June 2021

Medway paedophile jailed after abusing child for two years in Rochester

A paedophile who sexually abused a young child for more than two years has been jailed.

Graeme Mulock, from Strood, carried out the prolonged campaign against his victim until police launched an investigation in December 2018.

The 65-year-old of Yantlet Drive denied the allegations when he was interviewed.

But a court heard Mulock had been responsible for the abuse from December 1, 2016 until Christmas Day in 2018.

He carried out his abuse on the victim three times in the Rochester area.

Mulock denied the charges against him – four sexual offences and two counts of sexual assault of a child – but was found guilty by a jury after a trial at Maidstone Crown Court.

He was convicted on last Thursday and sentenced to prison for three years and six months the following day at the same court.

He will be put on the sex offenders register for life.

June 2021

Margate pervert sexually assaulted teen girl then claimed he had been sleepwalking

A drink and drug-fuelled paedophile molested his victim as she slept – then told police he “was probably sleepwalking”.

But Stewart Tollan, of Margate, later denied attacking the 16-year-old altogether, claiming she fabricated the allegation.

The 39-year-old was yesterday convicted of sexual assault after a trial at Canterbury Crown Court.

Judge Mark Weekes told Tollan he was a “predatory paedophile” who “lied to the jury” and must expect at least four years in custody.

He saluted the girl’s strength and courage in confronting her abuser without a screen, as she gave evidence just six metres away.

The girl told jurors how she woke up with Tollan preying on her after she fell asleep in front of the television at a mutual acquaintance’s home, at 4am in 2019.

After freezing with fear she managed to flee the property once Tollan, who had been bingeing on alcohol and cocaine, fell asleep.

The jury took just one hour to unanimously convict Tollan, prompting his victim to describe how she was left wrought with trust issues, insomnia and “riddled with anxiety”.

“What he did was shape me into the person I never wanted to become. I never wanted to suffer depression – he did that to me,” she said.

After sniffing six lines of cocaine and drinking about ten pints of cider alongside spirits, Tollan turned his attention to the sleeping girl.

She would go on to tell detectives how she “froze” and repeatedly asked herself “why me?” during the attack.

“I couldn’t make any noises, all I could do was slowly move and then I was frozen,” she said.

“When you are in that situation it’s different.

“You think you will punch him or think ‘I will get away’ – but you’ve got no control, you just freeze,” she continued.

Asked what went through her mind mid-assault, she added: “Why is he doing this to me? Why me? Why is this happening?”

Tollan, of St Johns Crescent, would go on to claim a sleeping disorder caused him to molest the girl but dropped the defence before trial.

“The defendant said he sleepwalks and this happened while he was sleepwalking,” prosecutor Daniel Stevenson explained.

“He said he sleepwalks a lot and has sleepwalked out of (his) house,” he added.

Tollan then dragged the girl through the courts, reducing the trial to his word against hers, arguing she was “mistaken.”

But Mr Stevenson revealed Tollan’s sordid past which centred on him grooming and having sex with two young girls as an adult, and harrassing another for intercourse in a graveyard.

Tollan was only convicted for the harassment in 2015.

Following his conviction on Thursday Tollan, represented by Allan Goh, could be seen bowing his head, gulping and taking deep breaths.

Judge Weekes told him to expect “at least four years” in prison when he is sentenced on September 17, as probation prepares reports into potential dangerousness.

June 2021

Dover paedophile jailed after trying to order sick images from printers

A depraved paedophile from Dover has been jailed after a printing company that he attempted to order sick images from reported him to the police.

The tip-off from the printers then helped officers uncover serious sexual offences he committed against very young children said Kent Police.

Phillip Bassett has now been jailed for 12 years and nine months, and will serve a further five years and three months on license after that period.

The order that led the printers to contact the police was made in July 2020, at which point staff noted the concerning content of the photos and called police.

Kent Police’s Paedophile Online Investigation Team then commenced an investigation into Bassett.

A search warrant was executed at his home, and a mobile phone was seized, which contained several videos of Bassett abusing a child.

In addition, he admitted accessing the dark web to view indecent images of children and also stated he had ordered the indecent images to be sent to the company for printing.

Following his arrest and an extensive investigation, Bassett was charged with two counts of sexual assault on a child under 13, two accounts of assaulting a child under 13 by penetration, taking indecent images of children, making an indecent image of a child and possession of indecent images of children.

He admitted 15 charges before Canterbury Crown Court on December 8, 2020, and was formally sentenced on June 16.