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A rapist has been jailed after he was caught when a DNA sample given by his daughter for an assault implicated him in an attack in 1990. Police had exhausted all leads when a sample from Keith Davison's daughter linked him to the rape of a 24-year-old waitress in Ryde on the Isle of Wight. Davison, 52, of Ryde, was convicted of rape in January and jailed for eight years at Portsmouth Crown Court. His daughter gave a DNA sample when she was cautioned for an assault in 2006. A technique known as familial searching linked DNA from the crime scene to his daughter's sample. Davison, of Binstead Hill, voluntarily provided a sample which showed a match and he was charged. The victim had started to walk home along Ryde seafront at about midnight following her shift at a fast food outlet on 4 August, 1990, the court heard. "I hope my experience can encourage more victims to have the confidence to report rape offences" Keith Davison's victim Davison approached her from behind, put his T-shirt over her head and attacked her. Police had no suspects until advancements in technology meant a DNA profile from material found at the crime scene was obtained in 2004, but there were no matches on the national database. The breakthrough came when Davison's daughter gave a sample in 2006. Davison's victim, who legally cannot be named, said: "Eight years in prison is a good result but no sentence will undo the harm I have suffered. "At least now I can hope to move forward. 'Suicidal thoughts' "I hope my experience can encourage more victims to have the confidence to report rape offences." The court heard the victim knew of Davison as their children went to the same school. "He was just someone I would see across the playground. "I only ever saw a brief glimpse of the attacker but Davison was always someone I felt jumpy near and avoided." Judge Ian Pearson told Davison: "[The attack] has had a significant effect on her life, depression, anxiety attacks, suicidal thoughts, panic attacks. "The scientific evidence was overwhelming but you chose to challenge that evidence. "You attacked a lone woman at night, blindfolded her and gagged her." Det Ch Insp Bob Maker, head of CID on the Isle of Wight, said: "It is a very serious crime and our thoughts are with the victim and victim's family. "In some ways this is some closure for the victim and that's our primary concern." Davison was also put on the sex offenders register for life.

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Released A Milford Haven man was jailed for 17 years yesterday (Monday) for a string of rapes and other sex offences. Steven Ronald Williams, aged 45, was found guilty of 16 counts of rape, four counts of indecency with a child and four counts of indecent assault, at Cardiff crown court on December 15th. Williams, of Marble Hall Road, Milford Haven was formerly the licensee or manager of several pubs in the Newport, Gwent area. He denied all the offences, which took place over a number of years. Judge Neil Bidder QC said Williams posed a high risk of serious harm to children and ordered that he be imprisoned for the publics protection. He must serve a minimum of eight-and-a-half years before being considered for parole. During the trial jurors saw footage of the victims interviews in which she said she was first raped when she was a child. The girl said Williams told her nobody would believe her if she told anyone. Prosecutor Jennet Treharne, said that at the age of 13 Williams was given a two year supervision order for inciting a child to commit an act of gross indecency. He also had a caution in 2006 for battery. Mary Parry-Evans, defending, said Williams was someone who struggled with the complexities of life and said he would face real difficulties if he did not get the help he needed. She said he would continue to deny the offences, which was likely to delay his release on parole, and asked Judge Bidder QC not to impose an indeterminate sentence. Judge Bidder QC described Williams as determined, dishonest and cunning and said the damage he had done to the victim was unfathomable. You show absolutely no remorse, he said. I have no doubt that this terrible and protracted abuse had a significant effect on the victim her poor school attendance, drinking and self harm can be laid to your abuse of her.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sentence was deferred until 25 March.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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A ring of eight paedophiles, including a former welfare campaigner for young gay men, were today convicted of child abuse and producing indecent images of children. The men, from across central Scotland, were found guilty by a jury in Edinburgh of more than 50 charges, ranging from abusing infants from three months old to conspiracy and holding more than 125,000 images of child pornography.

Two of the leaders of the gang, the biggest paedophile network uncovered in Scotland, were convicted of raping and abusing the young children of close friends while they were babysitting, and sharing images of the abuse.

One, James Rennie, 38, then the chief executive of the gay and lesbian helpline LBGT Youth Scotland, had been babysitting the son of close friends, called Child F during the trial, since the child was three months old. The child's parents were so comfortable with Rennie that he was allowed to bathe, change and dress the boy, whom he went on to abuse repeatedly for four years, allowing another ring-leader, Neil Strachan, to participate.

An engineer with previous convictions for child sex offences, Strachan, 41, had photographed himself trying to abuse an 18-month-old boy he was babysitting for friends on New Year's Eve in 2005.

Rennie, a former secondary school teacher since sacked from the helpline, had championed the rights of young gay people. But in private, said Dorothy Bain QC, prosecuting, he had been "polluted by deviant compulsion".

During one of the most harrowing trials of its kind, the images were so graphic that the court had to be cleared of the public and media during the 10-week hearing. At one stage, the judge, Lord Bannatyne, suddenly adjourned the hearing without explanation after hearing about the rape of a four-year-old girl.

The police uncovered the paedophile ring after Strachan, a maintenance engineer for a paint firm and formerly secretary of Celtic Boys Club in Edinburgh, handed his computer in for repair. On its hard drive, a repair technician found an image of an 11-year-old boy abusing himself.

A further 7,000 images were found, together with emails clearly showing that other children were at serious risk. Lothian and Borders detectives launched Operation Algebra, and were given warrants by courts in the United States to obtain email records from Microsoft. Expert witnesses were able to identify one digital camera used to record the abuse from the photographs.

That investigation exposed Rennie's identity. He had assumed the email name "Kenny Plover", whose email address "kplover99" was said to stand for "kiddie porn lover". His email account was accessed from the offices of LGBT Youth Scotland in Leith, Edinburgh.

Sophisticated tracking equipment then located Rennie's broadband Wi-Fi signals in the Meadowbank area of Edinburgh.

Strachan, using the name "Mark", sent Rennie images of his abuse of the toddler on New Year's Eve. Further investigations by police uncovered the identities of the other six men who made, shared and collected abusive images: Colin Slaven, 23, from Edinburgh; Neil Campbell, 46, John Milligan, 40, and John Murphy, 44, all of Glasgow; Ross Webber, 27, from North Berwick; and Craig Boath, 24, from Dundee.

Milligan had 78,000 images in his possession. He was allowed to listen on the telephone to Rennie abusing the toddler, and had discussed getting access to the boy. Webber, Boath and Milligan were found guilty of conspiring to participate in the sexual abuse of children along with Strachan and Rennie. Campbell was cleared of conspiracy. The men will be sentenced later.

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25th October 2009

Sex offender could live in the same road as victim

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

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

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

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

28th October 2009

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

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

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

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

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

10th June 2008

Attack victim speaks out as attacker is freed to live nearby

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

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

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

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

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

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A PREGNANT mother has been found guilty of sexually abusing children in her Southampton flat.

Now, Clair Winkworth, who has a three-year-old daughter, faces jail.

She was convicted yesterday of eight charges involving two boys and two girls after tempting them into sex games.

Remanding her in custody for reports, Judge John Boggis QC told her: This court has had to listen to the most disgusting things you did to these children.

They were truly awful. You can expect a custodial sentence.

Fair-haired Winkworth, wearing a blue tracksuit with yellow stripes on the sleeves, clenched her fist and grinned when jurors unanimously acquitted of her of sexually assaulting one boy who claimed he had had intercourse with her.

She threw back her head and sat open mouthed when the jury foreman announced the first of the guilty verdicts but then showed no emotion when she was convicted of the remainder on 10-2 majority verdicts.

Jurors had retired for more than seven hours in deliberation.

Winkworth was arrested following a complaint from the father of one of the children.

During the eight day trial at the city crown court, jurors heard of games involving Truth or Dare and Sex Dice at her Redbridge Towers home.

They led to the youngsters pairing off in to different rooms to commit sex acts. She had also encouraged boys to touch her body.

In one video taped interview with a police officer conducted in front of his mother, a boy described how the girls and Winkworth lap danced in front of him and his best friend when they only had boxer shorts on. The girls were dressed in pyjamas and she sat on the settee dressed in red lacy underwear.

Jurors heard of games played with two dice. One had the words suck, tickle, lick and nibble, and the other was marked with various rooms in the flat.

The youth explained: Say I went first. I rolled it.

Say, it was lick and I had to pick someone.We would have to go there and I have to lick part of her body.

When police searched her flat, they seized a Valentines card and two thongs one of the boys had given her, as well as a sex game and sex toys.

Winkworth was found guilty of seven counts of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and one of having sexual activity with a child.

She denied all the allegations, claiming the children had made up the story as part of a plot so that she would lose custody of her daughter.

After the trial, DC Clair Mason, the officer in the case, told the Echo: This was an unusual case but we take all offences against children seriously and thoroughly investigate them.

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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."