Bob Higgins, former Southampton coach, charged with 65 counts of child sexual abuse
Daniel Taylor
@DTguardian
Bob Higgins, a former youth coach at Southampton, has been charged with 65 counts of non-recent sexual abuse against boys and is due in court this month.
Higgins, 64, will appear at West Hampshire magistrates court in Southampton on 20 July to face allegations relating to 23 complainants. All the alleged offences are understood to be indecent assault.
Higgins was a coach in Southampton’s junior system in the 1980s and worked as Peterborough United’s youth-team manager from May 1995 to April 1996 as well as running his own soccer school. He was still involved in football, working with adults at Fleet Town, when the police investigation began last year.
“Detectives have charged a man in connection with an investigation into non-recent child abuse within the footballing community,” Hampshire police said in a statement. “These offences relate to allegations involving teenage boys and are alleged to have happened in the 1980s and 1990s. There is a total of 23 alleged victims.”
Paedophile is hiring out his flashy Aston Martin to KIDS for £60 rides to school proms
Peter Jones encourages youngsters to book his "cool ride" on Facebook despite being on the Sex Offenders Register
By Stephen Moyes The Sun
A SELF-confessed pervert addicted to child sex abuse images is hiring out his flashy Aston Martin for school kids going to proms at £60-a-time.
The pervert encourages youngsters by stating: “Looking for a cool ride to your Prom. James Bond style, what better way to arrive, chauffeur driven Aston Martin.”
The red motor bears his personalised number plate.
The crooked former boss has also set up a “man with a van” delivery and removal service after being released from another prison sentence for nicking £1 million.
But he doesn’t reveal the two years and four months he served in prison for downloading extreme child sex abuse images.
Nor that he was jailed for four years after stealing £960,000 in bequests – some of which were meant for charities – left by deceased clients which were being handled by his firm.
He was first sent down in 2003 for a year for child abuse image offences and went on a course to help prevent him re-offend.
But he was back in court in Norwich in 2012 and was caged 16 months after he admitted making and possessing indecent images of children.
Police carried out a check and they found that Jones, a former director of Heritage Legal and Financial Services in Norwich, had downloaded material on his computer at work and also was found to have accessed images on his computer at home.
Bishop killed himself after being accused of
child sex abuse
By Neil_Shaw
The case of a Mormon elder who killed himself after being accused of child abuse has been closed formally by a Judge. Stewart Allsford took his own life by jumping off Berry Head at Brixham half way through a trial at Exeter Crown Court where he was accused of sexually assaulting two girls.
The case was closed formally by Judge Geoffrey Mercer, QC, after a death certificate was supplied by police. An inquest will be held later. Allsford left home at 5am on the third day of his trial in June and his car was found close to the cliff edge at Berry Head, near Brixham later that morning.
The 66-year-old, of Davies Avenue, Paignton, was on trial after denying four counts of indecent assault, one of assault by penetration and one of abducting a child under 16. The alleged abuse took place during the 1990s at a time when he was in charge of a congregation of the Church of Latter Day Saints in Torbay, holding the title of Bishop.
He had admitted indecently assaulting one of the victims, but said it had only happened when she was 14. She told the jury she was younger. Allsford's body was found on Seaton beach in East Devon on June 10, three days after he disappeared on June 7. It was carried across Lyme Bay the tidal stream and gale force South Westerly winds.
Recorder Mr Donald Tait discharged the jury at the trial and explained it was feared Allsford had taken his own life. At that stage he said he was listed as missing and efforts were being made to find him. The police inquiry was launched after one of the victims, now an adult, was prompted to come forward by her boyfriend after he found part of her childhood diaries.
The entry referred to being kissed by touched by Allsford. The victim had tried to bury her memories of the abuse but was persuaded to reveal the truth. Police inquiries uncovered another girl who made similar complaints and allegations that he had driven a third girl off in his car without the permission of her parents or guardians.
Examination of sex offender's laptop showed indecent images of children in 'most serious category'
Belfast man John Flynn has been granted bail
BY ALAN ERWIN
Forensic examination of a registered sex offender's computer revealed indecent images of children in the most serious category, the High Court heard today.
Search terms identified on John Flynn's laptop included references to rape victims and naked teenage Africans, prosecutors said.
It was also revealed that the 61-year-old Belfast man has recently wed a 26-year-old Nigerian woman, travelling 14 times to the continent in the past three years.
Flynn, of Ardenvohr Street, faces charges of possessing indecent images and breaching a Sexual Offenders' Prevention Order (SOPO).
He was granted bail on strict conditions, including an order to surrender any passports.
Under the terms of the SOPO Flynn's internet use must be accessible for police inspection.
But Crown lawyer Kate McKay said no browsing history was available when officers called to check his computer in January last year.
His laptop was seized and examined by experts, who reported back on the contents last month.
According to Mrs McKay six of the most serious, Category A indecent images were found on the device, along with five Category B and four Category C.
Flynn was arrested last week, when several other devices was also taken examination.
"He denied downloading the indecent images, but said he used the search terms," Mrs McKay added.
She set out a list of the type of material allegedly being sought online. Opposing bail, the prosecutor said police have "major concerns" about Flynn.
"It doesn't seem anything is going to stop him trying to look at these images," she contended.
Defence counsel Conn O'Neill argued that Flynn has given an account to police. Rejecting any suggestion his client poses a flight risk, Mr O'Neill stressed that he has always returned from trips to Nigeria.
The court was also told Flynn's wife has applied for residency status in the UK.
Granting bail, Madam Justice McBride ordered that the accused must seek to register with either Sex Addicts Anonymous or a charity working to prevent child sexual abuse.
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