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:

  • three counts of sexual activity with a boy under 16;

  • nine counts of engaging in penetrative sexual activity with a boy under 16;

  • one count of sexual assault by penetration;

  • three counts of attempting to engage in penetrative sexual activity with a boy under 16; and

  • 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.

Leon Ward – Rotherham

04 Friday Jun 2021

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June 2021

Child rapist sent back to prison just months after early release

A child rapist has been sent back to prison after breaching his supervision requirements — ten months after being released early from his 16-year sentence

Leon Ashley Ward (41) was released in January last year after serving half of his sentence for twice raping an eight-year-old girl in 2012.

He pleaded guilty on Thursday to breaching a sexual harm prevention order, which banned him from deleting his internet history, and failing to notify police of his change of address.

Prosecutor, Ms Fatima Zafar, said Ward had been living at an apartment in Hayfield Walk, Rotherham, when police visited his address on October 13 to examine his devices.

“The defendant had a Huawei mobile phone with discrepancies in its internet history,” she said.

“One entry visibly appeared to be a search about deleting your internet history.”

Ward told police he had watched an adult porn video on his device the previous night and had deleted it from his history.

“The phone was examined and showed internet history had been deleted and that there were history wiping apps installed on his mobile telephone,” Ms Zafar told Sheffield Crown Court.

Ward, who has 17 convictions for 37 offences, went missing on October 15 after being recalled to prison.

“Instead of responding, the defendant disappeared from his home address,” said Ms Zafar.

“That relates to the breach of his notification requirements.”

He was later arrested and during his interview on November 1 told police he had panicked and “done one” because he knew he would be recalled.

He claimed he had deleted two days worth of history and some images of children that had not been sexual.

Ward, who represented himself at the hearing, told the court he didn’t have anything to add.

“I don’t think it would make any difference what I say anyway,” he said.

Recorder Anthony Hawks sentenced him to six months in prison for each offence, to run consecutive to his previous sentence.

Addressing Ward, Mr Hawks said: “You’re a serious sexual offender and therefore these supervisions are extremely important.

“But you pleaded guilty and you will now have to serve the remainder, or a significant part, of your sentence that was passed upon you in 2012.”

During his May 2012 sentencing at the same court, Ward was described as being “obsessed with deviant sex”.

Ward, formerly of Badsley Moor Lane, Clifton, was convicted of two rapes, sexual assault and possession of child sexual abuse images

He lost an appeal in the same year against his 16-year sentence.

December 2012

Pervert fails to win cut in 16-year sentence

A pervert obsessed with deviant sex has lost an appeal against his 16-year prison sentence for twice raping an eight-year-old girl.

Leon Ashley Ward (32), of Badsley Moor Lane, Clifton, was jailed at Sheffield Crown Court after he was convicted in May of two rapes, sexual assault and possession of child pornography.

But appeal court judges upheld his jail term after ruling that it was not ‘manifestly excessive’

The court was told that Ward had been arrested after his young victim told her family about the attacks.

He was found to have child porn on his mobile phone and  the was evidence that he had visited sick internet sites.

The judge at the Crown Court said Ward had been ‘obsessed with deviant sex’.

Ward had admitted having a sexual interest in 13 and 14-year-olds, but denied the attack on the younger girl.

Alexander Allport – Halifax

04 Friday Jun 2021

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June 2021

Paedophile jailed after sharing ‘disgusting and horrific’ images of children

A depraved paedophile who embarked on the relentless pursuit of vile and disgusting indecent images of children has been jailed for four years and four months.

Alexander Allport possessed and distributed hundreds of images at category A, B and C, including movies of babies being raped, Bradford Crown Court heard today.

Allport, 37, of Canterbury Crescent, Halifax, shared the “disgusting and horrific” pictures with like-minded perverts on internet chat sites.

He was told by Judge Jonathan Rose: “Your behaviour is incomprehensible to any decent member of society.”

Allport was first arrested in May, 2017, when police officers acting on information went to his home and seized a memory stick and computers, prosecutor Ayesha Smart said.

Investigators found 114 category A movies and 300 category A images; 130 category B movies and 295 category B images; and 8 category C movies and 1,035 category C images.

They featured children aged between one and 14, the court was told.

Allport was distributing the images in a chatroom with 43 members. He shared 21 of them, some at category A, among 18 people, Miss Smart said.

He told the police he began downloading the images in 2016. He was then released under investigation.

On February 3 this year, the police returned to his home and seized three phones and a computer hard drive containing 10 category B images, 83 category C images and 752 prohibited images of children, comprising cartoons and 3D images.

Allport told the police that following his first arrest he had paid an American company for therapy to tackle his sexual attraction to children.

He was again released and he appeared in court in April.

On May 5, he was caught with 39 category A indecent images; 33 at category B and 60 at category C.

He was using a website to chat to boys and girls and taking to other paedophiles.

Allport was then remanded in custody and sentenced on a video link to Leeds Prison.

He pleaded guilty to making and distributing indecent images of children in 2017 and two further sets of offences of making indecent images of children.

Judge Rose said that Allport “embarked on the relentless pursuit of paedophilic images of children being debased and violated.”

He was a determined paedophile who engaged with like-minded perverts to share “disgusting and horrific images.”

Allport was jailed for a total of four years and four months. He must register as a sex offender indefinitely and a Sexual Harm Prevention Order was made, also for an indefinite period.

Terrence Simmons – Gloucester

04 Friday Jun 2021

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Gloucester paedophile jailed for 25 years for multiple rapes

A 72-year-old paedophile from Gloucester was sentenced to 25 years in prison for the multiple rapes of two children among 15 offences.

Terrence Simmons, of Westgate Street, enticed children into his flat with pet animals and tropical fish and befriended their parents in order to gain access to them.

His victims bravely gave evidence in Gloucester Crown Court before Simmons was convicted for the multiple rapes of two children; sexual assaults on a child under 13; assault by penetration of a child under 13 multiple times; and the indecent assault of a child.

Among a total of 15 offences he was also convicted for taking and possessing indecent images of a child and possessing extreme pornographic images.

Stewart Geen – Bath

04 Friday Jun 2021

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June 2021

‘Monster’ paedophile from Bath jailed for 21 years for molesting children as young as five

A Bath man has been jailed for 21 years after admitting recent and non-recent child sex offences.

Stewart Geen, 53, of Bath, was sentenced at Bristol Crown Court on Friday May 28 after admitting seven counts of serious offences involving girls aged between five and 14.

They included multiple counts of rape, sexual assault and sexual activity.

As well as the 21-year jail term and five year licence extension, Geen was placed on the sex offenders’ register indefinitely.

The court also issued him with a sexual harm prevention order.

During sentencing, Judge Julian Lambert said: “There is no question but that you knew what you were doing was wrong and wicked in the extreme.

“You chose your own corrupt sexual pleasure and thought nothing of the ruination of young lives.

“You are truly a monster steeped in corruption.”