Paul Burrows – Checkendon

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July 2021

Restaurateur’s stash of indecent images

A Restaurateur has avoided prison after being caught with more than 40,000 indecent images of children.

Paul Burrows, a former executive chef at the Highwayman Inn near Checkendon, was living at the pub when he was arrested following a police raid in October 2019.

The officers, who were acting on a tip-off, found he had downloaded more than 8,200 “category A” photographs, which depict the most serious levels of abuse, and more than 36,200 in the categories B and C.

Burrows, 57, had acquired these over many years, some showing children as young as four, and had also collected images showing the abuse of animals.

He admitted the offences when questioned and later pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent images, which refers to the act of downloading, and a further count of possession.

At a hearing at Oxford Crown Court on July 1, Burrows was sentenced to 20 months’ imprisonment, suspended for two years, and ordered to carry out 180 hours’ unpaid work plus 40 days’ rehabilitation activities.

He will also be subject to a sexual harm prevention order limiting his internet access for the next decade, during which time he will be on the sex offenders’ register, and had to pay £425 in prosecution costs and victim surcharges.

Staff and trustees of the Highwayman said they knew nothing of his arrest or conviction until last week, when he suddenly departed and it is not known where he is now living.

Burrows remains an active director of The Highwayman Inn (Checkendon) Ltd, a registered company which was running the business until then.

But the trustees, who live nearby and own the freehold, say they have terminated his lease with immediate effect and will run it themselves so he will make no money from it.

Jordon Brook – Wallingford

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June 2021

Jordon Brook spared jail for illegal sex with younger girl

A teenager carried on having sex with his underage girlfriend despite a police warning.

But Jordon Brook was spared an immediate prison sentence at Oxford Crown Court – as a judge said jail time would not address his behaviour.

The Oxfordshire man – now 23 – was 19 when he struck up the relationship with the girl, who was in her mid-teens.

Prosecutor Charles Ward-Jackson said the teenagers began talking to each other over Snapchat. Their relationship quickly became sexual, with the couple meeting at Brook’s father’s home. He told his father the girl was over-16.

In May 2018, a few months after they began seeing each other, the police served Brook with a Child Abduction Warning Notice. The order came after the girl’s mother found out about the relationship. The girl said that her ‘boyfriend’ had begun to hit her and had started seeing another girl.

The police warned Brook to stay away from the girl. Mr Ward-Jackson said: “It appears he ignored that warning and carried on seeing her.” They exchanged sexualised messages.

By the following year, the girl was increasingly upset and told her mother the relationship had continued. Brook was arrested and, when interviewed, admitted to the police that he’d kept on seeing his victim.

The court heard Brook had received two other Child Abduction Warning Notices in 2017 and 2019 relating to underage girls.

Judge Nigel Daly said he was not going to send Brook to prison as he did not think it would affect his behaviour.

Sentencing him to two years’ imprisonment suspended for two years, the judge ordered he complete a sex offender treatment programme and 180 hours of unpaid work.

The judge said: “If you breach the suspended sentence, if you breach the requirements, you will be brought to this court and you will be in front of me and I know exactly what I’ve said to you today and I tell you now I will send you to prison. Clear?”

He noted that there had been a significant disparity in the ages of Brook and his victim. He said: “Girls need protection not only from men but from themselves… at [that age] they are going through a very difficult period in their lives and they need protection.”

Brook, of Cholsey, near Wallingford, pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to two counts of sexual activity with a child.

He must register as a sex offender for 10 years. A sexual harm prevention order limits his access to digital devices for the same period of time.

David Smith – Wantage

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June 2021

Wantage tennis coach spared jail for possessing child rape images

A tennis coach who trawled the internet for images of child rape walked from court.

Wantage man David Smith, 69, who used to teach schoolchildren before he retired at 62, was spared an immediate prison sentence after a judge at Oxford Crown Court heard he was remorseful and had already completed courses aimed at tackling his sick behaviour.

Handing him a 10 month prison sentence suspended for 18 months, Judge Nigel Daly challenged comments in Smith’s letter of apology that his online activities “never transferred into the real world”.

“That may be so, but the children that are depicted in these photographs and images are in the real world and when there are photographs of young children being raped by adults they are experiencing that in the real world,” the judge said.

“And the reason why this sort of offending is frowned upon so much is because if it weren’t for people who one might call consumers, who are watching these images – in some cases, although not in your case – purchasing these images, then the children would not be abused in this way.”

Smith must complete a sex offender rehabilitation programme, three month curfew and pay £425 in costs and surcharge.

Prosecutor Robert Lindsey told the court that police raided Smith’s home last February after a tip-off he’d been accessing indecent images of children online.

They seized an HP laptop, a black computer tower and a Samsung Galaxy mobile phone. Police experts found more than 1,000 child sex abuse images, including 149 in the most serious category showing the rape of children aged five to 16.

He also had 396 extreme pornographic images depicting sex between animals and people and 43 prohibited images of children. Many of the files were inaccessible but included both still images and videos.

Smith had worked for 12 years as head coach of two tennis clubs, which were not named in court, having retrained at 50 when he was made redundant from his sales job.

As a tennis coach, he had worked with schools.

Smith, of Grove, near Wantage, pleaded guilty at the magistrates’ court to possession of indecent images, extreme pornography and a prohibited image of a child. He had no previous convictions.

He must register as a sex offender and abide by a sexual harm prevention order for 10 years.

Stephen Wakeley – Oxford

06 Sunday Jun 2021

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June 2021

Medics called to Oxford court as paedophile struggles to breathe

Medics were called to Oxford Crown Court after a paedophile suffered breathing difficulties – as he sat in the dock.

Judge Nigel Daly had just told Stephen Wakeley he was being sentenced to 10 months’ imprisonment when the 68-year-old began hyperventilating. The judge was yet to say whether the jail time would be immediate or suspended.

A dock officer removed Wakeley’s mask and took him to the floor before another officer arrived to help. The court was cleared and medics called.

The case resumed almost an hour later, with Wakeley sat in the back of the dock.

Jailing him for 10 months, Judge Daly said he’d considered whether the sentence could be suspended but told Wakeley he was concerned he’d continued to look at indecent images of children despite having been arrested by the police.

The judge said: “You were not technically on bail but you knew full well the police were investigating your computers and you knew that they would find illegal indecent images of children and you went on committing offences.”

Earlier, Oxford Crown Court heard how Wakeley told police officers he’d had child sex abuse images to send to women on a dating website to “establish whether they were genuinely seeking a relationship”. If they were disgusted it would show they were not committed to a liaison.

Wakeley also claimed that a number of women on the website had asked him for things like iTunes vouchers. Prosecutor Robert Lindsey said: “He felt sending the images was a form of revenge against them.”

He was arrested first in 2018 when police raided his caravan near Garsington having received information he was uploading indecent images of children to the web.

Among the devices seized were his Acer laptop and an SD card on which police found almost 7,000 indecent images of children including 995 in category A.

Wakeley had downloaded software to enable him to access the dark web and had searched online for the notorious 1960s cult Children of God, which encouraged sex between children and adults.

He also looked at websites purporting to show schoolchildren being sexually assaulted.

He was released under investigation but, within a year, police were back at his door. It emerged he’d bought a laptop from Argos within two months of his initial arrest.

On the laptop, police found 292 indecent images of children, including 47 in category A, 33 in category B and 212 category C.

The vile cache included both images and video, with some of the material showing the rape of girls aged two to 11.

Evidence suggested he’d uploaded images to video conferencing platform Google Hangouts, although it could not be proved that the pictures – taken on his digital camera of indecent images on a computer screen – were shared with others.

Wakeley, of Alpha Avenue, Garsington, pleaded guilty at the magistrates’ court to six counts of making indecent images of children.

He will serve half his 10 month sentence behind bars before he is eligible for release.

Marcia/Mark Walker – Oxford

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May 2021

Transgender paedophile once jailed for raping girl, four, attacked prison guard

A transgender paedophile attacked a guard after her razors were removed because it ‘made gender dysphoria worse’, a court heard.

Marcia Walker, 47, of Oxford reacted angrily when officers at HMP Frankland, a Category A men’s prison, objected to her possession of razor blades, Durham Crown Court was told.

The defendant, who was previously known as Mark Walker, was first jailed for 13 years in 2003 for two rapes against girls under 16, one aged four, along with making and distributing indecent photographs of children.

Walker was jailed for another six months in 2012 after claiming a bomb had been sent to the then Home Secretary Theresa May’s house.

The threats were made initially from a bail hostel and then, once returned to custody, from HMP Bullingdon and then from the high security category A men’s prisons Walker was transferred to.

Walker got an additional five year sentence in 2017 for threats made from HMP Long Lartin. This was in addition to a six year sentence imposed in 2013 for threats made from HMP Bullingdon and an additional four year sentence in 2015 for threats made from HMP Parkhurst.

Walker, who now identifies as Marcia, has been in a long-running dispute over access to gender realignment surgery despite being recognised as female by prison authorities

She said that not being able to shave made her gender dysphoria worse, and when officers went into her cell she spat at one and said ‘I have Covid’.

Walker also threatened another inmate along with prison custody manager Michael Roachford during the same incident.

The confiscation of National Geographic magazines – sent to the jail by a charity – due to the pictures of naked children in them had angered Walker, the court heard.

Walker had insisted in interview that she had no sexual interest in the pictures, adding: ‘They cannot take my razors from me.’

She appeared by video link to admit assault on a prison officer, breaching a sexual harm prevention order, threatening to kill Mr Roachford and fellow inmate Liam Edwards.

Judge Ray Singh expressed ‘real concerns’ over releasing Walker, but also said there were issues over continued detention in prison.

He said he was taking ‘a chance’ when giving Walker consecutive three-month sentences for all offences, totalling 15 months – suspending them for two years.

Walker will also undergo post-sentence supervision.

Walker has been on remand at Durham Prison, but will now leave within the next 24 hours, the court heard.

June 2013

Six-year term for paedophile who made series of bomb threats

A paedophile inmate who sent Bullingdon Prison into a “deep freeze” with a bomb threat was jailed for six years yesterday.

Mark Walker also sent threats to Home Secretary Theresa May after becoming frustrated with the probation service, Oxford Crown Court heard.

The 39-year-old wrote to her from his cell at the prison near Bicester and said: “Watch your back. You are a dead woman.”

The court also heard Thames Valley Police said Walker had cost them nearly £17,500.

When Walker was in jail for child sex crimes prison officers found a document entitled ‘Plan of Action’ in a cell search last June.

The court heard the plan involved going to Miss May’s Berkshire home and “causing problems”.

He had been jailed in 2003 for 10 years for child sex crimes including raping a girl under 16 and last February he was jailed for six months for distributing indecent images of children.

When Walker was released in August he made a telephone call claiming there was a bomb at his hostel in Windsor.

He was taken back to prison and from Bullingdon he rang Crimestoppers and told them there was a parcel bomb at Miss May’s home.

In April, he claimed there was a mail bomb at the prison and caused significant disruption as judicial visits and prisoner transfers were cancelled, the court heard.

Iain Wicks, prosecuting, said: “The ordinary running of the prison was utterly halted and put into a deep freeze by this single action.”

Recorder John Hardy, sentencing, said: “Your actions caused the diversion of scarce public resources.”

Walker admitted two charges of communicating false information with intent, using a public communication network to send a menacing message, and one of sending a letter conveying a threatening message

July 2021

Restaurateur’s stash of indecent images

A Restaurateur has avoided prison after being caught with more than 40,000 indecent images of children.

Paul Burrows, a former executive chef at the Highwayman Inn near Checkendon, was living at the pub when he was arrested following a police raid in October 2019.

The officers, who were acting on a tip-off, found he had downloaded more than 8,200 “category A” photographs, which depict the most serious levels of abuse, and more than 36,200 in the categories B and C.

Burrows, 57, had acquired these over many years, some showing children as young as four, and had also collected images showing the abuse of animals.

He admitted the offences when questioned and later pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent images, which refers to the act of downloading, and a further count of possession.

At a hearing at Oxford Crown Court on July 1, Burrows was sentenced to 20 months’ imprisonment, suspended for two years, and ordered to carry out 180 hours’ unpaid work plus 40 days’ rehabilitation activities.

He will also be subject to a sexual harm prevention order limiting his internet access for the next decade, during which time he will be on the sex offenders’ register, and had to pay £425 in prosecution costs and victim surcharges.

Staff and trustees of the Highwayman said they knew nothing of his arrest or conviction until last week, when he suddenly departed and it is not known where he is now living.

Burrows remains an active director of The Highwayman Inn (Checkendon) Ltd, a registered company which was running the business until then.

But the trustees, who live nearby and own the freehold, say they have terminated his lease with immediate effect and will run it themselves so he will make no money from it.

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June 2021

Jordon Brook spared jail for illegal sex with younger girl

A teenager carried on having sex with his underage girlfriend despite a police warning.

But Jordon Brook was spared an immediate prison sentence at Oxford Crown Court – as a judge said jail time would not address his behaviour.

The Oxfordshire man – now 23 – was 19 when he struck up the relationship with the girl, who was in her mid-teens.

Prosecutor Charles Ward-Jackson said the teenagers began talking to each other over Snapchat. Their relationship quickly became sexual, with the couple meeting at Brook’s father’s home. He told his father the girl was over-16.

In May 2018, a few months after they began seeing each other, the police served Brook with a Child Abduction Warning Notice. The order came after the girl’s mother found out about the relationship. The girl said that her ‘boyfriend’ had begun to hit her and had started seeing another girl.

The police warned Brook to stay away from the girl. Mr Ward-Jackson said: “It appears he ignored that warning and carried on seeing her.” They exchanged sexualised messages.

By the following year, the girl was increasingly upset and told her mother the relationship had continued. Brook was arrested and, when interviewed, admitted to the police that he’d kept on seeing his victim.

The court heard Brook had received two other Child Abduction Warning Notices in 2017 and 2019 relating to underage girls.

Judge Nigel Daly said he was not going to send Brook to prison as he did not think it would affect his behaviour.

Sentencing him to two years’ imprisonment suspended for two years, the judge ordered he complete a sex offender treatment programme and 180 hours of unpaid work.

The judge said: “If you breach the suspended sentence, if you breach the requirements, you will be brought to this court and you will be in front of me and I know exactly what I’ve said to you today and I tell you now I will send you to prison. Clear?”

He noted that there had been a significant disparity in the ages of Brook and his victim. He said: “Girls need protection not only from men but from themselves… at [that age] they are going through a very difficult period in their lives and they need protection.”

Brook, of Cholsey, near Wallingford, pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to two counts of sexual activity with a child.

He must register as a sex offender for 10 years. A sexual harm prevention order limits his access to digital devices for the same period of time.

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June 2021

Wantage tennis coach spared jail for possessing child rape images

A tennis coach who trawled the internet for images of child rape walked from court.

Wantage man David Smith, 69, who used to teach schoolchildren before he retired at 62, was spared an immediate prison sentence after a judge at Oxford Crown Court heard he was remorseful and had already completed courses aimed at tackling his sick behaviour.

Handing him a 10 month prison sentence suspended for 18 months, Judge Nigel Daly challenged comments in Smith’s letter of apology that his online activities “never transferred into the real world”.

“That may be so, but the children that are depicted in these photographs and images are in the real world and when there are photographs of young children being raped by adults they are experiencing that in the real world,” the judge said.

“And the reason why this sort of offending is frowned upon so much is because if it weren’t for people who one might call consumers, who are watching these images – in some cases, although not in your case – purchasing these images, then the children would not be abused in this way.”

Smith must complete a sex offender rehabilitation programme, three month curfew and pay £425 in costs and surcharge.

Prosecutor Robert Lindsey told the court that police raided Smith’s home last February after a tip-off he’d been accessing indecent images of children online.

They seized an HP laptop, a black computer tower and a Samsung Galaxy mobile phone. Police experts found more than 1,000 child sex abuse images, including 149 in the most serious category showing the rape of children aged five to 16.

He also had 396 extreme pornographic images depicting sex between animals and people and 43 prohibited images of children. Many of the files were inaccessible but included both still images and videos.

Smith had worked for 12 years as head coach of two tennis clubs, which were not named in court, having retrained at 50 when he was made redundant from his sales job.

As a tennis coach, he had worked with schools.

Smith, of Grove, near Wantage, pleaded guilty at the magistrates’ court to possession of indecent images, extreme pornography and a prohibited image of a child. He had no previous convictions.

He must register as a sex offender and abide by a sexual harm prevention order for 10 years.

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June 2021

Medics called to Oxford court as paedophile struggles to breathe

Medics were called to Oxford Crown Court after a paedophile suffered breathing difficulties – as he sat in the dock.

Judge Nigel Daly had just told Stephen Wakeley he was being sentenced to 10 months’ imprisonment when the 68-year-old began hyperventilating. The judge was yet to say whether the jail time would be immediate or suspended.

A dock officer removed Wakeley’s mask and took him to the floor before another officer arrived to help. The court was cleared and medics called.

The case resumed almost an hour later, with Wakeley sat in the back of the dock.

Jailing him for 10 months, Judge Daly said he’d considered whether the sentence could be suspended but told Wakeley he was concerned he’d continued to look at indecent images of children despite having been arrested by the police.

The judge said: “You were not technically on bail but you knew full well the police were investigating your computers and you knew that they would find illegal indecent images of children and you went on committing offences.”

Earlier, Oxford Crown Court heard how Wakeley told police officers he’d had child sex abuse images to send to women on a dating website to “establish whether they were genuinely seeking a relationship”. If they were disgusted it would show they were not committed to a liaison.

Wakeley also claimed that a number of women on the website had asked him for things like iTunes vouchers. Prosecutor Robert Lindsey said: “He felt sending the images was a form of revenge against them.”

He was arrested first in 2018 when police raided his caravan near Garsington having received information he was uploading indecent images of children to the web.

Among the devices seized were his Acer laptop and an SD card on which police found almost 7,000 indecent images of children including 995 in category A.

Wakeley had downloaded software to enable him to access the dark web and had searched online for the notorious 1960s cult Children of God, which encouraged sex between children and adults.

He also looked at websites purporting to show schoolchildren being sexually assaulted.

He was released under investigation but, within a year, police were back at his door. It emerged he’d bought a laptop from Argos within two months of his initial arrest.

On the laptop, police found 292 indecent images of children, including 47 in category A, 33 in category B and 212 category C.

The vile cache included both images and video, with some of the material showing the rape of girls aged two to 11.

Evidence suggested he’d uploaded images to video conferencing platform Google Hangouts, although it could not be proved that the pictures – taken on his digital camera of indecent images on a computer screen – were shared with others.

Wakeley, of Alpha Avenue, Garsington, pleaded guilty at the magistrates’ court to six counts of making indecent images of children.

He will serve half his 10 month sentence behind bars before he is eligible for release.

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May 2021

Transgender paedophile once jailed for raping girl, four, attacked prison guard

A transgender paedophile attacked a guard after her razors were removed because it ‘made gender dysphoria worse’, a court heard.

Marcia Walker, 47, of Oxford reacted angrily when officers at HMP Frankland, a Category A men’s prison, objected to her possession of razor blades, Durham Crown Court was told.

The defendant, who was previously known as Mark Walker, was first jailed for 13 years in 2003 for two rapes against girls under 16, one aged four, along with making and distributing indecent photographs of children.

Walker was jailed for another six months in 2012 after claiming a bomb had been sent to the then Home Secretary Theresa May’s house.

The threats were made initially from a bail hostel and then, once returned to custody, from HMP Bullingdon and then from the high security category A men’s prisons Walker was transferred to.

Walker got an additional five year sentence in 2017 for threats made from HMP Long Lartin. This was in addition to a six year sentence imposed in 2013 for threats made from HMP Bullingdon and an additional four year sentence in 2015 for threats made from HMP Parkhurst.

Walker, who now identifies as Marcia, has been in a long-running dispute over access to gender realignment surgery despite being recognised as female by prison authorities