Locations
Raithwaite Close, Guisborough, TS14
Description
A 'devious' child sex pervert who's been committing vile crimes for over 50 YEARS has been locked up again - this time for making indecent images of children.
Teesside Crown Court hear how 'remorseless' and 'devious' Raymond Coleman, previously jailed for attempted rape, has been committing sexual offences for the past five decades. Now, aged 73, the paedophile pensioner has been hauled before the courts again charged with two counts of making indecent images of children.
Gurjot Kour, prosecuting, said: "Due to the defendant's previous conviction, he is deemed as a high risk sex offender." During a police visit, Coleman handed over a mobile phone with very little activity on it.
A search of his house was then carried out and a blue Samsung was discovered under his pillow in his bedroom. There were a number of internet searches linking to child sex abuse and a thorough scan of his phone revealed two class A indecent videos and one class B indecent video.
He has 12 previous convictions for 22 offences dating between 1968 and 2015 - including indecent assault of a child under 16, attempted rape, two counts of indecently assaulting a child under 14 and in 2015 he was handed a nine-year extended sentence for two counts of facilitating the commission of a child sex offence.
Teesside Live previously reported how Coleman, then a regular punter in Middlesbrough’s red light district, boasted that another vice girl had supplied him with a child before. Another prostitute, who had gone with him to his home by taxi, was so sickened by his request that she reported him immediately to police.
On Thursday, July 10, the court heard how the class A videos were 15 seconds and 11 seconds long while the class B video was 23 seconds long. The children in the videos are estimated to be aged between four and 10.
Coleman, who was dressed in a grey suit jacket and walks with the aid of a stick, claimed he watches pornography a few times on his mobile phone when he is bored and said he scrolls over videos but they can play in the background.
Tom Bennett, mitigating, said Coleman, of Raithwaite Close, Guisborough, is of poor mental and physical health and outlined that these offences are not an escalation in his offending. He said: "It is a de-escalation in that there was no contact."
Coleman is said to have notified his offender manager that he will be purchasing a phone that "doesn't allow him to access internet videos of this nature". Mr Bennett said that, if imprisoned immediately, Coleman's poor health would be difficult to manage by the prison authorities.
Judge advocate Thomas Mitchell said: "You are an old man, you are in poor health. To an extent there will be a burden on the prison service. There is work to be done with you. [You] will have to do that when you are released from this sentence.
"Yet again, for over 50 years you have been committing sex offences. You are compelled to look at material like this."
Coleman was jailed for 10 months and made subject to a lifelong sexual harm prevention order.