November 2002

JAILED FOR RAPE FILTH

A disgraced former school bus driver downloaded revolting images of young girls being raped while he was on probation for having sex with a schoolgirl, a court heard.

Michael Grosvenor was jailed for two years after pleading guilty at Warwick Crown Court to 18 charges of possessing indecent images of children and one of making an indecent image. Grosvenor, 31, of Sansome Road, Shirley, Solihull, was ordered to register as a sex offender for ten years.

Judge Richard Cole also made him subject to a three-year extension to the time he is on licence, and liable to be recalled to jail if his behaviour gives cause for concern, after his release. He told Grosvenor: photographs are quite revolting, and they depict acts of a very serious nature being committed against these children.”

Andrew Lockhart, prosecuting, said that in 1999 Grosvenor was working as a school bus driver.

He befriended a 15-year-old girl who he then encouraged to go back to his home where he had sex with her on a number of occasions.

He was put on probation for three years with a condition of attending a sex offenders’ programme after pleading guilty to three charges of unlawful sexual intercourse. But during this time and his probation he was having sex with the girl and was downloading child pornography.

A team from the police paedophile unit raided his flat after receiving intelligence that he had accessed child porn sites on the internet and downloaded images after paying for them with his credit card.

The officers found 10,000 indecent images.

Andrew Tucker, defending, said: “He accepts he has admitted disgraceful and highly unattractive conduct.

“When someone has an urge of this sort it is very difficult for that person to bring it under control.”