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DSA

Safeguarding - Sexual abuse

When Dave Sheppard retired in 2020 he kindly gave me permission to publish the contents of his website (originally named after his firm, "Dave Sheppard Associates", then called "MHAandMCA"). It is a treasure trove. I've not had time to prepare everything for publication but have put the main headings online: let me know if you would like a copy of anything listed.


Links

Sexual Offences Act 2003 (external link)

Sentencing Council - Guidelines, in force from 1st April 2014

Sentencing Council - response to consultation, December 2013

Offences against persons with a mental disorder impeding choice

Section 30: Sexual activity with a person with a mental disorder impeding choice

Section 31: Causing or inciting a person, with a mental disorder impeding choice, to engage in sexual activity

Section 32: Engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a person with a mental disorder impeding choice

Section 33: Causing a person, with a mental disorder impeding choice, to watch a sexual act

Inducements etc. to persons with a mental disorder

Section 34: Inducement, threat or deception to procure sexual activity with a person with a mental disorder

Section 35: Causing a person with a mental disorder to engage in or to agree to engage in sexual activity by inducement, threat or deception

Section 36: Engaging in sexual activity in the presence, procured by inducement, threat or deception, of a person with a mental disorder

Section 37: Causing a person with a mental disorder to watch a sexual act by inducement, threat or deception

Care workers for persons with a mental disorder

Section 38: Care workers: sexual activity with a person with a mental disorder

Section 39: Care workers: causing or inciting sexual activity

Section 40: Care workers: sexual activity in the presence of a person with a mental disorder

Section 41: Care workers: causing a person with a mental disorder to watch a sexual act

Section 42: Care workers: interpretation

Analysis of newspaper cuttings

103 defendants (95 men and 8 women)

Offences: s.16? (1); s.30 (78); s.31 (2); s.35 (1); s.38 (89); s.40 (1), Total offences 213

Prosecutions by care workers (s.38) occurred in: care home for learning disabilities (12), community (18), hospital (12), care home for elderly (20), prison (1).

Defendants were aged between 18 - 86

Number acquitted where known - 5

Sentenced at Magistrates court - 1

47 pleaded guilty (where plea was known)

Of those where outcome was known, 74 received a sentence of imprisonment (not including suspended imprisonment) - the longest being for Ferdos Rabani who was imprisoned for 24 years

Victims were aged between 15 - 90 and the majority had learning disabilities

(Analysis does not include Vijay Bundhun due to insufficient data on charges)


Andy Newman, 14th June 2017

Colin Gibbs, 12th June 2017

Ferdos Rabani, 12th April 2017

Andrew Harvey, 3rd February 2017

Alan Joynson, 4th December 2016

Barnaby Welsh, 25th November 2016

Robert Roberts, 28th August 2016

Leslie Dutton, 19th August 2016

Wayne Brownsey, 18th July 2016

Richard Abram, 10th June 2016

Stephen Ray, 5th May 2016

Mark Jones, 14th January 2016

Gyula Lakatos, 10th January 2016

Mina Gurung, 6th December 2015

Gary Harper, 3rd November 2015

Arshad Mahmood, 29th August 2015

Vijay Bundhun, 20th August 2015

Christina Sethi, 13th August 2015

Anthony John Pascoe, 26th June 2015

Michael Geldart, 5th June 2015

Darren Gresty, 21st May 2015

Reece Jones, 7th April 2015

Stephen McDonnell, 27th March 2015

Roger Page, 31st January 2015

Abdullah Kironde, 22nd November 2014

Clive Pritchard, 22nd November 2014

David Allen, 21st November 2014

Lorenzo Bacus, 21st November 2014

Derek Rigby, 19th November 2014

Carl Tinker, 17th November 2014

William Bowman, 25th October 2014

Paul Brown, 9th October 2014

Rashid, 29th September 2014

Steven Yates, 22nd September 2014

Jon Hadley, 11th July 2014

Christopher Adams, 5th July 2014

Mustapha Aregbesola, 3rd July 2014

Michael Fleming, 23rd June 2014

Alan Taylor, 23rd May 2014

Claire Rowson, 8th April 2014

Colin Stokes, 20th March 2014

Christopher Vooght, 15th March 2014

Christopher and John Brook, 5th March 2014

Murugan Rajoo, 7th February 2014

Ernest Grainger, 26th November 2013

Sajin Panikkassery, 16th October 2013

Muhmmad Faisal, 1st October 2013

Allan Whittaker, 26th July 2013

Paul Clarke, 30th April 2014

Kuldip Kauldar, 14th March 2013

Michael Callon, 31st January 2013

Alex Kanneh, 10th November 2012

Barry Oldfield, 25th September 2012

Jeanette McCleod, 19th September 2012

Dene Bake, 4th September 2012

Colin Hines, 3rd September 2012

Philip Calver, 3rd September 2012

Peter Morey, 10th May 2012

Kenneth Stoddern, 5th April 2012

Peter Howard, 7th March 2012

Alan Davies, 3rd March 2012

Edward Fitzgerald, 29th February 2012

John Bennett, 28th January 2012

Joshua Montemayor, 6th September 2011

Martin Greaves, 14th June 2011

Malcolm Hunt, 9th June 2011

David Ridley, 24th May 2011

Martin Rijn, 23rd April 2011

Norman Davie, 2nd April 2011

Ian Henshaw, 18th March 2011

Keli Bowers, 15th March 2011

Michael Bullock, 10th March 2011

James Mills, 15th February 2011

Isaac Sunday, 28th January 2011

Advance Tuso, 19th November 2010

Jennifer Stonehouse, 25th September 2010

David Foster, 16th September 2010

Rhoda Sibanda, 13th September 2010

Jesse Marsh, 30th August 2010

James Watts, 24th July 2010

Unknown, 18th June 2010

Christopher Cunnington, 17th May 2010

Edward Mayes, 8th May 2010

Stephen Hayes, 7th May 2010

Terrence Williams, 10th April 2010

Dennis Compson, 18th March 2010

Peter Adcock, 5th March 2010

Anthony Osei, 10th December 2009

Nigel Hoskins, 18th August 2009

Unknown, 12th June 2009

Norman Clements, 4th March 2009

Philip Mitchell, 6th February 2009

Gareth Jones, 6th February 2009

Nigel Read, 29th January 2009

Glyn Evans, 25th September 2008

Rehmatullah Umar, 22nd October 2008

Anthony Bennett, 11th July 2008

David Cookson, 9th June 2008

Stephanie Reeves, 14th February 2008

Peter Charles, 4th September 2007

C, 27th April 2007

Harry Perera, 30th March 2007

Richard Ayodele, 29th March 2007

Brian Page, 27th July 2006

Nigel Webster, 17th July 2006

Christopher Bradford, 8th June 2006

Ronald Hulme, 19th May 2006

Charles Hunter, 18th February 2006

John Beattie, 4th August 2005

Mohammed Azram, 31st May 2005

Craig Taylor, 29th April 2005

Appeals

John Salisbury, 17th December 2014

Giovanni Avanzi, 6th February 2014

John Paul Phillips, 8th August 1995

Blair, 7th August 1995

Robert Allan Jeffrey, 16th March 1995

Kenneth Alan Mason, 30th January 1995

Nigel John Goodwin, 19th May 1994

Out of Court Settlements

Depressed woman 'made pregnant by psychiatric nurse' wins £70,000 in out-of-court settlement , January 1998

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