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This is the face of convicted sex offender Victor Balfour, who was jailed for 20 months yesterday for repeatedly logging onto library computers in breach of a court order. The 68-year-old had been released on bail by Record of Oxford Judge Ian Pringle QC just days before he went to a public library in Weymouth, Dorset, and asked to use the computers. That was despite a stern warning from Judge Pringle that Balfour, who was in Oxford Crown Court for using the Westgate library computers in breach of his sexual harm prevention order, was not allowed to use any computer unless the internet history was saved. On Thursday, the court was told Balfour used the Weymouth library computers three times in December and January, while he was on a four-month deferred sentence. Jailing him for 20 months, Judge Pringle said: I am quite satisfied you were fully aware of what you were doing. Thames Valley Police has now released Balfours custody shot.

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This is the face of paedophile Martyn Rodger, who tried to hide a new Chromebook from detectives just weeks after being given a court order requiring him to register digital devices with the police. The 26-year-old was spared an immediate prison sentence last August for looking at indecent images of children. But the judge imposed a sexual harm prevention order aimed at limiting his access to the internet and requiring him to register new digital devices with the police. He breached the order within barely a month of its imposition. Rodger, whose financial affairs are managed by social services, asked for the money to buy a new laptop. His social worker informed the police, who visited the mans Witney home on September 16 when the device still hadnt been logged with them. Rodger initially lied, saying he had no new computer. When the device was found beneath his mattress he changed his story, claiming that he planned to register it the following day. Jailing him for 18 months at Oxford Crown Court last week, Judge Maria Lamb told Rodger, of Eastfield Road, Witney: I am quite satisfied you knew perfectly well you should have notified [the police of] the existence of that Chromebook.

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A child rapist was recorded on his works van dash cam asking his victim if he could take a picture, a court heard. Ian Bailey, 56, molested his victim a pre-teen girl while taking her out in his works van. He groomed her, promising her money or meals at McDonald's in exchange for sex. His vile behaviour was discovered when his boss looked at footage from the vans dash cam. Bailey could be heard asking a girl, speaking in what sounded like a childs voice, if he could take a picture of her private parts. Jailing him for 19 years on Monday and ordering he serve an extended six years on licence, Judge Nigel Daly said: In my judgement what you did was to take away this girls childhood and youve also destroyed her adult life as well. All to satisfy your deviant sexual interest. Even now, reading the pre-sentence report, you are incapable of acknowledging what you have done and the effect that this may have had upon her. In a victim personal statement read to Oxford Crown Court by prosecutor Alexandra Bull, the girl said: I feel empty inside as if there is nothing there literally nothing there, literally nothing. Half of the time she wanted a new body, she said. If I could leave it I would, she added. The girl said she had struggled to sleep or eat and had suffered meltdowns as a result of what happened to her. Her mother said in a victim personal statement of her own, that her daughters ordeal was a mothers worst nightmare'. She added: Everyone is a victim in this except him. Bailey, of HMP Bullingdon but formerly of Banbury, was found guilty in February of four counts of rape of a child under-13, including two charges that alleged his victim was assaulted on at least 10 occasions. He pleaded guilty to inciting a child under-13 to engage in sexual activity and making an indecent image of a child. Judge Daly told the lawyers at Mondays sentencing hearing: I was shocked by what I heard of what she was saying when all this was going on in the van and the way in which she said it - and also in the matter of fact way she described things as if they were normal. Sentencing Bailey, the judge said he clearly thought this is normal behaviour as well. He concluded that the defendant presented a risk of serious harm to the public and particularly to pre-pubescent girls. Mitigating, Sumita Mahtab-Shaikh said her client had been doing courses while in prison and had applied for a job in the prisons gardens. His parents were in their 70s and 80s.

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A RAPISTS supporter shouted you lot are d***heads from the public gallery as a judge jailed his friend for four-and-a-half years. Clayton Moiloa, 27, had denied raping the girl, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, when he was in his early teens in the late 2000s. But jurors at Oxford Crown Court found him guilty of two counts of rape in January. He was acquitted of other, similar, charges. On Monday, as Judge Maria Lamb told Moiloa you are a sex offender and would remain on the sex offender register for the rest of his life, a man in the public gallery was heard to snort and repeat hes not. All you lot are d***heads, he said. Hes not a sex offender. Hes not. During the trial, jurors heard that the victim initially told a friend with whom she played computer games online about Moiloas assaults. Her mother spoke to her in 2016 about going to the police, but it wasnt until after she disclosed the assaults to a support worker in November 2019 that detectives became involved. The girl was said to have suffered flashbacks to what happened. Mitigating, Alistair Grainger said his client had had a shocking start in his life. He was exposed to domestic violence at an early age and suffered it himself, the court heard. As a youth and young man, he was in and out of court. However, he had no convictions for serious violence or sexual offending, Mr Grainger said as he tried to convince the judge that Moiloa should not receive an extended sentence as a dangerous offender. Sentencing Moiloa to four-and-a-half years imprisonment, Judge Lamb noted the defendants mitigation, including his educational difficulties and mental health problems. You were somebody who experienced domestic violence both by witnessing it [happening] to other family members and you also experienced it and were a recipient of domestic abuse violence towards you as well in your young years, she said. You were clearly a troubled youngster. The report both of the psychologist and the author of the pre-sentence report makes that clear. Judge Lamb said that, had Moiloa been an older youth when he carried out the assaults, she would have taken a starting point of nine years imprisonment. However, she reduced it to four-and-a-half years bearing in mindthat you were very young, you were very troubled at the time. She said she was not finding Moiloa to be a dangerous offender, as he had not gone on to commit offences that would attract an extended sentence. Moiloa, now of HMP Bullingdon but formerly of Oxford, was made subject to indefinite sexual harm prevention and restraining orders limiting his access to children and banning him from contacting his victim.

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A man from Oxford has today, Thursday, 10 March, been sentenced to 13 years in jail after being found guilty of four counts of serious child sex offences.

Henry Herbert Lenton, aged 36, from Barton Village Road in Oxford has been jailed for 13 years after being convicted of the following offences:

- 1 count of raping a child under 13

- 2 counts of causing or inciting a child under 13 to engage in sexual activity

- 1 count of sexual assault of a child under 13

The charges relate to offences that took place against one child between January 2019 and January 2021 in Bordon.

Lenton denied the charges but following a four day trial at Winchester Crown Court in February, he was found guilty of all four counts.

Appearing at Winchester Crown Court today (Thursday, 10 March) Lenton was jailed for 13 years with a one year extended licence period.

In addition to his custodial sentence, Lenton will be placed on the Sex Offenders Register for life and subject to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order.

Following the sentence, Detective Constable James Copley from Hampshire Constabularys Child Abuse Investigation team said This was a horrific and prolonged period of abuse against a child.

I would like to commend the child for their courage in coming forward and telling us what happened and for their bravery throughout this investigation.

We know how hard it is to come forward and report abuse which is why we have specially trained officers who support survivors throughout the investigation and the court process.

No child should have to suffer and we hope this case shows that we are committed to bringing to justice those who target children in this way.

We encourage anyone who is being abused or knows of someone who is being abused to contact us on 101 where you can speak to one of our specialist officers in confidence.

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A former Lidl worker who claimed that key evidence from a pair of pyjamas had been overlooked in his 2018 trial has had his appeal thrown out.

Justin Finnerty, then 22, was jailed for eight years and given an extended four year licence period after jurors at Oxford Crown Court convicted him of rape and sexual assault by penetration three-and-a-half years ago.

He raped the woman as she lay on his sofa, having invited her back to his Bicester home. His girlfriend was upstairs in the couples bedroom when he carried out his sick attack in July 2017. At his trial, Finnerty denied raping the woman claiming that they had had unprotected consensual sex several days earlier.

Lawyers for Finnerty asked the Court of Appeal on Tuesday to quash the Oxford jurys convictions, claiming that new evidence and alleged issues in how the trial was handled made them unsafe.

The new evidence was a report by a forensics expert, instructed by the bearded rapists legal team, questioning why Finnertys semen was apparently not found on pyjama bottoms worn by the victim on the night of the assault. It transpired that samples taken from the victim had been destroyed by the authorities.

Finnerty, formerly of Roman Way, Bicester, represented by Michelle Heeley QC at the hearing in the Royal Courts of Justice, argued that Judge Ian Pringle QC had failed to remind the jury of the defendants account when after being asked to by the 12-strong panel - he read from the victims police interview recounting her memory of the assault.

He suggested the jury was misled by inaccurate timings in a table of text messages he sent his girlfriend while downstairs with his victim, who was being sick. He claimed it meant the jurors were misled as to the amount of time he and the victim were alone together, giving the impression that it was for longer.

Rejecting the application for permission to appeal, Lord Justice Green said the new evidence the pyjamas could have been tested at the time and for whatever reason the defendants lawyers had not done so.

The new forensic report was based on a series of assumptions [about] what happened to the pyjamas that might be inaccurate.

The panel of three appeal judges said Judge Pringle, the trial judge, did not err in his handling of the case. We are clear none of it [the new evidence or grounds of appeal] casts doubt on the correctness of the convictions, Lord Justice Green said.

The Court of Appeal upheld the 12 year extended sentence, concluding: This was repeat offending upon a person in a vulnerable, incapacitated state. The pre-sentence report concluded [Finnerty] posed a danger to women.

We have read the pre-sentence report carefully and we conclude the judge was entitled to treat it as an important and persuasive factor in his own sentencing decision.

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The face of a Bucks sex pest who was jailed after asking "anyone want BJ?" on a swingers messaging app has been revealed. Police have released the mugshot of sex offender Stephen Owen, 60, after he was locked up for three years and two months on Friday 11 February. At his sentencing hearing at Amersham Law Courts, Owen, from Kidlington, Oxfordshire, pleaded guilty to four counts of breaching a sexual harm prevention order. The court heard how Owen was slapped with the 10-year order after he was convicted of producing indecent images of children - but he then proceeded to breach the order the day after he was given it. The court order banned Owen from downloading private messaging apps without the police's permission and prohibited him from using fake names on the internet. While based in Bucks, Owen breached the order when he downloaded the app Fab Swingers - used for hookups and sexual communications - and posted a message asking "anyone want BJ?" After meeting a man for a sexual encounter, the court heard that Owen asked the man if he wanted to see sexual images of children. The man declined and called the police over to his concerns about Owen's proposition. The court heard how between June 6, 2021 and October 2, 2021, Owen breached the order multiple times by downloading and using private chat features on apps including Whatsapp, Tinder, Snapchat and Badoo. At the same time as his offending, Owen was taking part in a rehabilitation programme that was supposed to be educating him on the wrongs of sexual crime. Judge Catherine Tulk was unimpressed that Owen had started offending so soon after she had given him the sexual harm prevention order, sentencing him to 22 months in prison as well as triggering a 16-month suspended sentence he was serving from his previous conviction. Judge Tulk said: What is really troubling me is that his probation report is really positive. He was a star worker. But all the time he was doing that he was offending. While on the face of it he was complying with it, when one looks at it its clear it was not genuine.

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A drunken beggar groped a mum-of-two on her own doorstep in a bizarre assault after he stopped at her door to ask for directions to the train station or bus stop. The woman had shielded her young daughter from creep Andrei Sandu after he knocked on her front door in Wheatley on December 6, 2020. An attempt to work out what the Romanian 21-year-old was saying using website Google Translate failed as he is illiterate. When she switched to a voice translation app on her phone the struggles continued. He was said to have reached forward to touch her thigh as if removing a piece of fluff from her clothing. Later in the exchange he groped the woman over her clothes and in front of her young daughter. Mitigating, Peter du Feu told Oxford Crown Court on Thursday: My first question to him in the cells today was do you want to be deported? He didnt answer that question but instead said: I am guilty, I am a stupid, guilty man. I have done it and I am very sorry. Jailing him for 18 months, Recorder John Hardy QC told Sandu: Your counsel with characteristic eloquence accepts that your behaviour was bizarre and inexplicable and no doubt fuelled by drink. But the effect it had on this young mother was to destroy her trust not only in you but in others and to make her reluctant to talk to or speak kindly to strangers. The effect of the jail sentence was that Sandu would likely be deported, the judge said. He told the defendant that judges no longer had the power to direct defendants deportation but added: Had I had that power I would have strongly recommended that you be returned to your home. The court heard that Sandu grew up in poverty with his six siblings in a two-bedroom home in rural Romania. He was illiterate and, his barrister suggested, might have learning difficulties. He came to the UK in search of a better life but became homeless. He had done short stints in jail for minor offences in Humberside and Lincolnshire but had no previous convictions for sexual offending. Mr du Feu said: I wish on his behalf, your honour, I could begin to explain what happened on that night. He cant explain it. He has relatively little memory of it because he was very intoxicated. That doesnt mitigate the offence. We know, if anything, it makes it worse but it perhaps explains his unusual behaviour. Sandu, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to sexual assault by touching. He will be a registered sex offender for 10 years. Welcoming the sentence, PC Curtis Emery said: This was an in-depth investigation with an aggrieved who managed to work well with officers at a vital time immediately after the incident. She gave us valuable information to locate and arrest Sandu, who took advantage of a stranger attempting to help him. I hope this sentence gives satisfaction and closure to the victim. Although there are no physical injuries to her, no sentence will ever take away the emotional effect. To have a custodial sentence given to an unwitnessed sexual assault, with no forensic opportunities, is a great achievement and has left the victim feeling extremely relieved at the final decision. Sandu fully deserves the sentence given to him. This sets an example of the length that Thames Valley Police will go to in order to bring offenders to justice, even in scenarios with very little physical evidence.

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A city council worker who took a photograph up a colleague’s skirt and pawed the woman at the council offices was branded a ‘pervert’.

But Judge Michael Gledhill QC stopped short of sending Kieron Keeble to prison, noting he had never been in trouble before, his family had stood by him and the offences dated back three years.

Keeble, 63, who no longer works for Oxford City Council, had denied outraging public decency and two charges of sexual assault by touching. But jurors at Oxford Crown Court unanimously convicted him on all three counts.

The court heard he'd used his mobile phone to take a photograph up his younger female colleague’s skirt as she stopped to take a picture of a squirrel while they were walking round Christ Church Meadow in July 2018.

She asked him to delete the image, which he claimed to have taken as a ‘prank’, but later found him looking at the disgusting snap. He told her he planned to go over the road from the city council offices to toilets at the town hall so he could perform a sex act on himself.

The jury found that Keeble had also squeezed the woman’s bottom and stroked her leg.

In an impact statement made in 2019 and read to the court on Friday afternoon, the victim said she’d had to move away from Oxfordshire after reporting the incident. She slammed the city council, saying she ‘felt they weren’t protecting me’, and added: “I regularly had anxiety attacks about the thought of going back there.”

Sentencing him to 12 months’ imprisonment suspended for two years, Judge Gledhill said there had been nothing amusing about Keeble taking the picture up his colleague’s skirt.

“It was not a prank. You have told lie upon lie in my view about what happened throughout these various incidents but particularly in Christ Church Meadow,” he said, adding it had been ‘no accident’ that the photograph was taken.

Judge Gledhill told the Oxfordshire dad: “It’s appalling to see a man of your background, a hardworking man of previous good character standing in the dock of this court aged 63.

“Working for Oxford City Council in 2018, your behaviour towards your colleague was shocking and quite frankly disgusting. You made her life intolerable.

“You have just heard read out her victim impact statement, written some time ago now, but you have seen the distress that she exhibited when she gave evidence by reliving the ordeal you put her through. You ought to be completely and utterly ashamed of yourself.

“I have seen your wife, your daughter and one of your sons sitting day after day at this court listening and watching what you did to your victim and goodness knows what was going through their minds.

“Their husband and father has been shown to be a pervert. Nothing less than that would describe what you did.”

Keeble’s personal and professional reputation had ‘gone out the window’, Judge Gledhill added.

He wondered what those who had provided character references in support of Keeble – including two former colleagues at the city council – would think ‘when they realise the side of you they know and have seen is not the only side of you; you have these perverted lusts that lead you to commit offences against women’.

Explaining his reasoning for imposing a suspended rather than an immediate jail sentence, Judge Gledhill told Keeble: “These offences are old, you have not committed or been convicted of offences of this kind before, there are no outstanding matters as far as I am aware, your wife stands by you as do your children.

“In those circumstances there is no benefit to the public from sending you to prison immediately.”

During the trial, Keeble claimed he had a ‘good’ sense of humour and decided to ‘pretend’ to take a photograph up his colleague’s skirt as a prank.

He had not realised he’d taken the picture until later and thought his colleague had deleted it. The defendant denied touching her sexually.

Former colleagues of Keeble’s at the council described him as ‘bubbly and caring’ and ‘honourable, decent and kind’.

Keeble, of Charlbury, Oxfordshire, will be on the sex offender register for 10 years and must pay £1,000 compensation and £3,500 in costs. A restraining order bans him from contacting his victim for five years.

Following the sentencing, an Oxford City Council spokeswoman said: “We expect the highest standards of conduct from all our employees, and any allegations against our staff will be quickly investigated and appropriately dealt with.

"As soon as this incident was reported Mr Keeble was suspended, and he resigned from the Council in 2019 while an investigation into the incident was ongoing. The investigation found him guilty of gross misconduct.”

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A rapist who filmed his sick abuse of a baby was labelled a monster to the innocent by his victims mother.

The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told paedophile Sam Burton: I hope you suffer for what you have done.

On Monday, Oxford Crown Court heard that 23-year-old Burton, who also pasted the heads of people he knew on child sex abuse images, still claimed he was not sexually attracted to children.

Jailing him for 14 years, Judge Nigel Daly imposed an extended sentence with the Abingdon man having to serve an extended four years on licence.

He will spend at least two thirds of his 14-year jail time behind bars before he is eligible for release.

Judge Daly told the defendant: Your actions were so depraved that, quite frankly, they defy belief.

Not only did you carry out the acts, you decided to record what you did. That, in the end, proved to be your downfall.

Prosecutor Michael Williams told the court Burtons vile abuse was uncovered last year when a video was found on his iPad showing him performing a sex act in front of a sleeping child.

Police officers trawled through the tablet computer, discovering a huge collection of child sex abuse images.

They included videos showing him raping a baby, explicit videos of a teen girl with whom he had previously been in a relationship and doctored photographs with the heads of children and an adult known to him pasted on to sex abuse victims.

The evidence pointed to him systematically searching the web for indecent material. He had downloaded from the internet 299 images and videos in category A, 211 in category B and 471 in category C.

In pre-sentence reports prepared by a psychiatrist and a probation officer, Burton was said to have denied having a sexual interest in children but was unable to say why he had carried out the abuse.

Matthew Rowcliffe, mitigating, said Burton was remorseful, had suffered from depression and was using drugs heavily at around the time he carried out his crimes.

Burton, of Sellwood Road, Abingdon, pleaded guilty at the earliest opportunity to rape of a child under 13, sexual activity with a child, and making indecent images of children.

The defendant must abide by a sexual harm prevention order and a restraining order for life.

He will be a registered sex offender for the rest of his life.

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A TEENAGER carried on having sex with his underage girlfriend despite a police warning.

But Jordon Brook was spared an immediate prison sentence at Oxford Crown Court as a judge said jail time would not address his behaviour.

The Oxfordshire man now 23 - was 19 when he struck up the relationship with the girl, who was in her mid-teens.

Prosecutor Charles Ward-Jackson said the teenagers began talking to each other over Snapchat. Their relationship quickly became sexual, with the couple meeting at Brooks fathers home. He told his father the girl was over-16.

In May 2018, a few months after they began seeing each other, the police served Brook with a Child Abduction Warning Notice. The order came after the girls mother found out about the relationship. The girl said that her boyfriend had begun to hit her and had started seeing another girl.

The police warned Brook to stay away from the girl. Mr Ward-Jackson said: It appears he ignored that warning and carried on seeing her. They exchanged sexualised messages.

By the following year, the girl was increasingly upset and told her mother the relationship had continued. Brook was arrested and, when interviewed, admitted to the police that hed kept on seeing his victim.

The court heard Brook had received two other Child Abduction Warning Notices in 2017 and 2019 relating to underage girls.

Mitigating, Kellie Enever said the case could not be likened to that of a man in his 20s or 30s grooming underage girls on social media.

In this young mans mind this was a relationship. He loved her and it was a relationship which of course he acknowledges he should not have carried on with, she said.

Brook had intellectual difficulties of his own, although Ms Enever said those mental health issues were not put forward as an excuse for his behaviour.

Judge Nigel Daly said he was not going to send Brook to prison as he did not think it would affect his behaviour.

Sentencing him to two years imprisonment suspended for two years, the judge ordered he complete a sex offender treatment programme and 180 hours of unpaid work.

The judge said: If you breach the suspended sentence, if you breach the requirements, you will be brought to this court and you will be in front of me and I know exactly what Ive said to you today and I tell you now I will send you to prison. Clear?

He noted that there had been a significant disparity in the ages of Brook and his victim. He said: Girls need protection not only from men but from themselves... at [that age] they are going through a very difficult period in their lives and they need protection.

Brook, of Cholsey, near Wallingford, pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to two counts of sexual activity with a child.

He must register as a sex offender for 10 years. A sexual harm prevention order limits his access to digital devices for the same period of time.

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A CHILD rapist who once threatened to blow up former Prime Minister Theresa May was jailed for making more hoax bomb threats against prison staff, including the governor. It was four years ago this month that we reported on the case of paedophile Marcia Walker, a transgender prisoner previously known as Mark Walker, who made three hoax bomb threats while in custody at HMP Long Lartin, a high security prison in South Littleton, near Evesham. The 43-year-old had previously been jailed for six months for claiming there was a bomb at former Prime Minister Theresa May's home in November 2012 when she was Home Secretary, telling her in a letter that she was 'a dead woman'. Walker appeared before his honour Judge Robert Juckes QC to be sentenced for three further hoaxes at Worcester Crown Court in February 2017. She had already admitted making a hoax call to Crimestoppers on December 4, 2015 and two written bomb threats to senior prison officer Bernard Thompson and Tom Wheatley, the prison governor, both on January 28, 2016. There was some uncertainty at the time about when Walker was due to be released from her existing sentence although a date in 2020 was suggested. Judge Juckes said he must extend Walkers sentence to deter Walker from making further disruptive threats. Judge Juckes said: You have spent much of this century in custody for the most serious kind of offences against children. "Whilst in custody, in order to draw attention to yourself and for other reasons outlined by the probation service and a psychologist, you have taken to making threats that bombs will be planted and will explode. He said Walker's grudge arose because she wanted transgender surgery, the possibility of which was still being investigated. The judge said: There is apparently no other way of controlling your behaviour other than by making it clear to you that each time choose and it is your choice to behave in this way, you face a longer sentence. "The only person that can end this cycle is you." Charles Hamer, prosecuting, said Mr Thompson, a senior prison officer with 24 years experience, had been handed a piece of paper by another officer from Walker which said a bomb was due to explode at his home that night. Mr Hamer said: He was concerned for the risk to his wife. An hour later a second piece of paper from Walker was brought to the attention of the wing officer which made reference to a threat to the governor, Tom Wheatley. The letter said an incendiary device had been sent to the governors home and Walker said she looked forward to watching what happened on television. Mr Wheatley said the public were unlikely to be directly aware of the operational impact of such threats but that the prison contained convicted terrorists and Walkers threats must be considered against that background. Walker has five convictions for 38 previous convictions and was sentenced to 13 years at Canterbury Crown Court on January 17, 2003. The prison sentence was imposed for two rapes against girls under the age of 16, one aged just four as well as 10 counts of making indecent photographs of children, seven of taking indecent photographs of children and two of distributing indecent photographs of children. Walker also made bomb threats while serving at HMP Parkhurst on the Isle of Wight, calling Crimestoppers to claim there was a nail bomb in the prison car park and a bomb at the governor's home address for which he was sentenced to four years on July 6, 2015. She also previously left answering phone messages saying there was a bomb at a probation hostel in Windsor for which she was jailed for six years at Oxford Crown Court on June 17, 2013. Simon Worlock, defending, said: "This is a disturbed individual who has been classically institutionalised." He also stressed that nothing had actually been sent to anyone's address and that 'all he did was make foolish claims'. Mr Worlock said Walker had been assessed as having Asperger's syndrome with rigid thinking, a lack of insight and a fixation on blaming the prison service. He said the offences were 'a nuisance' but 'not top end' in terms of sentencing and noted that at the time of the arrest police did not believe he had the means to arrange for the threats to be carried out. Mr Worlock added: "He doesn't know where the governor lives." The judge sentence her to an extra five years in prison once she has served her existing sentence.

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A SEXUAL 'predator' who abused a teenager girl after plying her with alcohol has been jailed.

Corey Reid, 24, of no fixed abode pleaded guilty to engaging in sexual activity with a child and sexual assault and he was sentenced at Oxford Crown Court on Friday.

On a night in April of last year, Reid, who was sleeping rough in Banbury, met and befriended two teenage girls and a teenage boy in the town.

He gave them alcohol and when one of his victims became intoxicated, Reid took her away from the group and sexually assaulted her.

One of the victim's friends called police and Reid was found and arrested.

The victim suffered both psychological and physical injuries as a result of the assault.

Investigating officer Detective Constable Bryn Smith of the Child Abuse Investigation Unit, based at Banbury police station, said: Corey Reid is a predatory offender and poses a danger to children.

His interests are satisfying his own sexual urges towards children, with no thought of consent or their welfare.

The victim in this case has shown incredible bravery throughout this traumatic experience.

"She was vulnerable, not only by her age, but also being intoxicated and targeted deliberately due to this.

She is still terrified by Reid, who was a complete stranger, and no length of sentence will change that.

I commend her for her bravery, and I hope that this sentence will act as a stepping stone to a confident and fulfilling future which she fully deserves.

I would always encourage anyone who has been the victim of a sexual assault to come forward and report it to police.

You will be listened to and supported by experienced officers and staff, and we will work tirelessly to bring offenders to justice.

He was jailed for a total of five years.

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A DEPRAVED pervert who sexually abused a friend's dog while looking after the animal has been caged.

Vile paedophile Andrew Flanagan, described as 'extremely sick' at court, was exposed after he photographed the animal abuse in which he forced a Rottweiller to engage in a sex act with him.

On investigating the 37-year-old of Field Avenue, Oxford, it was also revealed that he had in his possession a haul of banned images of child sex abuse, involving children as young as four, and had sent images to others.

Flanagan had already admitted six counts of making and distributing indecent images of children, as well as two counts of possessing extreme pornography and causing a serious sexual offence with an animal.

Oxford Crown Court heard at his sentencing hearing yesterday how the offences all took place in Oxford between October 2017 and September 2018.

Outlining the case, prosecutor Christopher Hewertson said that police raided Flanagan's Blackbird Leys home at about 6.30am on September 26, 2018.

Various electronic items were seized including smart phones and a Lenovo laptop and Flanagan told officers he 'knew immediately why they were there'.

A subsequent investigation of the equipment found a haul of indecent images of children and animals being sexually abused.

In a sinister and unusual discovery, four images were found depicting Flanagan himself engaging in a sex act with the dog that he had been looking after for a friend.

Prosecutors said at the sentencing hearing that Flanagan was caring for the dog while the owner was at work and there was no indication that they knew of the abuse being dealt to the animal.

Of the banned images of children that were also uncovered investigators found that he had a total of 287 images in category A - the most severe category, 103 in category B and 125 in category C.

It was also revealed that Flanagan had used file-sharing software such as eMule to distribute a number of the banned images to others.

He had sent to others six images of category A, two in category B and one in category C.

Search terms also revealed deliberate hunting for indecent images, which the judge called 'systematic searching for class A images' online, including terms such as 'pre-teen hardcore' and searches for five-year-old children.

Online chats also detailed Flanagan 'discussing and revelling in the sexual gratification that can be taken from sexual abuse of children'.

Officers also found that he had read Oxford Mail and Times articles about previous offenders being sentenced for having indecent images.

In mitigation yesterday his defence barrister James Reilley said his client suffered with 'extreme and severe depression and anxiety' and was taking medication for a diagnosis of HIV.

He said that Flanagan had had 'bouts of suicidal thoughts as a result' and called his client 'a good man' who had committed the 'out of character' offence at his 'lowest ebb'.

Mr Reilley added that Flanagan was 'clearly extremely sick' and was 'terrified' at the prospect of going to prison.

Sentencing, Judge Nigel Daly said: "The possession of indecent images of children, you know because you are not an unintelligent man, that before these images can exist there has to be a child.

"And that child has to be assaulted and that child very often is in extreme distress.

"These images will never go away and they will be there for as long as we have got the internet available."

As Judge Daly told him he had to impose an immediate jail term Flanagan broke down in tears and sobbed.

Flanagan was jailed for a total of 30 months for all the offences and he will sign the sex offenders register for life.

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A "depraved sexual predator" already serving a life sentence for raping a two-year-old girl has been sentenced to a further life term after he was found guilty of sexually abusing a teenager.

Daniel Kilbee, 38, formerly of Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire, was jailed in 2016 for dozens of sexual offences against six victims.

He has now been given another life term, to serve a minimum of five years.

He was convicted in June of four rapes and two assaults against the girl.

He was previously given a life sentence with a minimum of 10 years for 30 offences, including rape and making indecent images of children, between 1997 and 2015.

Judge Peter Ross, at Oxford Crown Court, ordered that the second should run consecutively, while Kilbee will be on licence for the rest of his life.