Some of them were committed while in positions of trust, including a Boys Brigade leader and two teachers, while others were carried out online or over the 'dark web'.
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Read on to find out about their shocking crimes and the police investigations carried out to bring them to justice. Join our Lancashire Court News Facebook group. Thomas Robert Peel indecently assaulted a young boy in Barnoldswick around 20 years ago and made him perform sex acts on him.
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The year-old defendant was a teenager when he committed the offences at the turn of the century and did it 'as some form of sexual experimentation'. A Judge said 'the memory of that incident is seared onto [the victim's] brain' and that he 'buried the memory of the abuse for many years' until reporting it to police in Preston Crown Court heard that when the allegations were first made Peel's wife 'terminated' their marriage and restricted access to his son.
He then relocated to Tenerife and worked as a bar manager before leaving the job a week before his sentence. Peel, of Barnoldswick, pleaded guilty to one count of indecency with a child and was found guilty after a trial of three other counts of indecency with a child. Peel was jailed for two years and ordered to sign the sex offenders register for 10 years. Adrian Gartshore-Taylor sexually abused a year-old boy multiple times over weeks and months in at Great Birchwood Country Park and Campsite at Warton, near Lytham. The year-old, who was a car boot salesman living in a caravan on the site, enticed the boy - who cannot be identified due to legal reasons - to work for him and help him sell his goods.
On one occasion he convinced the boy's father to let him stay overnight at his caravan so that they could start setting up the car boot stall early in the morning. Preston Crown Court heard how this was simply a ploy for Gartshore-Taylor to groom the boy, with the child being abused on multiple occasions in the caravan between January 1 and November 29, He would show the child how to play computer games on his laptop, during which he would start sexually assaulting him.
This happened on multiple occasions. Gartshore-Taylor bought the boy the latest mobile phone and trainers, as well as taking him on trips to the cinema, as a way to buy his loyalty. The boy's mum became slightly suspicious at what was going on, but because of a lack of evidence over anything untoward she assumed he was buying these things himself with his extra money from working for the defendant.
The court heard how in the near two decades since the abuse, the victim had suffered a result of the trauma of the sexual assaults on him, suffering from depression and anxiety for a decade. Former taxi driver Gartshore-Taylor was arrested on May 28, , after which he admitted abusing the victim to police officers. He did it for his own 'sexual gratification', the prosecution told the court. Gartshore-Taylor, 66, now of West End Road, Morecambe, pleaded guilty to four counts of incident assault against a boy under the age of 14 and one count of indecency with a child or boy under He was jailed for a total of seven years.
Convicted sex offender Stuart Bulling became the first person in the UK to be jailed for a new 'upskirting' offence. The year-old, of Bacup Road, Rawtenstall, pleaded guilty to two counts of voyeurism and three counts of making indecent images of children.
He was classed as a 'dangerous offender' and jailed for two years at Preston Crown Court in November with an extended three years on licence. Former Boys Brigade leader William Bissett 'cynically abused' his position of trust at the Church Street Methodist Church group in St Anne's to 'prey upon' five young boys over an year period. The year-old 'groomed' some of the boys by setting up circumstances to take them into the side room of the church and under the pretence of 'smartening them up'.
Bissett, of Rossendale Road, St Anne's, was found guilty after a trial at Preston Crown Court of 17 counts of indecent assault on boys under the age of Preston Crown Court heard how there was a 'significant degree of planning' in Bissett's offending and a 'significant abuse of trust'. Powerful victim impact statements read out at court told how the defendant's actions had left a 'profound effect upon them, often for the rest of their lives'.
Judge Robert Altham said Bissett had 'not shown a shred of remorse' and praised the 'contrasting courage of the five complainants'. Bissett was jailed for a total six-and-a-half years and ordered to sign the sex offenders register for life. William Gerald Lenehan tried to meet up with a parent to abuse his two daughters and was caught after it turned out to be an undercover police officer.
The 'determined and premeditated' year-old from Preston was in secret online contact with the officer for two months and used secure email accounts based in Russia so he couldn't be traced.
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He also installed special software on his mobile phone making it 'difficult or impossible' to check his browsing history and also had access to the 'dark web'. Preston Crown Court heard how police officers in Kent launched an investigation in early to 'identify and investigate individuals arranging to meet and facilitate sex offences with children'. Lenehan made contact with the undercover officer in May and used the email address name 'Exciting Times'.
He had email accounts with Russian-based Yandex and Protonmail and prosecutors said they are 'known not to share information with local enforcement agencies'. Four days after making contact with the officer Lenehan told him to first send a picture of a sex act involving his daughter and then they could go on to "trade some heavy stuff". Lenehan suggested they set up a group in a chat room application and the defendant used the name 'Gary'. Between May and July Lenehan engaged in "explicit conversations concerning the abuse of children" with the officer. Lenehan sent the officer a number of 'first generation' custom made images of children, including one of an eight-year-old girl holding a placard with the date and the defendant's Kik Messenger username.
The images were later traced to a man in Torquay who was arrested and convicted, the court heard. Officers also used Lenehan's internet provider address from Kik Messenger to trace him to an address on Devonshire Place in Preston. A mobile phone was seized containing 61 indecent images and videos of children, including one category A - the most serious - three category B and 57 category C.
The victims were aged between five and 10 and one of the abuse videos lasted more than five minutes. Attempts had also been made to delete the images on the phone which had been in the defendant's possession since Lenehan pleaded guilty to encouraging a man to take and send him indecent images of children, distributing indecent images and possessing indecent images.
Lenehan, now of Gargrave Road, Skipton, was jailed for 31 months and ordered to sign the sex offenders register. William Smith secretly filmed women and children undressing in public changing rooms and sunbeds and using disabled toilets. He targeted dozens of victims at the Trafford Centre in Manchester, Darwen Leisure Centre, sunbed shops in Greater Manchester and other leisure centre wet rooms across Lancashire over a four-year period. The year-old used a 'specially adapted' mobile phone covered in black tape to film women and children getting changed in adjoining cubicles.
The pervert also 'manually removed' air vents at sunbed shops to create a 'hole' for his camera and in some cases 'inadvertently recorded his own face'. Smith's offending first came to light when he was caught filming a year-old girl in the 'swimming village' at Darwen Leisure Centre in May Smith, of Darwen , was jailed for two years in for separate voyeurism and indecent images offences and was a registered sex offender at the time of the latest offences.
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He provided a false name to gain membership at Darwen Leisure Centre but 'did use his genuine address'. When Smith's home on Redearth Road was searched by police they recovered the mobile phone which contained 23 different recordings from Darwen Leisure Centre, including the year-old girl. The recordings revealed that seven children, aged between six and 15, were also captured on six different clips using the changing cubicles.
A forensic analysis of the mobile phone showed dozens of other incidents at the Trafford Centre and sunbed shops in Rawtenstall and Greater Manchester. He placed the camera behind the toilet and then 'flushed and used the hand dryer to maintain the pretense that he used the facilities'.
In separate incidents, Smith also filmed women using changing rooms at different Trafford Centre shops from to A total of 92 other images were connected to sunbed shops and all showed women 'either undressing to use the sunbed or climbing off to re-dress'. GPS locations could not be identified for 64 videos showing women changing in wet rooms at different leisure centres in Lancashire. Smith pleaded guilty to 18 counts of voyeurism, two counts of attempted voyeurism and two counts of making indecent images of children. Smith was jailed for 40 months and ordered to sign the sex offenders register for life.
He was also given a year sexual harm prevention order banning him from 'entering or loitering outside' any female-only facilities. He must also declare all memberships of clubs or leisure centres to police and use his real name. David Livesey downloaded more than 20, indecent images and videos of children over an year-old period.
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Livesey, from Clayton-le-Moors , was caught with category A images - the most serious - category B and 19, category C. The images, featuring children as young as four years old, were spread across seven different devices at his home on Whalley Road. Officers also recovered 1, extreme pornographic images and six prohibited images of a children. Livesey pleaded guilty to three counts of possessing indecent images and one count each of possessing a prohibited image and extreme pornographic images.
He was given a month community order with a day rehabilitation activity requirement, a five-year sexual harm prevention order and ordered to sign the sex offenders register for five years. Colin Mooney arranged online to carry out the sickening abuse but was arrested by police after turning up for a face to face meeting.
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The year-old, of Ormskirk Road, Skelmersdale , admitted offences of arranging and facilitating the commission of a child sex offence and attempting sexual communication with a child. Mooney is deemed as a dangerous person so cannot be released until two thirds of the way through his sentence and he then has to prove to the parole board that he is not a risk to the public before being released. Sexual 'predator' Thomas Nichols deliberated targeted and raped vulnerable drunk women after nights out in Hyndburn. The year-old, of Belfield Road, Accrington , raped a woman as she slept and another in a shed.
Borsellotti told police that a link to the illegal images was shared by another person on the Kik group and he clicked on it. He was given a two-year community order with a day rehabilitation activity requirement, a two-month curfew, ordered to sign the sex offenders register for five years and given a five-year sexual harm prevention order. Police officers acting on intelligence visited his home in Rawtenstall where they found nine Category B still pictures of children on a computer belonging to him. Rusden was made the subject of a community order for 18 months with 20 days of rehabilitation work with probation services.
He was also given a five-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order on which severely restricts any internet use and allows police to examine any devices and check the search history. Convicted burglar McCann, 34, had been freed after a probation service error, two months before he embarked on a cocaine and vodka-fuelled rampage.
Over 15 days, he abducted, raped and assaulted victims aged between 11 and 71 in Watford, London and the North West. He allegedly used a "support network" across the country to evade police, despite being identified as a suspect on the day of his first attack. It was claimed on his behalf that the women he was accused of molesting had consensual sex, but that was dismissed as "ludicrous" by victims.
The jury deliberated for five hours to find him guilty of 37 charges relating to 11 victims, including eight rapes, false imprisonment and kidnap. In his absence, Mr Justice Edis handed him 33 life sentences with a minimum term of 30 years, saying McCann was a "classic psychopath". Geoffrey Openshaw used his position as a PE teacher to subject children to abuse spanning three decades between the s and s.
He was employed by the local authority at Darwen Vale High School from '72 to ' He was jailed for more than 17 years after admitting sexual abuse against pupils. During the course of his offending he wrote letters to his victims, bought them presents and took them on excursions. Openshaw, of Out Rawcliffe, near Preston, admitted 14 counts of indecent assault and one of sexual intercourse with a girl under 13 earlier this year.
He was sentenced at Preston Crown Court to 17 years and three months with a one year extended licence. Alfie Holt sexually assaulted an year-old schoolgirl on a bus to Burnley as she was travelling with her mother and brother. The retired painter and decorate 'clocked' the victim and got up from his seat to move 'directly next to her'. Her mother was 'concerned and kept an eye on him' and gestured for her daughter to sit close to her but 'she said she was fine'.
Another male passenger told police that he saw Holt move to sit next to the victim and 'thought his behaviour was strange'. He then witnessed the pensioner put his hand up the girls skirt and 'could not believe what he was seeing'. Burnley Crown Court heard that the passenger stood up and grabbed Holt and he was 'ultimately detained'.