March 2021
Paedophile scout leader took schoolgirl, 14, to hotels for sex and got her pregnant
Richard Crook – Southampton
12 Friday Mar 2021
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Graham Trewhella – Gosport
11 Thursday Mar 2021
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March 2021
Gosport ex-Royal Navy commander made an MBE by the Queen spared jail after paedophile hunter sting
Paedophile hunters posing as a 14-year-old boy on a gay hookup app snared a former naval officer honoured with an MBE from the Queen.
Former Lieutenant Commander Graham Trewhella, who was awarded an MBE in the New Year Honours, thought he was meeting the boy when he set out into the night in Gosport after arranging the meeting on Grindr.
But when he arrived to meet a boy named George he was stunned to find a man from paedophile hunter group Trap who had been posing as the decoy child.
Police were called and arrested 62-year-old Trewhella, of Grove Road in Gosport, later searching his Dell computer and finding nearly 1,100 indecent images of children.
In a video posted by Trap the man posing as George said: ‘You’ve thrown away your life.’
Trewhella looks shocked and can barely answer in the video posted to social media but said: ‘I don’t do anything outside, I wasn’t going to do anything.’
Later speaking to probation the dad-of-three said: ‘‘What I’ve done was absolutely wrong, it’s unbelievably irresponsible.
‘When I look at what I’ve done now it horrifies me.’
Portsmouth Crown Court heard shamed Trewhella had actually been messaging the group known as Trap.
In one message on the app, where Trewhella used photos of himself, the disgraced naval officer told the fake boy he wanted ‘maybe (sex) later’.
‘The person posing as George made it plain that he was only 14 and asked whether the defendant would be happy with that and he said that he was,’ prosecutor Nicholas Hall said.
‘This went on for certainly over two days.’
Mr Hall said following the arrest in October 28, 2017, police found 329 indecent images of children rated at category A, the most severe.
There were 255 at B and 512 at rated in category C. Analysis found his searches for perverted images dated back to 2015.
The judge, Recorder Simon Levene, suspended the 17-month jail sentence for two years as the risk of reoffending would be ‘greatly reduced by programmes which the probation service have to offer’.
Addressing Trewhella, he said: ‘You are deeply ashamed and very, very embarrassed- not just at being caught but at what now, you can take a step back, what you realise you’ve been up to over the last few years.
‘I accept that this is a case where I can suspend the sentence because I think that you fall into that category of offender who can be helped.’
Jailing him would do ‘nothing towards his rehabilitation’ and there was a risk that sex criminals in prison could make him a worse offender, the judge said.
Shaun Higginson – Southampton
10 Wednesday Mar 2021
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March 2021
Man jailed for child sex offences in Southampton
A pervert has been jailed for 13 years for a range of child sexual offences.
Shaun Higginson, 47, of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty to a total of eight offences including one count of attempted rape of a female under 16, one count of gross indecency with a girl under 14 and six counts of indecent assault on a girl under 14.
The charges relate to offences that took place against one child between 1987 and 1992 in Southampton.
Today, Higginson was sentenced at Portsmouth Crown Court to a total of 13 years in jail and handed a lifetime Sexual Harm Prevention Order.
David Howse – Eastleigh
10 Wednesday Mar 2021
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March 2021
Eastleigh man jailed seven years for alleyway rape
A man has been jailed for seven years for raping a woman in an alleyway.
David Gordon Howse, 33, of The Quadrangle in Eastleigh, Hampshire, pleaded guilty at Southampton Crown Court to attacking the 24-year-old.
On the night of 8 January 2019 he followed her into an alley in Whyteways, Eastleigh, where the rape took place.
Det Insp Gareth Jones of Hampshire Constabulary called it a “truly harrowing crime”.
Police said the woman was walking in Beaulieu Road and cut through an alleyway into a car park between Beaulieu Road and Selbourne Drive.
She was then approached by Howse, who followed her into the alleyway in Whyteways.
He was identified as the offender and arrested in December 2019, before being charged the following July, police said.
Following the sentencing, Det Insp Jones said it had been a “difficult and complex investigation”.
He said Howse had attacked a “vulnerable woman late at night, in a place where she should feel safe to walk home without fear of being sexually attacked”.
He added: “I would like to pay tribute to the victim for the courage that she has shown throughout the investigation; we understand it is not always easy for victims to have to relive an already terrifying ordeal.
“I would also like to say thank you to the selfless woman who came to the victim’s aid after she sensed something was wrong and intervened.”
He said he hoped the sentence went “someway to giving the woman closure and reassures her, and the communities in Hampshire, that justice has been served”.
Howse has also been ordered to sign the Sex Offenders Register for life.
Russell Smith – Bishop’s Waltham
10 Wednesday Mar 2021
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