February 2016
Held: Man, 19, who admits having sex with girl of 13
A MAN who admitted repeatedly having sex with a 13-year-old girl has been remanded in custody by a judge.
Kesley Tuck, 19, had been due to face a trial at Swindon Crown Court after pleaded not guilty to three counts of sexual activity with a child.
But before a jury could be sworn in on the first day Tuck, of Stonefield Close, Eastleaze, changed his pleas to guilty.
He admitted having sex with the child on three occasions over a weekend in September 2014.
Tuck will now have to register as a sex offender with the total period he will have to continue doing so determined by the sentence passed.
Judge Peter Blair QC adjourned the case to Monday, March 7, so a pre-sentence report can be prepared and remanded him in custody until then.
December 2014
Jailed: Teenager who threatened to cut police officer’s head off
A TEENAGER who threatened to cut off a policeman’s head with large kitchen knife has been jailed for 40 weeks.
Kesley Tuck, 18, brandished the blade at the officer after he had been to his flat hunting a missing schoolgirl, who was found hiding under the duvet in his bedroom.
After hearing that Tuck had continued offending over the following six weeks, including breaching his ASBO, a judge said he had reached ‘the end of the road’.
Chris Smyth, prosecuting, told Swindon Crown Court on Friday that officers searching for the missing girl had gone to his flat on Sunday, September 21.
“Police asked whether this young lady was at the flat, which the defendant denied. This girl was located in bed under the duvet,” he said.
“She was told she needed to be returned to her home address. While the police were there he became extremely abusive and aggressive.”
He said Tuck shouted and swore at PC Leigh Vowles saying, “Who do you think you are coming in my house? I should punch you in the face”.
After being told to calm down he said he wouldn’t and repeated the threat, only to be warned if he carried it out he would be arrested for assaulting a police officer.
Tuck launched another volley of abuse before the officers left with the girl, but he then put his face right into the officer’s causing him to push him away.
The teenager then said he was going to kill him and said: “That’s it, I’ll get that baseball bat and see how hard you are,” and went back into the flat.
He emerged as they were getting in the police car and ran in the road shouting: “I’ll cut your head off. I’m going to kill you,” waving a kitchen knife with a nine-inch blade.
The officer returned soon after with armed colleagues to arrest Tuck who told them if he was going to use the weapon he would have.
Mr Smyth said he was released on bail but went on a spree of offending which saw him shoplifting, breach his ASBO and finally get caught with the weapon.
On Wednesday, October 8, he was seen stealing two pork pies and a drink from Wilkinson and CCTV footage showed he had done the same the day before.
On Saturday, October 25, he breached the ASBO, which bans him from ‘shouting or swearing at others or acting in any other anti-social manner likely to cause harassment alarm or distress’ or congregating in a group of three or more.
Then on Tuesday, November 4, he broke it by being abusive to a librarian in Regent Circus and refusing to leave after bouncing a ball loudly in the building.
His final offence took place two days later when police called to a disturbance outside Lloyds Bank in the town centre found him with the five-inch screwdriver.
When he was questioned he said he was carrying it to protect himself after someone he knew threatened to ‘shank’ him.
Tuck, of Stonefield Close, Eastleaze, admitted possessing a bladed article, threatening behaviour, two thefts, two ASBO breaches, and possessing an offensive weapon.
The court heard he numerous offences starting in March 2013 receiving community orders which he had not always complied with.
Ton Bignall, defending, said his client had ‘a terrible past’ having been in a succession of care placements as a child, feeling his parents had let him down.
Jailing him, Judge Peter Blair QC said: “You have come to the end of the road so far as courts giving you non-custodial sentences.
“You are going to be going to a young offenders’ institute this afternoon. The total sentence I am going to pass on you is 40 weeks.
“You have got to realised you have got to buck your ideas up and change your behaviour when you are out in public.
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