Colin Sharpe – Milford Haven

11 Friday Jun 2021

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June 2021

Paedophile in clifftop standoff with police after his abuse of young girl was revealed

A paedophile that subjected a young girl to repeated abuse to satisfy his own “selfish sexual pleasure” threatened to jump off a cliff

Colin Sharpe began abusing the child when she was aged under 13 and continued his depraved behaviour for a number of years.

When the offending was reported to police and officers launched a search for Sharpe they tracked him down him to a Pembrokeshire clifftop where a standoff developed.

Swansea Crown Court heard 40-year-old Sharpe subjected his victim to repeated serious sexual abuse “whenever the opportunity arose”.

Ian Wright, prosecuting, said the offended started when the girl was aged under 13 and continued for the next three to four years.

The abuse came to light in March this year when the girl confided in her mother about what had been going on, naming the defendant and telling her mum he had been “touching me”.

The court heard the matter was reported to police and officers began a search for the defendant. He was found in his vehicle in a car park at St Ann’s Head at the mouth of Milford Haven.

Mr Wright said police used their car to block Sharpe’s exist from the car park but he “sped off” across the grass towards the cliff edge before crashing into a fence.

The defendant abandoned his vehicle and made off on foot to the clifftop.

A standoff then developed during which police brought in a specialist negotiator to talk him down.

After a lengthy negotiation Sharpe was arrested.

Sharpe, of Howarth Close, Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, admitted six sexual offences involving a child. He has no previous convictions.

In an impact statement which was read to the court the girl he abused said she had nightmares about what he had done to her where Sharpe would come after her, threaten her, and pin her down.

Judge Paul Thomas QC told Sharpe that over a period of many years he had used the young girl “for your own selfish sexual pleasure” without having any regard to the impact on her.

Following the guidelines and giving the defendant the required one-third discount for his guilty pleas the judge sentenced him to 10 years in prison.

Sharpe will serve up to half that period in custody before being released on licence to serve the remainder in the community.

He will be a registered sex offender for the rest of his life and was also made subject to an indefinite sexual harm prevention order to control his access to girls.

David Rees – Solva

26 Monday Apr 2021

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June 2021

Lorry driver set up Grindr date with boy “aged 14” at Derbyshire McDonald’s

A lorry driver told a paedophile hunter he believed to be a 14-year-old boy he met on gay dating app Grindr to “brush his teeth” before meeting for sex at a Derbyshire McDonald’s.

David Rees, 37, – who went by the name “Kinky Top” on the app – told an online decoy named “Kai” that “oral sex with another male would not hurt”.

Derby Crown Court heard how on January 10 last year Rees was waiting for the teen in his lorry near McDonald’s in Alfreton when he was met by police and arrested.

Prosecutor Jeremy Janes described how Rees used Grindr to meet up with other gay men “on a casual basis”.

However during an online conversation when Kai told Reece he was 14 Rees was “not deterred by this”.

Mr Janes told how during one message the defendant made references to “sucking a lollipop” and told the decoy to “brush his teeth and tongue well”.

The prosecutor said Rees claimed he was aware the Grindr profile was false and intended to meet the boy to “send him on his way with some wise advice”.

However Mr Janes said this did not explain the fact that Rees had already admitted a charge attempting to meet a boy under 16 years of age following grooming.

Suspending a 15-month jail term for two years Recorder Balraj Bhatia QC told Rees, of Solva, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, his offence was “a very serious one”.

He said: “You know what you did – you went on the internet, you pursued it and you pursued it over a relatively short period of time but it was with a view to meeting someone of tender years.

“It’s plain that sexual grooming had taken place because of the conversations you had with someone you believed was called Kai.

Rees was also given 55 rehabilitation activity days, 150 hours’ unpaid work, made subject to police monitoring, a 10-year sexual harm prevention order and ordered to pay £500 court costs.

April 2021

Pervert travelled from Wales to meet teenage boy he groomed

A pervert travelled from his home in South Wales to meet a 14-year-old Derbyshire boy he had attempted to groom over the internet for sex.

But when David Rees arrived in Alfreton, “Kai”, the teenager he thought he was there to see, was really a group of self-styled paedophile hunters.

The 37-year-old pleaded guilty to one count of attempting to meet a child following sexual grooming when he appeared over a link from his home into Derby Crown Court.

He denied a further count of attempting to communicate with a child for the purposes of sexual gratification which prosecutor Jonathan Dee asked to lie on file.

Few details of the actual offence were revealed during the short hearing except that it took place on January 10 and Judge Shaun Smith QC adjourned his sentencing hearing until May 25.

He told Rees, whose address was given as Middle Hill to Junction U3025, Solva, near Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire: “You will need to be here in person at this court and I am going to ask for a pre-sentence report.

“Just because I am it is no indication what will happen to you. Custody is an option.”

Judge Smith handed the defendant conditional bail until then.

Anthony Jones – Milford Haven

18 Sunday Apr 2021

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April 2021

Milford Haven taxi driver jailed for raping passenger in cab

A former taxi driver has been jailed for 10 years for raping a passenger in the back of his cab.

Anthony Marcus Jones, of the Mount Estate, Milford Haven, was found guilty of raping a woman who was too inebriated to consent while entrusted with taking her home from a night out.

Dyfed-Powys Police officers investigating the offence were able to put together a strong file of evidence against the 45-year-old despite a number of days passing between the incident taking place and the victim reporting it, and no forensic evidence being available.

Thanks to a lengthy and detailed investigation, during which specialist support was provided to the victim, a jury unanimously found Jones guilty of rape at Swansea Crown Court.

A detective constable who investigated the case said: “This investigation spanned nearly three years, during which time the victim showed strength and determination in getting justice.

“Despite there being no forensic evidence available to us as the incident was reported four days after it took place, a team of officers worked diligently and tenaciously to compile sufficient evidence to prove the defendant’s guilt.”

The incident was reported to police on April 4, 2018, by a third party who the victim had spoken to.

Officers immediately made contact with the victim, who had no recollection of the offence but was able to provide pieces of information which were used to launch an investigation.

Through enquiries with friends and viewing CCTV footage from a number of cameras inside and outside a pub she had attended, officers began to establish the sequence of events.

“We learned that the victim had been on a night out in Milford Haven, and had become intoxicated,” the DC said.

“She was taken outside the pub and a taxi was called to get her home safely. However, she was unable to tell the driver where she lived, so he called a colleague – Jones – to come and pick her up.”

Jones, knowing where the victim lived, met the first taxi in a car park in Haverfordwest and the passenger was transferred between the two cars.

Just minutes later, he proceeded to rape her in the back of the cab before leaving her outside her home in a state of undress.

Several days later, Jones contacted the victim to tell her they’d had consensual sex, which she immediately disputed. It was at this point that she confided in a friend and police were contacted.

“This was a despicable betrayal of trust by a man who was responsible for getting a woman home safely after a night out,” the DC said.

“It was clear from CCTV footage that she was intoxicated, and anyone who would even consider sexual activity with someone in her condition would be grossly taking advantage of a vulnerable person.

“By putting her in a taxi, she and her friends should have been confident that she would get home unharmed – however Jones showed a total disregard for her wellbeing and put his own gratification first.”

Jones was sentenced to 10 years in prison and must register as a sex offender for life.

Rhys George – Crymych

03 Saturday Apr 2021

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April 2021

Farm worker sent sex messages to ’12-year-old girl’

A farm worker sent a series of ‘highly-sexualised’ Facebook messages to a person he thought was a 12-year-old girl, Swansea Crown Court was told.

But 22-year-old Rhys David James George, from Crymych, Pembrokeshire, was actually talking to an adult who had set up the ‘decoy’ social media account to try and ensnare paedophiles.

George, of Bwlchygroes, Pembrokeshire, who had previously pleaded guilty to:

Attempting to incident a child under 13 to engage in sexual activity,
Attempting to cause a child under 13 to watch a sexual act,
Attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child under 13,

He was jailed for 28 months after recorder Ifan Wyn Lloyd Jones gave him a one-third discount for his guilty pleas.

Mr Jones told George he should be ‘thoroughly ashamed’ of his actions, and of the shame he had brought upon his family.

He added he had no doubt that the offending was so serious that only a term of immediate imprisonment was appropriate.

George was said to have contacted a Facebook profile purporting to be that of a 12-year-old girl, named as ‘Kayleigh,’ on September 28, 2019.

Prosecutor Craig Jones said that even though ‘Kayleigh’ made her age clear to the defendant there was a ‘sexualised theme’ to much of their conversation.

George made offensive suggestions of a sexual nature of his intent to the girl, and then described in detail the sexual acts he wanted to perform on her and what he wanted her to do to him.

The pair also discussed meeting and George sent the decoy videos of himself engaged in a sex act.

The conversations ended on October 15 when members of a so-called paedophile hunter group confronted George, who had no previous convictions.

George will serve up to half his sentence in custody before being released on licence under the UK government’s early release scheme, to serve the remainder in the community.

He was also made the subject of a sexual harm prevention order for the next 10 years, and will be a registered sex offender for the same length of time.

Kevin Rowe – Haverfordwest

24 Wednesday Mar 2021

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May 2000

Rapist’s life term

DOUBLE rapist Kevin Rowe was jailed for life yesterday for a copy-cat attack on a 24-year-old woman.

Rowe, 40, repeated the sexual ordeal he put an American Navy civilian through 12 years ago.

Then he was jailed for 15 years for rape, assault and threatening to kill.

At Swansea Crown Court, Judge Hugh Williams gave him two life sentences and said he would have to serve at least seven-and-a half years before applying for parole.

Jobless Rowe first stalked his latest victim to find out where she lived in Haverfordwest, west Wales.

He followed her home from a nightclub and asked to come in for a cup of coffee.

She refused and he went away – but Rowe returned a few days later and subjected her to a 90-minute sex attack.

Rowe denied rape and attempted rape but was convicted of both.

June 2021

Paedophile in clifftop standoff with police after his abuse of young girl was revealed

A paedophile that subjected a young girl to repeated abuse to satisfy his own “selfish sexual pleasure” threatened to jump off a cliff

Colin Sharpe began abusing the child when she was aged under 13 and continued his depraved behaviour for a number of years.

When the offending was reported to police and officers launched a search for Sharpe they tracked him down him to a Pembrokeshire clifftop where a standoff developed.

Swansea Crown Court heard 40-year-old Sharpe subjected his victim to repeated serious sexual abuse “whenever the opportunity arose”.

Ian Wright, prosecuting, said the offended started when the girl was aged under 13 and continued for the next three to four years.

The abuse came to light in March this year when the girl confided in her mother about what had been going on, naming the defendant and telling her mum he had been “touching me”.

The court heard the matter was reported to police and officers began a search for the defendant. He was found in his vehicle in a car park at St Ann’s Head at the mouth of Milford Haven.

Mr Wright said police used their car to block Sharpe’s exist from the car park but he “sped off” across the grass towards the cliff edge before crashing into a fence.

The defendant abandoned his vehicle and made off on foot to the clifftop.

A standoff then developed during which police brought in a specialist negotiator to talk him down.

After a lengthy negotiation Sharpe was arrested.

Sharpe, of Howarth Close, Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, admitted six sexual offences involving a child. He has no previous convictions.

In an impact statement which was read to the court the girl he abused said she had nightmares about what he had done to her where Sharpe would come after her, threaten her, and pin her down.

Judge Paul Thomas QC told Sharpe that over a period of many years he had used the young girl “for your own selfish sexual pleasure” without having any regard to the impact on her.

Following the guidelines and giving the defendant the required one-third discount for his guilty pleas the judge sentenced him to 10 years in prison.

Sharpe will serve up to half that period in custody before being released on licence to serve the remainder in the community.

He will be a registered sex offender for the rest of his life and was also made subject to an indefinite sexual harm prevention order to control his access to girls.

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June 2021

Lorry driver set up Grindr date with boy “aged 14” at Derbyshire McDonald’s

A lorry driver told a paedophile hunter he believed to be a 14-year-old boy he met on gay dating app Grindr to “brush his teeth” before meeting for sex at a Derbyshire McDonald’s.

David Rees, 37, – who went by the name “Kinky Top” on the app – told an online decoy named “Kai” that “oral sex with another male would not hurt”.

Derby Crown Court heard how on January 10 last year Rees was waiting for the teen in his lorry near McDonald’s in Alfreton when he was met by police and arrested.

Prosecutor Jeremy Janes described how Rees used Grindr to meet up with other gay men “on a casual basis”.

However during an online conversation when Kai told Reece he was 14 Rees was “not deterred by this”.

Mr Janes told how during one message the defendant made references to “sucking a lollipop” and told the decoy to “brush his teeth and tongue well”.

The prosecutor said Rees claimed he was aware the Grindr profile was false and intended to meet the boy to “send him on his way with some wise advice”.

However Mr Janes said this did not explain the fact that Rees had already admitted a charge attempting to meet a boy under 16 years of age following grooming.

Suspending a 15-month jail term for two years Recorder Balraj Bhatia QC told Rees, of Solva, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, his offence was “a very serious one”.

He said: “You know what you did – you went on the internet, you pursued it and you pursued it over a relatively short period of time but it was with a view to meeting someone of tender years.

“It’s plain that sexual grooming had taken place because of the conversations you had with someone you believed was called Kai.

Rees was also given 55 rehabilitation activity days, 150 hours’ unpaid work, made subject to police monitoring, a 10-year sexual harm prevention order and ordered to pay £500 court costs.

April 2021

Pervert travelled from Wales to meet teenage boy he groomed

A pervert travelled from his home in South Wales to meet a 14-year-old Derbyshire boy he had attempted to groom over the internet for sex.

But when David Rees arrived in Alfreton, “Kai”, the teenager he thought he was there to see, was really a group of self-styled paedophile hunters.

The 37-year-old pleaded guilty to one count of attempting to meet a child following sexual grooming when he appeared over a link from his home into Derby Crown Court.

He denied a further count of attempting to communicate with a child for the purposes of sexual gratification which prosecutor Jonathan Dee asked to lie on file.

Few details of the actual offence were revealed during the short hearing except that it took place on January 10 and Judge Shaun Smith QC adjourned his sentencing hearing until May 25.

He told Rees, whose address was given as Middle Hill to Junction U3025, Solva, near Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire: “You will need to be here in person at this court and I am going to ask for a pre-sentence report.

“Just because I am it is no indication what will happen to you. Custody is an option.”

Judge Smith handed the defendant conditional bail until then.

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April 2021

Milford Haven taxi driver jailed for raping passenger in cab

A former taxi driver has been jailed for 10 years for raping a passenger in the back of his cab.

Anthony Marcus Jones, of the Mount Estate, Milford Haven, was found guilty of raping a woman who was too inebriated to consent while entrusted with taking her home from a night out.

Dyfed-Powys Police officers investigating the offence were able to put together a strong file of evidence against the 45-year-old despite a number of days passing between the incident taking place and the victim reporting it, and no forensic evidence being available.

Thanks to a lengthy and detailed investigation, during which specialist support was provided to the victim, a jury unanimously found Jones guilty of rape at Swansea Crown Court.

A detective constable who investigated the case said: “This investigation spanned nearly three years, during which time the victim showed strength and determination in getting justice.

“Despite there being no forensic evidence available to us as the incident was reported four days after it took place, a team of officers worked diligently and tenaciously to compile sufficient evidence to prove the defendant’s guilt.”

The incident was reported to police on April 4, 2018, by a third party who the victim had spoken to.

Officers immediately made contact with the victim, who had no recollection of the offence but was able to provide pieces of information which were used to launch an investigation.

Through enquiries with friends and viewing CCTV footage from a number of cameras inside and outside a pub she had attended, officers began to establish the sequence of events.

“We learned that the victim had been on a night out in Milford Haven, and had become intoxicated,” the DC said.

“She was taken outside the pub and a taxi was called to get her home safely. However, she was unable to tell the driver where she lived, so he called a colleague – Jones – to come and pick her up.”

Jones, knowing where the victim lived, met the first taxi in a car park in Haverfordwest and the passenger was transferred between the two cars.

Just minutes later, he proceeded to rape her in the back of the cab before leaving her outside her home in a state of undress.

Several days later, Jones contacted the victim to tell her they’d had consensual sex, which she immediately disputed. It was at this point that she confided in a friend and police were contacted.

“This was a despicable betrayal of trust by a man who was responsible for getting a woman home safely after a night out,” the DC said.

“It was clear from CCTV footage that she was intoxicated, and anyone who would even consider sexual activity with someone in her condition would be grossly taking advantage of a vulnerable person.

“By putting her in a taxi, she and her friends should have been confident that she would get home unharmed – however Jones showed a total disregard for her wellbeing and put his own gratification first.”

Jones was sentenced to 10 years in prison and must register as a sex offender for life.

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April 2021

Farm worker sent sex messages to ’12-year-old girl’

A farm worker sent a series of ‘highly-sexualised’ Facebook messages to a person he thought was a 12-year-old girl, Swansea Crown Court was told.

But 22-year-old Rhys David James George, from Crymych, Pembrokeshire, was actually talking to an adult who had set up the ‘decoy’ social media account to try and ensnare paedophiles.

George, of Bwlchygroes, Pembrokeshire, who had previously pleaded guilty to:

Attempting to incident a child under 13 to engage in sexual activity,

Attempting to cause a child under 13 to watch a sexual act,

Attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child under 13,

He was jailed for 28 months after recorder Ifan Wyn Lloyd Jones gave him a one-third discount for his guilty pleas.

Mr Jones told George he should be ‘thoroughly ashamed’ of his actions, and of the shame he had brought upon his family.

He added he had no doubt that the offending was so serious that only a term of immediate imprisonment was appropriate.