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May 12 2023
Former Labour MP Paul Clark jailed over child abuse images | Politics News

A former Labour MP has been jailed for more than two years for making and distributing child abuse images.

Paul Clark, who represented Gillingham in Kent for 13 years, was sentenced to 28 months in prison at Maidstone Crown Court on Friday.

A total of 1,446 indecent images of children were found on five electronic devices at Clark’s home, which also revealed online chats in which he “discussed his sexual desires” and distributed the material, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.

The court heard that Clark initially made no comment when he was arrested at his home by the National Crime Agency (NCA), but that he later told officers: “I know why you’re here”, and “I kept telling myself to stop”.

Clark pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent images of children and six counts of distributing indecent images of children between April 2013 and May 2021 last December.

Clark was elected to parliament in 1997 but lost his seat at the 2010 general election.

During his time in parliament, he served as parliamentary private secretary to the then-deputy prime minister, John Prescott, as well as education secretary Ed Balls.

He was also a parliamentary under-secretary for the Department for Transport from October 2008 to May 2010.

Clark must sign sex offenders register

The court heard there was no evidence that any of Clark’s offending took place while he was in office.

Clark has also been issued with a 10-year sexual harm prevention order and must sign the sex offenders register.

Catrin Attwell, from the CPS’s organised child sexual abuse unit, said: “Paul Clark knew he was in possession of and shared indecent images of children but did not admit his wrongdoing when interviewed under caution.

“When later presented with the overwhelming evidence, he pleaded guilty.

“Examination of the electronic devices revealed offences relating to indecent images of children on five devices, this included imagery of children as young as three and a high number of moving images.

“The electronic devices also revealed chatlogs in which Clark discussed his sexual desires, distributed indecent images of children to others for their sexual gratification and used social media to identify and talk to users under the age of 18.”

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Apr 28 2023
Pilot who joked ‘I normally get arrested for drugs’ jailed for his part in Albanian people smuggling plot | UK News

A career criminal has been jailed for his role in a plot to smuggle four Albanians into the UK by flying them to a small airfield in Northamptonshire.

Richard Styles, 53, was sentenced alongside two other men after a National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation foiled their plot in March last year.

Styles, a qualified pilot, had arranged with fellow aviation buff Silvano Turchet, 68, to rent a six-seater Piper Seneca for £1,500 from an airfield in Lincolnshire.

A surveillance image of the aircraft shortly after its arrival at Deenethrorpe Airfield with Styles at the helm
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A surveillance image of the aircraft shortly after its arrival at Deenethorpe Airfield with Styles at the helm

The plane was flown to Deenethorpe Airfield near Corby, where it was stored in a hanger which Turchet had paid for.

On 23 March, Styles flew to Belgium, where the four passengers were waiting. It is believed that he had been in contact with an Albanian known as ‘Tim K’ who arranged the Belgian end of the deal.

When the plane returned to the UK the next day, an NCA surveillance team was waiting and swooped on Styles, who joked to them: “I normally get arrested for drugs, so it’s a bit strange.”

Vijayakumar Sivakumar was sentenced to four and a half years
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Vijayakumar Sivakumar, who drove a taxi, was sentenced to four and a half years

The Albanian group was swiftly detained by Northants Police, who were working with the NCA, in a taxi which was being driven by Vijayakumar Sivakumar, who was also arrested.

The migrants were handed over to immigration authorities.

Sivakumar, 43, had prior convictions for trying to smuggle people into the UK in the boot of his car. Phone records showed he had been in contact with Tim K in the run-up to the flight.

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Styles had previously been convicted for using a plane to smuggle ecstasy tablets out of Belgium and drop cannabis into Jersey in 2003 while on the run from Belgian authorities.

He was sentenced to 12 years in jail in 2006, and it is believed that he met Turchet while imprisoned.

The pair were also arrested by Dutch authorities in 2017 in connection with another people smuggling enterprise, for which Styles would be convicted in his absence.

Turchet was arrested at his home in Nottingham in July 2022 by NCA investigators. He denied knowledge of the plot, but phone data put him near Deenethorpe Airfield on 24 March and showed he’d called Styles nine times.

All three were charged with facilitating a breach of immigration law, which Styles admitted to at a hearing on 8 August 2022.

Turchet pleaded guilty on the first day of his trial, while Sivakumar was found guilty by a jury after a five-day trial at Leicester Crown Court in February 2023.

Inside the Piper Seneca
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Inside the Piper Seneca

On 28 April, a judge at Leicester sentenced Styles to seven years in prison, Turchet to seven-and-a-half years, and Sivakumar to four-and-a-half years.

NCA Regional Head of Investigations Jacque Beer said: “Styles was a career criminal who previously used his piloting skills to move consignments of drugs around Europe. On this occasion he was offering a luxury end to end service, bringing people into the UK using a private plane.

“His comments to my officers show that he considered getting arrested nothing more than an occupational hazard.

“People smugglers use a range of methods to try and breach UK border controls, and we are determined to do all we can to stop them. Tackling organised immigration crime is a priority for the NCA.”

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Mar 16 2023
Leila Borrington: Woman who filmed stepson, 3, as he lay dying from brain injury jailed for 15 years | UK News

A woman who filmed her three-year-old stepson as he lay dying from a brain injury has been jailed for 15 years for manslaughter, assault and causing grievous bodily harm.

Leila Borrington, 23, was handed the jail sentence at Nottingham Crown Court today in relation to three-year-old Harvey Borrington’s death in Nottinghamshire in August 2021.

Mr Justice Nicklin said while passing sentence that Harvey’s death must have been the result of a “sustained violent assault”.

The judge also said that the unlawful killing of the three-year-old, who had severe non-verbal autism, had had a profound effect on his loved ones.

The stepmother, from Jacksdale, Nottinghamshire, was cleared of murder but found guilty of unlawful killing, wounding and assault last month.

The month long-trial heard Harvey had sustained a fatal head injury.

Text messages sent by Ms Borrington after she had broken Harvey’s arm in April 2021 showed “a shocking lack of care and concern” for the child, the judge noted.

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Feb 20 2023
Pensioner who made more than 7,000 nuisance calls to emergency services is jailed | UK News

A man who pestered emergency services with more than 7,000 nuisance calls has been jailed.

Roger Jackson, 77, made the abusive calls to Sussex Police and the South East Coast Ambulance Service from September 2020.

He has been sentenced to 39 months in prison after pleading guilty at a hearing at Lewes Crown Court on 27 January.

He is estimated to have wasted more than 400 hours of emergency service time while speaking to contact officers.

Jackson, from Horsham, West Sussex, will also receive a criminal behaviour order for 10 years.

Force persistent caller lead for Sussex Police, Sarah-Louise Gliddon, said: “For every genuine caller waiting to speak to us, there may be one of these callers in front of them such as Roger Jackson.

“Jackson has been a persistent caller for a number of years and as such has been given multiple warnings up to his arrest last year owing to the volume of calls he was making to both police and ambulance.”

“The volume and the frequency of Jackson’s calls impacted the contact centre’s ability to provide a service to the public, who genuinely needed police assistance or attendance while he was blocking the line.”

The force has dealt with more than 700 individuals making nuisance calls since its work started in 2014.

‘Vile verbal abuse’

South East Coast ambulance service frequent caller lead and paramedic, Nathan Daxner, said: “Jackson subjected our call centre staff to repeated vile verbal abuse on a daily basis, and the impact his actions should not be underestimated.

“Just one malicious and false call puts lives at risk by diverting our attention and resources away from people in our communities who genuinely need our help.”

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Jan 13 2023
Mark Brown: Builder jailed for minimum term of 49 years for murders of Leah Ware and Alexandra Morgan | UK News

A builder has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 49 years for the murders of two women escorts in Sussex in 2021.

Mark Brown, 41, was found guilty last year of murdering Leah Ware and Alexandra Morgan.

He was sentenced by judge Justice Nicholas Hilliard on Friday in his absence – after refusing to attend Hove Crown Court.

Brown killed Ms Ware, 33, and Ms Morgan, 34, at a remote farm near St Leonards in East Sussex in May and November 2021, after meeting them through a sex work website.

He put Ms Morgan head first into a homemade incinerator before dumping her remains.

The body of Ms Ware has never been found, but prosecutors believe Brown used a similar method to dispose of her and also killed her Pomeranian dog, Lady.

Undated file family handout photo issued by Kent Police of Alexandra Morgan and Leah Ware
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Alexandra Morgan and Leah Ware were killed in 2021

Detective Chief Inspector Andy Wolstenholme, of Sussex Police, said the force would speak to Brown to try to persuade him to reveal what happened with Ms Ware’s remains.

Brown met Ms Ware in 2018 when he hired her as an escort and they developed an “on again, off again” relationship, the court heard.

He killed her on or around 7 May last year after she had pressed him to leave his partner of 14 years.

In the six months between killing Ms Ware and Ms Morgan, Brown messaged a friend calling himself a “psychopath with a conscience”.

He wrote: “I’m going to be very careful how I word this – it happened again, not very long ago when disposing of something.

“It’s a very unpleasant thing to do – an old oil drum, five litres of diesel, and hey presto, there’s not very much left.

“It gets hot, very hot, it glows almost white.

“The things I have done weigh heavily on my heart, on my head and soul. A psychopath with a conscience – it’s a joke really.”

Brown hired Ms Morgan for sex about a dozen times before offering her a job as an escort worth £100,000 in October last year.

When she visited Little Bridge Farm – the site he rented – the following month, he killed her and burned her body, before dumping her remains in a skip at the building site where he worked in Sevenoaks, Kent.

He then claimed Ms Morgan died in an accident at the farm after hitting her head when she slipped in his workshop.

Brown, of St Leonards-on-Sea, said he burned her body “in a panic”.

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Oct 10 2022
Pair jailed for trying to smuggle £1.75m worth of cocaine through Heathrow into UK | UK News

A man and woman who “played their part in a criminal enterprise” to smuggle cocaine with a street value of £1.75m into the UK have been jailed.

Michael Williams, 37, and Jessica Waldron, 36, planned to hand over the 22kg haul during a “rendezvous” near Terminal 2 at Heathrow Airport after arriving from Colombia on 14 December 2019.

But unbeknown to them, Colombian authorities had intercepted the drugs and replaced them with wooden blocks before the plane took off. The UK’s National Crime Agency had also been alerted.

Isleworth Crown Court was told how the pair had arranged to leave the cocaine, hidden in two bags, in airport toilets after arriving in the UK.

Parts of the handover were planned through the encrypted messaging platform EncroChat, on which they were instructed to pose as a couple by dressing in specific clothing for identification purposes and by holding hands on arrival.

They were seen following a third person into the toilets with their bags and exiting without them, the court was told.

Williams and Waldron were arrested by Border Force and pleaded guilty to being concerned with the fraudulent evasion of a prohibition on the importation of a class A drug two days later.

The pair, both of Holly Hall, Dudley, were each sentenced to six years and eight months in prison.

Prosecutor John Ojakovoh said: “The defendants were two couriers who were recruited into and played their part in a criminal enterprise to import 22 kilograms of cocaine into the United Kingdom from Colombia.”

Detailing the attempted handover, he said: “There was a rendezvous. They followed (the third person) to the toilet area, having deviated from what had been the natural route for arrivals, and then they were seen going in with holdalls containing the blocks.

“They came out without the holdalls.”

The prosecutor said Waldron acted as the “lead” courier after getting a message from a contact on 9 November 2019.

Tom Blackburn, representing the defendants, said they had a smaller role in a wider enterprise and were “following orders” from more senior players.

He added Waldron and Williams were class A drug users at the time of the offence and motivated in part by a desire to fund their addictions.

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They have since kicked their habits and made efforts to reform themselves while in prison, he said.

Passing sentence, Recorder Christopher Stone said he had taken into account the “significant quantity of drugs” concerned but said both defendants appeared to have “changed for the better” while behind bars.

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Oct 7 2022
‘Thug’ who left Sikh priest brain damaged in ‘racial attack’ jailed for three years | UK News

A “thug” who left a Sikh priest for dead in what has been branded a “racial attack” has been jailed for three years.

Claudio Campos, 28, subjected Avtar Singh, 62, to a severe brain injury after targeting him “without any justifiable reason” in Manchester city centre.

Campos floored Mr Singh by repeatedly punching him in the head in Tib Street, in the city’s Northern Quarter, in broad daylight on 23 June.

He then calmly walked away leaving his victim unconscious in the street before going to a sports bar for a beer and burger with his girlfriend to mark their fifth anniversary.

“Cowardly” Campo hid from the police for three months until he was arrested after a tip-off following an appeal.

He claimed his girlfriend said Mr Singh had touched her bottom as they walked past each other at a pedestrian crossing, Manchester Crown Court heard.

CCTV footage showed him pursuing Mr Singh to “demand an explanation” as the priest tried to walk away.

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Mr Singh suffered a stroke caused by bleeding on the brain together with multiple fractures to his cheek, jaw and eye socket, affecting his vision.

The priest, described as a “supportive, humorous, loving and hardworking husband and father”, now requires round-the-clock nursing and medical care.

He is unable to read his prayers or write in his prayer book, the court heard.

Campo denied the attack was because Mr Singh was wearing a turban.

He pleaded guilty to inflicting grievous bodily harm at an earlier hearing.

Passing sentence on Thursday, Judge Hilary Manley said the maximum sentence she could pass was five years and that Campos must also receive credit for pleading guilty.

But she told the defendant: “He was simply making his way through the city. He was troubling nobody. He gave you no reason at all to do what you did.”

“Mr Singh has been described by his shattered and broken family as a humble, gentle and peaceable man, a devoted follower of and priest within the Sikh faith, who regularly carried out selfless acts of charity for those in need of help.

“As a direct result of your decision to attack him, his life, and the lives of his family, are forever traumatised, changed and diminished.”

Mr Singh’s wife, Navinder, told Campos: “He was a happy man, minding his own business.

“You attacked his turban, a crown every Sikh wears in public, you left him for dead.”

Meanwhile, his daughter Sukhveer branded Campos a “monster” while her sister, Surinder, told him: “I think of you as nothing but a thug.

“You hid like a coward for three months.”

Mr Singh and his family were regular volunteers with the not-for-profit organisation Sewa (Selfless Efforts for Welfare of All) and would help feed the homeless every Sunday in Manchester city centre.

Sewa founder Pritpal Singh Makan described the priest as a “polite, courteous and helpful member of our community”.

“Sadly we see this a racial attack,” he said.

“Our turban is a crown which stands out.”

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Oct 5 2022
‘Neighbour from hell’ jailed for manslaughter after gas explosion that killed toddler | UK News

A man described as a “neighbour from hell” has been jailed for causing a gas explosion that killed a two-year-old boy.

George Hinds died after his next-door neighbour Darren Greenham, 45, cut the gas pipes at his council house in Heysham, Lancashire in the hope of selling the copper piping for scrap, Preston Crown Court heard.

He used an angle grinder and was under the influence of alcohol and drugs, the court was told.

Gas explosion in Heysham, Lancashire
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Gas explosion in Heysham, Lancashire

On Wednesday he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for manslaughter, damaging a gas meter and theft of gas after pleading guilty in August.

The blast, which happened at 2.36am on 16 May last year, destroyed Greenham’s property and damaged 55 others.

Arthur’s father Stephen Hinds clutched a Paw Patrol toy in memory of his son as he watched the sentencing from the public gallery.

George’s mother Vicki Studholme, who had previously described Greenham as the “neighbour from hell”, was beside him along with several of their neighbours.

Mr Hinds said: “By Darren Greenham cutting a gas pipe to make a few quid I have lost my son, my absolute world.”

Arthur’s mother added: “After the explosion, being trapped in the rubble was the most scared I had ever been in my life.

“This was until I arrived at the hospital to be told that George had died.

“Never ever have I felt so scared as in that moment of my life.”

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Victim’s family still in caravan after explosion

The family has been living in a caravan since the explosion and were praised by Judge Robert Altham for their dignity.

Concluding the case, he said: “Mr Greenham was a selfish and disruptive neighbour.

“He lived his life without regard for the comfort of those who were unfortunate enough to live adjacent to him.”

The prosecution had said Greenham was facing eviction proceedings and was hoping to make money on the pipes he cut.

He was dependent on alcohol and drugs and would regularly play loud music and taunt all three members of the family, the court was told.

After suffering a serious head injury in the explosion, he lost most use of his right hand.

His one-month sentences for theft of gas and damage of a gas meter will run concurrently.

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Sep 22 2022
British headteacher who groomed 131 children worldwide jailed for 20 months | UK News

A British headteacher who groomed at least 131 children worldwide using social media while working at a school in Iraq has been jailed for 20 months.

Nicholas Clayton, 38, from The Wirral, used Facebook Messenger to contact children as young as 10, asking for photos and attempting to sexually abuse them.

He was caught after asking a 13-year-old boy from Cambodia for photos of his naked upper torse and arranging to pay for the child to travel to Malaysia so they could meet.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) received intelligence about the communication and arrested him when he returned to the UK.

Investigators found Clayton had been messaging hundreds of boys from across the globe, spanning the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Iraq, Morocco, Turkey and others over a period of just three months.

He appeared at Liverpool Crown Court on 23 August where he admitted three counts of sexual communication with a child under 16 years and one charge of inciting the sexual exploitation of a child.

On Tuesday, he was sentenced to 20 months imprisonment and made the subject of a sexual harm prevention order for 15 years.

New Facebook plans will ‘hide similar predators’

The case has prompted fresh calls for a “robust” Online Safety Bill, with the NSPCC warning plans by Meta, which owns Facebook, to introduce end-to-end encryption will “blindfold” authorities to similar predators.

Andy Burrows, head of child safety online policy at the charity, said: “Clayton’s case highlights the ease with which offenders can contact large numbers of children on social media with the intention of grooming and sexually abusing them.

“Private messaging is the frontline of child sexual abuse online. It’s therefore concerning that Meta plans to press on with end-to-end encryption on Facebook Messenger, which will blindfold themselves and law enforcement from identifying criminals like Clayton.

“The UK government can show global leadership in tackling online child abuse by delivering without delay a robust Online Safety Bill that embeds child protection at the heart of every social media site.”

New Culture Secretary Michelle Donelan has previously said there are no plans to water down the proposals for new internet safety laws, which Mr Burrows welcomed as “really encouraging”.

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Hazel Stewart, from the NCA, said: “Nicholas Clayton abused his position of trust as a headteacher by attempting to sexually contact and exploit children, using technology to access hundreds of potential victims across the globe.

“Clayton was very cautious and careful in his communications, making them appear to be innocent, but as NCA investigators we could see the patterns of predatory grooming he was using on vulnerable children.

“Protecting children from sex offenders is a priority for the NCA, and we continue to pursue criminals in the UK and internationally to ensure abusers like Clayton are held to account.”

Facebook ‘taking our time to get it right’

A Facebook spokesperson said: “We have no tolerance for child exploitation on our platforms and are building strong safety measures into our plans.

“We’re focused on preventing harm by banning suspicious profiles, defaulting under-18s to private or ‘friends only’ accounts, and more recently introduced restrictions that stop adults from messaging children they’re not connected with.

“We’re also encouraging people to report harmful messages to us so we can see the contents, respond swiftly and make referrals to the authorities. As we roll out this technology we’re taking our time to get it right and working with outside experts to help keep people safe online.”

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