Jail for sex assault on children special Pc
A special constable with the Metropolitan Police has been jailed for four-and-a-half years for sexually assaulting under-age girls.
Kevin McLean, 30, of Vincent Road, Acton, west London, indecently assaulted two 14-year-old girls.
He also took pornographic photographs of one of them, as well as a girl of 16, Southwark Crown Court heard.
McLean had admitted misusing police computers to look up the details of sex crimes but denied the sex attacks.
‘Manipulative and predatory’
McLean, who worked as a civilian police station reception officer in Ealing, west London, said he used the internal computer system more than 120 times to find out about sex crimes involving children.
McLean, who was suspended from duty following his arrest, was described as “manipulative and predatory, and a danger to girls in their early teens”.
The court heard how he also checked offences committed by people he knew, and that officers found child pornography on a computer at his home.
Sentencing, Judge Wadsworth QC said: “You are a man who satisfies his sexual appetites or desires not just by downloading images of young girls being abused but, as is clear from your relationship with at least three under-age girls, you put your desires into practice when you get the opportunity to do so.”
Speaking after sentencing, Det Insp Kevin Hyland said: “There is little doubt that he would have continued to do so were it not for the tenacity and dedication of the officers investigating his crimes and the bravery of his victims whose co-operation enabled us to bring him to justice.”
McLean was convicted of 10 counts of making images of children under 13; four counts of indecently assaulting girls under the age of 16 and one count of misconduct in a public office.
He was ordered to serve concurrent shorter sentences for possessing child pornography and misconduct in a public office.
He will remain on licence for three years after his release from prison, and will be on the sex offenders register for life, the court ordered.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8020894.stm
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