Dangerous paedophile, 'monster' murderer and Tesco attacker jailed this week
These are the defendants from across Lancashire who were locked up over the past seven days
By Jon Macpherson Chief Reporter, LancsLive
19:00, 12 APR 2025Updated19:03, 12 APR 2025
A dangerous paedophile who lured young children to the woods before sexually assaulting them, a "monster" who "viciously attacked" a vulnerable man and a "cowardly" thug who broke a Tesco worker's jaw after being offered help with his shopping were among the Lancashire criminals jailed this week.
Also locked up was a disgraced former prison governor following an illicit relationship with a jailed drug gang boss who gifted her a £12,000 Mercedes and an 'isolated' man who was snared by "paedophile hunters". Meanwhile, Preston Crown Court heard that an "abhorrent" sexual predator installed a secret camera in a bathroom to film his victim's suffering as part of a campaign of sexual abuse lasting more than a decade.
Prison terms are handed out to the worst offenders. And LancsLive reporters are on hand to cover the most serious cases.
Here are the faces of eight defendants from across our region who were imprisoned over the past seven days:
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How BBC grooming drama helped expose Birmingham's own seedy world of child prostitution
Pimp Paul Doyle, 65, has been jailed for living off the earnings from prostitution in Birmingham in the 1990s
A woman pimped out and sexually exploited as a child in Birmingham in the 1990s had managed to rebuild her life by 2017.
She had battled her own class A drug addiction and was working to help others.
Her life was in a 'good place'. And then she watched the BBC's Three Girls.
The drama was based on the true stories of victims groomed and sexually abused in Rochdale in the 2000s.
"I realised I was not to blame for what happened to me," said the Birmingham victim.
The programme resonated with her so much that she bravely decided to report to the police what had happened to her in the second city in the late 1990s, when she was just 14 and 15.
At the time she was living in care homes. While at a party one night she was introduced to a man known as 'Raj', who was much older than her.
She thought he was 'kind and caring' but he soon persuaded her she needed money and should work as a prostitute.
Raj had also groomed other girls and could be very violent. He is now dead.
As well as being worked as a prostitute at the side of the road, the teenager also worked for Paul Doyle.
He ran escorting and stripogram agencies from a taxi base in Digbeth, Birmingham.
Doyle liked to 'test' girls out first in predatory sexual initiations with himself in his office.
The victim noticed he had a distinctive scar on his chest, a key detail which later identified him as the perpetrator due to hernia surgery.
She recalled being taken by a driver to see a client and given an envelope with condoms inside.
She was paid money and then went back to Doyle. She would typically see two to four clients a night.
Much more on this story on Birmingham Live:
She did not tell them how old she was, but Doyle knew.
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