November 2019

Violent thug had sex with 13-year-old girl while he was on bail for other crimes

A violent young man who had sex with a 13-year-old girl while he was on bail during a trial for sadistically torturing another teenager has been branded a danger to the public.

Kyle Ashton had pleaded not guilty at Warwick Crown Court to nine charges of sexual activity with a child and one of attempting to engage in penetrative sexual activity with her.

But when the case was listed again at the request of his lawyers, 19-year-old Ashton changed his pleas to guilty.

And after hearing that the offences began while he was standing trial at Birmingham Crown Court on charges of wounding a 15-year-old boy with intent and false imprisonment, Judge Anthony Potter imposed an extended prison sentence on him.

Ashton, who committed the offences at his mother’s home in Nuneaton, was jailed for three years consecutive to an eight-year sentence he is already serving, with a three-year extended period on licence.

As a result, he will not begin serving it until he would have been due to be freed from the eight-year sentence – and will then have to spend at least two of the three years in jail before the Parole Board will even consider his release.

If he is freed before serving the full sentence, he will be on licence for the rest of the period and for a further three years, Judge Potter explained.

Prosecutor John O’Higgins said that in May the mother of a 13-year-old girl checked her phone and saw material which disturbed her because it showed contact with an unknown man.

“She turned detective and traced him through Facebook, then got a friend to make contact with him posing as a teenager.

“In that conversation the friend posed as a 15-year-old child who was a virgin, and the defendant indicated that he would have sex with her.”

So the 13-year-old’s mother contacted the police, and when an officer spoke to the girl she revealed that they had first made contact through Facebook, and the chat quickly became sexual.

They began to meet after exchanging intimate pictures, and over about a month various sexual activities including full intercourse had taken place with him at his mother’s home in Blackatree Road, Nuneaton.

When Ashton, of Willowbank Road, Hinckley, was arrested, he accepted the sexual activity had taken place, but claimed the girl, who accepted she had said she was 14, had misled him about her age and told him she was 16.

Mr O’Higgins pointed out that the offences had begun at a time while Ashton was on bail during a trial at Birmingham Crown Court in April which led to him being convicted of wounding with intent and false imprisonment.

That had involved him and two other people holding a 15-year-old boy captive at a flat where Ashton was living at the time in New Moseley Road, Birmingham, for six hours, during which he was subjected to ‘an ordeal which can only be described as torture.’

It included them stubbing lit cigarettes out on his face, setting light to his pubic hair, stabbing him, beating him with a curtain pole and causing burns to his genitals.

And Mr O’Higgins added that the offences with the girl continued while Ashton remained on bail following his conviction.

Graeme Logan, defending, said: “It is quite clear from the reports that he has had a difficult past, in and out of foster homes as a result of violence in the family.

“He knows he faces a lengthy term in prison, but he does have hopes for the future,” said Mr Logan, conceding that Ashton was facing a consecutive sentence and arguing against it being an extended sentence.

But Judge Potter told Ashton: “I have to sentence you for your conduct during the course of a crown court trial when you were convicted of causing really serious bodily harm with intent.

“She was a child of 13 when you started to message her on the internet, and you were 18, to become 19. You were far more experienced. You instigated her to send you pictures of herself partially naked.

“You met up with her, and at your mother’s address you had sexual intercourse with her – and you repeated that on many occasions. You knew she was 13.

“At the time you were part-way through a trial during which the court heard head a description of your treatment of that 15-year-old child as torture, and you were subsequently ordered to serve an eight-year period of detention.

“The sentence I pass must be consecutive to the sentence you are currently serving.

“You have sought to blame her for the offence. You do not take responsibility for this or any other offence.

“You present a significant risk of causing serious harm by the commission of further offences. You have a propensity to seek to control young people.”

June 2019

Boy tortured for six hours over spilled drink – three teens jailed

Three teenagers who held a boy captive for six hours – and tortured him for simply knocking over a drink – have been jailed after a West Midlands Police investigation uncovered the brutality of their attack.

For six hours the 15-year-old victim was slashed with a knife, had lit cigarettes stubbed out on his face, was attacked with a curtain pole and had his genitals burned with a lighter.

He suffered serious injuries, including cuts and a badly broken nose, during the sustained assault in the early hours of 29 September last year.

Kyle Ashton led the attack at his flat in New Moseley Road, Highgate, after flying into a rage that his teenage visitor had spilled a drink on the floor.

The boy offered to wipe up the mess but cruel Ashton demanded he lick it up off the floor – and when he refused poured a Pot Noodle over his head.

Birmingham Crown Court heard how the level of violence escalated as 19-year-old Ashton ignored the victim’s pleas for the punishment to end.

Christopher Pyatt-Pierce – who arrived at the flat just before midnight with the victim – joined the onslaught and punched the teen several times.

His twin sister Lucy Pyatt-Pierce was present throughout the near four-hour ordeal and was said to have instigated the assault, goading her co-defendants to lash out, and filmed it on her mobile phone.

The boy – who was also stripped of his clothes – was eventually freed after 5am and found by a member of the public wandering the streets in just a T-shirt.

Fearful of further violent repercussions the schoolboy initially told officers he’d been robbed by strangers – but he eventually disclosed what happened and managed to point out Ashton’s flat during a drive around Highgate. 

All three offenders were arrested from their home addresses on 1 October and charged with wounding and false imprisonment.

And on Friday (14 June) Ashton, from Willowbank Road in Hinckley, was jailed for eight years after being found guilty of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and false imprisonment.

Lucy Pyatt-Pierce, from Fordhouse Lane, Stirchley, was jailed for four years having also been found guilty on the same counts. Christopher Pyatt-Pierce, from Glendower Road, Perry Barr, was given a two year sentence having been found guilty on the lesser charge of wounding plus false imprisonment.