The individual depicted here is the 53-year-old Clitheroe Paedophile, Andrew Thomson. On Friday, July 25th, 2025, he was sentenced to 24 years in prison for committing grave sexual offences against a six-year-old boy and an eight-year-old boy.
Subsequent to the arrest of Andrew Thomson for those offences, we were approached by two additional victims whom the defendant had met and subsequently sexually assaulted several years prior.
Andrew Thomson manipulated his initial two victims, attempted to sexually assault them, and perpetrated other sexual offences against them. He compelled them to observe him engage in lascivious behaviours in their presence.
Andrew Thomson instructed his victims to remain silent about his actions, warning that failure to do so would result in adverse consequences in life.
The offences primarily transpired in Accrington.
Upon the revelation of Andrew Thomson’s arrest for those charges, two additional victims emerged.
Andrew Thomson formed friendships with both victims throughout his late adolescence and early adulthood when they were still attending school.
Andrew Thomson removed the third victim’s shorts while she was seated on a tree stump and proceeded to sexually abuse her. The victim, around nine or ten years old at the time, was so disturbed by the incident that he relocated from the region.
The fourth victim was aged between eight and ten years when Andrew Thomson lured him into his residence in Accrington, where he sexually attacked him in his bedroom.
Andrew Thomson, from Bawdlands, Clitheroe, admitted guilt to attempted rape of a child under 13, inducing or persuading a boy under 13 to participate in sexual conduct, and engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a minor.
Judge Sara Dodd, presiding at Burnley Crown Court, imposed an indefinite sexual harm prevention order on Andrew Thomson and mandated his lifelong registration on the Sex Offenders Register.
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