January 2008

Vile paedophile owned kids’ nursery

A vile paedophile who attacked victims as young as two years old has been locked away for life.

Children’s nursery owner Daniel Lynch, 27, of Taplow, committed a series of sickening sex attacks on young children over a three-year period.

Lynch owns two children’s day nurseries, one for children aged from three months to two years and another for two to fives.

He also recorded graphic pictures of his campaign of physical abuse with spy cameras set up at his home, some of which included the highest category of seriousness.

Lynch pleaded guity last November to 39 counts of sexual offences against children including sexual assault of a child under 13, assault on a child under 13 by penetration, and taking and making indecent photographs and pseudo-photographs of children.

Sentencing him to an indeterminate life sentence at Aylesbury Crown Court yesterday, Judge Christopher Tyrer, said: “The damage you have done to any of these children is incalculable and your dangerousness to the public is inevitable.”

The sentence means Lynch will spend at least the next three years in jail before he can go before a parole board.

Lynch has been placed on the Sex Offenders’ Register and is banned from contacting the children or being near children under 16 years without their parents being present. He is also not allowed to download any pornographic material from the internet.

Speaking outside the court, one of the child victim’s mothers, who cannot be named, said: “He preyed on loads of kids and groomed them. He is a very manipulative man. I could not bear to look at him in the dock, he is very sick and twisted.”