Category Archive for : ‘ENGLAND’

July 27, 2020
Will Taylor
Yahoo

An X Factor reject described as “pure evil” has been jailed for life after admitting a series of rapes and other sex offences that took place over 22 years.

Phillip Blackwell, 56, had admitted committing offences against five women in Birmingham and Nuneaton between 1997 and 1998.

He later admitted a further 20 sexual offences against three women between 2005 and 2019 as well as one count of taking indecent photographs of a child and a count of voyeurism.

In all, Blackwell committed 31 sexual offences against nine victims over

July 18, 2020
Susan Edelman
NY POST

A former BBC reporter in Wales confessed to numerous sexual offenses against children and adults spanning 30 years while working as a church pastor.

Benjamin David Thomas, 44, pleaded guilty on Friday to 10 counts of sexual activity with a child, eight sexual assaults and four attempts to commit sexual assault.

Thomas, who was charged last month, also admitted to seven counts of voyeurism and two counts of making indecent videos of children from 1990 to last year.

“It is an awful breach of the trust placed in him

June 15, 2020
Lee Brown
NY POST

The imprisoned rapist who is the prime suspect in the disappearance of 3-year-old British girl Madeleine McCann is refusing to cooperate with investigators, his attorney says.

Christian Brückner — who is behind bars in Germany for raping an American tourist — is being eyed over the missing youngster, who is feared dead after being abducted from a Portuguese resort in 2007.

The 43-year-old inmate is also being eyed over a series of other attacks around Praia da Luz, according to the Times of London.

German prosecutors and London’s Scotland Yard are following up hundreds of “pieces

June 17, 2020
Lee Brown
NY POST

 An English soccer star has admitted having sex with a 14-year-old girl and sharing child porn on Snapchat, according to reports.

Former Arsenal winger Tyrell Robinson, 22, pleaded guilty Tuesday to engaging in sexual activity with a child, as well as making and distributing an indecent image of a child, the BBC said.

He was ordered to sign the sex offenders’ register before he was allowed to leave Bradford Crown Court on bail, the broadcaster said. 

“All options will be open to the judge who deals with your case, and

October 22, 2019
The Telegraph

Victims of child sex abuse are often told by the authority figures they confide in that their allegations could “ruin the perpetrators life”, an analysis of over 3,200 cases found.
More than 4,000 survivors of child sexual abuse have shared their experiences of abuse with the Truth Project in England and Wales. Of these, 3,265 personal accounts have been analysed by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA).
According to a report published on Tuesday, IICSA found most victims were sexually abused by age 11 (79

July 26, 2019
Corazon Miller
Independent
  

A man who convinced parents to employ him as a childminder so he could abuse their children has been jailed for 12 years.

Alexander Philo-Steele was found guilty of abusing two brothers, aged six and seven, and another six-year-old boy.

His offending was spread across a period of 16 years, with the first six-year-old falling victim to his abuse in 2003 and the brothers in 2017.

The 36-year-old, from Earls Court in London, had advertised his services to unsuspecting parents online claiming he was “nurturing, reassuring and supportive”.

In 2017 he befriended a single