Locations
Beach Road, Hayling Island, Hampshire, PO11
Description
A FORMER holiday park entertainer and photographer has been jailed following sickening sexual assaults on a girl with learning disabilities.
Tim Hankins, who also went by the stage surname Masters, had offered to look after the vulnerable girl at weekends to give her parents some respite.
But the 53-year-old was secretly abusing the girl from the age of 11 until she disclosed the abuse to a teacher at her school.
Four-times-married Hankins was arrested and denied the allegations but detectives found more than 400 different photos of children being abused on his computers.
At Portsmouth Crown Court, he was jailed for six years for the abuse and six months for the indecent photographs.
He said: Tim Hankins was in a position of trust and he completely abused that trust, knowing that the victim was vulnerable.
He is dangerous and, as far as children are concerned, he is a danger and threat to them.
Hankins, formerly of Beach Road, Hayling Island, was a well-known figure and worked for decades as a keyboardist entertaining guests at holiday parks.
He was also a photographer and had a shop in Mengham which is now closed.
Hankins pleaded guilty to making indecent photographs of children and was jailed for six months.
He was found guilty of two counts of sexual assault by penetration of a female under 13. For that he was jailed for six years.
He was placed on the sex offenders register for life.