Ryan Sutton, 24, from Northamptonshire admitted raping a 10-year-old child after grooming her into believing they were in a legitimate relationship after meeting her on the messaging app Snapchat in March 2023, sharing messages and images. Their contact then moved onto texting, phone calls and FaceTime video chats, leading the girl to believe Sutton was her boyfriend and was in love with her.
On January 15, James Lalley, 51, from Wigan was sentenced to 11 years in prison at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court for inciting a child under the age of 13 to engage in sexual activity and the sexual assault of a child under 13.
Lalley was sentenced to three years for the sexual assault of an eight-year-old girl in Bury, in 2008/2009, and a further eight years for inciting a six-year-old boy to engage in sexual activity in Bolton, in 2021.
In Bradford, three men were given jail sentences on January 17 for multiple sexual offences against two children in Keighley. All the charges relate to offending which happened in the Keighley area between 1996 and 1999 and the victims were young females aged between 13 and 16 at the time.
Two men, Fayaz Ahmed, 45, from Bingley, and Imtiaz Ahmed, 61, from Keighley, are currently wanted after being sentenced in their absence. Fayaz Ahmed received a seven-and-a-half-year sentence for two counts of rape, while Imtiaz Ahmed was sentenced to nine years for rape. Additionally, Ibrar Hussain, 47, from Keighley, has been jailed for six-and-a-half years after being found guilty of two counts of rape.
Here are the faces of men who have been put behind bars for their sickening crimes so far.
5. Christopher Aherne
A man who sexually abused and raped a child in Ellesmere Port has been jailed for almost 20 years. Christopher Aherne, 47, was sentenced to 19 years and six months in prison after pleading guilty to two counts of rape and 13 counts of sexual activity with a child. He also admitted supplying class A drugs, possession of indecent images and five counts of making indecent images. During the hearing the court was told how the abuse took place over a two-year period, beginning when the victim was just 14-years-old. | Cheshire Police
6. Lee Bergstrom
Lee Bergstrom, 35, has been jailed for six years for child sexual offences. In October 2024 officers from the Management of Sex Offenders and Violent Offenders (MOSOVO) team acted on information from the National Crime Agency that Lee Bergstrom was committing offences and breaching his sexual harm prevention order. He was arrested at his home address after it was discovered he was using his gaming account to engage with girls under the age of 16. Further investigations revealed that he was also attempting to engage in sexual communications with a girl. He refused to answer all questions during interview, replying no comment, but there was overwhelming evidence and Bergstrom of Nipsells Chase, Mayland, was charged with attempting to cause or incite a girl aged 13 to 15 to engage in sexual activity, attempting to engage in sexual communications with a child and an attempted breach of a sexual harm prevention order. When he appeared at Chelmsford Crown Court on 16 December, he pleaded guilty to all charges. | Essex Police
7. Wayne Barry Williams
Wayne Barry Williams, 34, was convicted after admitting to attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child. In December 2023, a paedophile hunter group who set up a fake online profile of a child reported concerns to the police after receiving contact from Williams. Williams sent a friend request to the profile of a 13-year-old girl and began to message the account, asking for sexual photographs and sending explicit images and videos of himself. Williams was arrested for the offence six days after being released from prison for a previous offence. He was recalled to prison for breaching his license conditions. On January 16, he was jailed for two years and six months. He was also made subject of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order lasting indefinitely. | North Wales Police
8. Mohammed Mutasir
Mohammed Mutasir, from Birmingham, was jailed to seven years for multiple counts of sexual offences against a child and supplying her cocaine. He was found guilty of four counts of engaging in penetrative sexual activity with a child and two counts of supplying class A drugs to his victim. The 48-year-old was handed the sentence after he was found guilty at Worcester Crown Court in November 2024 following a trial that lasted 7 days. The court heard he carried out the offences in April 2022 when he groomed a 15-year-old girl by sending her messages via social media. Following numerous messages between them, they arranged to meet and Mutasir picked up the victim in his car supplying her with cocaine. Under the influence of alcohol and drugs, he sexually abused the girl in a car park in Birmingham. On further occasions, a similar pattern of events took place including where Mutasir supplied his victim with drugs before sexually assaulting her. | West Mercia Police