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A PROLIFIC registered child sex offender has been locked up once again for breaching the terms of his Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) just a matter of weeks after he was released from prison.

Nathan Parker, of HMP Preston, received a five-year custodial sentence in March 2020 for similar offending before being recalled for breaching his SHPO, Preston Crown Court heard.

His Honour Judge Richard Gioserano said the 31-year-old was jailed until September 23, 2024, before eventually being released.

However, within weeks, the court heard Parker had breached the terms of his SHPO and notification requirements once again.

Prosecuting the case, Kiera Shaw said the defendant told his offender manager, DC Chadwick, he was of no fixed abode and that he didn't have any mobile phone in his possession on September 25 last year.

Ms Shaw said the defendant then asked the officer if he could visit his mother’s address on Ennerdale, Dalton, between October 2 and October 6, which was agreed, as long as it wasn’t for a long-term basis.

Nevertheless, the defendant was seen living at the Dalton address permanently after a member of the public reported matters to the police on November 1, the court heard.

As a result, DC Chadwick and another officer attended the address where they witnessed Parker using a mobile phone whilst sat on the sofa.

DC Chadwick described Parker as having a ‘look of terror and panic’ on his face when he saw them.

Ms Shaw said officers obtained entry to the property and asked the defendant where the mobile phone was to which the defendant replied: ‘What phone?’

The court was told the defendant then threw a black mobile phone out of the window.

Ms Shaw said: “When officers arrested the defendant, he said ‘oh no, not again’ before collapsing on the floor and curling up into a foetal position.”

Examination of the electronic device revealed Parker had in his possession one prohibited image of a child, three category A indecent images of children and a further three category C images.

The court heard he had eight previous convictions for 29 offences.

In mitigation, Claire Larton said: “His guilty plea at the first opportunity is his best form of mitigation.

“He is someone who clearly finds it difficult to cope in the community. He is very stressed, anxious and panicky at times.

“He has struggled with accommodation and there is clearly a lack of structure there. He is now getting some support in custody and tells me prison is the best place for him at the moment.

“He is working in custody and is involved in letter writing for other prisoners on his wing.

“He wishes to explore the possibility of being diagnosed with autism in order to support him in the future.”

Judge Gioserano imposed a 32-month prison sentence for the six offences.

Before determining the length of jail term, he told the defendant: “Nothing that has been done with you so far has put a stop to this.

“Many will think I should step away from the guidelines and impose a sentence that is longer than the last time, but that is not the way sentencing operates.

“There will come a time when the judge does not feel the need to apply the sentencing guidelines.”

Parker is still subject to an indefinite SHPO and notification requirements.

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A convicted Maidstone sex offender has been jailed for multiple breaches of an order designed to curb his behaviour.

Owen Payne had previously received a suspended prison sentence for attempting to incite a child to engage in sexual activity and was also made subject of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) that required him to notify police of any internet-enabled devices he had access to.

In September 2024 during a routine check of his home in Cornwallis Avenue, patrols seized three mobile phones, a tablet, a gaming device and a computer. None of the devices nor any of Payne’s 16 online aliases had been reported to police under the terms of his SHPO.

Further searches of the address led to the seizure of nine bladed weapons including knives and swords.

Payne, 24, was subsequently charged with breaching a SHPO, failing to comply with notification requirements and multiple counts of possessing an illegal weapon in a private place. He pleaded guilty to all offences and was sentenced to two years and eight months’ imprisonment at Maidstone Crown Court on Tuesday 4 February 2025.

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Connor Behan has been convicted of a string of sexual offences following a seven-day trial at Chester Crown Court. 

On Wednesday 18 December, Behan was found guilty by unanimous verdict of counts of multiple rapes of a girl under 13, multiple sexual assaults by touching of a child under 13, and engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child on multiple occasions.

He was found not guilty of an additional count of sexual assault by touching of a child under 13.

The 33-year-old of Heath Avenue, Newcastle-Under-Lyme, has since been remanded in custody and is set to be sentenced on Friday 31 January.

Cheshire Police launched an investigation into the abuse in October 2022, following a disclosure made by the victim to a teacher at her school.

The jury heard how Behan had sexually assaulted the victim on multiple occasions, starting in May 2019, when the victim was just seven years old.

As part of the investigation, a seminal detection dog was deployed which found traces of Behan’s semen on a blanket owned by the victim.

Behan was immediately arrested and subsequently charged.

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A Dundee man has admitted taking photos under women’s clothing on a train journey in Fife, at a plush Edinburgh hotel and at an insurance broker in the capital.

David Bathgate, 42, targeted one of his three victims while on a ScotRail train between Inverkeithing and Kirkcaldy on January 19 2023.

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A 'dangerous' sex attacker made a chilling threat as he grabbed a 'petrified' woman around the neck. Ben Cotterill pounced as his victim made her way home alone and told her: "I could f****** rape you right now."

The woman was walking from Stoke-on-Trent railway station at 10.15pm when she saw Cotterill standing in the middle of the road. He shouted at the woman before running towards her, Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court heard.

Prosecutor Barry White said: "He wrapped his arm around her neck and pressed himself against her back and bum. She said, 'Get off me', several times. He said, 'I could f****** rape you right now'. She was terrified and continued to scream."

Mr White continued: "He held on to her for a minute, rubbing his crotch against her backside. He pushed her into a fence with force. She continued to say, 'Get off me'.

A delivery driver came to the terrified woman's aid and pushed Cotterill away and the woman ran home, StokeonTrentLive reports. Mr White continued: "The driver said, 'What are you doing? Do not be touching girls'. The defendant replied, 'I can touch who I want'."

Cotterill, of The Moat, Weston Coyney, denied assault when he was arrested but later pleaded guilty to sexual assault. He also admitted two charges of theft from a shop after he stole a hot tub from B&Q, Meir Park, and a bottle of vodka from Bargain Booze, in Trentham, on October 15, 2024.

In a victim impact statement, the woman said the ordeal had left her shocked and extremely shaken and in need of counselling. She said her mental health had suffered and she feared she would never be the same person again.

The court heard Cotterill had been diagnosed with psychosis and suffered from depression and anxiety. Rashad Mohammed, mitigating, told the court: "It was an isolated one-off incident which is unlikely to be repeated. This was an unpleasant incident.

"His memory at the time was extremely poor. He was behaving irrationally. The reason for that was because of the substance he had consumed. He had taken drugs at the time. It was opportunistic. He asks me to express his regret and remorse. He has not taken drugs for a number of months. That is something he is proud of. It has blighted most of his life."

Cotterill - who had four previous sexual offences on his lengthy criminal record of 66 convictions and 149 offences - was jailed for 32 months and placed on the Sex Offenders' Register for 10 years.

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A 26-year-old registered sex offender has been sent back to prison after he breached his Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO).

Myles James Winfarrah, previously of Northampton, was convicted in 2019 of sexual assault against a woman.

He was placed on the Sex Offenders’ Register as a result and issued with a SHPO, meaning that he had to abide by some very strict conditions when he was released from prison.

However, in March 2024 he breached his requirements when he had sex with someone without notifying the police of their name, address and telephone number within seven days of the event.

He was also found to be developing a relationship with the same woman without notifying the police of her details as well as failing to notify police of an address where he had stayed for a period of 12 hours or more where a child resided.

Then, in September, he again breached his requirements by failing to have registered at a police station within three days of leaving prison.

He was arrested and subsequently charged with two counts of breaching his SHPO and two counts of breaching his notifications requirements.

After pleading guilty to the offences at Northampton Crown Court in November, he returned to the same court in December where he was sentenced to one year and two months in prison.

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A depraved serial sex offender who repeatedly defied court orders designed to protect the public and brazenly failed to learn his lesson from his many previous prison sentences has been jailed again.

Seedy pervert Robert Wynn seemed to be "addicted" to sick sexual images involving animals and he persisted in going to great lengths to try to outfox the police and continue to look at the vile pictures, Hull Crown Court heard.

Wynn, 38, of Brecon Avenue, east Hull, admitted three offences of breaching a sexual harm prevention order and two offences of possessing extreme images of bestiality.

Blaise Morris, prosecuting, said that a five-year sexual harm prevention order was made by Hull magistrates in November 2022. Wynn was later released from prison. A spot check monitoring visit was made on January 1, 2023 at the bail hostel where he lived and an unregistered phone was found.

Its internet history had been deleted between December 27 and 28, 2022 but 13 extreme images were found. Wynn's phone was examined on March 28 last year and eight extreme images were found.

On April 14 last year, police were unable to make contact with Wynn and his father said that he did not know where he was. The next day, it was discovered that Wynn had failed to charge the battery of his electronic tag and it had stopped sending signals. This was a breach of the sexual harm prevention order.

Wynn had convictions for 15 previous offences, including five of possessing indecent or extreme images. He had been jailed for two years in November 2011 for making indecent images of children and possessing extreme images offences.

Wynn breached a sexual harm prevention order and was jailed in 2014. He had been jailed for four months in 2016 for possessing indecent images of children and he was jailed in 2017 for 16 months at Hull Crown Court for possessing indecent images of children and breaching a sexual harm prevention order.

He was jailed at the same court in May 2018 for two years and four months for breaching a sexual harm prevention order and breaching his notification requirements as a sex offender. Wynn was jailed for two years and eight months in 2021 for offences including failing to comply with his notification requirements as a sex offender.

Ben Hammersley, mitigating, said that Wynn had an unenviable record for sexual offences. "He would like to apologise for his actions," said Mr Hammersley.

"He is deeply, deeply sorry for his persistent breaching of his notification requirements. He has been doing well. There has been no further offending.

"He realises that there are issues that need to be seriously addressed if he is to be prevented from offending in the future. He has not been in work for a long period."

Judge Mark Bury said: "He appears to be addicted to images of bestiality and he persists in looking at them."

He told Wynn: "You are not learning your lessons. Sexual harm prevention orders are there for a purpose. They are to try to prevent you from looking at images which are prohibited.

"You seem to be addicted, or certainly were, to those types of images. You went to quite a number of lengths to disguise that.

"The time has come when you have to be punished and deterred because, at the moment, you are just not learning lessons. Time and again, you take no notice of court orders, which are meant to protect society at large, and the reason you don't is that you have your own sexual gratification at the forefront of your thoughts."

Wynn, who had been on bail, was jailed for three years.

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A CONVICTED child sex offender has been charged with breaching the terms of his Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) and failing to comply with his notification requirements.

Louis Killip was jailed for 18 months in August 2023 after he attempted to incite a child to engage in sexual activity and attempted to engage a child in sexual communication between November 16 and December 3 2020.

On that occasion, the 52-year-old was also made the subject of a SHPO and notification requirements after he used Snapchat to solicit images and send pictures of his penis to who he believed to be a 14-year-old girl.

The defendant, of Vernon Street, Barrow, has now been charged with four counts of failing to comply with the notification requirements of the sex offenders register, one count of breaching his SHPO and a further count of making one indecent photograph of a child.

Court charges indicate Killip failed to notify police of a number of alias’s and names used on Facebook, Google Instagram and TikTok on January 23 this year.

He is also said to have failed to produce an internet enabled mobile device upon request to the police on January 21.

The Crown Prosecution Service further allege Killip made one indecent photograph of a child on November 11 2024.

Killip offered no indication of plea to the offences at South Cumbria Magistrates’ Court on January 25.

Magistrates sent the case to Preston Crown Court where he will next appear for a plea and trial preparation hearing on February 26.

They remanded the defendant back into custody ahead of the hearing due to his previous record and character, as well as deeming he would be likely to offend.

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A SERVING Avon and Somerset Police officer has pleaded guilty to a number of child sex offences.

Thomas Kettleborough, 35, an Inspector at Avon and Somerset Police, pleaded guilty to offences under the Sexual Offences and Protection of Children Acts following an investigation by the South West Regional Organised Crime Unit (SWROCU).

Kettleborough, who was based at the police headquarters in Portishead, appeared at Exeter Crown Court today (February 7). He pleaded guilty to the following offences:

Arranging or facilitating commission of a child sex offence

Attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child

Attempting to cause or incite a child to engage in sexual activity

One count of engaging in sexual communication with a child

Four counts of making an indecent photograph/pseudo-photograph of a child

Kettleborough was arrested in July 2023 on suspicion of arranging or facilitating commission of a child sex offence and has been on conditional bail since.

Following his arrest, he was suspended by Avon and Somerset Police. He is due to be sentenced at Exeter Crown Court on Thursday 13 March.

Kettleborough was originally arrested after communicating online, with who he thought was a child, over several days in 2023.

He later travelled to meet that child, but instead was met by officers from our unit and arrested.

Police then examined his computer, uncovering further offences which showed he had previously engaged in sexual communication with a child in May 2023. He also had indecent images dating from April 2019 to July 2023.

Detective Inspector David Wells from the Online Investigations Team at SWROCU said: All of the offenders we deal with who are attempting to engage children in sexual activity online and, as in this case, attempt to meet to abuse them, are exploiting young people in the most horrendous way.

When the offender in question is in such a position of trust like Thomas Kettleborough was, in a role that is about protecting people from harm, the horror of the risk he posed and crimes he committed is intensified.

Joanne Hall, Assistant Chief Constable for Avon and Somerset Police, said the force will ensure that Kettleborough will never be able to work for the police or in law enforcement again.

This officer has been convicted of extremely serious and appalling offences, she said.

The gravity of his crimes cannot be underestimated. As soon as these offences came to light he was suspended and we worked with our partner agencies to ensure all necessary safeguarding measures were put in place.

Robust action has been taken throughout the time and a misconduct investigation has been running in parallel to the criminal investigation.

Weve been unable to finalise these proceedings until the criminal case has concluded, as securing justice in a court of law has to take precedence. Now a conviction has been secured, well be moving swiftly to ensure this officer is never able to work in policing or other law enforcement agencies again.

Its important to note the vast majority of our officers and staff dedicate themselves to public service and keeping people safe. This officers colleagues have been equally horrified to learn of his abhorrent criminal behaviour and were making sure anyone who needs support has access to it.

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A detective who sexually assaulted a police officer and staff member has been brought to justice for his abhorrent behaviour towards his colleagues after they bravely came forward and supported prosecutions.

Detective Sergeant Richard Mills, aged 42, of Rochdale was sentenced to 18 months in prison at Liverpool Crown Court today (Friday 7th February 2025). Mills has also been placed on the sex offender registry for ten years.

This comes after he was found guilty of two counts of sexual assault in December last year by a jury verdict and released on bail pending today’s hearing.

The convictions involved two incidents of forceful sexual touching in 2016 and 2020 while Mills was based in GMP’s Oldham district and in our Crime Coordination Unit at Nexus House.

Now criminal proceedings have concluded, gross misconduct proceedings will take place.

Detective Superintendent David Jones, within our Professional Standards Directorate, said: “DS Mill gravely abused his position of trust and authority within the force when he assaulted his female colleagues for his own perverse gratification.

“It was through their brave disclosure that we built a strong prosecution case.

“Cowardly, Mills denied any wrongdoing. Notwithstanding he has been held accountable for the harm he caused after the victims endured a two-week trial and testified in front of a jury.

“Their tenacity and strength shown throughout our investigation and legal proceedings is commendable and should be recognised as the driving force behind reaching today's outcome, whereby Mills is starting a jail term as a convicted sex offender.

“He is unfit to serve the public and has been barred from policing. We will now be writing to the Deputy Mayor of GM to appeal for Mills to lose his right to a police pension.

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Fife’s notorious “urban hunter” subjected children to sickening rape ordeals over a four-year period.

Brandon Robb, 28, preyed on two little girls and a young boy at locations in Leslie between May 2011 and May 2015.

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Two men have today, Thursday 6 February, been jailed for raping a woman in Liverpool city centre.

The charges relate to an incident in the early hours of 20 April 2024 in which a woman was raped inside a property.

The woman reported the matter and within a matter of hours officers were able to identify the offence location and arrest both men.

Whilst on bail, the mobile phones of the suspects were downloaded and intimate videos of the woman were found on the devices of both men, which appear to have been made without her knowledge.

Both men denied the allegations but following a trial in January, Shuaib Iboko-Akoh, 24, formerly of Harrington Street, Liverpool and Evaristus Ozumizi Akerele, 25, from Luton, were both found guilty of rape and voyeurism.

Today at Liverpool Crown Court they were both jailed for a total of seven years. They were also both ordered to sign the sex offenders register for life.

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A paedophile who made more than 1,700 indecent images of children has been jailed for 10 years.

Robert Norman, 41, was arrested by officers at his home in Drybread Road, Whittlesey, in January last year after police received information he had downloaded indecent images of children.

The officers seized two Samsung mobile phones and a hard drive, which were found to contain 1,716 indecent images.

The phones contained evidence Norman had been speaking sexually to whom he thought was a ten-year-old girl and passing her details to other potential sex offenders.

Norman had also breached a Sexual Harm Prevention Order - handed to him in 2015 following a conviction for indecent images of children - numerous times.

He had not informed officers about one of the Samsung mobile phones capable of accessing the internet, which was hidden under a pillowcase, and handed the other phone over. 

Norman also used the internet to speak with the girl and deleted the web history from all devices which was also a further breach of his Sexual Harm Prevention Order.

In addition, he failed to inform officers of new online usernames - a breach of his Sex Offender Register Notification Requirements.

On Friday (January 31), at Cambridge Crown Court, Norman was jailed, having pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent images of children, three counts of breaching a Sexual Harm Prevention Order, one count each of breaching notification requirements and attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child.

DC Claire Cummings said: “Noman is a very dangerous prolific offender; he is a complete danger to children as well as the wider community and he has complete disregard for the law by continuously breaching his Sexual Harm Prevention Order.

“I am pleased with the sentence which Norman received, this sends out a clear message that we will look to protect children and the vulnerable from harm.” 

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Colin Gregory aka Anthony Luckwill

A notorious paedophile from Nottingham offered to pay a young teen in California thousands of dollars to "recruit" young boys to pose naked for his sexual gratification. 

Nottingham Crown Court heard how Nottinghamshire Police called in the FBI to help investigate "manipulative and deceitful” Anthony Luckwill, who has been previously jailed in Wales, Ireland and Scotland over the past 20 years but is now living in Sherwood under the new name of Colin Gregory.

Examination of his electronic devices found sick abuse videos, some of which he shared with like-minded perverts and one called “14-year-old and 12-year-old by the pool”.

Handing him a 10-year jail sentence, Judge Michael Auty KC said: “You offered to pay a 15-year-old who lives with his mother in California, the princely sum of $1,000 to appear in a video with you for up to three hours to satisfy your insatiable appetite for teenage boys. This is all set among a backdrop of your truly horrific previous convictions. You pose a high risk to teenage boys and I fear it is virtually certain you will continue to offend in this way.

“There is no doubt you present a serious ongoing danger. You will forever remain an immense danger to those you lust (after). You are a manipulative and deceitful individual when the need arises.”

At the start of the sentencing hearing, prosecutor Stephen Kemp outlined some of the 16 convictions for 60 offences Gregory has on his criminal record. He said they included prison sentences and suspended sentences since 2004 in South Wales, Dublin, Scotland, Guernsey and Nottingham.

The prosecutor said the defendant's address in Pelham Road was visited by the police on September 21, 2023, and his devices were seized and analysed. Mr Kemp said it revealed that, among other deviant behaviour, he was communicating with the teenager in Los Angeles.

He said: “They entered an agreement whereby the defendant would pay him to recruit a number of boys for a photo shoot with him agreeing to pay for footage of up to 100 boys posing either naked or in their underwear. He then incited the boy to have a video chat with him for up to three hours with sexual activity and offered to pay him $1,000 just for that. The FBI became involved who offered information that the boy was 15 years old and lived with his mother in California.”

Gregory pleaded guilty to charges including possession of indecent images of children, breaching a sexual harm prevention order. conspiracy to produce indecent images and inciting a child to engage in sexual communication.

Kevin Waddingham, mitigating, said his client has “largely led an isolated life” and has “very little in the way of a family network”. He said: “He would ask the court to be as lenient as possible. He has a positive outlook about his future and he would ask not to have that crushed.”

The whole sentence is 18 years, made up of 10 years of custody and an eight-year extended licence. It means Gregory will not be eligible to apply for parole until halfway through the custodial element.

He will also remain on the sex offender register for life and has a lifetime sexual harm prevention order.

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A man has been jailed for the rape and attempted rape of two women in Warrington.

Mariyan Grudev, formerly of Thelwall Lane, Latchford, Warrington, was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 14 years at Liverpool Crown Court on Thursday 6 February after previously pleading guilty to one count of attempted rape.

The 39-year-old was also found guilty of one count of rape after a trial in July 2024.

On Saturday 29 July 2023, at around 3.10am, a woman was walking along Winwick Road when a man, who was unknown to the woman, began following her.

He then grabbed her from behind and attempted to drag her into bushes. Thankfully, the woman escaped unharmed and sought help from a passing taxi driver.

A media appeal was subsequently issued by Cheshire Police using a CCTV image of the suspect. He was later confirmed to be Grudev, who was arrested on Sunday 30 July 2023 and later charged with attempted rape on Tuesday 1 August 2023.

Following these charges, he was investigated as a suspect in a previous similar incident in Warrington. This occurred on Sunday 22 December 2019, when a woman who had been on a night out in Warrington town centre was walking back to her address at around 2.20am, and described being approached by a man.

The victim was not able to recall the exact events following this interaction but she was in pain and believed she had been raped.

Forensic swabs taken from the victim did not come back with any results or DNA matches at the time. In 2023, following Grudev’s arrest, his DNA was tested against DNA from the 2019 incident, which provided a match. He was subsequently charged with rape in November 2023.

On top of his custodial sentence, Grudev will also need to sign the Sex Offender Register.