Parents beware: 5 MORE Worcestershire paedophiles who avoided jail

The following five child sex offenders all avoided jail despite being convicted of their crimes.

Jamie Shaw, 69, Stourport

A FORMER Stourport councillor and leader of Wyre Forest District Council has admitted making indecent photographs of a child.

Jamie Shaw, 69, who served as leader of the council for eight years in the 1990s, pleaded guilty to the crime at Worcester Crown Court on September 11 last year.

Shaw, of Heightington Place in Stourport, was sentenced to six months in prison, suspended for 18 months.

The offence was committed in Stourport between January and July 2018 - during which time he was serving as Labour ward member for Areley Kings and Riverside on the district council.

He was the second longest serving councillor for Wyre Forest District Council, having served on it for 32 years until his resignation in November last year, citing ill-health.

At the time of his resignation, Wyre Forest Council issued a statement thanking Shaw for his "long and dedicated service to the council" and wishing him well for the future. Wyre Forest Labour also thanked him for his "diligent service over the last 32 years".

Worcestershire County Council confirmed that Shaw no longer works for the council and was not a county council employee during the time of the offence.

Robert Miller, 57, Hereford

AN antique dealer from Hereford, was contacted in a chat room and gave details of indecent child pictures he wanted to see, said prosecutor Philip Bradley.

The information was passed on to the police and when they raided his home in Quay Street, Hereford, in July 2014 they found 270 indecent images on his laptop and hard-drive.

Mr Bradley said some of the worst pictures showed children, some as young as two and three years old being violated by adults.

Miller, whose address on the court records was given as Canal Boulevard in London, pleaded guilty to six counts of possessing indecent photographs.

He was given an eight-month prison sentence suspended for two years and ordered to carry out 100 hours unpaid work. He will be under the supervision of the probation service for 12 months.

Miller was also ordered to pay £340 costs and will be under a sexual harm prevention order for five years.

Before his arrest, he had lived with his wife and four children aged from 21 to 12 and had no previous convictions.

It is understood that he is now separated from his wife.

Detective Constable Lisa Grogan, who investigated the case, said: “Behind every child abuse image is an abused child, an exploited and helpless victim. When these images are circulated online, they can live on forever".

Ross Workman, 55, Worcester

THE former headteacher, of Lowfold Close, downloaded more than 500 indecent photographs and films of children as young as eight, including 88 in the worst category.

Judge James Burbidge QC told Workman, who was in charge at Oldswinford CofE Primary School at the time of his arrest, that he would never work again in the teaching profession.

Workman was suspended from the school after being arrested by detectives from the force’s Online Child Sexual Exploitation Team, then resigned from his post in January 2015, according to the local authority.

The judge described Workman as “an intelligent man, a man of good character who many friends described as honest, open, kind and considerate”.

But, he added: “You clearly had a secret at some period in your life and that was discovered by the police.”

Workman admitted six charges of making indecent photographs of children and he was made the subject of a three-year community order with the condition that he attends the sex offenders’ programme.

He was also ordered to register as a sex offender for the next five years and to pay £420 costs.

The judge said: “You began to live in a virtual world, but became an avid consumer of pornography and that moved on to you becoming interested in child pornography.”

Workman had been in a high position of trust the judge said, adding: “There is no suggestion that you breached that trust by doing anything untoward towards the children.”

Judith Kenney, defending, said the offences were committed over a two-month period in 2011 when Workman was under a great deal of stress, following the end of a six-year relationship.

Miss Kenney said: “He has paid a high price for something he did a long time ago when his life was in turmoil.”

Nicholas Berry, prosecuting, said police officers went to Workman’s former home in Orwell Close, Stourbridge, and seized computer equipment. When interviewed, Workman said he was interested in younger men and he accepted the images were illegal, but said they had all been deleted.

Workman said: “ I knew it was not right and I tried to stop.”

He said he used pornography as a “stress reliever” but admitted his sexual interest in boys had seen him cross boundaries.

The judge added: “You have an addiction that needs to be quashed.

"You’ve lost your job; you’ve paid a very high price but a just price. It would be inappropriate for you to work with children again in the future.”

He said Workman, who hung his head in the dock, was now on the police radar but it was very doubtful he would offend again in the future, having been described as at low risk of ever coming to court again.

A NSPCC spokesman said: “It is deeply shocking that someone so trusted and respected by pupils and parents would commit these vile crimes.

“The children in these images are victims of sexual abuse which can destroy their lives.

“Workman has only helped fuel this industry and the demand for those images."

Ian Richards, 55, Worcester

The paedophile walked free from Worcester Crown Court last month after pleading guilty to downloading hundreds of vile images onto a computer and two discs.

The 55-year-old of Silverdale Avenue, near London Road, Worcester, had already admitted three counts of making indecent images of children and one of possession of a prohibited image of a child when he appeared before Judge Jim Tindal for sentence

Some of the images found were at category A - the worst kind within the sentencing guidelines - which show children being abused by adults.

Sophie Murray, prosecuting, said police had received information that an indecent image had been downloaded at the defendant's home address.

Officers conducted a search on March 7, 2018. The defendant had been working away at the time and was asked to bring his devices to Worcester Police Station which he 'duly did' said Miss Murray.

The devices were subject to a forensic examination and officers found 45 accessible category A images, 63 inaccessible category B images and 300 category C images, some of which were still accessible and others of which were inaccessible.

The indecent images had been downloaded between February 1, 2016 and October 9, 2017. Officers also seized two discs which contained further category C images of children made between October 23, 2006 and March 13, 2007.

Richards, who had no previous convictions, was interviewed by police, making full admissions and telling officers he had been 'going through a difficult time'. Explaining that he had been viewing adult pornography, he told them he had 'strayed into other areas' but did not think the images of children had been 'overly sexual'.

"He then said he did have sexual pleasure in adult pictures but not in child images" said Miss Murray.

The prosecutor provided a limited description of the indecent material but said the category A images included 'oral penetration of a child around 10 years old'.

Mark Sheward, defending, said his client pleaded guilty at the first available opportunity at the magistrates court on October 1 this year, making full admissions to police even before the devices had been examined.

Mr Sheward said his client had lost his job and his mother and had now also lost his good character, 'something which meant a lot to him'.

The judge sentenced him to 12 months in prison suspended for two years and ordered Richards to complete 40 rehabilitation activity requirement days and 100 hours of unpaid work.

Nathan Green, 30, Bromsgrove

Green offered to ‘share’ his own baby with other perverts but walked free from court despite distributing vile images of young children being abused.

At the time that Nathan Green was caught by police his partner was expecting their child and because of what he said to other paedophiles on line his baby was taken into foster care at birth.

Green, 25, formerly of Cross Close, Cirencester, but now of Broad street, Bromsgrove, admitted distributing and possessing illegal images of children at the worst level A, as well as in the less serious B and C categories.

Judge Michael Harington sentenced him at Gloucester crown court to a two year jail term suspended for 18 months. He also ordered him to undergo a community sex offender group programme and a 30 day rehabilitation activity programme.

Green, who was working in a shop in the Duke of Gloucester army barracks in South Cerney, near Cirencester, at the time of his offending, was placed on the sex offender register for 10 years. A sexual harm prevention order was also made against him.

Prosecutor James Bromige said police arrested Green at his place of work on March 6 this year as a result of intelligence about him sharing paedophile images on line.

He called himself 'Crazer49' and in his profile information he wrote 'Young Incest Fun. Have child on the way. Will share."

Mr Bromige said police found 41 still images and two videos at the worst Category A on Green's computer hard drive, 62 images and 2 videos at category B and 202 stills and 2 videos at Category C.

One of the videos showed graphic footage of a girl of 12-14 being abused. The nature of the abuse is too graphic for publication.

Another showed a naked little girl aged between 18 months and three years with a transparent plastic bag over her face and a cord tied around her neck.

Mr Bromige said that on chatlogs involving other paedophiles Green was asking about, and being asked for, images of very young children.

He asked one user 'Do you like child?' and another "Are you into young children?"

"His own child has been born since this and has gone into foster care," said Mr Bromige.

"The defendant has made no offer to assist the police in any further enquiries to find any of the children involved, where the images came from and the identities of the other users."

But he added: "He is of previous good character."

Judge Harington told Green the images he had been collecting and distributing were "revolting".

"The real seriousness of offences such as this is that actual children have to undergo or be involved in performing these revolting acts in order for the stills and videos to be made," he said.

"A prison sentence is inevitable in this case but I am prepared to suspend it."