June 2021

Teenage paedophile from Cornwall was admin for sick chat rooms with 700 members

A 17-year-old paedophile from Cornwall was unmasked as the administrator for child sexual abuse chatrooms in which hundreds of members shared disgusting footage and conversations of children being raped, tortured and abused.

Lucas Wilson, now 19, spoke of his desire to abuse young girls whom he knew.

Wilson, of Landreath Place in St Blazey, appeared at Truro Crown Court for sentence having pleaded guilty to three counts of possession indecent images of children and three distribution charges.

Prosecuting the case, Herc Ashworth described how an undercover operative who called himself Adrian infiltrated a group on KIK messenger that had a title indicative of child abuse image.

Adrian observed Wilson saying he wanted to abuse children, referring in particular to two children he knew.

Wilson sent messages to Adrian requesting pictures of his 10-year-old daughter before telling him he was administrator for four or five groups related to child abuse images.

Chillingly, Wilson said he wanted girls aged between five and 13 but “birth and beyond was fine”. He then went on to describe in graphic detail what he wanted to do to Adrian’s daughter.

Mr Ashworth stated how Wilson had provided the group with dropbox and other links to child abuse material featuring some 200 children, many of whom were grimacing with pain.

Wilson proceeded to set up various chat rooms on different platforms, with members reaching 742.

He also shared a clothed picture of a girl known to him saying he was ‘working his way up to abusing her’, adding that he wanted to have a daughter of his own he could abuse from birth but finding a willing partner would be difficult.

Police eventually raided Wilson’s house and seized devices containing hundreds of inaccessible child abuse images.

Wilson was given a 36 month community order. He must complete a rehabilitation activity requirement and be subject of a sexual harm prevention order.

June 2021

Basildon paedophile attempted to rape young girl

A paedophile who attempted to rape a young child and had thousands of images of children has been locked up for 12 years.

Vernon Pickett, 52 of Waldringfield, Basildon, also forced the girl to perform a sex act on him, made indecent images of the child and sexually assaulted her.

May 2021

Staines paedophile who shared child abuse images after computer ban is jailed for five years

An already convicted paedophile from Surrey who shared child sexual abuse and rape images on the internet with other paedophiles after being banned from having a computer or going online at home has been jailed for five years.

Nicholas Murphy, aged 65, of Staines-upon-Thames, was found with hundreds of indecent pictures and videos of children on his phone which police said he was sending to scores of other people.

During a hearing at Guildford Crown Court, he admitted breaching a Sexual Harm Prevention Order issued to him following a conviction for distributing indecent images of children in 2005, which prohibited him from having a computer or internet access at his home address.

He successfully applied to have his order discharged in February 2020.

But in July 2020, Surrey Police received information that the user of an email address linked to Murphy had uploaded more indecent images of children to the internet in June and July 2019.

The following September, officers carried out a warrant at his home and he was arrested.

A mobile phone was found at his address and, following examination, it was found to contain hundreds of images and video footage, including prohibited and extreme images.

A message was also found on the same phone which showed Murphy had communicated with another man and made comments about raping children.

A number of chat conversations were also identified where the users of the group had shared indecent images of children, with some of the conversations involving several hundred participants.

Murphy pleaded guilty to making and distributing indecent images of children, possession of prohibited images and possession of extreme pornographic images.

May 2021

Barrow pervert created fake profile to chat to ‘teenage girls’

A pervert who was snared by paedophile hunters after trying to communicate with five young girls has been jailed for three years.

Paul Goulding, 37, created a fake profile pretending to be a teenage boy to chat to girls aged 12, 13 and 14 on Facebook.

Infanticide is an offence where a mother is responsible for the death of her child, aged under 12 months

Babita Rai, a care home worker, fatally crushed her newborn girl’s skull with repeated and ‘deliberate’ blows to the head in Aldershot Park, Hampshire, in May 2017.

The baby was left among the undergrowth behind a fence and did not die until at least two hours later.

Her mother was cleared of murder after defence lawyers claimed she was suffering PTSD and had no memory of the incident.

Rai, who was 20 at the time, had given birth under a nearby tree at night after hiding her pregnancy for months.

Rai was six months pregnant when she moved to the UK from Nepal, but concealed it from border officials, her GP and colleagues at a restaurant she worked at previously.

Her sister accompanied her from Nepal and the pair went to live with family opposite the park.

The initially unidentified child was found by the park’s keeper two days after its death, and dubbed Baby M by police.

‘Expert evidence indicates these were the result of multiple blunt force impacts and or significant crush injuries.

‘Howsoever caused, they were deliberately inflicted injuries and could not have been sustained by the baby accidentally, either during the process of labour, even a traumatic one, or afterwards, for example the baby falling on the floor.

‘The baby girl survived the injuries for perhaps between two and 12 hours, the likelihood being closer to two than 12.

Expert evidence suggests when she died she was less than six hours old.’

The judge, Mr Justice Johnson, thanked the jury for the “care” they had taken deliberating the case, which he described as “distressing and of the utmost importance”.

He adjourned the case until July 19 for a report to be prepared on Rai, from Reeves Road, Aldershot, and remanded her in custody until then.