May 2015

Prison for paedophile who drove off with paedophile hunter on his car bonnet

 

A LYE man who drove off with paedophile vigilante Stinson Hunter clinging to the windscreen of his car after he had turned up hoping to meet an under-age girl has been jailed.

Pervez Akhtar, aged 57, of Church Road, was sentenced after pleading guilty at Warwick Crown Court to attempting to meet a 13-year-old girl for sexual activity following sexual grooming over the internet.

He had denied causing serious injury by dangerous driving to Kieren Parsons, now legally known as Stinson Hunter, but on the day of the trial he pleaded guilty to careless driving.

Akhtar, a married father-of-six, was jailed for 15 months, banned from driving for three years, ordered to register as a sex offender for ten years and hit with a sexual harm prevention order.

Prosecutor Michelle Heeley said the case resulted from the actions of Stinson Hunter, who attempts to entrap people he believes are paedophiles over the internet.

He created an online persona of someone named Jodie who, on June 2 2013, was contacted through an online chat site by Akhtar, using the name Ink45, who told her she was pretty.

Jodie made it clear she was only 13, although her profile picture was of someone who looked 18.

He asked her for a photo of her in school uniform and whether she had ever performed oral sex.

They then began texting – with Akhtar saying his his name was Pia Shalako and that he would like to see photos of her at which Jodie said she had never taken those kind of pictures before.

Akhtar, who told her she was ‘truly an amazing beauty,’ suggested meeting and when she tried to put him off he said he could bring wine and ‘a few pornos,’ and he suggested going to her home, which he was told was in Cedar Road, Nuneaton.

He was told her friend Lucy was visiting and he sent her a picture of his genitals and suggested ‘a threesome.’ They arranged for him to visit on June 4, and when they discussed what films he should take, he said he mainly watched adult material, but added: “As you’re not 18, I’ll bring Jungle Book.”

He also asked her to send him graphic images of herself standing in front of a mirror or wrapped in a towel after a bath.

When she asked him if he would stop if she asked him to, he said he was ‘more a kisses and cuddles person,’ but added: “I’ll try my best to control myself, but I get turned on by you.”

As he was parked in Cedar Road that evening a car pulled up with Hunter and two of his associates in it, and Hunter got out and ran to Akhtar’s Renault Megane, shouting at him to stop and wind his window down.

Recordings taken by one of Hunter’s associates showed Akhtar reversing away, chased by Hunter.

Then, after pointing briefly down at the road, the camera showed the car travelling forward at speed with Hunter on the bonnet sprawled across the windscreen before being thrown off.

A witness, however, described seeing Hunter jumping onto the bonnet, rather than being knocked onto it, and punching the windscreen.

As a result of his fall, the self-styled paedophile hunter suffered fractures to his heel and other bones in his foot, and he had to spend seven days in hospital and several weeks in plaster. He also had to use a wheelchair for two weeks.

Harpreet Sandhu, defending, said there was no actual victim in this case and he said Akhtar’s “ability to reflect in the course of the last 12 months indicates he is a man with the ability to approach a sentence in the community with success”.

He said Akhtar had not gone online with the intention of seeking out children and that his criminality was in not putting a stop to it when he learned Jodie’s age.

Jailing him, Judge Andrew Lockhart QC told him: “This was an attempt, and no child was actually placed in a position of risk – but that is something you did not know at the time, and you encouraged Jodie to recruit others to what was going on.”

May 2014

Nuneaton pervert catcher’s latest prosecution

A MAN who turned up for what he believed was to be a meeting in Nuneaton with an under-age girl has denied dangerously driving at the man who had snared him.

Pervez Akhtar pleaded guilty at Warwick Crown Court to attempting to meet a girl under the age of 16 following sexual grooming.

Akhtar, aged 56, of Church Road, Lye, Stourbridge, had driven to Nuneaton in June last year believing he was going to meet an under-age girl called Jodie for sexual activity.

But instead he was confronted by self-styled paedophile hunter Stinson Hunter who had set up a ‘sting’ by posing as Jodie in on-line conversations.

Stinson Hunter suffered injuries, including a broken leg, as Akhtar tried to get away.

But Akhtar pleaded not guilty to a further charge of causing serious injury to Stinson Hunter by driving his Renault Meganne dangerously in Cedar Road, Nuneaton.

It is alleged he had driven into Stinson Hunter, knocking him up onto the bonnet of the car before he fell into the road.

Prosecutor Stephen Bailey said a trial on the dangerous driving charge would take ‘a couple of days.’

But he asked for the prosecution to be given time to review the case and to decide whether to ask for it to go to trial.

Judge Richard Griffith-Jones agreed, and in the meantime ordered a pre-sentence report to be prepared on Akhtar, who was granted bail.

The judge told him: “There is some uncertainty about whether you will be tried by a jury.

“You are going to have to be sentenced anyway for the matter you have pleaded guilty to, and you will be seen by a probation officer for the preparation of a pre-sentence report.”

But Judge Griffith-Jones warned Akhtar: “The fact that I’m giving you bail at all is not a sign as to the sentence. Whoever sentences you will have all options open to them, including jail.”