A paedophile who posed as a young girl online was found with 550 child sexual abuse images.
Officers from the Essex Police Online Investigation Team (POLIT) raided the address of Scott Chapman in Hume Close, Tilbury back on December 4, 2019.
The team, which investigates online child abuse, had received intelligence that the internet at the address had been used to view indecent images of children.
Following searches there and at another address, officers seized a mobile phone which could be attributed to Chapman on which they found more than 550 indecent images of children.
They also found several social media applications on which Chapman had posed as a young girl or sent indecent images to other paedophiles
The 24-year-old was charged with three counts of making indecent images of children and three counts of distributing indecent images of children.
He admitted the offences and at Basildon Crown Court and was sentenced to seven years.
A rapist has been jailed for eight years after images were found on an electronic device.
Daniel Curtis, 39, of Goldstone Way, was handed the sentence for a series of sexual offences against an 18-year-old woman in Hove.
The Hove man pleaded guilty to three counts of rape, seven counts of sexual assault by touching and one count of causing a person to engage in sexual activity without their consent.
He will be a registered sex offender indefinitely and was also given a Sexual Harm Prevention Order to last until further court order, severely restricting his access to women and communications devices.
Grandad chats to ‘girl’, 13, about sex while his wife is at work
A grandad discussed having sex with a ’13-year-old girl’ because he said he was ‘bored’ after retiring.
Desmond Brown, 68, chatted to a person he thought was a schoolgirl online when his wife was away at work.
He claimed he used to work as a joiner in a school and once had a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old female pupil.
But the pervert, who discussed meeting up and taking her for a drive, was actually talking to an undercover police officer.
The OAP was previously spared jail for two counts of indecent assault on a woman and indecent exposure in 1981.
He walked free from court again, after saying he had suffered abuse himself and was now paying for psychotherapy.
Liverpool Crown Court heard an officer created an account on the website Chat Avenue, posing as “Bella”, 13, from Exeter.
Brown, of Gairloch Close, Warrington, had a username of “LongHorn95” with a photo of himself and claimed to be 55.
Simon Duncan, prosecuting, said he messaged Bella, who told him she was 13 and “bored” when the chats began in August 2019.
Brown made his claim about previously dating a 15-year-old and Bella asked if they ever did any “naughty stuff”, to which the pensioner said they had “intimate contact”.
He used a fake profile name “Steve Wilson” as a cover in further chats on the app Kik Messenger.
Bella said his contact with the 15-year-old girl sounded “exciting” and Brown asked her if she wanted to try it.
He tried to phone her but she declined the call and he asked if she would send a photo, but “nothing weird”, to verify who she was.
Bella avoided this and they instead discussed her sexual experience.
Brown said “he would be gentle with her” and “would not do anything she didn’t want to do”.
When another request for a photo was avoided, Brown said they should stop chatting “as it was too dangerous”, adding he was scared about entrapment.
However, they discussed meeting up, when he suggested taking her for a drive and said he would perform a sex act on her and if they had sex he would wear a condom.
Brown asked her to delete their conversations and when she wouldn’t join a video chat, ignored two further messages from her.
He was arrested at his home on October 24, 2019, when no indecent images were found on his electronic equipment.
When interviewed, Brown told police he was “bored” and thought he was chatting to an adult for “sexual gratification”.
He said he had no sexual interest in children and made up the story about the 15-year-old.
Brown admitted engaging in sexual communication with a child between August 8 and September 10, 2019 – despite the fact there was no actual child.
The judge handed him 10 months in jail, suspended for two years, with a 20-day Rehabilitation Activity Requirement.
Brown must comply with a Sexual Harm Prevention Order and sign on the Sex Offenders Register for 10 years.
Sadistic Bradford rapist Andrew Delsol jailed for life
A sadistic torturer has been jailed for life for raping two women as part of a savage and gruesome reign of terror spanning thirty years.
Andrew Delsol was described by the judge today as “charming and clever on one side and vicious and self-obsessed on the other.”
He must serve a minimum of nine years behind bars before he can even be considered for release by the Parole Board.
Delsol, 55, made a chilling threat to murder one of the survivors of his campaign of sickening violence after he was convicted of 11 offences by a jury at Bradford Crown Court yesterday.
They included four offences of rape, a Section 18 wounding, living on the earnings of prostitution, two offences of making a threat to kill, two offences of indecent assault and assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
One of the women, who bravely gave her evidence without screens around the witness box, was in court when Delsol threatened: “I’ll murder that bitch,” as he was taken to the cells.
He is currently serving a 13-year extended sentence imposed in 2015 for terrorising a young mother he locked in an attic flat in Bradford.
During the two-week trial, the first woman told how she was beaten and raped by Delsol when she was a teenage sex worker in Bradford.
“He needs putting away for life. He’ll carry on hurting people. He was handsome and beautiful…but he was evil, is evil” – Delsol victim
The ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ abuser forced her to earn a £100 a day to leave in a drawer for him to collect.
He punched and kicked her, tried to drown her in the bath and indecently assaulted her with a carpet cleaner pole.
She came forward after seeing Delsol’s photograph in the Telegraph & Argus when he was jailed in 2015.
“I don’t like the thought that he’s still out there doing this to young girls,” she said.
She met Delsol when she was 17 or 18 and was with him for a few months. He was smartly dressed, with two cars, a TR7 and a BMW.
He soon became controlling and demanding, encouraging her to buy red and black outfits and to wear high heels to attract customers for sex.
When Delsol found out that she was seeing clients behind his back, he turned up with a massive tree branch and demanded that she go home.
He slapped her, winded her with a punch and kicked her in the head.
“I did think he was a bit of a schizophrenic, but I think it’s more ‘psychopath’ now,” she said.
Another time, he accused her of sleeping with someone else and made her get into a cold bath.
“He tried to drown me a few times. He was holding my head under the water,” she said.
He then made her stand against the bathroom wall and indecently assaulted her with the carpet cleaner pole before taking the bulb out of a light and trying to put her finger in it.
“Psychologically, I think he was just playing with my head really,” she said. “He was like a Jekyll and Hyde.”
Delsol battered the second woman round the head with a hairbrush and plunged a screwdriver into her leg. He poured petrol on her before flicking a lighter and threatening to kill her.
The woman told how she was smitten with Delsol. He was 6ft 4ins tall and physically beautiful, she said. But he took control of her, mentally and physically. His eyes would mist up and go red when he attacked her.
Delsol would assault her in the woods where no one could hear her screaming.
He held her under water in a lake, threatened her with an axe, picked her up by the hair and punched her to the side of the head.
“He just battered me black and blue every day,” she said. “He needs putting away for life. He’ll carry on hurting people.”
The woman described Delsol as “evil and Narcissistic.”
“He was handsome and beautiful…but he was evil, is evil,” she said.
In March 2015, Delsol was labelled a dangerous sadist and sentenced to eight years behind bars as part of a 13-year extended term of imprisonment.
He was found guilty at Bradford Crown Court of falsely imprisoning a woman in his attic flat in Gaythorne Road, West Bowling, Bradford, over a four-month period.
He was also convicted of two offences of common assault, by causing her to fear violence from him, and one of illegally possessing a martial arts knife.
She told the court she lived in terror of Delsol. He frothed at the mouth with rage and threatened to “bust her skull open.”
In 2009, Lancashire Police issued a rarely used Violent Offender Order to protect women from Delsol. “When he is released, he will pose a real and serious threat to the public, especially young females,” they said.
Delsol was jailed for eight years at Carlisle Crown Court in 2002 after telling his teenage girlfriend that he would dismember her.
He held her captive for six days, smashing her nose with his hand till the bone cracked, knifing her in the neck, kicking and punching her stomach, hurling her head-first into a wall and beating her with a length of wood.
In one terrifying episode, he brandished an axe, saying he would use it to dismember her.
In 1989, Delsol was jailed for 15 years at Sheffield Crown Court for brutal offences against a former Bradford woman. He burned her with a blowtorch, tried to make her drink bleach and forced her out of a window with a rope around her neck.
At the time, Delsol was awaiting trial for a sadistic attack on his first victim. He was jailed for two years nine months for a string of assaults on the 25-year-old Bradford woman over a five-year period, including fracturing her skull.
Speaking after the sentencing, the officer in the case Detective Constable Andrew Ellis, of Bradford District CID, said: “Delsol is clearly a very dangerous man and I hope the sentence he has received today will be of some comfort to his victims.
“I would like to thank them for their courage in testifying against someone who subjected them to sexual abuse and violence.
“I also hope it encourages other victims of historic sexual offences to contact their local Safeguarding Unit, whose specially trained officers will investigate every report and provide support for the victims so perpetrators like Delsol can be brought to justice.”
One of Delsol’s victims also issued a statement after sentencing was passed.
She said: “I would like to thank West Yorkshire Police for the support they have given me throughout this case, and the jury who believed in me.
“I am elated at this verdict which means I can move forward with my life, knowing the man who violently and sexually abused me and other women has been given a life sentence.”
Judge Burn commended DC Ellis and DC Antoinette Williams for their painstaking work on the case.
Ex-NI health care officer is sentenced for indecent images
A former senior health care officer employed by a Northern Ireland Health Trust has been sentenced for possessing indecent images of children.
Kevin Barry Anderson worked at the Western Health and Social Care Trust at Gransha in Londonderry.
He was sentenced at the city’s Crown Court on Friday after he pleaded guilty to 17 charges of making indecent images of children being sexually abused and guilty to two charges of possessing extreme pornographic images.
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