12 paedophiles, rapists and sex offenders jailed in 2017

Below is a list of the perverts and predators who have been convicted:

Paul Austin-Roberts, 43, from Wilks Road in Dartford, was sentenced at Woolwich Crown Court on May 12 after pleading guilty to grooming and attempting to cause a child to watch sexual acts.

Austin-Roberts engaged in conversations with what he believed to be a 14-year-old boy, exchanging multiple sexual messages.

Read his full story here. 

Carl Johnson, 53, of Bowen Drive in Upper Sydenham, abused a girl in the early 1990s when she was a young teenager.

Johnson groomed the victim, exploiting his position in the Battersea Church community, eventually progressing to multiple sexual offences.

The victim came forward in 2014 to tell Met Police about the abuse and the investigation immediately started. He was jailed for 10 years.

His story can be found here. 

Theo Black, 26, pleaded guilty to possession of indecent images and was found guilty after a trial to sexual activity with a child.

He was jailed in June to four years' and six months in jail.

Black met the 14-year-old boy on a social networking app in September 2014 and he convinced the teen to meet him at a train station.

The victim told Black that he was only 14 but the paedophile still took him to his home where he “engaged in sexual activity” with the child.

Black’s actions were reported to the police and he was arrested on February 24, 2015.

Read our full story here. 

Colin Wyatt, 57, of Perry Grove, Dartford, was sentenced at the Old Bailey on February 17 to eight years.

He will serve an extra year on licence at the end of his eight-year jail stint.

Wyatt had been found guilty of two counts of indecently assaulting a female, one count of gross indecency with a female child under 14, and one count of assaulting a female child under 13.

One further account of assaulting a female child under 13 was left to lie on record.

His full story can be found here.  

Trevor Franklin, 61, of Mayplace Road East, Bexleyheath, was convicted of 11 charges of historical child sexual abuse after a three-week trial at Inner London Crown Court.

He was jailed for 21 years.

They were two charges of rape of a boy under the age of 16; eight charges of indecent assault against boys under the age of 16; and one charge of attempting to indecently assault a boy under the age of 16.

The victims all described how Franklin, who was aged in his late 20s and 30s at the time, befriended them and invited them to his home. He also took the boys on trips in his car and gave them alcohol and cigarettes.

PC Luke Pressling said: “Franklin is a predatory paedophile who abused the trust of four boys he had befriended.

"Although no prison sentence can ever make up for the physical and psychological damage caused by the appalling abuse they suffered, I hope the long sentence given to Franklin gives them some form of closure."

Here is the full story. 

Patrick Michael Bradfield, 31, used his position as a stables worker to engage in sexual activity with a teenage girl and was jailed for 15 months.

Bradfield, of Vicarage Road, targeted his victim at the stables where he worked.

The girl received suggestive text messages from Bradfield over the course of 2014. In October of that year, their relationship became sexual and Bradfield ensured it would remain secret by asking her to conspire with her friends to cover for her while she skipped school so they could spend time together.

Read our full story here. 

Kyle Peter Nash, 28, who used to live in Elgar Street, Surrey Docks but now resides in HMP Ashfield, was found guilty of raping a 12-year-old girl in 2014.

Following his conviction, Nash’s image was printed in News Shopper and this prompted another of his victims to come forward. He was sentenced to six years originally, with a further 11 added for this offence.

The victim, who knew him as ‘Carlos’, met Nash over the course of three weeks in 2009 when she was 16 years old and he was 21.

Read our full story here. 

Martin Wright, 55, was sentenced at Woolwich Crown Court in May, having been found guilty of one count of rape and one count of indecent assault in respect of ‘Victim 1’; and four counts of rape and six counts of indecent assault in respect of ‘Victim 2’. Jailed for 19 years.

The two victims, who did not know each other, were young teenage girls when the offences were committed in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

His story can be found here. 

Philip Gonsalves, 63, of Ladywell Road, Lewisham was found guilty of raping a 12-year-old girl in March at Woolwich Crown Court and sentenced to 15 years in prison.

He will be a registered sex offender for the rest of his life.

In the early hours of October 29, 1987, Gonsalves raped the victim at a bed and breakfast hotel in Longridge Road. The Kensington hotel is now closed.

The victim was staying with her parents at the hotel, in a room of her own. Gonsalves, who lived opposite the hotel at the time, got into the hotel, entered the victim’s room and raped her.

Read our full story here. 

Paul Francis, 46, was sentenced to 13 years in prison in January at Woolwich Crown Court for five counts of sexual assault and four counts of rape.

The two victims, who were known to Francis, were raped over a period of years, with the attacks beginning at a very young age.

The full story can be found here. 

Gary Warman, 31, was sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison after he pleaded guilty to 17 offences of sexual assault and three counts of making indecent images of children.

Police raided Warman’s Eltham home, in Purneys Road, on January 10 where they found a computer filled with indecent images of children.

Officers also found a number of videos which Warman had filmed on his phone of himself sexually assaulting a sleeping woman.

His full story is here. 

Michael Dickson, 44, from Orpington, groomed a vulnerable boy, and was jailed for eight years for non-recent indecent assaults.

Michael Dickson had carried out the assaults over more than a decade from the early 1990s while working as a Sea Cadet leader in Orpington.

The victim was first abused when he was a teenager and the abuse continued into his adult life. The victim told police about the abuse in December 2014 and an investigation was launched.

The full story can be found here.