March 2022

Paedophile who repeatedly abused girl, 13, breaches order less than year after release

A paedophile breached his sexual harm prevention order multiple times, less than a year after being released from prison. Danion Nuttall was originally jailed in 2018 after being convicted of three counts of sexual activity with a child.

Nuttall, 29, began speaking to the 13-year-old girl after meeting her at a bike racing event, prosecution barrister Bob Sastry told Bolton Crown Court. He then met up with her on a number of occasions and abused her.

He was jailed for 40 months and released on licence in June 2020, the court heard. Between April and October 2021, he breached his notification requirement and sexual harm prevention order on two occasions after failing to disclose contact with children to the probation service.

Mr Sastry told the court that the breaches were carried out in Wigan and confirmed that the nature of the contact was not sexual.

Judge Tom Gilbart jailed Nuttall, of no fixed address, for ten months after he pleaded guilty to two counts of breaching a notification requirement and two counts of breaching a sexual harm prevention order.

He said: “It is deeply troubling that you were associating with children. This was a wilful breach, done quite deliberately, in the knowledge it was wrong.”

November 2018

‘Sexual predator’ from Penwortham who abused 13-year-old girl is jailed by judge

A disgraced motocross enthusiast is starting a three year and four month jail term after admitting sexual activity with a 13-year-old girl.

Wearing a suit and burgundy tie Danion James Nuttall, 25, of Meadow Bank, Penwortham, stared at the ground in the dock at Preston Crown Court as graphic details were given.

The proceedings were watched by the girl’s parents and elder sister in the public gallery.

He lured the schoolgirl to fields in Euxton where he sexually assaulted her, and on a second occasion he persuaded her to have sex in his car.

The distressed child broke down at school three days later and confided in a teacher, leading to Nuttall’s arrest, prosecutor Charlie Brown said.

He added: “At the beginning of September the defendant contacted the girl by phone asking to meet her. They met near woodland in Euxton.”

The court heard they walked towards a field, sat on the ground and kissed before he told her to ‘lie down’ and carried out a sexual act.

He stopped and told her to be quiet when he got a phone call off his girlfriend before they left the area.

But communication continued between them.

The court heard after she went to a party with friends, he met her near a tile shop, parking up with her in his car.

In a harrowing statement the girl said she felt “embarrassed and ashamed around her family”, especially her parents. She said felt her childhood has been taken away from her and felt she had let people down.

In another statement, her mother revealed she had tried to take her life four times and said she lived in fear that she will succeed in hurting herself.

Judge Robert Altham told the family he had read their statements and added: “They make sad and moving reading.

“They need to understand there is one person who should feel guilty. That there is only one person to blame.”