January 2017

Perverted Derbyshire pensioner jailed for 12 years after raping child twice

A perverted pensioner from Derbyshire who twice raped a 10-year-old child has been jailed for 12 years.

Barrie Green, who Derby Crown Court heard had a history of sex offending, carried out the sex attacks on his now 18-year-old victim – which has left her needing “significant” counselling for the past six years.

The 78-year-old also forced a second victim, unrelated to the first one, to engage in sexual activity with him when she, too, was aged 10, at a house in Derbyshire while she was asleep.

Jim Thomas, prosecuting, said that victim woke to find him forcing her to engage in sexual activity with him.

Barrie Green has been jailed for 12 years.

Putting him behind bars, Judge Jonathan Bennett said: “In both cases, you were in a position of trust and you abused that trust in the most heinous of ways. These were extremely serious offences and I have heard of the devastation this has caused – not just to the victims but to their families.

“This is because it is not just the girls that have been affected by this. I have read how the first victim (whom he twice raped) already has a number of issues and this has made things far, far worse for her.”

Mr Thomas said the first victim was twice raped in a bathroom in Derbyshire eight years ago. He said: “She told police after it was over that he got up as though nothing had happened and told her she could not tell anybody about what happened.”

He said the second victim was forced into sexual activity in August last year when Green targeted her while she slept. He said both prosecutions only came to light when she told her parents what Green had done to her.

Mr Thomas said: “The victim’s father has told me about the understandable devastation this has caused to her and to the family.”

In relation to the impact on the first victim, Mr Thomas said: “She has sought significant counselling since 2011.”

Green was jailed at Derby Crown Court.

Green, of Springfield Rise, Matlock, pleaded guilty to two counts of raping a child under the age of 13 in relation to his first victim.

He also admitted two counts of causing or inciting a girl under the age of 13 to engage in sexual activity dating back to August last year. Mr Thomas said Green’s previous sex offending dated back to the mid-1960s and included a number of convictions for indecent exposure, inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and gross indecency with a child.

Sonal Ahya, for Green, said her client had written a letter to both families of the victim, who sat in the public gallery at the hearing.

She said: “I know it is meaningless to those sat in court but he does express sentiments of remorse. The only mitigation that I know is going to count is his admissions of guilt.”

As well as the jail term, Judge Bennett handed Green a sexual harm prevention order, meaning that, when he is released, he cannot have any unsupervised contact with anyone under the age of 16.