February 2017: Ricky Crossley has now been released and is living back in Middlesbrough under the name ‘Carl’ Crossley. He is telling people in pubs he’s just got out of prison for Manslaughter.

December 2007

Elvis impersonator given further jail term

AN Elvis impersonator already jailed for ten years for sex crimes against children has been jailed for a further four-and-a-half years.

A victim’s mother yelled “rot in hell” as Ricky Crossley was sentenced at Teesside Crown Court.

Judge Les Spittle said that girls as young as five were dazzled by Crossley, a former boss of the Elvis Presley fan club in Cleveland, who drove a Jaguar car.

Last February he was given a ten-year extended sentence for attempted rape and indecent assault in 2002 on a 15-year-old.

Reports in the newspapers and other media led to three more girls contacting police.

He has now been jailed for another four-and-a-half years after he admitted indecent assaults on the youngsters aged five, nine and ten.

Prosecutor Sarah Mallett said that the girls contacted police after press reports in February when Crossley, 45, was convicted after a trial at Teesside Crown Court.

a five-year-old female victim later self-harmed and needed psychiatric help to rid her of nightmare flashbacks.

Crossley pinned a nine-year-old girl to a bed but after she escaped told her: “People sometimes do things that they don’t mean.”

A 11-year-old girl was visiting his home when he started talking to her about massage and sexual innuendo’s

Crossley was also a former chauffeur to the Mayor of Middlesbrough but he was sacked after he threw a party in the mayor’s parlour.

He was arrested while serving his sentence in Holme House Prison.

He denied all the allegations, but he pleaded guilty when he appeared for trial.

Judge Spittle told Crossley: “They were young girls and they were over-awed by you”

“You took advantage of them and you indecently assaulted them.”

One victim and several mothers were in the public gallery as Crossley sat head bowed at the hearing.

Crossley, of Middlesbrough, was jailed for four-and-a-half years consecutively to his 10-year sentence, banned for life from contact with children and ordered to register as a sex offender for life.