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A "predatory bully" who groomed a girl in Lancashire from the age of 13 before abducting and abusing her has been jailed for four years and three months.

Mohammed Imran Amjad, 26, of Halifax Road, Brierfield, admitted sexual activity with a child and three counts of child abduction in 2009 and 2010.

A jury heard he drove her around the streets in his silver BMW.

Prosecutor Chris Long said he knew the victim's age yet continued to "corrupt and abuse her".

Amjad initially denied the charges but changed his plea part way through the trial at Manchester Crown Court.

'Coercing into submission'

He groomed the youngster after he was given her mobile phone number, said prosecutors, then took her out in his car before having sex with her aged 14.

The girl's mother contacted the police but the girl refused to make a complaint at the time and the relationship continued, the court heard.

Amjad was acquitted on the direction of the judge of other charges of rape and aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring rape, encouraging or assisting an offence and witness intimidation.

Five other men were also acquitted of various sex offences against the same girl.

Haroon Mahmood, 22, of John Street, Brierfield; Mohammed Suleman Farooq, 23, of Berry Street, Brierfield; Omar Mazafer, 22, of Halifax Road, Brierfield; Mohammed Zishan Amjad, 25, of Halifax Road, Brierfield; and Shiraz Afzal, 26, of Mansfield Crescent, Brierfield, had also been on trial.

After Amjad was sentenced at Burnley Crown Court earlier, Mr Long said: "Mohammed Imran Amjad was a predatory bully who befriended the victim when she was just 12 or 13-years-old.

"He was well aware that the victim was underage yet he continued to corrupt and abuse her for his own gratification, wielding his power over her and coercing her into submission."

Det Ch Insp Sion Hall said it was the culmination of a long and complex investigation, adding: "We've worked extremely hard with the young victim over a long period of time and she has shown a tremendous amount of courage and bravery throughout the case.

"I hope this sentence acts as a warning that this type of predatory crime will not be tolerated."

Amjad was also given a seven-year sexual offences prevention order which bars him from contacting or seeking to contact any female aged under 16 without the permission of their parent or guardian.

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A sex beast who carried out "appalling and depraved" sexual abuse of two young girls has been jailed for 16 years.

Lee Ashurst, of Parr Avenue, Gillingham, was told by a judge: "You chose to oppose these matters and have been convicted. You can expect and receive no mercy from this court."

The 29-year-old pervert denied six charges of rape of a child but was convicted of each by a 10-2 majority.

Judge Jeremy Carey said the jury of nine women and three men had to listen to the evidence of two little girls who gave in graphic detail an account of Ashurst's depraved sexual behaviour.

"Each of them described how you indulged yourself in the most appalling way," he said. "In their innocence they did not realise, and still do not realise, the enormity of the depravity of which you are now rightly found guilty.

"The impact on them I judge to be significant. When they do understand it is likely to be enormous and long lasting. It is that impact which makes that offending so grave."

The victims' families would feel the impact and shock waves for years to come.

After the guilty verdicts, Ashurst's lawyer spoke of the "horrific and appalling nature" of the offending.

Maidstone Crown Court, where Ashurst was sentenced

Ashurst, said to have a low IQ, will be on the sex offenders' register for life and banned from working with children and vulnerable adults.

After he had been led away to the cells to begin his sentence, Judge Carey told jurors, one of whom wept: "I turn to you with some feelings of anxiety.

"This case must have put you through an ordeal. It is your misfortune you had to sit on this case. Others have been through the ordeal you have had to go through.

"I don't suppose it will come to an end for some time. You have done your duty. After the dreadfulness of the evidence, you can sense that justice has been done."

He added: "Forget about this as best you can."

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SERVING police officer in Hampshire was caught distributing indecent images of children online by an undercover operation, a court heard.

Gary Prince, who resigned within days of his arrest, was jailed for three years yesterday after a court heard how thousands of images were discovered on his computer.

A court was told how a user on a file -sharing network, who had been sharing images of children, was traced back to the 49-year-old police constable.

Prince, who had been in the police for 21 years and was at the time an area car driver working in Fareham, had been unaware that he had been engaging with an undercover officer at the time, the court heard.

He was also a school governor and had been a trainer with a children’s motorcycle display team.

Tammy Mears, prosecuting, told Portsmouth Crown Court how the father’s computer contained more than 500 moving images and more than 2,000 photographs.

The court heard Prince had shared these images with at least 12 other people.

The offences stretched from 2008 to 2012.

Ms Mears said police discovered on Prince's laptop a screen shot of a girl, allegedly aged around ten, being sexually abused by a man who claimed to be her father and claimed to be in America.

The court heard that Prince had directed the activity between the man and the girl through a video link.

Prince, of Prinsted Walk, Fareham, confessed in interview his involvement and accepted that he had an interest in girls aged seven to 11, the court heard.

He also admitted having different profiles, including one where he claimed to be an 11-year-old girl.

Prince pleaded guilty to three charges of distributing indecent images of children, three charges of possessing indecent images of children, another of taking an indecent image of a child and one of causing or inciting a child under 13 to engage in sexual activity.

James Bloomer, mitigating, said that the 49-year-old had no previous convictions, had addressed his behaviour through counselling, told friends and family, and reports showed he was not seeking to rationalise or excuse what he had done.

He said that Prince was described in one of numerous references from friends and family as “the world’s best father”.

Judge Iain Pearson said he had taken into account Prince’s early guilty plea, remorse and action to treat his addiction to indecent images of children.

Prince was put on the sex offenders’ register for life, disqualified from working with children indefinitely and the judge ordered that the computer and images be destroyed.

Detective Inspector Richard Wheeler, of the Paedophile and Online Investigation Team, said: “Clearly, while none of the offences are linked to Prince’s role as a police officer, he was trusted by his colleagues and by the public and has let them down.

“We must remember that every one of the thousands of images in Prince’s possession was an image of a child being subjected to abuse.”

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A MAN who sexually assaulted and took indecent photographs of a child has been jailed for three and a half years.

Julian Rimmer, aged 48, abused the girl and took pictures of her.

Judge Salomonsen said the girl was forced to pose sexually and smile while Rimmer took 40 photographs.

He added that almost 300 pictures of other girls were found on his computers.

He had denied eight offences but was found guilty by a jury after a week-long trial.

Judge Erik Salomonsen jailed Rimmer for 42 months for offences committed from 2009 until last year.

He said: “These offences reflect a course of conduct on your part when you sought to satisfy your clear interest in young girls.”

Rimmer, of Mount Gould Road, was convicted of four counts of sexual assault on a child, one count of attempted sexual assault, one count of taking indecent photographs of a child and two charges of making indecent photographs of a child.

Rimmer will also have to sign the Sex Offender Register for life.

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An osteopath who sexually assaulted five male patients has had his "unduly lenient" 18-month jail term increased to four years by the Court of Appeal.

Mark Piraino, 40, from Redhill, Surrey, was originally sentenced by a judge at Guildford Crown Court in February.

He was convicted following a trial in which jurors were told that two of the victims were aged 13 and 15.

His prison term was increased by three appeal judges after a plea from the Solicitor General.

Oliver Heald, the Conservative MP for North East Hertfordshire, appeared in person to ask the Court of Appeal to increase the sentence.

'Preying on boys'
Speaking after the hearing, he said: "I felt the original sentence didn't reflect the number of victims, period of offending or the appalling breach of trust.

"I am pleased the court agreed with me."

Lady Justice Hallett, who headed the panel of judges, said Piraino, whose oldest victim was 31, "carried on offending" until he was "preying on quite young boys".

She said appeal judges decided to impose a four-year term after concluding that the 18-month sentence for offences committed over a 12-year period was "not simply merciful" but "unduly lenient".

"We have a duty to the individual complainants and to patients or clients up and down the country who are entitled to trust that healthcare professionals behave appropriately when they are at their most vulnerable," Lady Justice Hallett said.

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A DANGEROUS child abuser took pictures of young girls in sexual poses so he could swap them with other paedophiles on the internet.

Karl Torgersen's crimes were uncovered after a European paedophile ring was cracked by German police and photos they uncovered were tracked back to Liverpool. Torgersen, 41, was arrested with his partner Joanne Roberts, 38, at their home on Churchway Road, Speke, last September.

His computer was confiscated and photographs of him abusing girls were found on the hard drive.

Torgersen pleaded guilty to more than 60 charges including sexual assault, taking an indecent picture of a child and distributing indecent images of a child.

Judge Robert Trevor-Jones said Torgersen was motivated to fulfil his "perverted ends".

His excuse that he was "objectively" investigating online paedophilia after being abused as a child were dismissed as "classic denial".

Torgersen was jailed for eight years and eight months, of which he will serve a minimum of two-thirds, after being labelled a dangerous offender. He was given an extended licence period of 14 years.

Joanne Roberts pleaded guilty to less serious sexual assaults and charges related to indecent images.

She was jailed for two years and seven months.

The judge said: "You were present and played your part."

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A long-serving teacher at a Derbyshire school has been sentenced for having a sexual relationship with a pupil.

Mark Fidler, who was removed from his post last year, wept in the dock as he was jailed.

He was working at Belper School when he began having intercourse with the teenager, whose identity is protected by law.

During their time together, a court heard she sent him a topless photograph of herself as well as pictures of her in her underwear which were found in a drawer in his office by a colleague.

The 49-year-old was spotted alone with the victim in his classroom, Nottingham Crown Court heard.

He later admitted they had been away together and had sex and that he had bought her gifts such as underwear, jewellery and clothes.

He originally pleaded guilty at Southern Derbyshire Magistrates' Court last month but a court order prevented Derbyshire Live from naming the school.

Naming Belper School in the public interest

At the sentencing, the prosecution applied to the court to prevent the media from naming the school where Fidler worked.

However, our reporter successfully counter-argued to Judge Steven Coupland that naming Belper School and Sixth Form Centre as his place of work was in the public interest.

Dismissing the prosecution application and handing Fidler a 22-month jail term, Judge Coupland said: “You had been a teacher for more than a quarter of a century and head of music for a number of years.

“You were in a position of responsibility and knew what the rules were about sexual contact with pupils.

“Your teacher’s ethos must have told you about that."

Damage to the victim

“You should have taken steps to distance yourself from her but instead you moved closer," said the judge.

“She gave no victim statement but the reality is the damage this has caused her is impossible to quantify.”

Leanne Summers, prosecuting, said Fidler, of Johnson Drive, Heanor, had worked at Belper School since 1993 and had been head of music since 2002.

Fidler was dismissed from his role in December 2018 following an internal investigation.

She had stayed over at his home

Miss Summers said: “After being dismissed, a colleague was looking in the defendant’s office drawers and found a memory stick which contained pictures of the victim topless and in her underwear.

“He was arrested and candid, saying the lines had become blurred and that they were seeing each other three times a week.

“He said she had stayed over at his home, they had been away together that he had bought her gifts such as jewellery, clothes and underwear.”

'Honest man who lost sight of his responsibilities'

Miss Summers said that, as part of the police investigation, Fidler’s phone had been seized and it was discovered he had been Googling whether what he and the victim were doing was illegal or not.

She said the victim was interviewed by the police and admitted she and Fidler had been involved in a sexual relationship.

At Southern Derbyshire Magistrates' Court in July, Fidler pleaded guilty to one count of sexual activity with a girl while in a position of trust and one count of possessing 13 indecent images of the victim – 10 pictures and three videos.

Andrew Wesley, mitigating at the sentencing hearing in Nottingham, said his client has children of his own who he now no longer sees and has no previous convictions of any kind.

He said he started suffering depression following the break-up of his relationship with his former partner.

Mr Wesley said: “It was when there was nothing left to hide that he co-operated with the police.

“He is fundamentally an honest man who lost sight of his responsibilities as a teacher and an adult.”

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Three men have been jailed for life for murdering a sex offender from Dorset.

Stuart Wareham, 26, his half-brother Lee Wareham, 33, and Benjamin Walter, 22, beat Geoffrey Reed to death, before putting his body in a suitcase and burying it in woodland.

At Winchester Crown Court, Stuart Wareham got a minimum 20-year term. The other men must serve at least 18 years.

Reed, who spent time in jail for raping two people including a child, was killed at home in Cecil Road, Boscombe.

Passing sentence, Judge John Griffith Williams said Reed, 57, was "brutally murdered" in a "terrifying attack".

'Vulnerable and frail'

He said Stuart Wareham, who shared Reed's flat, was "principally responsible" but the other defendants, of no fixed address, were "willing participants".

"Stuart Wareham killed him not because he considered him a paedophile, but because he saw an opportunity to take his flat," he said.

The judge added: "No defendant is in the least bit remorseful."

Simon Jones, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said Reed was "vulnerable and frail" when he was beaten to death on 7 June.

"While it is true that Mr Reed was a convicted sex offender this cannot justify the brutal attack on him and from which he died," he said.

The killers buried his body in a shallow grave at Lytchett Matravers, near Poole. They told police he had gone to Weymouth for a few days.

But officers were suspicious and used sniffer dogs to find a possible burial site on 12 June.

The body, which showed signs of "horrendous" blunt force injuries, was disinterred the next day.

Speaking after sentencing, Det Insp Stewart Balmer from Dorset Police praised the "brave" witnesses who came forward and helped police to catch the killers.

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Police have tracked down a missing sex offender.

James Alexander Campbell has been found and arrested by detectives in the Manchester area.

As previously reported, officers from Hampshire Constabulary were appealing for information about Mr Campbells whereabouts after he failed to register his address with authorities.

The 41-year-old was last seen in Portsmouth on November 19, 2012, after being released from court over an unrelated charge of shoplifting.

But Mr Campbell is now in police custody after he was tracked down in the north of England.

A spokesperson for Hampshire police issued a thank you to residents who had helped out during the appeal over the Easter period.

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In a case shocking Bideford, Darren Edwards, 40, of Brookfield Street, was convicted at Exeter Crown Court of raping one teenage girl last year, plus two rapes, two sexual assaults, and two other sexual offences against a second teenage girl.

The investigation began after one victim's family contacted police. Evidence showed Edwards bullied the under-16 victim, gave her money and cannabis, and repeatedly assaulted her sexually. The other victim reported multiple rapes and assaults.

Post-arrest, CCTV captured Edwards trying to wash himself in a toilet and again after requesting water, in an apparent attempt to erase evidence. Medical exams confirmed one victim's DNA on him.

Edwards claimed consensual activity with the first girl on a smaller scale, unaware she was underage; he dismissed the second girl's allegations as fabricated and called his washing innocent. He has a long record of violence and dishonesty but no prior sexual convictions.

Judge Graham Cottle sentenced him to 22 years in prison, indefinite sex offenders register, and disqualification from working with children, citing the crimes' severity and victim impact.

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A COMPUTER consultant who was freed early from a jail sentence after being arrested in Shetland for amassing a huge hoard of child pornography was sent back to prison on Thursday for 15 months after downloading and possessing more indecent images. Yeoman Smith was released on licence with conditions that he did not access the internet unless supervised and with prior authorisation. But the judge who jailed him for his original crime said he had blatantly broken the conditions by obtaining computer equipment and committing the same sort of offence. Lord Uist told Smith at the High Court in Edinburgh: I am in no doubt it is appropriate that I should order you be returned to prison to serve part of the sentence which I imposed on you. Defence solicitor advocate Sandra Walker said: He has described his desire to view child pornography as an addiction. The 37 year old was jailed for 25 months in 2011 and put under supervision for a further three years after a friend found child pornography at his flat in Livingstone Place, in Edinburgh. He had built up a cache of more than half a million still images and in excess of 1800 pieces of footage. He had gone to Shetland for a family funeral when a downstairs neighbour contacted a friend of his over concerns about a potential water leak from his flat. The friend went to turn off the water but later found images of children performing sex acts on adult males and contacted police. Smith was released from prison in April last year and went to stay with relatives in the West Lothian village of Mid Calder but by August was committing similar offences.

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AN Accrington man has been jailed for 11 years for his part in sexually abusing young girls.

Jerry Lee Howe, 40, of Dunnyshop Avenue, was convicted of three counts against one victim, including rape. He was also given a Sexual Offences Prevention Order to last 20 years.

Another man, Paul Thomas, 50, of Western Way, Basingstoke, Hampshire, was sentenced to 19 years, at Winch-ester Crown Court after being convi-cted of 25 charges involving four girls.

He was also made subject to an indefinite SOPO. The trial heard the attacks took place from the mid-1990s, and stopped only in 2010.

Kerry Maylin, prosecuting, said: The victims were, the Crown says, sexually abused. They were children, and some of them very young.

The barrister said the abuse stopped only when the vic-tims reached 16.

She explained that some were very used to the abuse, and they did as they were bid as the men attacked them.

The pair abused the victims separ-ately at different times, and in diff-erent locations, including Hampshire and Lancashire, over the years.

Two other men, Paul Flynn, 30, of Bath Road, Reading, and Timothy Pittway, 49, of Mermaid Close, Winn-ersh, Berkshire, were acquitted of all child sexual abuse charges against them by the jury. Thomas was found not guilty of six offences against two victims one of whom was a boy and Howe was found not guilty of three charges involving a girl.

Speaking after the case, Detective Inspector Scott Clarke, from Hamp-shire Police, said: These men system-atically abused and degraded children to the point where their victims felt their ordeal was just a part of growing up. It is down to the courage of these women that these most evil of offen-ders have been brought to justice.

No-one should have to experience the childhood that these victims did.

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A PR cameraman has been sentenced to prison and prohibited from approaching a glamour model from Camden for 12 years following his conviction for secretly recording her during sexual activity.

Naushad Faruk, aged 33 and also known as Johnny Na$h, who appeared as the "Ladies Man" on the BBC3 reality series Boom Town, received a three-and-a-half-year jail term for voyeurism after filming the woman without her knowledge or consent.

The court dismissed his assertion that she had agreed to the recording as a means to advance her modeling career.

In the proceedings, the 26-year-old model, known for her frequent appearances in prominent men's magazines, broke down in tears while describing how Faruk—a PR cameraman she initially encountered through work—developed an intense obsession with her. He showered her with presents, including a purebred Chihuahua, and repeatedly expressed desires to marry and be intimate with her.

Prosecutor Jonathan Loades explained: "He persistently pressured her for sex, but she declined."

The model became aware of his fixation when he got a tattoo of her face on his arm. Testifying from behind a protective screen, she said: "I was terrified. Why would you go to have a tattoo done unless you were completely obsessed?"

She recounted that when she attempted to end their association, Faruk informed her the dog was registered under his name and threatened to reclaim it unless she complied with his sexual demands.

In tears, she told the jury: "When he gave the puppy to me, I obviously became her mother...She was my baby. I was horrified to find out she wasn’t in my name and I realised he had a hook on me. I was so in love with her, he knew I couldn’t be away from her.

“This happened quite a few times and it was very traumatic and I got very depressed.”

Mr. Loades informed the jury that, driven to desperation by the ongoing harassment, she eventually negotiated an agreement allowing him to perform a sex act on her.

Jurors viewed a 40-minute video from the summer of 2012, depicting Faruk positioning the hidden camera, the model's arrival, and the subsequent sexual encounter.

Mr. Loades noted: "She was unaware of the camera and had she been asked, she would have said ‘no’."

He further described how, after the event, Faruk persisted in bothering her, prompting her to sever all ties. Shortly thereafter, he forwarded her a YouTube link to the unauthorized footage, accompanied by the message: “No one has seen this yet. What happens next is up to you.”

Faruk was imprisoned for three and a half years after a guilty verdict on one count of voyeurism involving the model, spanning August 1 to September 30, 2012.

He was additionally found guilty on two other voyeurism counts for using concealed cameras to film another model and an escort without their permission between 2013 and 2014.

Faruk was acquitted of two fraud charges concerning an alleged fabricated photoshoot for Loaded magazine, which he had contested.

He was convicted on two counts of perverting the course of justice for posting the real and professional names of two key victims on Twitter, in violation of a court anonymity order.

In addition to his sentence, Faruk received a 12-year restraining order preventing contact with the victims and was required to register as a sex offender.

Detective Constable Rob Jones, the investigating officer, stated post-trial: “This case shows that if someone threatens to release ‘revenge porn’ into the public domain they will be dealt with robustly, not only by the police but also by the courts as is demonstrated by this sentence.”

“The women involved have been extremely traumatised and felt extreme fear throughout,” he continued.

Detective Chief Inspector Andrew Packer of Camden police remarked: “The filming of women engaging in sexual acts is extremely disturbing when you consider that they had no idea they were being secretly filmed.”

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A ‘DRUNKEN predator’ who molested two teenage girls in Dorchester has been convicted of six charges of sexual activity with children.

Frank Maurice Cooper was sentenced to a total of four years and nine months in prison after being found guilty of the offences following a trial at Dorchester Crown Court.

The offences related to September 9 last year when Cooper had been drinking and met the fourteen-year-old girls who were with a group of their friends at the Borough Gardens in Dorchester.

The 35-year-old then followed the group to a play area off Maiden Castle Road, where they had planned to camp for the night.

The jury in the trial heard the girls’ claims of how Cooper had then sexually touched them on several occasions while at the play area and the police were called as a result.

Cooper denied the allegations when questioned by police and told the jury he had been play fighting with one of the girls that day and may have accidentally touched the other but had not intentionally touched them in a sexual manner.

The jury was told how Cooper, of Millfield, Chard, Somerset, had received a caution for sexual activity with a child in 1999, which related to the defendant having sexual intercourse with a 14-year-old girl that resulted in a child being born.

Cooper was also made the subject of a child abduction warning notice in just days before the offences he was on trial for in relation to two teenage girls who were not involved in the case.

David Jenkins, mitigating, said the offences had all occurred on one day and did not involve a pattern of behaviour against the victims over a sustained period.

He added:

“There were no verbal threats and there was no real physical threat, although they may have felt intimidated because of his age.”

Judge Roger Jarvis told the defendant:

“Your behaviour in September of last year was quite disgraceful.

“It started off with you being a drunken pest in the Borough Gardens.

“From being a drunken pest, your behaviour progressed to that of a drunken predator.”

The judge added: “You targeted these two victims and you persisted with your intentions.

“These children would have been confused, bewildered and frightened by the actions of you, the drunken adult.”

Cooper was also placed on the Sex Offenders’ Register for life and banned from working with children.

Cooper is 'persistent predator' - Kidscape

COOPER’S crimes have been called ‘abhorrent’ by the director of a children’s charity.

Claude Knights director of children’s charity Kidscape, said:

“This man appears to be a persistent predator who does not seem to have learnt from cautions for past crimes associated with sexual activity involving children.

“It is imperative that his custodial sentence should include a robust treatment programme, and that he should be monitored carefully when he is released from prison.

“All must be done to ensure that he does not repeat his offending behaviour.

“The safety of children is paramount, and they must be protected from such abhorrent sexual crimes.”

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A SEX offender has been jailed for assaulting a young woman after he stalked her through Weymouth town centre in the early hours.

Ian David Hewer, of Rodwell Road, pleaded guilty to one count of assault by penetration after the attack on December 1 last year.

Dorchester Crown Court was told how the 19-year-old woman had left a group of friends after a night out and had arranged to meet another for a lift home.

Hewer, aged 40, followed her through the town and to the back of Debenhams in Commercial Road.

CCTV footage showed Hewer pounce on the victim in an alcove at the back of the store.

The court was told by prosecutor Heather Shimmen that Hewer had punched the woman twice in the head, put his hand over her mouth and told her to shut up. She said that the victim had been left severely affected by the attack, which had ruined her relationships and left her unable to pursue employment prospects.

The court was told that members of the public had heard the victim shouting during the attack and came to her aid. One caught up with Hewer after he fled and recognised him as a past work colleague. Hewer told the man that the victim was his ex-wife and that it had been a misunderstanding, so that he was let on his way. But when the man went back to the victim, he realised this was not the case and gave the police Hewer’s name.

Hewer, who has six previous convictions for 15 offences, kept his head bowed during proceedings.

In mitigation, Neil Hinton said Hewer did not know why he attacked the girl but regretted his actions.

He added: “He was affected by drink and clearly his judgement was affected by drink.

“He did end up seeing the victim of this assault in the town by herself. It seems he followed her to where she had stopped to phone her friend, and at that point attacked her. He is shocked and horrified by what he did. It is something that he deeply regrets.”

Sentencing Hewer to four and a half years in prison, Judge Roger Jarvis said: “This was a stranger assault of the most terrible kind.

“You stalked your victim and you subjected her to a terrible ordeal.

“Full credit to members of the public who came to her aid.

“Who knows what would have happened if they had not?”

Hewer was placed on the sex offenders’ register for life.

Police praise for passers by

After the case, DC Declan Cummings, of Weymouth CID, said: “This was a very serious and frightening assault and this is reflected in the severity of the sentence.

“I would like to thank the members of the public who intervened after hearing the shouts of the victim. They greatly assisted police during this investigation and without their help it may not be possible to identify the offender.

“Their public-spiritedness helped to bring Ian Hewer to justice.”