Paedophile who sexually assaulted a girl and filmed some of the abuse.
Oak Crescent, Biggleswade, SG18
A paedophile who sexually assaulted a girl and filmed some of the abuse has been jailed for more than a decade.
The abuse by Lee Rider, 48, spanned five years and only came to light because the girl confided in someone she trusted.
Police were called on 11 January last year and Rider was arrested. The girl told officers Rider abused her sexually and forced her to perform sexual acts on him. He had also recorded some of the abuse.
She said Rider told her it would “help his mental health” if she did what he wanted and he would also buy her things, which worried her because she knew it meant she would need to do “something for him” in return.
Rider was interviewed twice by police but provided prepared statements denying the allegations and answered “no comment” to all further questions.
However Rider, of Oak Crescent, Biggleswade, was later charged with a total of 12 offences including:
He pleaded guilty to all offences on the day his trial was due to begin earlier this year, and was sentenced at Peterborough Crown Court on Friday (8 November) where he was handed a total of 13 years in prison.
A restraining order preventing him from contacting his victim, and a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) to monitor future offending, were both made indefinitely.