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Allan Spratt – Deal

06 Sunday Jun 2021

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June 2021

Paedophile who abused child after grooming with Disney film jailed after being caught with indecent images at Deal home

A dangerous convicted paedophile told a court he was “glad” to be caught with horrific images of children because he was on the verge of hunting and abusing a new victim.

Allan Spratt admitted his plans after police raided his Deal home to uncover the disgusting library on his Samsung phone.

The 46-year-old has now been jailed at Canterbury Crown Court for two years and five months.

“In police interview he said he was glad he was caught because he was on a slippery slope to commit a contact offence with a child,” prosecutor Robin Griffith said.

Spratt was convicted of raping a child 12 years ago.

Posing as a 13-year-old boy online, the married predator groomed a girl over a number of months, convincing her he was “her boyfriend.”

When they exchanged pictures he claimed to suffer from a rare disease that made him look older.

He would soon tell the girl he loved her and convinced her to go on a shopping trip to Sheffield.

Spratt took her to see a Disney film and for a meal, then persuaded her to stay with him in a budget hotel, raping her three times.

Spratt was arrested after telling a family member about his actions and then pleaded guilty to rape in 2010.

He was sentenced to six years and placed on the sex offenders’ register.

Kent Police received a tip-off in December last year that Spratt was downloading indecent images from his mother’s house.

After raiding the property Spratt, who runs an eBay business, told officers he felt on the verge of making contact with a child.

Police found category A, B and C images, a combination of pictures and videos.

They also discovered Spratt had made persistent “systematic” internet searches using chilling terms like ‘jailbait.’

Judge Mark Weekes told Spratt he had been “absolutely blatant”, and highlighted “the misery” caused to the victims of those children in the images.

Following his latest round of offences, Spratt, of Westerhout Close, Deal, pleaded guilty to three counts of possessing indecent images, three counts of making indecent images, a breach of notification requirements and breach of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order.

December 2009

Paedophile posed as a teenager to abuse girl

A pervert enrolled on an internet chat site for teenagers and befriended a young girl who he later abused

Allan Spratt masqueraded as a schoolboy using a bogus photo to register in the spring this year and lured the 14-year-old from Yorkshire to meet him through first the chat line then via conversations and texts on their mobile phones, and ended up having sex with her in a hotel.

Spratt, 34, of Westerhout Close, Deal, but formerly of Cuckoo Lane, Ashford, appeared for sentence at Canterbury Crown Court having admitted three offences of meeting a child following sexual grooming and two of sexual activity with a child.

He was committed for sentence from Folkestone magistrates for six offences of having indecent photos of a child.

But after reading of Spratt’s comment to a probation officer describing his behaviour as a ‘bit of fun’, Judge Adele Williams adjourned sentence for a psychiatric report and remanded Spratt in custody until sentencing in February.

Denzil Pugh, prosecuting, said at one point the girl began to suspect she was not talking to a young boy because of some of the sexual comments, so Spratt changed tack and claimed to be 23 and continued pursuing the relationship.

“Eventually he persuaded the girl to meet up with him, she having deluded herself she had formed some kind of serious relationship with him assisted by his lies, and he drove to the north of England and took her out for the day in August.

“They had a meal and went to a cinema then ended up at a hotel. Spratt went prepared with condoms and convinced the girl age should be no barrier as they were truly in love and sex could properly follow even if it was against the law in those circumstances. Sex took place that night and the next day,” said Mr Pugh.

Spratt arranged another meeting the same month and again he stayed overnight but nothing happened. On August 29, he drove to Yorkshire and again took her to a hotel and had sex this time without protection per- suading her that because of her menstrual cycle, pregnancy was not a risk.

A friend of the victim’s family noticed how down in the dumps she was and the girl confessed what had been happening and the police were informed.

In interview Spratt admitted he joined the teenage chat line because he felt more at ease with younger people rather than people of his own age and it developed from that point. “He could not get to grips with the idea he was a predatory paedophile”, said Mr Pugh.

About the same time, Spratt’s wife was also having suspicions about her husband’s behaviour because he was locking himself away for hours with his computer and suspicious that his absences were not in relation to his work as a driver.

The girl’s name had cropped up and he had suggested she was his child and he needed to go up for DNA testing.

There was an argument which became violent and he was cautioned for battery. He was thrown out of the house.

She came across young girls’ underwear in a carrier bag, introductory size sanitary protection, a quantity of creche registration cards and CCTV coverage from a creche and she took these items to the police. She also handed in a DVD found in a envelope.

It contained 22 indecent images of children and further images were found on his computer and phone.

He was further questioned and said he started to watch child porn on the computer about a year before and had stored images from a file sharing site. “It is not suggested there was any distribution of those images,” said Mr Pugh.

Spratt had convictions for theft when he was working for the post office.

Both the victim and her mother had made victim impact statements in which their distress was apparent and long term damage may have been caused, said Judge Williams.

Judge Williams indicated her concerns about expressions used by Spratt when a pre-sentence report was being prepared and ordered the psychiatric report.

Shane Heseltine-Holland – Folkestone

01 Tuesday Jun 2021

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May 2021

Shane Heseltine-Holland jailed for repeatedly raping a child 

A pervert has been jailed after repeatedly raping a child 

Shane Heseltine-Holland, 27, attacked his victim four to five times during a campaign of “manipulation, coercion and control.”

The former Dover Grammar School pupil was jailed for 29-months at Canterbury Crown Court for the attacks, carried out about 14 years ago when he himself was aged 13

His sentencing was adjourned earlier this year for psychiatric reports

But psychiatrists refuted his self-diagnosis telling the court it served as self-distraction from being an “opportunistic sex offender.”

Judge Mark Weekes sympathised with Heseltine-Holland’s “deeply troubled childhood” but voiced worries over his attitude as an adult.

“I am concerned to see elements of victim blaming and self-justification within the pre-sentence report, and to note that even as a fully grown adult, you seem unable fully to appreciate the fact that your sexual behaviour was directed towards a young girl who could not possibly have understood or appreciated what was going on,” he said.

The court heard Heseltine-Holland launched multiple attacks on his defenceless victim over two months.

He pleaded guilty to two counts of raping a girl under 13 and assaulting a girl under 13 at an early opportunity.

Heseltine-Holland, of Guildhall Street in Folkestone, received a third of the sentence he would have, if he were to be sentenced as an adult.

He, who could be seen breathing heavily throughout the hearing, will be subjected to notification requirements for five years on release from prison.

Christopher Hearsey – Maidstone

21 Friday May 2021

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May 2021

Pervert caught by paedophile hunting team

A pervert from Kent that was caught grooming what he believed was a vulnerable schoolgirl has avoided a prison sentence

Christopher Hearsey From Maidstone appeared at Maidstone Crown where he was sentenced following a guilty plea for sexual offences. 

The court was told that Hearsey had contacted the online profile of a 13-year-old female child.

He sent a number of highly sexualised messages and naked images of himself with the clear intent of engaging the girl in sexual activity. 

The pervert arranged to meet the girl in 2019, so he could take her swimming and have dinner. 

However, unknown to Hearsey, he was actually messaging a decoy belonging to paedophile hunting group Shadow Hunters UK

When Heresey turned up at the meeting place, he was apprehended by members of the team, who questioned him on his internet activity before the police arrived to make the arrest. 

The judge handed Heresey a two year prison sentence which was suspended for two years.

Heresey was told to register as a sex offender, and was given a sexual harm prevention order which is designed to limit his access to children. 

Brian Johnson – Broadstairs

18 Tuesday May 2021

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May 2021

Broadstairs paedophile avoids jail after Kent Police investigation takes years to reach court

A paedophile avoided jail after a “straightforward” police investigation was not brought to court for three-and-a-half years.

Brian Johnson, 65, of Vale Road in Broadstairs, believed he was emailing filthy messages, dirty images of himself and pornography to 13-year-old girls.

But the pervert was revealing his sordid urges to undercover police officers as he prowled the web in 2017.

He was arrested in December of that year – but not charged until January 2021.

A judge last week told Johnson he should have been locked up – however, the delays meant he would serve his sentence in the community.

“In 2017 you were arrested following sexual communications on the internet with people you believed to be 13 years-old girls which transpired to be undercover police officers,” Judge Simon James said.

“If these offences had been brought to the court in a timely manner only an immediate period of imprisonment would be justified.”

He went on: “These matters were disclosed to the police as long ago as 2017. It seems to me it was the most straightforward of investigations, and it has taken to 2021 to be before the court, which does not seem to be on the face of it, justified.”

When he added the “unconscionable delay” had triggered a suspended sentence, Johnson replied: “Thank you.”

Johnson could be seen nodding during the judge’s remarks.

He turned to child sexual abuse images after his wife was diagnosed with terminal cancer, Canterbury Crown Court heard.

Her sickness coincided with Johnson’s retirement as an aircraft engineer career, bringing “considerable stress”, James Burke continued in mitigation.

Johnson pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual communication with a child at an early opportunity. He also admitted attempting to cause a child to watch sexual activity and making an indecent photograph of a child.

Judge James handed Johnson 18-months in prison suspended for two years and 20 rehabilitation days.

He will also be subject to a 10 year Sexual Harm Prevention Order and notification requirements.

Kristian Fernandez – Ramsgate

14 Friday May 2021

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May 2021

Ramsgate man downloaded worst kind of child abuse images after sentencing for similar offences

A twisted paedophile was caught with vile pictures of children being abused on his phone during a routine visit by police.

Kristian Fernandez, from Ramsgate, had been subject to a Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO) imposed on him after he was sentenced for similar sickening offences in 2009.

An officer saw an indecent image of a child when checking a phone Fernandez had at his home in Clements Road on June 6, 2019, and the mobile was seized.

Further investigation uncovered a collection of indecent videos and images, including 16 at category A – the worst kind as categorised by police and the courts.

Fernandez was later arrested and charged with three offences, relating to more than 20 category A, category B and category C images and videos.

He was given a two-year, three-month sentence at Canterbury Crown Court on Wednesday after admitting three counts of making an indecent image of a child.