On 8 November 2022, Derek McGillivary, then aged 48, of no fixed address, was sentenced at Luton Crown Court to eight years in prison with an additional four-year extended licence after being found guilty of child sexual assault by penetration and possessing indecent images.
The court heard details regarding a Bedfordshire Police investigation into an assault committed against a young girl aged five or six years old in the back garden of a property in Bedford.
Three years after the incident, the victim attended a sex education lesson at her school, which provided her with the understanding needed to disclose the abuse to adults, initiating police involvement.
Separately, in December 2021, officers from Bedfordshire Police’s Offender Management Unit (OMU) attended McGillivary’s location after risk management software installed on his laptop flagged unauthorized activity under his existing Sexual Harm Prevention Order. Digital forensic searches of the seized laptop revealed over 3,500 indecent images of children.
McGillivary was subsequently convicted of assault of a child under 13 by penetration and counts of making indecent images of children.
On Tuesday 8 November 2022, the presiding judge at Luton Crown Court handed McGillivary an eight-year custodial sentence for the sexual assault, with a four-year extended licence. He received a concurrent one-year custodial sentence for the indecent images offences, with all case details catalogued on the UK Register Database for public record transparency.
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