Female paedophile, 37, may be jailed for life for raping and
sexually abusing 13-y/o girl in 'shockingly depraved' attacks
that were filmed and photographed
By CHRIS MATTHEWS FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 14:41 EDT, 25 March 2022
A female paedophile who admitted raping and sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl could be jailed for life, the judge presiding over her case said.
Vicki Bevan, 37, from St Helens, Merseyside, pleaded guilty to 36 sexual offences against the child at an earlier hearing, including one count of rape and five counts of assault by penetration.
Judge Andrew Menary QC, the Recorder of Liverpool, said of her crimes were 'shockingly depraved' and 'just when you think you have heard the worst, another one comes along'.
He said he was considering a life sentence for rapist Bevan.
Vicki Bevan, 37, (pictured) pleaded guilty to 36 sexual offences in Liverpool Crown Court, including one count of rape and five of assault by penetration against a child
Bevan sexually abused a vulnerable victim with Paul Rafferty, 62, and also molested her with a second man, Tony Hutton, 42.
The horrific sexual abuse was filmed and photographed and images were shared between the group, along with twisted messages.
The three paedophiles, all from St Helens, appeared in the dock for sentence at Liverpool Crown Court this morning, when Bevan laughed and smiled with security officers, before wiping away tears with a white tissue when the judge came into court.
Bevan was due to be sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court on Friday.
Yet Judge Menary adjourned sentencing, saying he was considering an 'indefinite' or life sentence for Bevan and wanted written submissions on the matter from her lawyers before he decides.
Bevan has also pleaded guilty to 17 counts of making an indecent image of a child, with two of these counts made up of 52 photos of penetrative sex.
She admitted two counts of possessing extreme pornography, relating to 100 'grossly offensive, disgusting or otherwise obscene' animal porn images.
Judge Menary added: 'Of particular concern to the court is the fact that there are exchanges of messages which are shockingly depraved fantasies. They did not remain as fantasies. Some of these were played out in real life.
'Just when you think you have heard the worst, another one comes along. It's all of that, that the court will be concerned with.'
Judge Menary said any 'blame sharing' claim by Bevan in her defence, that she was 'led on' by the others, will not be accepted.
The girl involved, as a victim of sexual offences, cannot be identified.
Rafferty has pleaded guilty to 10 sexual offences, including rape and Hutton has pleaded guilty to four sexual offences. All three were remanded into custody to be sentenced on May 13 when the full facts of the case will be opened in court.
The judge said written submissions from Mr Duffy and Martine Snowdon, prosecuting, should consider Bevan's 'risk in the future and the extent to which it might be said the underlying health or mental health issues have an impact on her culpability'.
Judge Menary asked Rafferty and Hutton's lawyers to make submissions on their 'risk and dangerousness'.
The judge noted in interviews the three defendants took part in with the Probation Service for pre-sentence reports there was 'a degree of blame sharing' and asked whether this would be relied upon at sentence.
Tom Watson, defending Hutton, told the court he 'takes full responsibility for his offending despite what your Lordship may have seen in the report'. He said: 'He will not veer away from taking full responsibility for each of the offences he's pleaded guilty to.'
Judge Menary told Mr Duffy: 'I'm bound to say if your client suggests she was encouraged and got led on by others, it would not be accepted.' Mr Duffy said this would not be put forward by Bevan.
Simon Christie, defending Rafferty, said his client had not gone 'quite as far' in his comments for the report. Like Hutton, Rafferty showed no emotion in the dock.
Judge Menary said he would adjourn sentencing until May 13 and remanded the three defendants in custody. He ordered all three defendants to be in person for the sentencing as opposed to via video link.
However, he said he would consider written submissions from Mr Duffy on this point. If the three paedophiles are found to be dangerous offenders they may receive extended sentences. They would then have to spend at least two thirds - rather than the usual half of any custodial term - behind bars, before they could apply for parole.
At that stage, if they were no longer considered to be a risk, they could be released on licence.
However, if Bevan's crimes are deemed to be serious enough to warrant a life sentence, she would instead be given a minimum term in prison, which she would have to serve in its entirety.
Only once that minimum term was complete would she be able to apply for parole and, if and when she was released, she would be subject to licence conditions for the rest of her life.
British paedophile teacher who changed his name to work at a Madrid private school where he continued to commit sex crimes is given a 138-year jail sentence
By GERARD COUZENS FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 12:02 EDT, 26 May 2022 | UPDATED: 12:02 EDT, 26 May 2022
A paedophile teacher who changed his name after being convicted of sex crimes in the UK has been handed a 138-year jail sentence in Spain.
Ben David Rose used forged legal references to get jobs abroad after he emigrated with a new identity following his prison let-off in England.
Today he was warned he faced the next two decades behind bars in Spain after being found guilty of abusing the trust of his employers to commit a new string of crimes against children as young as seven.
The 33-year-old deviant, tried behind closed doors during a three-day trial at Madrid's Provincial Court at the start of May, is expected to serve 20 years in prison despite the longer sentence he has received.
David Rose, previously known as Ben David Lewis before he changed his name by deed poll, was handed a two-year suspended jail term in June 2016 at St Albans Court for sex crimes he committed at a summer camp he founded.
His first victims in Spain were the parents of three children based in the northern city of Zaragoza he tricked into hiring him two months later as an au pair.
He photographed them naked before posting sick snaps with his photoshopped private parts added in on underground child porn sites.
Three judges also ruled it had been proven in a 72-page sentencing document released today he had humiliated one of the girls he was paid to look after by pleasuring himself on a plate of spaghetti he then fed to her.
The pervert subsequently moved to Madrid where he got teaching jobs including one at a private school by forging legal references with a shop-bought rubber stamp.
David Rose also changed the numbers on one of his two passports to cheat background checks and worm his way into the lives of more than 30 seven and eight-year-old girls he abused at one school alone.
Prosecutors said in an indictment submitted to the court ahead of his trial the Brit paedophile also cheated Spanish criminal record checks by using a copy of an Israeli passport he had obtained in the name of Ben David Rose and doctored by changing the long MRZ number.
He took upskirt photos of the young girls at the school where he committed most of his offences.
Prosecutors went to trial seeking jail sentences totalling 220 years for the computer whizz kid.
The three judges who convicted and imprisoned him found him guilty of eight counts of making child pornography, a crime of inflicting degrading treatment on another person, 32 privacy offences and one count of forgery.
As well as being handed a lengthy prison sentence, he was also ordered to pay his victims compensation ranging from £2,500 to just over £5,000 each.
The judges called the Brit pervert's crimes 'serious' in their lengthy written ruling, adding: 'It's going to be very difficult for the children's parents to return to the situation they were in before the offender committed them, even though they receive economic compensation.'
Ben David Rose was arrested in June 2020 and held in custody on remand until his conviction.
Spanish police only went public with the detention in April last year 10 months after he was held.
Detectives said specialist police in the Australian city of Queensland had tipped them off about a 'sexual predator' they believed was in Spain who they identified following a complex probe slowed down by the suspect's encryption techniques.
They revealed he had a criminal record in his native UK and accused him of targeting 36 children aged four to eight after tricking his way into the Spanish education system - but didn't name him or go into detail about how he allegedly duped the system.
Ben David Lewis, as he was known before he left the UK, was arrested in August 2015 after a worker at a summer camp he founded, LL Camps in Bushey, Hertfordshire, found naked photos of children as young as three on his iPhone.
Sandra Vicente told St Albans Crown Court she felt like her brain had been 'polluted' after chancing upon the snaps.
She was given the phone and entry PIN by the then-26-year-old to play music at a children's party but found the images in the deleted items after 'getting nosey' and went to police.
Officers found a pair of child's underwear next to his laptop as well as videos he had taken by pointing his camera up the skirt of a young girl he was tutoring.
Prosecutor Ann Evans said police found searches on one of his iPod Touches such as 'Can a sex offender go to the USA?, 'Accidental downloading child porn' and 'How do police search computers?'
He pleaded guilty to three counts of downloading indecent images and one of taking indecent images but was spared prison after claiming he wanted to get married and have children.
He was also ordered to register as a sex offender indefinitely.
The American-style summer camp he set up with a friend was closed down by Ofsted.
His dad Larry Lewis, from Borehamwood, Herts, was charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice shortly after his son's detention but the allegations against him were dropped before trial.
The Brit paedophile changed his name by deed poll the day after his conviction.
Emily Konstantas, CEO of the Safeguarding Alliance said after news of his arrest emerged before he was formally charged by Spanish prosecutors: 'It doesn't surprise me if this man has changed his name and gone abroad with a new identity.
'As shocking as this is, it's not new and it's continue to happen unless the UK gets a grip on their sex offenders. Our failure, a UK failure, is putting the rest of the world at risk.'
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