Locations
Pell Lane, Ryde, Isle Of Wight, PO33
Description
A child sex offender who recently moved from Salisbury to Ryde has today (Thursday) been convicted of further sex offences.
William Clark, 45 of Pell Lane, Ryde was sentenced to 28 months imprisonment at Salisbury Crown Court after pleading guilty to 7 offences of making indecent photographs and movies of a child, 1 offence of possessing 936 indecent images and movies of children and 1 offence of possessing 10 prohibited images of children. He had also pleaded guilty to 4 offences of voyeurism and supplying false information to a charity.
Clark set up a charity for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community in Salisbury back in 2009, but failed to tell the Charity Commission about his previous offences, which included the incident assault of a 9-year-old boy.
The child sex offender has now been made subject to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order and a Sex Offender Notice for a period of 10 years.
Following the sentence, Simon Jones, Senior Crown Advocate for the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said:
As a convicted sex offender, William Clark knew of the obvious concerns about him working with children but this did not stop him establishing and running a charity whose focus was to help people within the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, which included a section of young people. In doing so, he deliberatly omitted to disclose his previous child sexual offence convictions.
Whilst running the charity he downloaded and possessed a large quantity of indecent images of children.
He also commited offences of voyeurism, which included covertly filming innocent members of the public in extreme circumstances of privacy.
We hope that with this conviction, the young adults victims in this case will now be able to move on with their lives.