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Clos yr Onnen, with its well-kept homes and neatly manicured gardens, is like thousands of unassuming suburban streets throughout Wales. Just a stones throw from the medieval castle in the charming seaside town of Kidwelly, the quiet and overlooked cul-de-sac is outwardly unremarkable. Childrens bikes and scooters lean against lamposts as cars trundle back and forth on school runs, journeys to work, and trips to the shops. This Carmarthenshire estate is, on the face of it, certainly not the most likely setting for a satanic paedophile ring. Yet it was here that former Tesco security guard Colin Batley, now 56 years old, established his depraved cult which saw children and young adults intimidated into having sex in the most horrific circumstances. As ordinary, law-abiding families went about their daily lives in the dozens of homes in Clos yr Onnen Batley and three of his neighbours established an occult-inspired sex ring which stole the childhoods of its victims. The full, shocking scale of the abuse perpetrated by the cult came finally came to light when they were jailed for a total of 36 years in 2011 with quasi-religious sect leader Batley warned he may never be freed. But the roots of what happened in Kidwelly began some two decades before when Londoner Batley moved to Carmarthenshire. Having relocated in the 1990s he established a homemade cult of which he was the self-styled high priest. After Batley and his wife Elaine, who were married 28 years before they split ahead of their trial, had moved to Wales they were followed by Jacqueline Marling and Shelly Millar, who each moved into the same street and were part of the cult. Inspired by the works of arch-satanist Aleister Crowley, who died in 1947, female members of the sect referred to Batley as My Lord. Women in the cult, which they called The Church, filled their homes with ancient Egyptian idolatry and wore Eye of Horus protection symbol tattoos on their arms celebrating Crowleys worship of the Egyptian hawk god Horus. Cult members would dress in hooded robes during occult rituals which usually took place before group sex. A number of houses in the same cul-de-sac were used for the regular cult sex sessions as part of their swinging lifestyle. Scruffy and jobless Batley, who had several missing teeth, would read from the occult bible, The Book of The Law, written more than a century ago by Crowley as well as his other works Equinox of the Gods and The Book of Magick. He would also order cult members to have sex together and ensure that other members were present to film it. The recorded material, though, is all believed to have been destroyed before Batleys arrest. He was apparently tipped off by friends in London about the impending raid on his home two days before it happened. Batley, who was 48 when he stood trial over five weeks at Swansea Crown Court in the early part of 2011, was said to have used the cult as a form of brainwashing to justify abuse to his victims. One schoolboy, by that time an adult, told the trial Batley had repeatedly abused him as a child. A schoolgirl, also by then an adult, said she was forced into joining the cult through fear for her life. Batley told her a cult assassin would kill her if she did not take part in an elaborate initiation ceremony. It started with a 10-minute lecture on the occult by him but concluded with sex. The schoolgirl said she was later ordered to Batleys home on regular occasions when she would have to have sex with him. She was also taken to satanic sex parties where she would be passed round to have sex with strangers. At one an altar was set out with a goblet of red wine, an incense burner, and salted bread and sect members later disrobed or, in their words, became skyclad and had sex. Giving evidence against Batley via videolink during the trial one victim claimed all he had to do was click his fingers to make a woman strip. And she claimed that soon after she met Batley, when she was just 11, he told her to have sex with him or she would go to the abyss. I did not want him to do what he was doing but I did not have a choice because what Colin said was what happened. What Colin said went. Batley was also accused of stepping in to try to prevent a young woman from aborting a baby he believed he may have fathered so it could be a child of the occult. During the trial prosecutor Peter Murphy QC told the jury: The offences were committed against a background of persistent psychological coercion and fear using the vehicle of the occult. The victims were brainwashed, frightened they felt they had no choice. The perverted events described in court took place over several decades in both Kidwelly and addresses in London. Batley who smirked as the horrific allegations against him were laid bare in court repeatedly denied the accusations against him as he spoke out in his own defence. He denied he ran a cult or was in any way a leader. He did admit having an open sexual relationship with his wife and enjoying threesomes with co-defendant and second in command Jackie Marling, with whom he had a long-standing affair without the knowledge of his wife. The cult was smashed by police in the summer of 2010 when two courageous victims, a man and a woman, went to them with their stories of abuse at the hands of Batley and the other defendants. Five complainants, whose identity is protected by law, came to the subsequent trial to describe how they were taken or lured to the homes at Clos yr Onnen and subjected to sex attacks. Several broke down and sobbed as they recalled what they had been through. They also said others, who had not come forward, were also made to perform unspeakable acts. Batley also forced victims into prostitution, with prosecutor Mr Murphy saying the controlling and manipulative sect principal took a 25% cut of any cash other members earned. Millar, then 35, was said to have got through 3,000 clients in a two-year period while acting as a prostitute in massage parlours in Swansea and Bristol. The trial heard how Batley purchased a 21,000 luxury caravan in February 2010 using a 3,210 cash deposit despite having no obvious income. Batley, who dismissed his role as a feared high priest of his own religion as a load of rubbish, claimed he made 10,000 a year breeding pedigree rottweilers for sale and said he also bred Siamese cats. And he claimed some of his money came from gambling on the dogs and horses. During the trial it emerged that following their arrests the preceding summer the Batleys had separated. While giving evidence she accused her husband of laughing at her from the dock as she stood in the witness box. She said: I feel embarrassed to be married to him. And she added: Ive changed, you wont get the better of me now. She told the court that while she and Marling had been involved in threesomes and had had a fling together she only found out later that her husband and Marling had been having a long-term affair. The discovery was made when Marling sent him a birthday card with the words To my husband on it. Of her marriage, Elaine Batley said on one occasion he sent a photo of her to the Readers Wives section of a pornographic magazine and this led to them meeting other couples for group activities. As the defendants were led down the steps to court cells after being remanded in custody following the guilty verdicts against them Elaine Batley could be heard screaming I ******* hate you at her husband. Crying and sobbing was audible from the cell steps. Barely containing his contempt for the defendants as he jailed them for total of 47 charges, Judge Paul Thomas QC told them: You besmirched the unsuspecting community of Kidwelly by setting up a community within a community which involved rape, child sex abuse and prostitution. The trial was so harrowing that jurors were offered counselling.

The defendants and their sentences

Colin Batley The self-styled 'high priest' of the cult grew up in Shoreditch, London, and once worked for Tesco as a night security guard. He also ran a fruit and vegetable stall. He spent 28 years married to wife and co-defendant Elaine. Batley claimed his late lorry driver father sexually abused him as a child. Asked in court about his fascination for Egypt the 48-year-old just said: Egypt? I dont mind Egypt. He was convicted of 35 offences including 11 rapes and numerous child sex crimes. Sentencing him to an indeterminate prison term on public protection grounds and ordering him to serve at least 11 years before being eligible for parole, Judge Paul Thomas QC told him: When this case was opened to the jury you Colin Batley were described as evil. That in my view is an accurate statement of your character. You set yourself up as the ruler of a sick little kingdom surrounded by three women who danced as your willing attendants regarding you as their master. Its clear you dedicated your life since the age of 12 or 13 to satisfying your sexual urges by any means at your disposal. You left your victims psychologically scarred and treated them as sexual playthings. Elaine Batley She grew up in East London and had tattoos including the Eye of Horus on her arm, a pentagram above Egyptian script on her leg, Tutankhamun on her back plus another Egyptian script on her back which she claimed she did not understand. When asked if she had ever been to Egypt during her trial the then 47-year-old said she would like to have gone but had not visited because of the heat. She also told the court she liked the ancient Egyptians because they were good to their slaves. She admitted to an affair with Jackie Marling and a fumble with Shelly Millar and told the court she was interested in Aleister Crowley and read his work. According to one of the victims in the case Batleys wife was treated like a slave but the judge said she became a willing participant in her husbands wickedness. The jury heard how a young boy was tricked into having sex with her She was jailed for eight years after being convicted of indecency with children. Jacqueline Marling She grew up in Poplar, East London, and was 42 at the time she stood trial. Marling initially denied to police officers that she was a prostitute but her car was spotted making regular trips to brothels in the centre of Swansea and Bristol. She sported an Eye of Horus tattoo on her arm and had a figurine of a cat goddess in her home plus a drawing of the Mask of Tutankhamun and one of the hawk-headed Egyptian god Horus. She had affairs with Colin Batley and Elaine Batley. Described as ringleader Colin Batley's "second in command", she was jailed for 12 years for aiding and abetting rape and child sex offences. Jailing Marling, the judge told her: After Colin Batley you are the most culpable in this horrific scenario. Your relationship with him brought together two kindred evil spirits. You were clearly besotted with him and The Book Of The Law and I view you effectively as his second in command in all this. You may or may not take this as a compliment but you have fully lived up to the ideals of your mentor Aleister Crowley. He added: Throughout the trial you have not displayed a flicker of emotion. The tears in your eyes now I take to be tears of self-pity. Shelly Millar The 35-year-old sobbed as she was found guilty of two counts of indecency with children, one of which involved having sex with a 12-year-old boy. Having grown up in Kent, Millar had an Eye of Horus tattoo on her arm and admitted to having around 3,000 clients as a prostitute during a two-year period working in Swansea and Bristol. She was jailed for five years. In the aftermath of the court case neighbours in Clos yr Onnen described Batley as an evil bully. His rundown home had a torn and ragged England flag pinned outside while two rottweiler dogs named Sekhet after the Egyptian lion goddess and Toots, short for Tutankhamun could often be heard leaping at the door. People nearby described how Batley who also had a cat called Rameses used to walk around the estate with his two dogs as if to intimidate people. Colin Batley is the most disgusting and vile man you could meet, one neighbour said at the time. One woman said: Batley and one of his friends used to have a van calling regularly, with a consignment of contraband tobacco and, we think, pornography. They used to head off to France on fortnightly trips and sometimes were gone for as long as six weeks. It makes you wonder if part of their cult activity was going on there too. Seven years later street resident John Wheatland still remembers being able to hear one of the victims crying at night. He didnt know why and says he had no idea whatsoever of the awful reality of what was going on. She would cry every night, sobbing, he said. I didnt know why and I never raised suspicions but I should have known something wasnt right. Mr Wheatland also described an extraordinary incident as he worked in the garden of his home and saw a teenage girl done up to look like a film star nearby. He estimated her to be aged 14 or 15. She looked at me and said: Do you want sex then? I was shocked. I dont know what I said but I went inside. Id never heard anything like that before. The woman who had dressed her, her said, used to dress up in very short skirts and high heels and walk to Batleys house. Recalling the day the cult members were arrested in the summer of 2010 he said he had been leaving his house at around 8.30am when he saw police cars in the street. When I came back they were gone, he said. I had no idea what it was about. This is a quiet neighbourhood. When all those Londoners came down it was very strange. Batley was very arrogant. Apart from that there was nothing suspicious about him. We didnt speak. Speaking in 2014 one of the victims of the cult who published a book under the pseudonym Annabelle detailing what she had been through over 11 harrowing years of abuse described how her own mother, Jackie Marling, abused her under Batleys orders. Nothing can hurt me as much as my mum and that man, she said. My mother was an evil woman and Ill never forgive her. By then a mother herself and living happily in another part of the UK, she told how she was just seven years old when first forced to watch her mother perform a sex act on Batley. At the age of 11 she was raped by him in her own home and three years later she was made to take part in group sex with her mother. I went to the sentencing in court because I wanted to see her one last time, she said. I wanted her to reach out to me, to say it was all his fault and she was under his spell. But she didnt. She just made a face and asked what I was doing there. She went to prison unrepentant and I suppose that made me realise it wasnt just him. She was evil too. As a mother myself I can hardly believe how she treated me. It was unnatural and cruel. But there is no point getting depressed about it, you have to live for the future. But I never want to see her again. Nothing can hurt me as much as they did but that is what makes me stronger. She described how the children abused by the cult were cut off from their peers and forced to take part in long church services and obey Batleys every whim. We werent even allowed to look in his eyes, said Annabelle. He ruled our little community with an iron will and we were made to do what he ordered for fear of angering the Gods. In Batleys Church, children were led to believe they were proving themselves to the Gods by passing tests, which usually involved sex with either him or other cult members. Annabelle recalled the first time he raped her when she was just 11 years old. The worst thing about it was the fact that he made me think I was doing it out of choice, she said. It was awful. The most painful and shocking thing that had ever happened but it was my path, thats what he told me, and if I didnt do it I would go to the Abyss, which was our version of hell. Colin knew how to manipulate you, to make you believe anything he said. But Annabelles most horrific experience was when her own mother assaulted her at the age of 14. Afterwards, Colin asked me if I enjoyed it and I knew what I had to say I had to say yes. But inside I felt like dying. The tests did not end there at 14 she was forced into a relationship with another cult member five years her senior and by then she was having regular group sex with Batley and her mother. I was a schoolgirl by day and a sex slave at night, she said. It got so bad that at one point I tried to take my own life. Aged 18, three months after having Batleys child, she was forced into prostitution. It was the love of her daughter that saved her and gave her a reason to live she bravely escaped in the dead of night when her baby was one year old. By the time of her escape she had slept with over 1,800 men the proceeds of which had all gone towards the Church. After the case another victim descrived how Batley forced her to put on a satanic symbol and raped her as a teenager. The woman described how he ruled the cult by fear. [Colin] was the boss. He barked orders at everybody including me. People just did what they were told. He had Rottweilers that were scared of him but vicious to everyone else. At 15 I had to have sex with Colin. He said it was an initiation into the occult. He said he did not want to do it but it had to be done. He said if I did not follow orders I would be killed. People higher up in the cult would do it, he said. Reflecting on his jail term she added: A hundred years would not be enough for Colin Batley. But at least now myself and the other victims can start to rebuild our lives outside of the shadow of that contemptible man. She was originally from London but was brought to Wales by Batley where she was abused and passed round to other cult members who had sex with her. She said: He said the occult was strong in Wales.

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POLICE found 58,000 "inappropriate" images on the laptop of a convicted paedophile, a court heard.

Pensioner Malcolm Webster is back behind bars after committing his fourth child sex offence and must now tell the authorities of his whereabouts for the rest of his life following his latest conviction for distributing videos of children being abuse.

The 69-year-old, pictured, who was previously jailed in 2000 for sexually assaulting youngsters and in 2013 for possessing images, was caught after officers carried out an inspection of his electronic devices.

Southampton Crown Court heard drawings of children, as well as thousands of prohibited pictures were found, including computer generated images of young people.

Prosecutor Daniel Sawyer said more than 7,000 illegal pictures were found, as well as indecent movies.

During the investigation police seized a computer tower.

While this was being examined, Mr Sawyer said, Webster purchased a laptop which was later found to have 58,000 "inappropriate but not chargeable images".

Mitigating, Mark Florida-James said Webster wanted to apologise to his friends.

Judge Nicholas Rowland said: "Only because of people like you are that these young children are being abused and the misery that it causes them. If you did not distribute the images, they would not be abused."

Webster, of Leaside Way, Southampton, admitted making indecent images, distributing indecent photos and possessing prohibited images.

He was sentenced to three and a half years imprisonment and an indefinite sexual harm prevention order was made.

Following Webster's conviction, a spokesperson for child protection charity The Lucy Faithfull Foundation said: "If you are concerned about what you are looking at online, or the online behaviour of someone you know, you can call the confidential and anonymous 'Stop It Now' helpline on 0808 1000 900 for advice, support and help to stop. Or visit stopitnow.org.uk to find out more."

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John Quigley,of Maybrook Mews, has a total of 32 previous convictions and 30 of those are for sex offences.

The 60-years-old, who is a former senior employee of the N. Ireland Housing Executive, admitted two charges of indecently assaulting a male between December 1973 and April 1975.

Quigley was 16-years-old at the time of the offences and the victim was 14.

Derry Crown Court heard the injured party disclosed the abuse to a counselling and support service before making a statement to police in 2015.

The victim met Quigley at the local Boy Scouts of Ireland, who was older and a leader in the group at that time.

Some months after the victim had joined the scouts, Quigley invited him to his house to complete some badge work.

He took the boy into a garage, told him to open his trousers and touched him in a sexual manner.

Quigley told the boy this was a secret and warned him not to tell anyone.

A couple of weeks later , Quigley and the boy went for a walk along the River Foyle and he suggested they stop and lie down on some grass.

Quigley opened the victim’s trousers and touched him in a sexual manner for around half an hour.

He was ‘reassuring the complainant that everything would be alright’ and afterwards warned him again not to tell anyone and that it was a secret.

After this incident the victim did not have any further involvement with Quigley as he became a cub leader and their meetings were held on a different night.

Quigley was interviewed by police about the allegations in 2015 and he denied them.

The defendant denied taking any younger boys under his wing and claimed that he could not remember the complainant.

Defence counsel, Martin Rodgers, QC., said his client ‘acknowledges the hurt and harm he caused to the injured party.’

He said Quigley had served two previous sentences of imprisonment for offences which were committed at around the same time and he now wants to ‘put all this offending totally behind him and move on.’

Suspending a 12 months sentence for two years, Judge Philip Babington said Quigley’s behaviour was ‘completely wrong and unacceptable’ and he had ‘blighted many people’s lives by his offending.’

Quigley will also be subject to the notification requirements of the Sex Offenders’ Register for a period of 10 years.

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A CONVICTED sex offender who formed a relationship with a single mum without telling her his true identity has been jailed. It is the second time Andrew Dolman, 36, has lied about who he is to women with children. The defendant, who has abused two teenage girls and an adult woman, left a Bournemouth mum "devastated" last year after meeting her via dating site Plenty of Fish using the name Andy Wood. He was sentenced to 10 months in prison in September 2017 after admitting breaching a number of notification requirements of the sex offenders' register. On Friday, Dolman, of Cecil Road in Boscombe, returned to Bournemouth Crown Court to be sentenced for similar offending. The defendant, who admitted breaching his sexual offences prevention order and failing to comply with the notification requirements of the register, was in a relationship with the Dorset woman for around two and a half months. He was once briefly left alone with her children while she went to the shops. Prosecutors accepted he did not form the relationship with any intention of abusing the children. Stuart Ellacott, prosecuting, said: "The defendant is under multi-agency public protection arrangements as a high-risk sex offender." Dolman's victim knew he had been in prison, but believed it was for "football-related violence", Mr Ellacott said. The defendant has a slew of convictions relating to non-compliance with his order, the court heard. He has previously been convicted of indecently assaulting a young girl in Warwickshire in 2000 and having sex with a girl under 16, and detaining a child, in West Dorset in 2012. Nick Robinson, mitigating, said Dolman's appearance in the Daily Echo would be "tantamount to torture" for the defendant. "This was not a targeted attempt to gain access to a child," Mr Robinson said. "He found a meaningful friendship and had somebody to talk to." The court heard Dolman was himself sexually abused from a "very young age" and has been "isolated and segregated' by reason of his convictions. "He did not ask to be sexually abused as a child, but he was, and he grew up to sexually abuse others," said Mr Robinson. "He is doing the best he can to try and live life." Press coverage of the case means the defendant will "continue to suffer very severely" the barrister said, adding: "It is probably the worst punishment." Judge Peter Crabtree said Dolman has a "history of disobedience of orders". "I note the probation officer's assessment that the likelihood of reoffending is high, and that the risk or serious harm is also high given your apparent inability or unwillingness to comply with restrictions placed on you. This makes you, in the probation officer's assessment, an unmanageable risk in the community," the judge said. "You have repeatedly demonstrated an unwillingness to comply with notification requirements, and now your sexual offences prevention order, in circumstances where they are in place for very good reason - that is, to protect young females and female children." Sentencing Dolman to 16 months in prison, the judge warned: "You must understand that compliance with these orders is not optional."

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A stalker who hacked into a 14-year-old girl's social media accounts and shared explicit pictures of her has been jailed for five-and-a half years.

Craig Fletcher, 40, an IT expert from Meir, Staffordshire, became obsessed with the young girl's every move and even threatened extreme violence against any male friends of hers.

He was sentenced today after admitting two counts of stalking, four counts of sending private photographs without consent and for possessing extreme pornography.

On one occasion the 40-year-old went into a McDonald's restaurant and threatened to break a boy's legs if he went anywhere near the young girl.

On another occasion he pursued a boy in his car.

After the teenage girl entered a relationship, Fletcher would harass the young couple with sexually explicit messages, a court heard.

He would also hack into their accounts to send private photos of them to their friends.

The 40-year-old was arrested in 2017 and police found a large number of extreme pornographic images - featuring animals, sadism and mutilation - on his computer.

Judge Christopher Batty told the defendant: 'You have never provided an explanation as to why you did this.

'But I take the view that it was born out of obsession and nothing else - your campaign caused significant stress to two young people.

'You were able to stop this at any time but you did not. You are now ashamed of what you did but you only have yourself to blame.

'This was not a one-off matter, it was a long course of action over many months.'

The court heard that the 14-year-old girl and her boyfriend were both left feeling suicidal following their ordeal.

Matthew Harding, defending, read out a letter to the court from Fletcher in which he apologised.

He told how he was 'disgusted' with himself and revealed had 'lost everything'.

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A man aged 30 has been jailed for seven and a half years for sexually abusing a young girl.

Damian Clarke, of Penfield Grove, Clayton, Bradford, was convicted on Friday following a trial at Bradford Crown Court.

The jury found him guilty of six charges of sexually assaulting a child under 13 and a single count of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.

Clarke must sign on the sex offender register for an indefinite period and the judge, Recorder Simon Eckersley, made a Sexual Harm Prevention Order, also for an indefinite length of time.

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A pervert who thought he was meeting a 15-year-old girl was snared by so-called paedophile hunters after residents of a housing estate helped chase him down.

Mark Turnbull, 51, had been engaging in explicit chat with who he thought was a schoolgirl on the social media app Scout but was actually talking to vigilante group who call themselves Dark Justice.

Members of the group confronted him when he turned up meet the 'girl' at St Anthony's Park in Walker, Newcastle. He sped away in his car to the nearby Daisy Hill housing estate where he left his vehicle but with the help of locals he was captured.

A Dark Justice spokesperson said: 'We followed him at a safe distance until he abandoned his car and we continued on foot.

'We told locals what we were doing and they helped us find him. He had been hiding in an alleyway.

'There were about 20 people helping. He'd also hidden a mobile phone and one of the residents found that for us under a bin close to the alley.

'Without that we wouldn't have been able to secure a conviction. We can't thank them enough. We phoned the police and he was arrested.'

On the video Turnbull is seen hiding his face beneath a coat while he cowers in the back alley. A Dark Justice member tells him: 'You knew exactly how old the girl was.

'You are lucky you did not destroy some girl's life. You would have if you had got your hands on the girl.'

At Newcastle Crown Court this week Turnbull, Newcastle, pleaded guilty to attempting to meet a girl under 16 following grooming.

He was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment, suspended for 24 months, made the subject of a rehabilitation activity requirement for two years and slapped with a 140 victim surcharge.

He was also ordered to sign the sex offenders register for ten tears and attend a sexual offenders programme for a minimum of 54 days.

The Dark Justice spokesperson said: 'The sentences that judges pass these days are never harsh enough. Next time this man might target a real child. There is no deterrent and no real punishment.'

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The 56-year-old raped his victim despite her repeatedly pleading for him to stop, the court heard A former Kent Police sergeant has been stripped of his title after he was found guilty of rape and stalking offences. Clive Garton, 56, from Sittingbourne, had been with the force as a sergeant for 23 years. But in June he was given a sentence of 16 years behind bars after being found guilty of the offences back in June. He was also found guilty of perverting the course of justice. Lewes Crown Court heard in May that the serving police officer approached his victim as she sat on the stairs and raped her. She had repeatedly asked him to stop through the ordeal. When questioned by officers the victim spoke of how she had endured years of stalking and controlling behaviour from Garton. He also tracked her mobile phone so he could find out where she was at all times. During the trial the jury was told that Garton had attempted to track the victims mobile phone while he was on bail for the offences against her. Garton claimed the victim had consented to sex with him, but admitted placing the listening devices in her home. In interview he told officers he could dial into the devices and listen to the victim. 'We represent a force the public should have confidence in' After a special case hearing at the Kent Police HQ in Sutton Road, Maidstone, today (November 12) Ch Cons Alan Pugshley took away Garton's title. The panel heard how an allegation was made back in October 2016 that Garton had raped a woman and attempted to deter her from involving the police. They also heard how he had previously harassed his victim and placed listening devices in her home. After the hearing Supt Nick Gossett said: "The vast majority of Kent Police officers act with utmost integrity and represent a force that the public should have confidence in. "In this rare instance an officer has been found guilty of committing serious offences and the force did not hesitate in instantly making an arrest and building a case against him. "When wrongdoing is reported against officers, there is no leeway given. Our Professional Standards Department will conduct a full investigation and present their findings in an open and transparent process to ensure that the public can rightfully have faith in their police service."

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This is the face of the sick perverted man who pretended he was a specialist doctor to sexually assault a "vulnerable" pregnant woman in hospital and he has just lost an appeal to cut his jail sentence.

Gregory Boyle, from Mount Close, in Pound Hill, tricked his victim into believing he was a cardiologist while she was in a bed in hospital and he touched her intimately and inserted a "probe" into intimate parts of her body, before a nurse walked in and raised concerns about who he was.

Boyle, 59, was jailed for six years and four months at Croydon Crown Court in May, having previously pleaded guilty to to assault by penetration and sexual assault.

On Thursday (November 9) he appealed the length prison term, but three senior judges at the Court of Appeal in London ruled he deserved every day of his sentence for the "serious" crimes.

Boyle visited his pregnant victim when she was being treated at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH), in Farnborough, Kent.

Prior to the horrific sex attack, the victim's partner had undertaken building work at Boyle's Crawley home and confided in him that she was pregnant and had a heart condition.

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WORRIED parents have spoken of their fury after finding out a convicted paedophile is living near a school and kids' park. Gareth Roberts, 36, was caught with indecent images of children as young as four. The images found by police at his Brough, Yorkshire home included those of children in "discernible pain or distress", Hull Daily Mail reported. He was given a ten month suspended sentence on Monday after 58 images at category A - the most serious - 228 at category B, and 133 category C images were found. But parents have revealed their horror after finding out he received a suspended sentence, and that his home was just two streets away from a popular children's park and close to Welton Primary School. Images of the married 36-year-old have since been shared by concerned members of the community. The IT consultant's sentence was based on the number of images police were able to recover during their search of his home in March 2017. He had reportedly installed a file-shredding application which meant the total number of images downloaded could not be established. Parents took to social media to raise their concerns, with one writing: "How has he got away with this? Feel sick that he lives on the next street!" Another added: "From brough aswell another one getting nearer." Roberts admitted to three offences of making indecent photographs of children between 2011 and 2017. He had no previous convictions. Roberts was ordered to have up to 50 days rehabilitation, and pay 500 costs within 28 days.

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Callum Smith, 22, of Ash Lea Grove, Stalmine, pleaded guilty to one count of sexual assault of a male and two counts of sexual activity in the presence of a child at Preston Crown Court last month.

He was sentenced yesterday to a total of 15 months in prison.

He was also subjected to a sexual harm prevention order, and must sign the sex offenders register for 10 years.

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A CONVICTED paedophile was caught failing to register his devices to be monitored by police, a court heard.

Aaron Hutter was initially caught using internet chat rooms to contact young children by specialists using a fake profile.

Their investigations in 2015 uncovered evidence that he had also built up a collection of more than 1,000 indecent images of children as young as five – and some clips involving animals.

But three years on and despite being ordered to comply with a sexual harm prevention order, the 24-year-old admitted twice not registering his console and deleting his internet history on his iPhone.

Southampton Magistrates' Court heard that in May, Hutter failed to make the mobile phone available upon request to police and that he restored the factory settings on the phone.

He also didn't register the name he was using on his Xbox.

Previously, Hutter was handed an eight month suspended prison sentence for numerous charges of possessing indecent images.

At the time, Southampton Crown Court was told officials from the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) used a fake profile of a ten-year-old to snare him.

He was traced talking to a ten-year-old girl on social media and email.

Police raided his home and seized computer equipment containing 1,103 images – including 158 of the worst category, it was heard.

When sentencing Hutter, Judge Peter Henry said the images were "disturbing" and added: "No-one said you were directly involved in the abuse of these children but people are involved and they are in it to make money and in it to share these revolting images with people like you.

"The real victims are these young children."

Hutter, of Spring Road, Southampton, pleaded guilty to the charges and was made the subject of a community order, which includes the requirement to complete 100 hours unpaid work within the next year.

He was also ordered to pay £85 costs and £85 victim surcharge.

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A detective who worked in a child abuse investigation unit has been jailed for abusing a young girl and making "gruesome" indecent images.

Det Con Chris Maitland, of Widey View, Plymouth, had previously pleaded guilty to two counts of sexually touching a child under the age of 13.

He also admitted 12 charges of taking and making indecent images of a child.

The 40-year-old was jailed for five years and four months at Southwark Crown Court.

He is employed in the Met's sexual offences, exploitation and child abuse command.

Maitland was originally arrested on 22 November last year on suspicion of possession and distribution of indecent images of children.

He was re-arrested on 15 March on suspicion of sexual touching, and later charged.

Scotland Yard said he was off duty at the time of the offences and is currently suspended.

When he pleaded guilty, Judge Nicholas Loraine-Smith referred to the material on his computer as "pretty gruesome".

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A 20-year-old man from Staines has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for sexual abusing a five-year-old girl.

Tyler Eastley, of Lowlands Drive, was convicted of assaulting a girl under 13 by penetration after a four-day trial at Guildford Crown Court in July 2018.

Passing sentence on Friday (November 2), Judge Alexia Durran described Eastley as "an immature young man" with a history of substance abuse who had engaged in "a degree of grooming" before assaulting his victim.

Reading a statement from the victim's mother, prosecuting barrister Allister Walker said of the victim: "She has become a different child since the incident."

The statement went on to describe the victim's changed behaviour, saying she had become afraid of men in hats and police cars, as she thought Eastley might be in the back of one.

"She felt guilty and that she was to blame," Mr Walker read.

Speaking after the trial, but before sentencing, the mother had already described how the family had struggled to come to terms with Eastley's actions.

She said: "We are devastated by what has happened.

"We feel it is very important for people to be made aware of what he has done to such a young child and we sincerely hope that this will never happen again.

Speaking in mitigation, defence barrister Rupert Hallowes said: "The fact of the matter is this defendant has had a wretched upbringing characterised by violent relationships and perpetual instability.

"He is a defendant who has never managed to form a stable relationship with anyone."

Mr Hallowes went on to say Eastley was "not a hopeless case by any stretch of the imagination" and that "he knows he must take his medicine now".

However, he added that Eastley could well serve his full sentence behind bars "if he doesn't take steps to address his offending".

Judge Durran said Eastley would spend a maximum of nine years in prison and a further period on licence, during which time he could be recalled to prison for any further offences, and that he would serve a minimum of four-and-a-half years before being considered for parole.

She also imposed a sexual harm prevention order, banning him from staying in the same house as or having unsupervised contact with girls under 16, unless their parents had been informed of his offending and consented, and said his name would be placed on the sex offenders register.

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A teenager from Blackpool, who sexually abused a number of young girls, has been jailed for over 12 years.

Ryan Garside, 18, of Orme Street, groomed his young victims on social media, before meeting up with them to carry out the horrific assaults.

He was sentenced at Preston Crown Court for 20 offences relating to four child victims between 2016 and 2017.

His abuse included the rape of a 13 year old girl in which he covered her face and used a school tie as a ligature.

He was between 16 and 17 when he committed the offences.

At an earlier hearing Garside pleaded guilty to one count of rape, ten counts of sexual activity with a child, one count of possession of indecent images, three counts of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and five breaches of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order – issued in May 2017.

Garside was given two sentences - nine years and seven months and an additional 32 months for breaching his Sexual Harm Prevention Order on numerous occasions.

He has also been placed on the Dangerous Offenders Register.