December 2020

Paedophile took photos of teenage boys urinating in public toilets

A depraved man with an obsession for child abuse images took pictures of teenagers urinating in public and then shared them online.

David Parsons, 38, was found in possession of hundreds of indecent images of young children and distributed thousands of images to other paedophiles, including films involving children between six and 12 months old.

The defendant was also found with images he had taken in Cardiff and Bristol of teenage boys urinating in public toilets, including the Cardiff City Stadium.

A sentencing hearing at Cardiff Crown Court on Thursday also heard that Parsons’ partner James Carlyon was also found with indecent images of children, the youngest being six months old.

Prosecutor Byron Broadstock said: “On April 9, officers from the police online investigation team executed a search warrant at Forest View, Fairwater, the home address of David Parsons and persons at the address including Parsons and Carlyon.

“The reason for their attendance was explained and Parsons said ‘you’re going to find images’.”

Two mobile phones, belonging to each defendant, was seized and a laptop from Carlyon’s home in Quakers Yard, Merthyr Tydfil, was also seized.

On Parsons’ phone, officers found; 87 images and four movies of category A, 83 images and six movies of category B, and 703 images and one movie of category C.

The court heard there were links to storage services and active links containing images and video files, in the defendant’s notes app on his phone.

Mr Broadstock added: “There were conversations between the defendant and others with similar interests in which they discussed which images they possessed and what images they sought.

“The defendant offered to forward images to others.”

The amount distributed by Parsons included; two images and 1,816 movies of category A, eight images and 1,731 movies of category B and 40 images and 396 movies of category C.

During one of the conversations, Parsons was quoted as saying “I have often thought about getting a run away street kid for sex”.

Officers also found eight images taken of teenagers urinating in public toilets without their knowledge. One of these was taken in Bristol on December 6, 2019, and at the Cardiff City Stadium on January 31, this year.

On Carlyon’s mobile phone, police discovered; 51 images and 176 movies of category A, 43 images and 38 movies of category B, 82 images and nine movies of category C, 40 images and one movie of extreme pornography and one image and one movie of prohibited images.

There was also images of clothed teenage boys taken by Carlyon without their knowledge, at a Merthyr Tydfil retail park where the defendant worked. These images were not subject to charges.

Parsons, of Forest View, Fairwater, pleaded guilty to possession of indecent images, distribution of indecent images and voyeurism.

The defendant had a previous conviction from 2011 for possessing indecent images of children.

Carlyon, whose address was also given as Forest View, Fairwater, pleaded guilty to possession of indecent images, extreme pornographic images and prohibited images of children.

Sentencing Parsons, Judge Michael Fitton QC said: “The total picture adds to portraying a man who is not just interested in paedophilic images but an obsession with it and your obsession had led you to taking photographs of other people in public places in the act of urination, and sharing it.

“You are a man who has such a depraved outlook there’s no question of any means of dealing with you other than a custodial sentence.”

Addressing Carlyon, Judge Fitton added: “There are features of your conduct which show a shared interest and common view. The circumstances in which you have been looking together is relevant to how your own thinking and conduct has been degraded.

“If you continue or reestablish a relationship with the defendant and find yourself in court again for similar offences you will be going to prison. If you move on from that relationship and take the opportunity I am giving you, you have the opportunity to move on with your life.”

Parsons was sentenced to three years imprisonment and was made subject to a sexual harm prevention order.

Carlyon was sentenced to eight months imprisonment suspended for two years, and was made subject to a 10 day rehabilitation activity requirement and a 10 year sexual harm prevention order.

May 2021

Paedophile found dead weeks after admitting possessing hundreds of child sex abuse photos

A man died shortly after admitting possessing hundreds of pictures of child sexual abuse, a court has heard.

The cause of 49-year-old Vivian Williams’ death is currently being investigated for the coroner.

Williams entered guilty pleas to three counts of possessing a total of 704 images indecent images and one count of possessing a prohibited image of a child when he appeared at Swansea Magistrates’ Court on March 10 this year.

The offences cover the dates January 2016 to October last year and 84 of the images were of Category A which show the most extreme kinds of sexual abuse.

The case was committed to Swansea Crown Court for sentence and the defendant was granted unconditional bail.

This week the case before the higher court where Judge Geraint Walters was told Williams, of Sketty Court, Dillwyn Road, Sketty, Swansea, had died on April 4. The judge therefore stopped the proceedings.

The court heard the cause of the defendant’s death is as yet undetermined.

South Wales Police confirmed officers responded to calls about the welfare of a man on the afternoon of April 4 and that a 49-year-old man was subsequently pronounced dead at the scene in Dillwyn Road.

A spokeswoman added: “There are believed to be no suspicious circumstances and a report is being compiled for the coroner.”

May 2021

Paedophile described images of child sex abuse as ‘delightful’ and used lip-licking emoji

A paedophile who shared sickening images of child sexual abuse with like-minded people online described one of the file of films he was sent as “delightful”.

Shaun O’Donovan was caught with almost 750 indecent pictures and movies when police seized his phones and laptop and admitted that he fantasised about having oral sex from very young girls

Some of them showed infants as young as 18 months being sexually abused by men.

Cardiff Crown Court heard the 37-year-old started by looking at “innocent” images on the photo-sharing website Tumblr before moving on to pictures of naked women, and then on to increasingly younger females.

James Evans, prosecuting, said police executed a search warrant at the defendant’s family home in July last year following intelligence about images being uploaded to various online platforms from the address.

Officers seized and searched two iPhones and an Acer laptop from O’Donovan, and on them found a total of 744 images of Categories A – the most serious kind – B and C.

They also found 29 prohibited or pseudo images of children, along with a number of images of extreme adult pornography featuring animals.

The court heard the ages of the females in the indecent images ranged from a baby of around 18 months up to girls aged 11 or 12.

Officers also found evidence O’Donovan had been involved in sharing images online, and they uncovered one message he had sent to a fellow paedophile which read “The file you sent me was delightful” and which was accompanied by an emoji of lips being licked.

The prosecutor said in his police interview the defendant accepted he gained sexual gratification from looking at the images he had downloaded, and accepted he fantasised about having oral sex from young girls.

O’Donovan, of Nant y Dowlais, Ely, Cardiff, had previously pleaded guilty to three counts of making (possessing) indecent images, two counts of distributing indecent images, possessing prohibited images, and possessing extreme pornography when he appeared in the dock for sentencing.

Following the sentencing guidelines and giving the defendant the required one-third discount for his guilty pleas judge Tracey Lloyd-Clarke sentenced him to two years and four months in prison.

O’Donovan will serve up to half that period in custody before being released on licence under the UK government’s early release scheme to serve the remainder in the community.

The defendant will be a registered sex offender for the next 10 years, and was made the subject of a sexual harm prevention order for the same length of time to control his access to the internet.

May 2021

‘Predatory’ sex offender pretended to be taxi driver to abuse teenager in his car

A “calculated and predatory” sex offender pretended to be a taxi driver to pick up a teenage girl and abuse her in his car.

Ricardas Mikuckis, from Newport, Wales, pounced after spotting his then-18-year-old victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, trying to get a cab home from Cardiff city centre on August 29, 2019.

CCTV footage captured the 33-year-old in his red Ford Kuga in Greyfriars Road shortly before the teenager left a nightclub and tried to flag a taxi down.

Cardiff Crown Court heard how Mikuckis pulled up next to the victim after watching her talk to a taxi driver, who lent her his phone to try and call someone to provide the fare home before she walked off.

Believing him to be a licensed taxi driver, the victim got into the vehicle.

But she became alarmed when they neared Barry but the driver took an unexpected turn off the A4231 Barry Docks Link Road into a secluded lane,

The victim told him he was going the wrong way but Mikuckis stopped the car before calmly getting out, locking the doors, and smoking a cigarette.

He then returned and sexually assaulted the victim, kissing and touching her, before she managed to fight him off and flee the scene.

The visibly distressed woman flagged down a passing car and told the driver she had been attacked.

The alarm was raised and following painstaking trawls of CCTV and using ANPR technology Mikuckis was traced and arrested. A cigarette butt found at the scene also contained his DNA.

Mikuckis denied sexual assault but was found guilty on March 11. He has now been sentenced to 15 months in prison.