Paedophile network in St. John's Ambulance, Hants.

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November 1998
Paedophile ring members jailed
Three members of a paedophile ring that abused St John Ambulance Brigade cadets for 25 years have been jailed
The men, two of whom were superintendents, were charged after a cadet came forward to say he had been abused. It led to a flood of former members making similar allegations.
Police identified more than 80 victims, all under 16. Most were St John members.
The ring was headed by the man in charge of theFarnborough Division of the Brigade in Hampshire, Superintendent Leslie Gaines, 64.
Gaines, of Bognor Regis, West Sussex, admitted 11 charges of indecent assault. He also admitted five charges of buggery and one of attempted buggery. He was jailed for seven years.
Colin Hawyes, 51, of Farnborough, who succeeded Gaines as head of the division, was jailed for two years. He was found guilty after a trial on three charges of indecently assaulting boys.
The lodger at Gaines’s flat, 69-year-old Eric Attfield, of Western Road, Aldershot, was jailed for seven years.
He was convicted of two indecent assaults, one offence of buggery and two attempted buggeries. He was cleared of one indecent assault and one buggery.
Cadets as young as nine
Mr Stewart Jones, QC, prosecuting, told Winchester Crown Court some of the cadets were as young as nine.
The victims had been sexually abused on camping trips and at Gaines’s flat, which had been turned into a mini youth club.
Mr Jones told the jury that some of the offences were more than 30 years old – they all took place between the mid-1960s and the late 1980s.
Mr Jones quoted one former cadet abused by Gaines as saying: “These events deeply affected my life. I can’t understand what they have done to me.”
Another boy said: “The abuse I suffered has prevented me from forming stable relationships. It wrecked my education. I was expelled from school and got into trouble with the police.”
Miss Susan Matthews, QC, told the court that Gaines was not a well man, suffering from angina. He had collapsed in the dock at one point.
She said he himself had suffered abuse as a child from a vicar. She added: “His whole life was to do with the St John Ambulance Brigade. And he did a tremendous amount of good for that organisation. But that has now been overshadowed by these events.”
‘Trust grievously betrayed’
Sentencing Gaines, Judge Patrick Hooton told him: “You were in a position of trust both towards the boys and their parents.
“They trusted you implicitly and that trust was grievously betrayed by you in the position of authority that you were.”
After the case the Hampshire St John Ambulance Brigade said: “St John Ambulance expresses its sympathy to the victims and families involved in this case.
“We would like to assure the people of Hampshire and our 60,000 volunteers that the organisation is taking this matter very seriously.
“For the past 10 years St John Ambulance has been implementing a strict procedure to screen and monitor all new people and current volunteers.”
Detective Inspector Peter Swan, who headed the investigation, said he was delighted with the convictions.
He said: “At one stage 25 detectives were working on the inquiry and we set up a full-scale incident room as you do in a murder case.
“The investigation was essentially to establish that there was an organised paedophile ring within the St John Ambulance Brigade.”



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'More than 100 police' under suspicion in paedophilia crackdown

A list of more than 2,400 Britons who the FBI believes have subscribed to paedophile websites contains the names of more than 100 police officers, including a detective chief superintendent, it was revealed last night.

But in what was developing into a major scandal, it was also disclosed that it could take under-funded British police up to five years to work their way through the list and bring the culprits to justice.

The list - which contained the names of the two Cambridgeshire police officers who worked on the Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells murder inquiry and who have since been charged with child pornography offences - was supplied to Britain's National Crime Squad after three people suspected of involvement in paedophile websites were arrested in Texas.

But last night it emerged that most of the 43 police forces in England and Wales working through the list do not have the resources to tackle it. Often the job is passed to private firms.

The arrests of 41-yearold Detective Constable Brian Stevens and PC Tony Goodridge, 34, who worked on the Soham inquiry, highlighted a huge problem which the Government has failed to address.

It was revealed that Stevens, assigned as family liaison officer to Jessica's parents, and Goodridge were on a list of 279 paedophile suspects in Cambridgeshire. It raised worrying questions about why they were assigned to the case after the force received the list in July.

The county's new Chief Constable, TomLloyd, said it was 'bad luck' that a shortage of officers meant the list was not examined before the ten-year-olds disappeared. But Cambridgeshire is just one of dozens of forces which just cannot cope with the high-tech crime.

Jack Straw, the former Home Secretary, attempted to address the problem last year when he set up the National High-Tech Crime Unit, but its budget was just £24 million over three years to tackle all computer offences including fraud, hacking, paedophilia, copyright theft and money laundering.

Only around 50 of the 2,400 people in the UK on the American list have been arrested, most of them high-profile targets such as police officers.

But senior police sources have told The Mail on Sunday that there are still at least 100 police officers on the list, including one detective chief superintendent, but it could be up to five years before they are apprehended.

One senior officer said: 'We are dealing with 21st Century criminals with 19th Century policing. This is an escalating problem but the powers that be have failed to take it seriously.'

In contrast to Britain, all 100 names supplied to Irish police were arrested on one morning. Another senior detective said: 'This is a national scandal which no one is doing anything about. The Government has not offered extra money and we simply do not have the resources.

'What concerns and disheartens many is that some of the offenders whose names we have been given are probably abusing children. In some cases our failure to act has enabled them to carry on with this behaviour.'

Scanning a suspected computer for images the user may have tried to delete or encrypt is a time-consuming process, taking up to a fortnight.

Clive Carmichael-Jones, from computer security firm Vogon said: 'We have a lot of sympathy for the police. They just do not have enough money to cope. They are not being properly trained and their technology is often years behind.'

Metropolitan Deputy Assistant Commissioner Carol Howlett, agrees that despite an 'increasing threat to children on the Internet', not enough priority is given to catching paedophiles.

As another senior officer told The Mail on Sunday: 'The Government says we are winning the fight against paedophiles but that is nonsense. Police forces across Britain are overwhelmed with child pornography and don't know what to do about it.'