park — who was also convicted of a sexual assault more than 30 years ago — was found guilty by a jury at Antrim Crown Court of five counts of indecent assault. The attacks took place over an unknown period between September 1999 and September 2004.

During Moore’s three-day trial his young victim gave evidence against him via video link. The girl’s mother said she is |furious that Moore has shown no remorse for what he did and that she is concerned he will be back on the streets within a few years.

“We are pleased that it is over and that he appears to have got one of the higher sentences available but we would have preferred for him never to have got out ever again. When he gets out I really hope he does not move anywhere near where my daughter lives.

“I hope she never has to see him again.

“He has not shown any remorse, he is still denying he did anything,” she said.

The girl’s mother added: “She was only six when it started.

“We found out about four years ago. When I found out what had happened to my daughter I felt very angry, guilty, sad, frustrated — just devastated. But at the time we chose not to go to the police as we felt she had been through enough.

“Over a period of time it became apparent he had other children in his care and we had concerns for their safety.

“It was a moral dilemma. We felt we had to tell police so we did in January last year.”

She said it was very difficult for her daughter to have to give evidence about what she had been through.

“The fact that he put us all through a trial makes me incredibly angry. My daughter had to go through the trauma of giving evidence. The court service, PSNI, victim support were all tremendous, but it was very difficult for her. It was also very difficult for us to have to watch her go through this.

“She was very brave. I was incredibly proud of her. She has been brave throughout all of this.

“Over the past few years we developed coping strategies. My daughter is not going to let this define her, she is a strong and mature young woman who is focused on looking forward.

“She is determined not to let what happened hold her back. I am so very proud of her outlook and her ability to move forward.”

At Antrim Crown Court yesterday Moore was sentenced to five years in jail. He was ordered to sign the Sex Offenders Register and was disqualified from working with children.

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A MAN who behaved like a teenager was jailed for four years for having sex with a girl of 15.

On one occasion, 48-year-old Robert Curtis used a video camera to record their activities, Derby Crown Court heard.

They once shared alcohol and cannabis with a teenage couple before having sex in the same room, said Siward James-Moore, prosecuting.

Curtis, who is now 50, was jailed for four years and put on the sex offenders register for life. He admitted sexual activity with the 15-year-old between October 2007 and January 31, 2008.

Curtis also admitted indecently assaulting another girl four years earlier.

The offences were committed while he lived in Duffield, although his address is now in Romsey, Hampshire.

Judge John Wait said the offences were made worse because Curtis encouraged drinking and the misuse of cannabis and allowing other inappropriate behaviour from young people.

He described Curtis as an intelligent and articulate man but told him: A man who behaves sexually inappropriately to two young girls in my judgement plainly presents a real risk of further offending.

Mr James-Moore said that in the first incident, he told the girl she was looking good and squeezed her bottom. She struck him, ordered him to leave, and he did.

In the case of the second girl, she thought she was in love with him and the relationship began after she sent him a text message.

They discussed the age gap, aware that sexual activities would constitute an offence, said Mr James-Moore.

They started having sex before she reached 16 and the girl said that was her idea.

The defendant did nothing to desist from that course of action, added Mr James-Moore. On New Years Eve, police arrested Curtis, who had no previous convictions.

Laura Dawes, in mitigation, said: In some ways, he was behaving like a teenager, perhaps because of a crisis in his life.

She said he deserved credit for pleading guilty and preventing the ordeal of the girls having to give evidence and be cross-examined in court.

Miss Dawes said: Mr Curtis has expressed very real remorse. That is a remorse not focused on himself, although the consequences for him are undoubtedly significant. This is a man who has lost his way.

She said he was suffering from depression at the time and felt there was now a low risk of reoffending by Curtis.

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A RAPIST and paedophile who used live maggots during a sick attack on a woman is suing police for wrongful arrest, false imprisonment and malicious prosecution.

Evil Robin Frampton – also known as Robert Williams, above – is using legal aid to claim £15,000 damages even though he has a string of convictions for depraved sex acts dating back nearly 30 years.

Police arrested the 53-year-old from Hampshire for breaching the terms of the sex offenders’ register when he was visiting North Yorkshire.

Now Frampton’s lawyers say he had not committed any offence and was “humiliated”.

The case has already cost taxpayers £30,000.

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A man who followed a 15-year-old girl into a toilet before sexually assaulting her was jailed for a year when he appeared at Lerwick Sheriff Court this week.

James Taylor, 39, of Sandveien, Lerwick, had previously admitted to repeatedly grabbing the girls breast and kissing her on the mouth at a party in a bedsit in the towns Union Street on 1st November last year.

During the party, Taylor had been sitting next to the girl and as the night wore on, he moved closer to her and kept placing his hand on her thigh. When she went to the toilet, he followed her in and locked the door behind them before molesting her.

When he was later detained by police, Taylor admitted touching the girl and asking her to come home with him. He said she had told him she was 17 but he later admitted that another adult present at the party had told him she was only 15.

Defence agent Tommy Allan said Taylor, who had been on remand since 25th March pending sentence, had had a difficult upbringing and was yet to come to terms with events from the past where he was a victim but that spending his first time behind bars in the last few weeks had been a serious wake-up for him.

Sheriff Graeme Napier told Taylor that he had been guilty of a very serious offence regardless of the girls age and that he had insisted on making advances towards the girl when she was clearly not interested in you. He added that there was no sense you are aware of the impact your behaviour has had.

He reduced the prison sentence from 18 months because of the guilty plea and Taylor will also be placed on the sex offenders register and added to a list of people who are deemed unsuitable for working with children.

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A MINISTRY of Defence police officer got his sexual kicks by filming teenage girls and children in the changing rooms of a Hampshire leisure centre.

Andrew Rayson, 32, would watch women and children swimming and then following them to changing rooms where he would use his mobile phone to record them.

In an adjoining cubicle either through a hole in the wall or putting his arm over the top he would snap his unsuspecting victims, Southampton Crown Court heard.

Prosecutor Tim Dracass said Rayson got away with his perverted behaviour for more than three years until January, when he went to Romsey Rapids.

A 16-year-old girl had just removed her bikini and was drying her hair when she glanced upwards and was astounded to see an arm and a bald head appear above the wall.

She then heard two clicking noises and told her boyfriend what had happened.

Rayson was challenged by the manager in the reception area after CCTV footage had been checked, but he refused to show anything on his phone.

Rayson drove off but his registration number was noted and it was discovered to be that of a vehicle on hire to the MoD Polices divisional support group at Gosport. It had been logged out to Rayson that day.

Rayson told his partner another police officer that he had run over his mobile phone and then got a replacement.

The court heard how she later helped police retrieve the phone but its SIM card had been transferred to another model.

That and computer equipment was seized in a search of Raysons home and police found other sordid images of other people he had targeted, who were unaware they had been filmed.

Mr Dracass said some of the footage lasted a few seconds, others were up to a minute in length.

The teenage girl said in an impact statement she had been left upset, embarrassed and sick by the incident, which had affected her sleep.

The fact he was a police officer had caused her concern.

Rayson admitted ten charges of voyeurism and asked for 20 similar offences to be considered, which involved five girls under 18 and one as young as ten.

He was jailed for 20 weeks, placed on the sex offenders register for seven years and banned from working with children.

Andy Houston, defending, said: He has lost everything his job, his friends, his partner and his home. He has not spoken to or heard from his partner and has moved back to his family in Nottingham.

He needs help and wants to engage in the sex offender group programme which is the best way to protect the public from this sort of behaviour.

But passing sentence, Judge Jeremy Burford QC, said only a custodial sentence could be justified and that a community order would not be sufficient.

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A tattooed sex attacker has been jailed for subjecting a young woman to a violent and extremely frightening ordeal.

Elias Kajue, of Kilburn, pleaded guilty to an assault on a 23-year-old woman at Cricklewood railway station on August 31 last year.

The victim was waiting for a train at about 6am, when she was approached by Kajue in the ticket hall.

He tried to engage her in conversation, but she had asked him to leave her alone because she was tired and did not want to talk, she told police.

Kajue, 22, left but returned a few minutes later and began harassing her again.

He then pulled her to her feet and dragged her to the station subway where he forced her to the ground and sexually assaulted her before being disturbed by rail passengers coming off an arriving train.

Kajue left the scene on his bike, but was clearly captured by station CCTV.

Detective Sergeant Mark Barton, investigating officer from British Transport Police, said: Kajue brazenly targeted a young woman who was waiting alone for an early morning train.

Seemingly oblivious to the fact that his crime was being recorded on station CCTV, he subjected her to a violent and extremely frightening ordeal.

Detectives began an investigation and analysed the camera footage, before issuing appeals for information. They received details from the Metropolitan Police that Kajue was a possible suspect and raided his Kilburn home where they found a red mountain bike.

As well as the bike, the victim also recalled a distinctive scripted tattoo on the inside of Kajues forearm. Police records showed he had two distinctive tattoos of Loyalty and Family on his arms, and he was subsequently positively identified by his victim in a video identification parade.

DS Barton said: The victim showed great bravery throughout our investigation and provided detailed descriptions of her attacker, including his tattoo, which we were able to cross-check with video footage and the police national computer database.

In interviews Kajue initially denied all knowledge of the attack and said he had a bad memory of the date of the offence, claiming the person on CCTV was not him.

DS Barton added: All of the evidence his tattoos and red bike in particular pointed to Kajue as being the person responsible for this assault.

It gradually became clear to him that he had little option other than to plead guilty.

He was jailed on Friday at Southwark Crown Court for sexual assault and false imprisonment. He will have to serve a minimum of three years in prison before being considered for release.

Martin Grier, head of security for First Capital Connect, explained that CCTV was a vital tool in deterring and catching criminals.

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FORMER MoD worker Richard Strange propped a ladder against a house to see a teenage girl he fancied but ended up climbing into her mothers bedroom instead.

It was the middle of the night and Strange was high on booze and cocaine, when he clambered through an open window after hearing music playing.

Southampton Crown Court was told that when the 29-year-old realised he had climbed into the wrong room he quickly apologised, saying: Its okay, Im going now.

He then made his way onto the landing where he woke up the girl and her younger sister who rang the police.

Prosecutor Tim Dracass said the older girl came out of her room and followed Strange, who motioned her to go downstairs.

He then told her he fancied her and leaning forward, kissed her mouth and licked her lips.

Strange then left the house and returned to his partner, Lucy Harleys home. They had a row and, after pushing her to the floor, he punched her three times in the face.

Strange, of Duttons Road, Romsey, was convicted of sexual assault but admitted battery.

Judge Jeremy Burford QC said ordinarily Strange would have gone to prison but he had served almost the equivalent of a years sentence on remand and drugs tests had been negative since the incident.

He then followed the probation reports recommendation of giving him 12 months supervision and ordering him to attend various courses run by the service including one on domestic violence.

Strange was also placed on the sex offenders register for five years.

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A PAEDOPHILE who molested a little girl more than 20 years ago has finally been brought to justice. Convicted sex attacker Stephen Hunt, 44, indecently assaulted the youngster while he was babysitting her, a court heard. Hunt, of St Gabriel's Mews, Middleton Junction, was sentenced to two-and-a-half years behind bars at Bolton Crown Court last Thursday. He was banned from working with children for life.

A PAEDOPHILE who molested a little girl more than 20 years ago has finally been brought to justice.

Convicted sex attacker Stephen Hunt, 44, indecently assaulted the youngster while he was babysitting her, a court heard.

Hunt, of St Gabriel's Mews, Middleton Junction, was sentenced to two-and-a-half years behind bars at Bolton Crown Court last Thursday. He was banned from working with children for life.

Cries of 'scum' were heard from the public gallery as Hunt, an aircraft engineer, was led away to begin his jail term.

Judge William Morris, sentencing, said: "You have forced yourself upon this girl and subjected her to a terrible ordeal. You have abused the trust of this child's parents after they left her in your care.

"This girl has been deeply affected by this offence and it has led to significant psychological damage as a result.

"You have committed a very serious crime and this carries nothing less than a substantial custodial sentence."

The court was told that the attack took place in 1988 but the girl, now in her mid-20s, was too afraid to report it to police until last year. She cannot be named for legal reasons.

Iain Simkin, prosecuting, said: "This attack left the victim in some distress and has affected her confidence and ability to form close relationships with others ever since."

Hunt had pleaded guilty to indecent assault at a previous hearing. A pre-sentencing report presented to the court last week contained letters from the defendant's son and girlfriend, outlining his good character and caring nature.

During mitigation, Peter Cunliffe, defending, said: "While I do not want to gloss over the seriousness of this case, I would like to outline Mr Hunt's impeccable work record.

He has never been out of work and has provided good financial support to his family, especially his son, who has a young daughter.

"This is evident within the character letters submitted to the court on behalf of the defendant."

The court also heard that Hunt was convicted of indecently assaulting a woman in a taxi in 1996 and was sentenced to four months in jail.

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A nappy-wearing paedophile from Kings Langley has today been jailed indefinitely.

Former Oxford University scientist Andrew Lintern, 55, of Five Acres, filmed himself sexually abusing a 17-month old baby and collected 20,000 images of children described as ‘disturbing in the extreme’.

At London Southwark Crown Court Judge Geoffrey Rivlin QC described some of the images recovered from his library as being of the 'most disgusting, indeed horrific kind, representing a truly awful catalogue of offending against young children'.

Handing the pervert an indeterminate sentence for public protection, Judge Rivlin said: “Taken all in all, the charges you have pleaded guilty to amount to such a great catalogue of offences involving child abuse that it is difficult to grasp the scale of your offending.

“It is just as difficult to grasp what has promoted a man like yourself to become so steeped in activities that involve the sexual exploitation of children and the literally immeasurable harm that was done to them.”

He added: “The 26 counts relate to pornographic images which you either made, or downloaded or distributed and in total amounted to a staggering number of indecent images of children, both still photographs and movies, many of them portraying the most appalling abuse of small children.'

The research chemist, who had an 'obsession with the systematic sexual abuse of children', bought himself a pack of nappies which he admitted to wearing, Southwark Crown Court heard.

Lintern, who has been married for 24 years, was found with nearly 20,000 images of children aged between five and ten stashed around his Kings Langley home. Three of the images showed Lintern abusing a toddler back in 2002.

Of the sex assault on the baby, Judge Rivlin said: “Following your arrest you confessed these crimes to the police, but apart from being evidence of what you were capable of doing to a young child they also amounted to a gross breach of trust.”

Referring to a probation report assessing Lintern's dangerousness, Judge Rivlin read: “I consider he is entrenched in his sexual offending and the risk he poses will not diminish easily.”

Ravi Dogra, defending, had accepted Lintern needed treatment.

He said: 'This man who once had a bright career an undergraduate of Oxford has lost everything as a result of his habits.'

The pedophile will serve a minimum of three and a half years before a parole board consider his suitability for release.

Judge Rivlin also ordered Lintern to enrol on a sex offender treatment programme while in jail.

Lintern was also ordered to sign on the sex offenders' register indefinitely.

DS Jason Tunn, of the Metropolitan Paedophile Unit said: “The court has recognised, along with the probation service and a defence psychologist that Andrew Lintern continues to pose a serious and real risk to children.

“The sentence imposed reflects that view that he is a dangerous sexual predator.”