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Male nurse, 31, who was caught by undercover police officer
plotting to sexually abuse four-month-old baby boy is struck off
By JACOB THORBURN FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 06:11 EDT, 5 October 2021
A paedophile nurse who plotted to sexually abuse a four-month-old baby
has been struck off the register
What register?
Thomas Harrison, 31, of Mossley Hill, Liverpool, devised a plan to abuse a youngster with a man he thought was the baby's father in online conversations.
But the nurse was completely unaware that he was actually chatting with an undercover police officer who was part of a sting operation hoping to catch him.
Harrison started chatting to the cop on dating site Grindr and requested images of his supposed baby son, saying that he had 'no limits' sexually.
Harrison, who worked as an adult nurse at Cornerstone Surgery in St Helens, Merseyside, later arranged for the man and his child to visit his home.
He was arrested by Merseyside Police for facilitating the commission of a child sex offence, and was sentenced to two years in prison and put on the Sex Offenders Register for a decade in October 2020.
This week, the Nursing and Midwifery Council confirmed they had struck Harrison off their nursing records.
Oh, that registry!
Thomas Harrison, 31, of Mossley Hill, Liverpool, devised a twisted plan to abuse a four-month-old boy with a man he thought was the baby's father in online conversations
After striking up a conversation with a man on the dating app Grindr in July 2020, Harrison requested pictures of his four-month-old boy.
When asked by the officer whether he would prefer sexual activity with the man or his son, Harrison replied: 'The baby'.
He described a sexual act he planned to commit on the undercover officer's child, before later detailing a fantasy of 'watching the officer do the same to his own baby'.
After the pair agreed to meet, Harrison sent the officer details of his home address.
When he arrived on July 27, the undercover officer told Harrison to 'close the curtains' and wait inside, before a Merseyside Police unit stormed in to arrest him.
NMC documents, covering Harrison's hearing on September 17, stated: 'The panel was provided with a certificate of conviction which confirmed that on 16 September 2020 at Crown Court in Liverpool Harrison was convicted of arranging or facilitating the commission of a child sex offence.
'The panel also noted that Harrison had admitted the charge against him.
'The panel agreed that the nature of Harrison's conviction is very serious and involved a very vulnerable baby who was, in the past, placed at unwarranted risk of harm.
'It also breached fundamental tenets of the profession and brought the profession into disrepute.
'Harrison has been convicted of a serious sexual offence involving the attempted sexual abuse of a four month old baby.
'It determined that a fully informed member of the public would be appalled by Harrison's conviction, and extremely concerned should a finding of no current impairment be made in light of his convictions.'
Harrison, a survivor of the Manchester Arena bombing, initially messaged the man on dating app Grindr before moving to Wickr - an encrypted messaging service.
After being sentenced to two years in prison, Detective Constable Craig Doyle said: 'Harrison has shown by his actions that he clearly poses a danger to children, and I am very pleased to say he is safely behind bars today.
'He will now spend time behind bars where he can no longer pose a risk, and I hope he uses that time to reflect on the seriousness of his offence and the impact it could have had on a victim, their family and the wider community.'
Two years is just a pathetic sentence for such a horrible pervert. He will be out next year and will be searching for other babies to rape.
Alongside being struck off the nursing register, the NMC also imposed an 18-month interim suspension order, meaning Harrison must not practise for its duration.
So, does that mean he can practice elsewhere after 18 months, most of which he will spend in jail?
On making their decision to remove Harrison from the register, the NMC said: 'The panel noted that the serious breach of the fundamental tenets of the profession evidenced by Harrison's actions is fundamentally incompatible with him remaining on the register.
'The panel agreed that the appropriate and proportionate sanction is that of a striking-off order.
'Having regard to the matters it identified, the panel has concluded that nothing short of this would be sufficient in this case.'
Britain's most notorious paedophile Sidney Cooke, 94, appeals
to the Parole Board for the 10th time seeking his release from jail
This headline is a little hyperbolic as Jimmy Savile was easily
the most notorious paedophile in the UK
By DARREN BOYLE FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 21:09 EDT, 6 October 2021
Paedophile Sidney Cooke, pictured, is making an application to the Parole Board to release him from prison
One of Britain's oldest prisoners is planning a new attempt to get out of jail on parole having been convicted for a catalogue of sex attacks on two young brothers.
Sidney Cooke, 94, who is serving life in prison, was jailed for a minimum of five years in 1999, but has been considered a risk to the public so has not been released. The Parole Board has so far rejected nine previous release attempts.
According to The Mirror, his legal team will argue that he is no longer a threat to society due to his age and ill health.
The panel's decision will be published later this month.
A source said: 'Just because he is 94, does not mean he is no longer a danger to the public. You can still pose a risk regardless of age.'
Cooke, who was a former fairground worker, was the leader of a gang of paedophiles known as The Dirty Dozen who have been linked to a string of unsolved crimes.
Cooke - known as 'Hissing Sid' - was released from jail in April 1999, after serving nine years for the manslaughter of 14-year-old Jason Swift in 1985.
But after his release he was immediately taken into voluntary custody for his own safety.
But detectives, convinced he was responsible for other similar unsolved crimes, kept his file open.
Within months Cooke was accused of abusing two teenage brothers he befriended while working on fairgrounds more than 30 years ago. He was also accused of the rape of a young woman.
In an unexpected move during his 1999 trial at Manchester Crown Court, Cooke suddenly changed his plea to guilty and admitted ten offences against the youngsters and subsequently received two life sentences.
With two life sentences, he shouldn't be having parole hearings, IMHO.
Never down: Pornhub says traffic surged by millions
of active users during Facebook outage
8 Oct, 2021 09:09
One of the world’s most visited websites, Pornhub, became even more popular this week, its data analysis shows. With Instagram and FB inaccessible, Internet users entertained themselves online with “adults only” content.
Pornhub detected an increase in its traffic on Monday, when Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp were all down for some six hours in a major worldwide outage. During this quiet time, “about half a million additional users during each hour” flocked to the website offering adult content, Pornhub revealed by publishing its October 4 average hourly traffic.
That means 3 million pervs got their porn from FB or Instagram, at least.
The peak of active users, “as much as +10.5%,” was registered at around 1pm Eastern Time (ET), prompting some commentators to question others’ activities during working hours.
However, 1pm ET is 7pm Central European Summer Time and around 2am in many Asian countries.
Pornhub said it had seen “similar traffic increases” in previous years when social media platforms were offline. On Monday, Telegram messenger said it also gained new users during the outage, with more than 70 million people signing up in a single day.
Explaining the historic blackout, believed to be one of the longest ever Facebook disruptions, Mark Zuckerberg’s company said the outage was “an error of our own making.” The “complete disconnection of our server connections between our data centers and the internet” had nothing to do with “malicious activity,” it reassured. There is speculation suggesting the outage was caused by some sort of a hack and that user data might have been compromised.
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Metropolitan Police is worst in country at solving sexual &
violent crimes, new policing study finds
8 Oct, 2021 12:31
Met Police officers outside New Scotland Yard office. March 16, 2021. © Reuters / Henry Nicholls
The Met, the UK’s largest police force, has reportedly been ranked the worst in England and Wales for solving sexual and violent crimes. A new analysis found charges were brought in only one in 20 offences probed by Scotland Yard.
The rankings, which are based on official police data, showed that the proportion of sexual and violent crimes where the Metropolitan Police charged a suspect was 5% as of August 2020. Five years earlier, that figure apparently stood at 14%.
At the national level, police forces now solve about 9% – fewer than one in 10 – of sexual and violent offence cases. According to the new analysis by Poliscope, that number was 19% – roughly one in five – in 2016. A study published by the group in May projected sex and violent crimes to rise by 13% by 2022 and reach 20% by 2023 compared to figures from 2019.
“Too many rape victims in London are being failed and we need to see an urgent overhaul of the criminal justice system’s approach to rape, from the police through to prosecution and courts,” London's Victims’ Commissioner Claire Waxman told The Telegraph.
Without drastic changes, we won’t be able to restore the trust and confidence of survivors that they will be able to get justice.
Waxman also criticised the current “disproportionate focus placed on discrediting a victim and their case,” while calling for police forces to shift towards an “offender-centric” approach to investigations.
In October 2020, the London Assembly’s Police and Crime Committee cited figures gathered from the Met Police and the Crown Prosecution Service to show that reports of rape and sexual offences in London had increased by 25% between 2015 and 2020, while convictions dropped by nearly the same percentage over that period.
The rankings come at a time when the Met Police is facing a credibility crisis after the kidnap, rape, and murder of Sarah Everard in March by former police officer Wayne Couzens. Earlier this week, British Home Secretary Priti Patel declared that the murder had “exposed unimaginable failings” within the police force, and announced an inquiry to probe the “systematic failures” that led to Everard’s killing.
The announcement of the probe, which will also explore potential deeper problems in UK policing, came amid intense criticism of the Met Police, its commissioner Cressida Dick, and the failure of officers to act on previous allegations made against Couzens – who received a rare whole-life prison sentence last month.
Meanwhile, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday that his government needed to look “systemically” at “the whole handling of rape, domestic violence, sexual violence, and female complaints about harassment altogether.”
In the wake of Couzens' conviction, Dick – who has refused to resign from her post, despite growing calls to do so – announced the Met Police would conduct an internal review into “standards and culture” across the force as part of an effort to restore public trust.
A recent investigation by the iNews outlet found that a total of 771 Met Police officers and staff had faced sexual misconduct allegations over the past 11 years. Over the same period, 163 Met officers were apparently arrested for various sexual offences – with 38 convicted in court.
How sad is that?
Slough deputy headteacher allowed convicted paedophile
to visit primary school
Alice Wetherell allowed the paedophile onto the grounds of Ryvers School on multiple occasions, despite knowing about his crimes
By Sophie DrewLife writer
14:52, 9 OCT 2021
Berkshire Live
The then deputy headteacher allowed a convicted paedophile to enter the premises (Image: Google Maps)
A headteacher has been found guilty of unacceptable professional conduct after allowing a convicted paedophile to enter a Slough school.
The offender had been ordered to sign the sex offenders' register for life following their conviction in 2014.
Alice Wetherell was suspended in November 2018, after the school was notified of her familial ties with the sex offender, who has not been named in the redacted verdict.
Wetherell, who became headteacher of the school on September 1, 2018, was sacked by the school in April 2019 for gross misconduct after failing to alert the school, and the relevant authorities, about her ties to the convicted sex offender.
As part of her position at Ryvers School, in Slough, Wetherell was the "designated safeguarding lead".
The primary school, on Trelawney Avenue, offers education to children from nursery age until age 11.
A hearing found that Wetherell had allowed the offender - referred to as ‘Individual A’ - to enter the school premises during the 2018 summer holidays, in order to seek "informal health and safety advice", despite knowing about his crimes.
Individual A had previously received a six-year custodial sentence after being found guilty of nine counts of sexual offences against a child.
Although it is unlikely that any students were present during the visit, the offender may have been able to see photographs and important, personal information about the children, testifying witnesses told the professional conduct panel.
Individual A had only recently been released from prison, but had been given permission by their probation officer in order to visit the school on a "limited basis".
The panel stated that Individual A was "almost inevitably" given credibility due to their ties with Wetherell whilst working within the school.
Staff first became suspicious of Individual A after Wetherell's alibis failed to add up.
One member of staff became increasingly concerned after the deputy headteacher continued to tell stories about the sex offender working abroad, but the location would change.
After hearing rumours that Individual A had actually spent that time in prison, instead of working abroad, the alarm was raised.
According to recommendations sent to the Secretary of State for Education, Wetherell had an otherwise "unblemished" career, and a number of students and teachers acted as witnesses on her behalf.
Following the hearing, it was ordered that the information pertaining to Wetherell’s misconduct be published as it is "in the public interest".
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