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A child rapist was caught when he lured three kids and drugged them before committing the crime (21 August 2012)

Date: 21/08/2012
Duncan Lewis, Legal News Solicitors, A child rapist was caught when he lured three kids and drugged them before committing the crime

Darren Mackrell, 45, an unemployed who had lured three children two boys and a girl to his flat in Southampton, Hampshire, when they were playing in a nearby park and then drugged them and forced them to sexually abuse each other while he watched over a six hour ordeal was caught by the police.
One of the children’s mother alerted the police when she became worried for her child’s whereabouts after finding that they had gone to Mackrell’s house and when Mackrell did not answer the door, she phoned police who broke the door down and saw a porn film was seen playing through the letterbox.
The children were found in the house and Mackrell was arrested.
The child rapist, pleaded guilty to raping the children he had drugged and forced to sexually abuse each other while he watched.
Judge Gary Burrell QC called the act a ‘truly abhorrent thing to do’, and said that Mackrell was likely to spend a long time behind bars at his trial.
The children, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were drugged with cannabis, amphetamine and Viagra by the child abuser before he abused them on April 21 last year.
Mackrell had admitted 18 charges of raping the three children, sexually assaulting them, causing them to engage in sexual activity, forcing them to watch a sexual act and administering drugs.
Judge Burrell told the drug addict he was ordering a pre-sentence report to find out how dangerous Mackrell was to children.
He said that Mackrell had pleaded guilty to the rape of three children aged, 10, nine and eight. He forced these children to engage in sexual activity between themselves, a truly abhorrent thing to do.
He added that as the day would follow he will be sentenced to a very lengthy sentence in any event and if he satisfied the criteria of dangerousness or imprisonment for public protection he would be subject to life sentence.
Mackrell pleaded guilty to all the charges on the eve of his trial at Southampton Crown Court before the judge adjourned the case for sentencing at Winchester Crown Court on September 21.
As the mothers of victims shouted, he should hang, the judge responded that the court could understand the situation they were in and their outbursts were perfectly understandable.

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