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A paedophile was given a taste of life inside jail by a judge in an effort to get him to stay out of trouble. Lee Smith, 50, had first been caught with indecent child images in 2016 and given a suspended sentence, along with a sexual harm prevention order banning him from doing various online activities and and controlling his use of electronic devices.

However, in February last year he was caught with more indecent images on his phone, which he had attempted to delete, along with internet searches for 'cute schoolgirls' and 'Asian girls'. He pleaded guilty to breaching his order and appeared at Leicester Crown Court for sentencing on Friday, (January 20)

Michelle Harding, representing Smith, of Rutland Avenue, Aylestone, Leicester said he was "clearly in denial" about his offending and that "a lot of work needs to be done with Mr Smith over a length of time" to stop him offending again. She said any jail sentence would prevent him getting that help. 

Smith wept in the dock while Ms Harding described how Smith's father had recently suffered a broken bone in his neck and Smith was applying to be his carer. The court heard Smith had, with the consent of social services, recently been living with a woman who had two children.

But Judge Timothy Spencer agreed to a new, tougher sexual harm prevention order banning him from contact with any under-16s and from going within 50 metres of a school between now and July 2026. Those changes to his order were opposed by Ms Harding on the grounds of Smith's human rights but Judge Spencer told her: "It's deeply worrying what was found on his phone - he's not in the position of an ordinary citizen."

Noting the state of Smith as he cried in the dock, Judge Spencer told him: "I've been watching you and I think a realisation has come to you how serious a position you've put yourself in." Having agreed to the tougher restrictions, the judge sent Smith - who had been out on bail - to spend more than two hours in the cells while he considered the sentence.

After Smith was brought back to court, Judge Spencer gave Smith an eight-month sentence, suspended for two years. The judge told him: "On October 17, 2016, you were before this court for serious offences related to indecent images of children.

"You were fortunate you were given a suspended sentence and you should have taken that as a very clear warning. You've been in the cell a few hours and if I see you again you will go to the cells for months if not years."

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A PORT man convicted of raping two women he was friends with has been jailed for six years. David McCready, 21, raped one woman in his home in 2012 and the other on the waterfront in Greenock in 2014. He was accused of raping another woman at his flat in 2014, but that charge was found not proven. Judge Kenneth McIver ordered McCready to be monitored for a year after his release and placed on the Sex Offenders Register. At the High Court in Glasgow, the judge told McCready: "You raped two young women, both of them friends of yours before the offences. "You used that to take sexual advantage. In the case of your second victim you had already been accused of the rape by two young women by that point. "Friendship transformed into sexual violence. You simply decided sex was going to take place and carried that out with no regard to the feelings or wishes of your two victims." The judge added: "You have expressed no remorse for your actions and say you are the victim of false allegations by your victims.' McCready was convicted of raping his first victim in October 2012 and the second on November 16 in 2014.

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A pervert was snared by paedophile hunters after thinking he was meeting a 15-year-old for sexual activity.

William Orr was caught on camera by Dark Justice attempting to meet who he thought was a 15-year-old boy after midnight.

The 55-year-old believed he was talking to a teenager called Tom in a gay online chat room, but the fake profile had been set up by the group.

Newcastle Crown Court heard how Orr contacted Tom and told him he was 43, from South Shields, and called Liam.

Dark Justice, acting as Tom, told Orr he was a 15-year-old male and despite this the defendant continued the conversation.

Patrizia Doherty told the court how the conversation lasted for 15 minutes before Orr started to communicate with him using the chat application KIK.

She said he sent across photographs of himself in boxer shorts and performing a sex act.

"He asked to meet up with Tom despite being reminded several times that Tom was only 15-years-old," she said.

"The defendant suggested that him and Tom met up in a car park near Newcastle College in Elswick.

"The defendant arrived driving a grey saloon, he approached Dark Justice and said 'nice trackie bottoms'.

"He introduced himself as being part of Dark Justice to which the defendant said 'are you f**k'.

"The defendant walked to his car and sped off."

Dark Justice took Orr's registration number following the meeting on June 28 this year and informed the police.

Orr was arrested by Essex police, on behalf of Northumbria Police, while driving to Stanstead Airport.

Ms Doherty said: "He was trying to get away.

"The defendant said to Tom 'do you have a big c**k and I can make you very happy'.

"There was some grooming behaviour used against the victim and significant disparity in age.

"He said he was 43 knowing full well Tom was 15. He was 54 at the time."

Orr, of South Shields, admitted attempting to incite a child to engage in sexual activity.

The court heard how Orr has a previous conviction for outraging public decency in 2013 after he was caught carrying out a sex act on Seaburn Beach by a group of teenage boys.

David Callan, defending, told the court how Orr lost both his wife and his son.

He said: "The defendant married a wife called Linda when he was very young and had three children.

"She died when she was 25 in his arms of lung cancer.

"He had a normal sexual relationship with her. Since then he's found it very difficult to be in an intimate relationship with a woman.

"He has been confused about his sexuality. He thinks he's not bisexual but rather homosexual at this stage. He's found therapy extremely helpful.

"He lost his wife leaving him with three children to bring up on his own while working.

"His child Damien was killed in Afghanistan in 2009 while fighting for his country. He's still not got over that death."

Judge Penny Moreland told Orr: "Tom told you he was 15. You continued to talk with him and then on the KIK application.

"By 11 o'clock you had suggested to him the two of you meet and by 20 past midnight you had travelled to the car park near Newcastle College where you found there was no such person as Tom."

Judge Moreland sentenced Orr to six months in prison suspended for two years.

She also ordered Orr to sign the sex offenders register for seven years, undergo a 40 day rehabilitation activity requirement and attend a sex offenders programme.

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A MAN who had sex with a 14-year-old babysitter against her will has been jailed for three years. Christopher Gouldsbrough forced himself on the teenager after he and his partner came home drunk from a night out, a court heard. Tessa Hingston, prosecuting, told Swindon Crown Court how the incident took place at the 25-year-old's Trowbridge home in August last year. She said the girl was staying the night after she had looked after the woman's child. After Gouldsbrough and his girlfriend went upstairs to bed she settled down to sleep on the sofa. But about 15 minutes later he came back down, saying he was getting a drink of water, and came through to sit next to her. "He started putting his hands up her shorts. She said 'stop'. He said 'Are you sure?' She said 'Yes'. He said 'Are you certain?' She said 'Yes'," Miss Hingston said. "There may have been a misunderstanding. The prosecution case is that she did not, in fact, consent. He may have mistakenly thought she did." The court was told that as he started to have sex with her she said 'This isn't right, just stop', and he replied 'I'm sorry, I can't'. When he was questioned the defendant refused to answer questions about the allegations. As a result of the incident the court was told that the teenager, who feared at first she may be pregnant, had resorted to self harming. Gouldsbrough, formerly of Melksham but now living in Freeview Road, Bath, was charged with rape and sexual assault of the child. He was due to stand trial but before a jury could be sworn in on Monday he pleaded guilty to a charge of sexual activity with a child. Robin Shellard, defending, said that his client 'bitterly regretted' what happened and he took responsibility for actions that drunken night. As a result of the incident he said he had been shunned by friends lost his partner, though he is now in a new relationship, and also lost his job as a bar manager in Bath, He said: "The man who appears before you today is a chastened and changed man from the drunken idiot who had sex with this 14-year-old girl that night." Jailing him Judge Tim Mousley QC said: "You were drunk. It began with drunken flirting. "By the early hours of the morning your behaviour became much more sinister than that and so far as your intentions were concerned, what you had in mind was obvious to all except, perhaps, the girl. "I have read or listened to what she says in her statement about the effects of this upon her and she has been affected in very serious ways. "How she has been affected in the future as a matter of speculation but one knows the effect of this type of behaviour is long lasting. "She was a virgin at the time and for some time afterwards she had to deal with the fear of being pregnant." As well as jailing him he also imposed a sexual harm prevention order and restraining order keeping him away from the girl for 10 years. An NSPCC spokesman for South West England said: "Gouldsbrough has rightly been punished for an appalling attack on a vulnerable young girl, who will now need help to recover from his predatory actions. "Gouldsbrough took advantage of his victim, despite her repeated pleas for him to stop. Abuse can ruin childhoods without the right support, and continue to have an impact well into adulthood.

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The father-of-one William Cook was only caught because his WhatsApp messenger programme in his new phone kept a record of all of the videos he sent using his old smartphone, Aylesbury Crown Court was told.

The 29-year-old was convicted of distributing the video of a 12-year-old girl being forced to have sex with a five-year-old in an African village and of possession of videos of people having sex with animals.

He was also convicted of a string of drug dealing offences and of 55,000 worth of money laundering, after police raided his home.

A judge heard detectives found Cook sent the vile video to apparently make fun of the child sex victims, telling friends in a message this is you after officers carried out a drugs raid at his home.

Graham King, defending, said Cook proudly included a joke caption when he sent the video to a number of friends.

The lawyer described how Cook was unaware the WhatsApp application on his new phone re-downloaded the message.

This was thought to be helpful but in this case was not, said Mr King, who claimed his client had no sexual interest in children.

He shares your Honours obvious abhorrence of offences of this kind and child abuse, he told Judge Francis Sheridan.

However, the judge said: Here the case was utterly overwhelming. The defendant said in an interview he received this probably via Facebook and forwarded it to friends as a joke.

It was child abuse of the worst sort and by having this for distribution it breathes life into the horrible industry of sex child abuse.

The court heard that Cook had played the court system to reduce his jail time by strategically admitting less serious versions of offences he was charged with after the police raid at his home in May 2015.

Sarah Porter, prosecuting, said a total of 8.59g of cocaine with a street value of about 400 was found in different rooms, wardrobes, the garden and a cutting agent and weighing scales with traces of cocaine were also found at his address.

The pornographic images were found on a mobile phone police seized and he admitted possession with intent to supply cocaine and possession of an extendable baton, which officers found in his Audi car.

Cook later admitted being in breach of court bail and possession with intent to supply cocaine at the Electric Daisy Carnival on July 9.

Ms Porter said he was also charged with possession with intent to supply a physchoactive substance after he was caught red-handed with 94 canisters of nitrogen dioxide, known as laughing gas, and more than 100 balloons at the event.

Judge Sheridan sentenced him to a total of 87 months jail for all the crimes and said: It is very unusual to find someone who throws himself so wholeheartedly into a life of crime. The reality is that he was out for an easy life.

The Electric Daisy Carnival is a haven for drug dealers as this court knows and Im afraid the deterrent is to expect no mercy on this. He must expect a criminal lifestyle sentence. Drugs are the scourge of this country.

Cook was jailed for a total of seven years and three months in total and placed on the Sex Offenders Register for 10 years.

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A WARPED paedophile who downloaded footage of a woman having sex with a horse and begged a 13-year-old girl to drink her own urine has been jailed. Ian Cant, 28, persuaded the young girl to take part in "sick experiments" during an online chat in which he told her to strip, spread her legs and show herself. The sick software engineer, from Basingstoke, Hants., admitted 16 counts of possessing indecent images of children, intending to incite or engage a child in sexual activity and owning extreme porn. A court heard Cant had hundreds of "foul" videos on his computer, including some showing kids as young as two being sexually abused by twisted sex offenders. Judge Peter Lodder QC jailed vile Cant for two years on Friday (Aug 12) at Kingston Crown Court. He said: "In one of the images a three to five-year-old girl is bound at her wrists and ankles. "She has a plastic bag over her head and sex toys around her. "It doesn't bare thinking about the distress that girl must have been going through. "If there was not a market for it children of this age would be far less likely to go through this revolting abuse." Hamish Reid, prosecuting, told the court how perverted Cant demanded his victim to strip naked during the creepy web chat in July 2015. Martin Ingle, defending, said Cant had recently got engaged and his mum was an "alcoholic who died in a house fire" and was "incapable of looking after Cant and herself". The paedophile was also told to sign the sex offenders' register for 10 years.

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A MAN has been jailed for seven years for raping two girls.

Michael Manion, 22, unemployed, of Nutley Place, Hove, was sentenced at Hove Crown Court on Monday.

He had been convicted the previous month, following a re-trial, of three counts of raping a nine-year old girl between July 2009 and August 2010.

He had already been convicted, in September last year, of the rape of a 16-year old girl in November 2010, while she was asleep.

Manion received 54 months for each count of the offences against the nine-year old, to run concurrently with a separate sentence of 30 months for the offence against the adult.

He was also made the subject of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order to last indefinitely, severely restricting his access to girls and young women, and will be a registered sex offender for life.

Detective Constable Stewart Cameron from the Brighton Safeguarding Investigations Unit said: "Both victims showed courage in standing up in court and giving their evidence of what Manion did to them.

"The offences weren't reported at once, with both victims coming forward independently at different times in 2013 and 2015. Despite this two separate juries have found him guilty of raping vulnerable females.

"Regardless of how long ago an assault was, anyone who reports incidents of this type to us will be supported and we will investigate."

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A PAEDOPHILE from Basingstoke who watched "grotesque" live footage of children being sexually abused and tortured in the Philippines has been jailed for 11 years. Thomas Sloman was found guilty by a jury of 19 counts at Winchester Crown Court relating to making thousands of indecent images of children, and attempting to commission sexual offences against children. The court heard that the 43-year-old, of Cairngorm Close, Buckskin, asked the people running the commercial operation to "punish" and "torture" the children for his own sexual gratification. Chat logs showed he actively solicited for images online and arranged to view abuse over the internet. He asked what ages the children were and requested to see girls as young as four or five, and also tried to arrange contact with the young victims. Sloman, whose wife is Filipino, had visited the Philippines on a number of occasions, and chat room records showed he referred to repeatedly raping a young girl. Defending Sloman, Nick Tucker said: "He does claim to have had young girls before in the Philippines and says he has had sex with them." He added: "One way which he's seeking gratification is to boast about what he may or may not have already done in the past." Mr Tucker described the offences as "monstrous" adding: "I don't shy away from that." Referring to Sloman's two young sons, he said: "There's no suggestion that he's been anything but a good and loving father to them. It's mystifying how someone can compartmentalise their life in such a way to be a devoted father and then commit these offences to other people's children." Officers from the National Crime Agency (NCA) raided Sloman's home in January 2015, seizing a number of computers and electronic devices. Forensic analysis showed they contained around 12,000 indecent images, including more than 2,000 classed as category A, indicating the worst forms of abuse. Many of the images were screen-grabs taken from live webcam streams. There were also records or more than 110,000 online chats, many of which were encrypted. Sloman was charged with 10 counts of making indecent images of children and nine counts of commissioning or attempting to commission sexual offences against children, between 2008 and 2014. In court he denied the charges, claiming that his computer had been hacked, but on May 26 at Winchester Crown Count a jury found him guilty of all charges following a four day trial. He was sentenced on Friday, September 9 to 11 years in prison, with a further two-and-a-half years supervision order. He will also stay on the sex offenders' register for life. Judge Nigel Lickley QC said: "The exploitation of children for sexual gratification is not only rightly regarded by all right thinking people as extremely serious in terms of criminal offending it's also repellent." He added: "I have been reminded today that I described your criminal activity as grotesque and that's an apt word to use." The judge said the offences were "evil" and reflected the "depths the poor members of the worldwide society will go to make a few dollars". He said the victims were probably being subjected to abuse by their own relatives. Referring to the victims, he said: "Their young lives and bodies are irreparably damaged. They have done nothing wrong but live in a world where people like you have access to the internet and you can prey on their vulnerability for a few minutes of sexual gratification." He added: "You have no regard or care for the children, their lives and how they are affected. You have a callous disregard for their welfare and wellbeing." Judge Lickley said Sloman posed a "significant risk to members of the public", adding: "In my view, young female children worldwide are at risk of you from serious harm in relation to your devious interest in children for sexual gratification. You are in denial which in itself is a concerning matter. My conclusion is that you are a dangerous offender." Referring to Sloman's own children, he said: "They will have to grow up with the realisation of the other life their father lived under the same roof." Following the sentencing, Jason Booth, from NCA, said: Thomas Sloman is a dangerous child sex offender who arranged the abuse of vulnerable children. The fact he was thousands of miles away makes no difference to his guilt it was all done for his personal gratification. The NCA is actively targeting offenders who pay for live streaming of abuse, because our priority is protecting children, whether they are in the UK or abroad.

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A man who sexually abused and shared indecent images of children has been sentenced to 18 years in prison. 43-year-old Duncan Hogben, of Cranfield, was convicted of 11 counts relating to the sexual abuse of children and charges associated with taking, distributing and making indecent photographs of children. After being convicted on 29 June, Hogben was sentenced at Luton Crown Court to a total of 18 years behind bars. Hogbens dark secret transcended the cyber world into reality, involving the direct abuse of children. His online offending contributed to the worldwide cycle of child abuse, which is the scourge of our society. I would like to pay tribute to the brave testimony of the victims and witnesses in this case, as without their support we would not have achieved the result we have today. I am pleased that the courts recognised the severity of his sickening activities and passed a long sentence though in my eyes no jail term will be long enough for Hogben to accept what hes done and truly pay for the lives he has ruined. Detective Constable Paul Fitzharris from the Cyber Hubs Internet Child Abuse Investigation Team (ICAIT)

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A Chinese medicine practitioner who raped one of his patients at a shop in Camden and sexually assaulted two others has been jailed for seven years.

Dr Hongbin Liu, 53 of the Peabody Estate, Vauxhall Bridge Road in London pleaded guilty at Wood Green Crown Court on 8 January to one count of rape, one count of assault by penetration and two counts of sexual assault.

In February 2015, an unnamed woman in her forties attended the Chinese Traditional Medicine Centre on Haverstock Hill in Camden and as her usual therapist was not at the premises, she agreed to see Liu instead. During the acupuncture and massage consultation, Liu raped and assaulted the victim. On leaving the premises, the victim went straight to a police station to report the offences.

Liu was subsequently arrested, interviewed and provided a prepared statement denying the offences. He was bailed pending further enquiries. In March 2015, two more women reported two further offences to police. Both took place at the Shu Jun Healthcare Centre on Wells Street, Westminster. In each case, the defendant sexually assaulted his victims.

Jane Tunnicliff, detective constable at the Metropolitan Police sexual offences, exploitation and child abuse command, said: "Dr Liu prayed on the vulnerabilities of his patients. It is important that each and every one of us feel safe to seek treatment when we are ill or in pain. As police officers we strive to make our community safer for everyone – even behind closed doors."

One of the victims thought that while giving her a massage, Liu took a picture of her with his phone. However, officers were unable to recover the photographs.

Detective inspector Lee Davison added: "People who abuse their position of trust damage the fabric of our society and the impact of their actions on their victims can be great. We will pursue all such offenders to bring them to justice."

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A "HORRIFIC" sex offender who presents an "unquestionable danger" to the public has been handed a life sentence. David Francis Shepherd was convicted of a string of offences involving young girls in the Philippines, including four offences of rape of a child under 13 and must serve a minimum of 14 years in prison. Evidence emerged after police received information that an individual identified as Shepherd had been in contact over the internet with someone who was facilitating the sexual abuse of children. Shepherd was arrested on November 10 last year at the Loders Arms near Bridport where he was living as pub landlord. After the defendant was cautioned and various equipment was seized he said: "I know what youre talking about, Ive been chatting on the internet but Ive never followed it through." Prior to the trial, he had pleaded guilty to inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, four counts of making indecent photographs of a child, four charges of arranging or facilitating the commission of a child sex offence and one count of paying for sexual services of a child. Shepherd, aged 60, was found guilty of 13 counts, including four offences of rape of a child under 13, attempted rape, three counts of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, two of taking indecent photographs of a child, assault of a child under 13 by penetration and arranging or facilitating the commission of a child sex offence. Following the verdicts in the first trial and further legal arguments, Shepherd pleaded guilty to nine further charges of arranging or facilitating the commission of child sex offences and two counts of making indecent photos of a child. An extensive examination of his computers and digital storage devices uncovered hundreds of thousands of indecent images and videos of children. It also revealed his involvement in directing at least 76 live sex shows involving Filippina children and that the full extent of his offending had been going on since 2007. Chat logs revealed Shepherd had expressed an interest in children as young as six with one involving the discussion of a 17-month old baby. The court heard that during police interviews Shepherd denied visiting and meeting the children in the Philippines, despite evidence including videos of him abusing children, travel tickets and financial records indicating otherwise. It was established that between April 20 2011 and September 9 2015 Shepherd transferred 18,510.87 to the Philippines. In total 12,014.01 was transferred to the facilitators of child sex. The prosecution considered this a minimum figure. In interview Shepherd had said he knew it was wrong but "just couldn't stop [himself]" when it came to looking an indecent images. Judge Peter Johnson said: "This was a long period of cynical exploitation. I reject your claim that you believed the children were aged 13 or over. I reject all your evident in relation to the children you abused. Your claim about checking to ensure children were above the age of consent was nonsense. "You have no moral boundaries. You have shown no remorse. "Your performance shows you as an intelligent, arrogant and devious man. "It is grotesquely false that the girls were willing sex workers. "You were prepared to say anything, no matter how absurd to save your own skin. "Your acts will haunt your victims for the rest of their days. Their innocence has been taken from them. "You have a deeply engraved sexual interest in young children. "You are unquestionably a danger. "This life sentence reflects the public abhorrence for your shocking crimes." An NSPCC spokesperson for South West England said: This extremely distressing case involved horrendous sexual abuse of numerous children in the Philippines. Not only did Shepherd own and share these despicable images and videos, but he also personally arranged, financed and photographed the abuse himself. The youngsters in these pictures and films are the victims of unspeakable abuse and the harrowing experiences they endured for the sexual gratification of Shepherd and other offenders should not be underestimated. His appalling crimes have only helped fuel this disgusting trade in images which destroys children's lives, wherever in the world it takes place.

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A "PREDATORY" ice skater from Oxford who groomed and abused two vulnerable young girls has failed in a bid to get his jail term slashed.

Rapist Joseph Tsang, of Sandy Lane, Oxford, was sentenced in his absence to 15 years behind bars at Oxford Crown Court on October 20 last year.

But it was not until February this year that the 32-year-old, who had fled to Hong Kong, was caged.

Tsang was a 'well-known' ice skater, Mr Justice Jeremy Baker told London's Appeal Court.

He got in contact with a 15-year-old girl on Facebook. They later met at a hotel where he assaulted her and twice raped her.

She has since suffered with depression, nightmares and self-harming, said the judge.

Tsang met a 14-year-old girl at an ice rink before keeping in touch via social media.

When she came to his home, he took her into his bedroom and locked the door.

He kissed her and she pushed him away.

But he went onto molest her before removing his clothing and making her engage in a sex act.

Police also found 28 indecent images of children on Tsang's computer.

In August last year, while still on the run, he was found guilty of two counts of rape and two of sexual assault.

He was previously found guilty of three counts of sexual activity with a child and two of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.

Tsang was also convicted of making indecent images of children.

The judge who jailed him said he had a "predatory sexual fascination with adolescent girls".

He had 'groomed' them to the point of them becoming 'infatuated' with him, as a result of the interest that he, a well-known ice skater, had shown in them.

Tsang was extradited to the UK from Hong Kong in February and was handed an extra six months for failing to surrender to custody the following month.

He had no previous convictions, the court heard.

Lawyers for Tsang argued his jail term was far too tough.

But Mr Justice Jeremy Baker, sitting at London's Appeal Court yesterday with Lord Justice McCombe and Sir Alistair MacDuff, said the Crown Court judge had taken account of the overall length of the sentence.

"We are satisfied that the sentence of 15 years properly reflects Tsang's sexual criminality in respect of these two vulnerable girls," he concluded.

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A sex beast who repeatedly raped a woman as his girlfriend slept in the next room has been jailed for 12 years.

Twisted Darren Nesbitt, 44, of Dorridge , invited the victim to stay at the Solihull house he shared with his partner after a leak left her without running water.

But police said the heavy drinker plied her with booze and groped her as they smoked cigarettes in the garage.

He then forced himself on the 49-year-old victim in a spare bedroom as his partner slept.

Nesbitt was arrested when she confided in a colleague and then told police about the attack, which happened on August 22, 2014.

He claimed the allegation was false but detectives traced another woman who said Nesbitt sexually assaulted her at his home in the same year.

He was jailed at Birmingham Crown Court after being found unanimously guilty by a jury of three counts of rape and one of attempted rape.

Nesbitt must also sign the sex offender register for life.

Investigating officer, Det Con Jon Barker, of West Midlands Polices public protection unit, said: Nesbitt invited the woman into his home and offered her his hospitality by cooking and plying her with alcohol.

Then he attacked the woman while his partner retired to bed.

Its a shocking breach of trust and left the victim hugely distressed and struggling to come to terms with what happened.

She did the right thing in disclosing the offences to us.

The victim was a very credible witness at court and conducted herself impeccably.

Nesbitt, on the other hand, kept changing his story and this clearly struck the jury.

This case should act as reassurance to anyone who has been raped or sexually assaulted that we take all reports seriously and allegations will be thoroughly investigated.

Mr Barker said Nesbitts victim was supported by specialist officers and RSVP in Birmingham a charity that offers support and help to sexual violence survivors.

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A primary school head teacher who used a spy pen to film pupils in the toilets at his school has been jailed for two years and eight months.

Ashley Yates, 45, of Filton, used the device to record images in the toilets of The Tynings Primary School in Staple Hill, South Gloucestershire.

He admitted six counts of voyeurism and three of making indecent images of children at Bristol Crown Court.

The offences relate to seven girls, two boys and six adults.

'Sexual monster

They came to light after a child found a pen inside a disabled toilet at the school and handed it in to a caretaker.

The court heard that in total the married father filmed 22 adults and nine children and had confessed to his wife that he was a "sexual monster".

The judge accepted that Yates' main sexual interest was in adults urinating, but said he must have realised that children were also going to be caught on his camera.

Judge Michael Longman described Yates' behaviour as "devious" and as a "significant" breach of trust.

During the investigation, additional adult victims were identified by police.

'Lasting impact'

Det Insp Louise Boyce, of Avon and Somerset Police, said: "Yates totally abused his position of trust to feed his own personal desires.

"He set up the recording device in a toilet knowing that both children and adults would be using the facilities."

She added she had "no doubt" that Yates' crimes will have "a lasting impact on his victims and their parents".

A letter to parents on the school's website said: "These victims came to light after items were seized by police during the course of the investigation.

"If any further victims are identified during the course of the investigation they will be notified immediately."

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Three men who lured a 17-year-old into prostitution have been jailed for a combined total of 13 years.

Alistair Spagnoletti, Curtis Walker and Callum Ward were arrested in November 2014 after police attended a house in Rickmansworth and found a missing girl.

Describing it as the worst case of child exploitation ever seen, officers found the girl in a vulnerable state and said the house was littered with sexual paraphernalia including used condoms.

Harrow Crown Court this week heard the investigation uncovered evidence showing the men had been subjecting the victim to significant child sexual exploitation in various locations in Hertfordshire and London.

In March 2016, whilst on bail in relation to this case, Spagnoletti was stopped in a vehicle in Watford with a 15-year-old.

He was issued with a child abduction warning notice that stated if he had anything further to do with this teenager he could be arrested for child abduction.

On two occasions in the weeks following this notice being issued the girl was seen leaving Spagnolettis home address and he was arrested for child abduction.

Alistair Spagnoletti, who is 21 years old and from Williton Road in Luton, was today given six years and eight months in prison for controlling the child sexual exploitation of the first victim and abducting the second.

Curtis Walker, who is 23 years old and from Lord Street, Watford, was sentenced to four and a half years in prison for controlling the child sexual exploitation of the first victim.

Callum Ward, who is 19 years old and from The Thrums, Watford, was sentenced to two years in prison for controlling the child sexual exploitation of the first victim.

Detective Sergeant Iain MacPherson from HALO said: This is one of the most damaging cases of child sexual exploitation we have encountered in Hertfordshire.

It has also been an extremely complex case. These men had groomed their 17-year-old victim into having sex with men for money which they took, she believed that by providing her with food, drink, drugs, they were looking after her and they were people she could trust.

"The power they wielded over her was so great that she felt she could not support police action against them.

"Sadly may never recover from what they have done to her.

Spagnoletti was also charged with the offence of abduction and I am in no doubt that he would have gone on to sexually exploit this victim had officers not intervened.

These acts are deplorable and I am in no doubt these men pose a risk to other children. It is right they are now serving time in prison.

He added: One of the elements of Child Sexual Exploitation sees the person being groomed to the point where they genuinely believe they are not a victim and therefore can become extremely difficult to bring offenders to justice.

"However, I hope this sends a clear message to those involved in these disgusting crimes that in Hertfordshire we will do everything in our power to protect young people and to bring offenders to justice. We do not need a complaint from a victim in order to prosecute.