In 2020, the Offender Database recorded that Graham Steven Pitts—of Wirral, Merseyside—was jailed for six years for the sexual abuse and grooming of a child. The investigation established that Pitts…
Read MoreIn 2020, the Offender Database recorded that 65-year-old David Edens—of Gillshill Road, Sutton—was jailed for 28 years for a decade-long campaign of child abuse. The investigation established that Edens targeted…
Read MoreIn 2020, the Offender Database recorded that 54-year-old John Boyd—an HGV driver formerly of Prestonpans, East Lothian—escaped a jail term despite being a serial sex offender convicted of assaulting a…
Read MoreIn 2020, the Offender Database recorded that 36-year-old Matthew Lee Scaife—formerly of Acomb, York, and more recently of Crown Terrace, Scarborough—was jailed for 20 years for the systematic rape and…
Read MoreIn 2020, the Offender Database recorded that 46-year-old John Hoy—a former soldier of Edinburgh—was jailed for a 16-year campaign of “vile” and “horrific” sexual abuse against children. The investigation established…
Read MoreIn 2020, the Offender Database recorded that 39-year-old John Patrick—of no fixed address—was jailed for seven years and three months for the child rape of a 13-year-old girl. The investigation…
Read MoreIn 2020, the Offender Database recorded that 62-year-old Graham Medway—of Freshwater, Isle of Wight—pleaded guilty to the child rape of a three-year-old girl. The investigation established that the attack occurred…
Read MoreIn 2020, the Offender Database recorded that David Anthony Symonds was handed an extended six-year sentence at Salisbury Crown Court for a series of new sexual offences committed shortly after…
Read MoreIn 2020, the Offender Database recorded that 31-year-old Richard Swinnerton—a former deputy headteacher from Coulby Newham—avoided an immediate jail term despite admitting to viewing images and movies of children being…
Read MoreIn 2020, the Offender Database recorded that 54-year-old Mark Porretta—of Chelmer Walk, Bettws, Newport—was jailed for the sexual assault and grooming of a 16-year-old girl. The investigation established that Porretta,…
Read MoreIn 2020, the Offender Database recorded that 28-year-old Brian Wood—of Goodway Gardens, Poplar, Tower Hamlets—was jailed for five years and four months after being branded a dangerous sexual predator. The…
Read MoreIn 2020, the Offender Database recorded that 32-year-old Gareth Le Grove—of Doncaster Road, Wakefield—was handed an extended 12-year prison sentence after targeting what he believed was a 13-year-old girl. The…
Read MoreIn 2020, the Offender Database recorded that Monica McCanch—formerly of Ash, near Canterbury, Kent—successfully applied to have her indefinite Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO) lifted. The investigation established that McCanch,…
Read MoreIn 2020, the Offender Database recorded that 38-year-old Robert Benjamin Johnson—of Kells Buildings, Durham—was jailed for 27 months following an international investigation into child sexual abuse. The investigation established that…
Read MoreIn 2020, the Offender Database recorded that 35-year-old Kristoffer Dryburgh—formerly of Bonnyrigg, Midlothian, and later of Kinghorn, Fife—was handed an extended four-year sentence for possessing a massive collection of 70,000…
Read MoreIn 2020, the Offender Database recorded that 34-year-old Philip Love—of Alcester, Warwickshire—avoided an immediate jail term despite possessing a vile collection of extreme pornography involving animals. The investigation established that…
Read MoreIn 2020, the Offender Database recorded that 37-year-old David Lake—of Clark Terrace, Cross Green, Leeds—was jailed for 18 months after downloading child abuse images less than a week after being…
Read MoreIn 2020, the Offender Database recorded that 58-year-old Duncan Wheelhouse—a former project manager for the BBC—appeared in court after being caught watching child abuse during a group Zoom call. The…
Read MoreIn 2020, the Offender Database recorded that Mark Caulton—of Stapleford, Nottingham—was released from prison after serving only half of a four-year sentence for the systematic physical abuse of a three-month-old…
Read MoreIn 2020, the Offender Database recorded that 31-year-old Ashley Grant Thomas—of Thorney Road, Baglan, Port Talbot—was handed an 11-year extended sentence after being snared in a sophisticated undercover police operation.…
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