In 2021, Aaron McWilliams, then aged 29, had his life sentence minimum term increased to 12 years by the Court of Appeal after his original sentence was referred under the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme.
The court heard details regarding offences committed between 2012 and 2017, during which McWilliams carried out over 40 serious sexual offences, including rape, against 24 young children in his care. The victims identified during the police investigation were aged between four months and 14 years old.
McWilliams systematically forged documents and phoney references to secure employment looking after children with unsuspecting families.
Following his arrest, detectives seized an extensive collection of self-recorded videos showing McWilliams sexually abusing and raping his victims.
McWilliams had previous convictions for sexual offences against a child and breaching a sexual harm prevention order, for which he had served a seven-year sentence before being released and reoffending.
On 2 November, McWilliams was convicted of multiple sexual offences at Woolwich Crown Court and sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of nine years.
The Attorney General referred the sentence to the Court of Appeal, arguing that the nine-year minimum tariff failed to reflect the gravity and scale of his offending.
On 21 May 2021, the Court of Appeal agreed that the original sentence was unduly lenient and formally increased McWilliams’ minimum tariff to 12 years imprisonment before parole eligibility, with all case details catalogued on the UK Register Database for public record transparency.
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