April 2009

Sex monster brothers

TWO paedophile brothers have been jailed for at least seven years each for what a judge described as “sexual depravity against children on a huge scale”.

Graham Potter, 40, and half-brother Damien Barker, 22, carried out a sickening two-year orgy of abuse against a boy and girl as young as five.

Potter was jailed indefinitely after he admitted a catalogue of sex crimes including offences against another young boy and girl in the late 1990s. He will serve a minimum of seven years before a parole board can consider his release.

Barker, of Custom House, who has a reading age of a five-year-old, was jailed for seven years.

Potter’s partner Sharon Day, 40, denied joining the brothers in three gang sex attacks but admitted child cruelty charges and received a ten-month jail term suspended for two years.

Potte admitted having “deviant sexual fantasies” about pre-pubescent girls.

After repeatedly forcing himself on the petrified youngster he threatened to kill her, Snaresbrook Crown Court heard.

Potter also forced himself on a boy of seven.

He joined Barker in the abuse of a boy and a girl between February 2005 and March 2007.