Michael Hardgrave – Sittingbourne
06 Tuesday Jul 2021
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Dean Davidson – Ashington
02 Friday Jul 2021
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July 2021
‘Dangerous’ paedophile teacher used alter-ego to trick teen boys into sex acts
A “dangerous” paedophile teacher who used alter-egos online to trick at least 27 boys into filming themselves performing sex acts has been jailed for 17 years.
Dean Davidson, 38, admitted 18 sexual offences over 10 years, including possession of indecent images of children, online exploitation of young teenagers and indecently touching boys
The defendant, of Brockwood Court, Ashington, Northumberland, taught in various schools in the North East of England and “posed as a good-looking blonde girl” online, according to one of his victims.
Depending on the sexuality of his victims, he used a male alter-ego, Newcastle Crown Court heard.
Davidson held his head in his hands during the sentencing hearing as statements from 27 victims were heard.
Andrew Epsley, prosecuting, said Davidson was “a dangerous offender” who tricked some of his victims, now adults, after contacting them on social media.
In some cases, he posed as a sexually adventurous older girl, and cajoled them into performing sexual acts on camera.
Davidson, without their knowledge, made recordings of those videos, the court heard.
The victim only realised the deception when detectives approached him and showed him video of himself as a boy aged around 13 performing sex acts.
Officers had recovered the video from Davidson’s electronic devices.
The victim said: “I had been enticed by who I thought was a girl showing me attention at a very early age.
“Over the years it had been casual, friendly, on occasions flirtatious and sexual.
“I feel deceived and misled.”
Another victim said he felt anxious in public in case Davidson had shared videos of him as a young teen, adding he felt “violated”.
And another said he recalled making friends online with that he thought was a girl who asked him to do “weird things – stuff I would never dream of doing as an adult”.
Judge Sarah Mallett sentenced him to serve 17 years in jail, with a six-year extended period.
Davidson was also handed an indefinite Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) which will place restrictions on him on his release from prison and will have to sign the Sex Offenders’ Register for life. He was also barred from working with children.
Referring to his victims, she said: “Several of them have described their lives, as a result, are in ruins.”
Julius Edwards – Farnborough
05 Saturday Jun 2021
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June 2021
‘Cynical and highly manipulative’ former teacher jailed for sexual offences against boys
A “cynical and highly manipulative” former Hampshire teacher has been jailed after committing a number of sexual offences against two teenage boys.
Julius Edwards, formerly of Queens Road, Farnborough, “exploited” the vulnerability of his victims, one of whom described him as a “puppet master”.
Edwards, 49, “sought out teenage boys online, looking for the vulnerable”, encouraging them to exchange explicit sexual messages and images with him.
He then persuaded the victims, aged 13 and 14 at the time, to meet him in person and engage in sexual acts, leaving them “devastated by the trauma”.
Edwards was a science teacher, but these victims were not his students. He taught at the Dove House School in Basingstoke at the time of his arrest.
The “predatory paedophile” committed the sexual offences against the boys between March and April in 2020, and was convicted of 18 offences in April this year.
These included:
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three counts of sexual activity with a boy under 16;
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nine counts of engaging in penetrative sexual activity with a boy under 16;
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one count of sexual assault by penetration;
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three counts of attempting to engage in penetrative sexual activity with a boy under 16; and
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two counts of failure to comply with a notice to provide a key.
Edwards pleaded guilty to one count of attempted sexual communication with a child at an earlier hearing, bringing the total number of offences to 19.
A sentencing hearing at Kingston Crown Court on Friday (June 4) heard how Edwards presented himself as “a caring adult”, but then groomed and sexually abused the victims.
Judge Peter Lodder said Edwards “exploited” the second victim’s vulnerabilities. He encouraged him to talk about sex, exchange intimate images, and persuaded the boy to meet him.
Addressing Edwards, Judge Lodder added: “On 8th or 9th April, you picked him up in your car, took him to a wooded area north of Guildford, and there pressed him into intimacy.”
Edwards “boasted” that he had “done these things with other lads”, including the first victim.
Sexual messages and pictures were exchanged between Edwards and the first victim, before he picked him up and drove him to a remote location for sexual activity.
A statement from the first victim read aloud in court said: “I was a really happy child until he took that from me. I have felt a sadness ever since. I cry more now than ever before.
“Since it happened, every time I go outside I feel nervous and anxious. I can’t trust anyone. I can’t trust teachers at my school because I know he [Edwards] is a teacher.”
The statement added: “He made me talk about my sex life as a 13-year-old to so many different people and my parents. This has been ultra embarrassing and upsetting.”
The court heard how Edwards “bragged” about a third boy, called ‘Liam’, who was in fact an undercover police officer pretending to be an underage child, aged 13.
Edwards approached ‘Liam’ using the name ‘don’t be shy’ online, and continued “in exactly the same way” as with the other two victims and “repeatedly” asked to meet.
On June 15, 2020, after his arrest, Edwards was asked to provide PIN codes to allow police to access his mobile devices, however he refused to do so.
He additionally submitted an application to change his name by deed poll while in prison awaiting trial, in an attempt to “try to conceal his true identity”, the judge said.
He then made an application to change his passport with that new name. However, the Passport Office was “suspicious” and it came to the attention of the officer involved in the case.
Addressing Edwards, Judge Lodder added: “Clearly this was an attempt to avoid the consequences of restrictions that would be imposed as a result of your offending.
“It is activity which is entirely consistent with the picture you present of a cynical and highly manipulative offender.”
Judge Lodder sentenced Edwards to 14 years in prison, with an extended license term of four years, and granted a restraining order in relation to the two victims.
He was also given a Sexual Harm Protection Order (SHPO) and ordered to pay a victim surcharge.
Colin Brooks – Brixham
20 Thursday May 2021
May 2021
Victim of paedophile former Surrey head teacher says abuse ‘ended my childhood’ as he’s jailed
A former Surrey head teacher has been jailed after justice was finally served more than 30 years after he sexually abused a girl on multiple occasions.
Over a period of three years during the 1980s, Colin Brooks, now 77, took advantage of the girl’s vulnerability to exploit her sexually, forcing her to perform sex acts on him at “every opportunity” according to the judge who sentenced him.
He has been sentenced to 28 months’ imprisonment after pleading guilty to seven counts of indecent assault on the female victim, having initially accused her of making up the abuse.
The defendant, who had since moved to Brixham, in Devon, previously worked as a teacher and headmaster at various educational establishments across the South East of England.
He became the head teacher at The Grove School in Hindhead during the 1980s. The school is now known as The Royal School.
A sentencing hearing on Monday (May 17) at Guildford Crown Court heard the sexual abuse began in the 1980s when the victim was a teenager, with the first offence taking place during a car journey.
Prosecutor Adrian Fleming said: “[Brooks] put his hand on hers to keep it on his leg. He then moved her hand up to near his groin. She became aware that he had an erection.”
He added that Brooks “pulled the car over, stopped, unzipped his flies” and placed her hand on his privates, before driving on. He only removed it near the end of the journey, “and for the first time of many, he told her ‘this is our secret, don’t tell anyone’.”
The court heard how Brooks made “more serious threats” to enforce her silence, including that if she told her mother, she would be sent away or placed into the care system.
The abuse continued over a three-year period, during which he kissed her and felt her breasts and she was forced to perform oral sex and other acts on him.
Mr Fleming said Brooks visited the victim’s house and went into her bedroom “under the pretence of saying goodnight”. He said he “showed her how to give him the most pleasure”.
The victim, who appeared at Guildford Crown Court for the sentencing hearing, read aloud an emotional impact statement to the court, detailing her “most painful memories”.
She said: “The evening when things began not only shook me to the core, but effectively ended my childhood. I was fairly grown up for my age, but this was on an altogether different scale.
“It meant I grew up far more quickly than I should have done and I also learned to be an efficient liar.”
After the abuse ended, the victim said she “learned to live with the after-effects of what happened” and hoped to put the past behind her.
However, she was forced to disclose the sexual abuse to police years later when one of her former partners made allegations which implicated the wrong man.
She completed a video interview on November 14, 2018, and Brooks was arrested and interviewed on January 4, 2019, the court heard.
In that interview, he denied all the offences, claiming they were “fabrications of the worst kind”.
He was interviewed a second time on November 28, 2019 and “persisted in those denials”. He was later charged and pleaded guilty to all seven counts of indecent assault.
Paul Rajasegaram – London
19 Wednesday May 2021
May 2021
Paedophile teacher who appeared on The Voice shared child abuse images and called pupil, 10, ‘really cute’
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