August 2015
Crawley man who raped under-age girl jailed for eight years
A man has been jailed for eight years after raping a girl in Horsham.
Lloyd Breach, 23, formerly of The Old Stables, Ifield Wood, was sentenced for three counts of rape and one of assault by penetration at Hove Trial Centre on Wednesday (August 12).
He changed his pleas to guilty around three weeks before a trial was due to take place.
Judge Richard Hayward jailed Breach for eight years, with another eight on extended licence.
He was put on the Sex Offenders’ Register for life.
Breach had an existing sexual harm order extended to run for another ten years.
Judge Hayward said Breach’s offences, which were all committed when he was 20-years-old, came under category 2A for rape.
The judge said they were targeted attacks on a vulnerable girl.
Breach’s sentence was reduced by a fifth because he changed his pleas to guilty, which stopped her having to give evidence and being cross examined in a trial.
Breach could be released from custody after serving two thirds of the period subject to a ‘strict’ licence period, said Judge Hayward.
Peter Forbes, prosecuting, said the victim did not report the attack to police until she saw news reports stating Breach had been convicted of other sexual offences.
Breach had been sentenced to two years in jail for two counts of meeting a child following sexual grooming, two of sexually assaulting a child, one of attempting to cause or incite a child to engage in sexual activity, six counts of possession of indecent images of children, and one of possessing extreme pornography.
Mr Forbes said that Breach was released from prison, but was recalled on licence after he was convicted on two counts of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.
He said the latest offence fell under category 2A for rape because of Breach’s abuse of trust.
He read out a victim impact statement which stated: “The whole ordeal has been a long and emotional one.”
She said Breach had abused her trust when she was vulnerable, and she had suffered serious psychological problems since the attack.
Mr Forbes added it was a targeted attack in which the victim was threatened if she did not comply to his sexual demands.
Rachel Lane, defending, said Breach’s strongest mitigation was his changes of plea, which she said saved the victim the ordeal of having to come to court for a trial.
Ms Lane referred to a probation service report which stated he was a young man with vulnerabilities.
She said, on behalf Breach’s mother, he had difficulty forming relationships, struggled academically and was bullied as a child.
Ms Lane said Breach had been affected at the time of the rapes by the death of his grandfather and the breakdown of his ‘age-appropriate’ relationship.
The barrister said the case was not a ‘classic abuse of trust’, because they did not have a long standing friendship with each other.
“He recognises now through his words and his actions what he said to [the girl] led her to take part in activity which quite clearly she did not want to take part in.”
Ms Lane added Breach, a father and former bouncer, battles a ‘sub-conscious voice’ which tells him that young girls are attractive.
She said: “He expresses remorse, he says that he’s sorry and he also recognises that he’s a young man who does need help.”
She said Breach’s new girlfriend, a mother of young children, had written a statement which said he had encouraged her to report to police a her previous abusive relationship. He was ‘gentle and protective’ of her and talked positively of their future together.
Judge Hayward said Breach’s sexual offence convictions after the attack was a ‘worrying’ feature of the case.
His sexual offences prevention order was changed to bar him from having unsupervised contact with children without the approval of social services.
July 2015
Convicted sex offender pleads guilty to raping girl 3 times
A CONVICTED sex offender who groomed two young girls online has now admitted raping a girl three times.
Lloyd Breach was due to appear in court on Monday for trial but he changed his plea to guilty for four of the five charges he faced.
The 23-year-old, a former Hazelwick School student, admitted raping the victim on three occasions between October 1 and November 30, 2012.
Breach, from The Old Stables, in Ifield Wood, also pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting the same girl in Horsham during this period.
Breach continues to deny a second allegation of sexual assault and the Crown Prosecution Service agreed not to proceed with this charge based on the other guilty pleas.
The former Moka doorman and Central Sussex College student carried out the sex attacks when he was 20.
This is the second time in 20 months Breach has admitted carrying out a string of sex attacks.
In December 2013 he pleaded guilty to grooming two young girls online and attempting to groom a third, among 13 offences for which he was jailed for two years.
The charges on that occasion were two offences of sexual assault, an offence of inciting a girl aged between 13 and 15 to engage in sexual activity, two offences of grooming, one offence of attempted grooming and seven charges relating to the possession of indecent images.
These offences were committed between January 2012 and March 2013. When Breach was sent to prison in 2013, police were continuing to investigate him which led to him being re-arrested for other attacks he carried out in the same period.
The woman who first alerted police to Breach in 2013 after she discovered the “manipulative” conversations he was having with young girls online while borrowing her laptop, has called for him to get a much longer sentence this time.
The woman, who has asked to remain anonymous, said: “Lloyd moved in with me and my flatmate in spring 2013 when he claimed he was having problems at home.
“He was only with us for a month-and-a-half but I knew there was something odd about him.
“He had a strange manner about him and was very immature for his age.
“Lloyd used our laptop and he was always very secretive about it and would wipe the history.
“One day when he was out we checked what he had been doing and found records of explicit conversations he had been having with young girls on social media.
“He was mainly using Skype and Tagged.
“He was being very manipulative trying to get these girls to send him photographs.
“Lloyd was talking them into it and it was disgusting to read.
“We immediately got his stuff together and threw him out before calling the police.
“To now know he was attacking girls in person at the same time is disgusting.
“He must have realised girls his own age wouldn’t have put up with the way he acted so he targeted younger naive girls who he could talk into doing what he wanted.
“Two years in jail was nowhere near long enough before. He should be locked away for much longer.”
Breach, who has been remanded in custody, will be sentenced at Lewes Crown Court on August 12.
December 2013
Crawley man jailed for string of child sex offences
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