Locations
Middle Lane, Crouch End, North London, N8
Description
An evil pensioner from Hornsey who travelled to Morocco to sexually abuse toddlers has been jailed.
John Thorogood, 75, abused boys as young as one - then shared stories of the abuse with a like-minded sex offenders.
Thorogood, of Middle Lane, Hornsey, was arrested in December 2021 after images were seized from a man who was convicted in the Netherlands.
It emerged that Thorogood was part of a Europe-wide network whose networks travelled the world to abuse children.
In August he pleaded guilty to one count of sexual activity with a child, one count of causing a child under 13 to engage in sexual activity and two counts of sexually assaulting a child.
He also pleaded guilty to possessing more than 200,000 indecent images of children.
Thorogood will be sentenced in mid-November.
Christopher Behn, 68, from Colchester in Essex, was part of the same network of offenders.
On Friday (November 3) at Chelmsford Crown Court he was sentenced to 11 years in prison and a further six years on licence for sexually assaulting young boys in Vietnam over a 10-year period.