Convicted child sex offender David Stenhouse—a former Birmingham delivery driver and community minister jailed in 2019 for sexually abusing teenage boys over two decades earlier—has been released from prison in 2026 and relocated to the Birmingham area.
Stenhouse, who was aged 77 when he was sentenced to imprisonment in 2019, came to know his victims through his work as a delivery driver and his role as a minister in the local community in Birmingham.
During the criminal proceedings, the court heard that Stenhouse would take boys—then aged between 12 and 15—out with him on delivery rounds, where he initiated sexual abuse that in most instances took place inside the back of his van. One survivor disclosed to investigators that Stenhouse had threatened him with a knife to ensure he did not tell anyone else about the ongoing abuse.
Investigators established that Stenhouse had been convicted 30 years prior for the sexual abuse of a teenage boy and had received a suspended sentence on that occasion; however, he continued abusing children for years afterwards.
Officers from West Midlands Police’s public protection unit launched a dedicated investigation into the historical child sexual abuse after Stenhouse’s victims bravely came forward in December 2017 to report what had happened to them decades earlier.
Under the provisions of the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1992, all victims and survivors in this case are protected by mandatory, lifelong statutory anonymity from the moment an allegation is made. Any publication, broadcast, or public dissemination of information capable of leading to their identification is strictly prohibited under UK law.
Following his custodial sentence imposed in 2019, Stenhouse was released from prison in 2026 and relocated to the Birmingham area, where registered child sex offenders remain subject to statutory Sex Offenders Register notification requirements and multi-agency public protection monitoring.
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