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A paedophile given a suspended sentence has been sent to jail after failing to comply with orders (3 December 2012)

Date: 03/12/2012
Duncan Lewis, Legal News Solicitors, A paedophile given a suspended sentence has been sent to jail after failing to comply with orders

A vile paedophile who did not comply with the orders of a court after given a sentence to undergo a sex offender treatment programme has eventually been sent to the jail.
John Thompson had escaped a prison sentence in July despite pleading guilty to sexually assaulting his victim. Initially he had tried to blame the seven year old girl for seducing him by pinning him down on a bed after flirting with him.
He was told to undergo a sex offender’s treatment instead of being sent to the jail. The lenient sentencing by Judge Gillian Matthews QC sparked protest among the child protection charities who said it was despicable.
But the chance given to the paedophile was not taken up by him and he was brought before the court for not complying with the order but still was given a second chance to change his dreadful attitude.
But now, having again failed to attend the sex offender treatment programme, he has been sent to prison. To avoid prison he had claimed that he missed one appointment with his probation worker because of a build up of wax in his ears.
The retired brewery worker who did show up to see his probation worker he turned hostile and uncooperative the court was told.
Thompson remained adamant that the girl was a liar, demanded that she be punished and threatened to sue her for making the allegations, the hearing was told.
Jailing Judge Gillian Matthews, QC, told him the only reason that he had passed a suspended sentence was for the offender for him to take part in the sex offenders’ treatment programme. He told the child abuser that his views were deep rooted and dogmatic and he was not complying or cooperating and was not taking up the responsibility for the offence.
Thompson, of Hartlepool, Cleveland, was jailed for eight months and had the supervision order against him revoked at Teesside Crown Court.
His criminal law solicitor said that his client appeared to have tried to alter his attitude by has been unable to do it.
Thompson had first dodged jail in the summer after insisting he was unable to fight off the girl as she pinned him to a bed.
He was given sentence of eight months suspended for two which caused fury among the child protection charities. They said it was outrageous and Thompson was clearly a danger to society and particularly to children.
Within a month, Thompson failed to turn up at a meeting with a probation worker - citing wax in his ears. He missed another meeting because ‘a window of his home was broken’.
Nigel Soppitt, prosecuting, said officials from the Probation Service now considered the sex offenders order to be ‘completely unworkable’ because of Thompson’s terrible attitude.
Thompson blamed his lawyers saying that he should not have pleaded guilty without DNA but Judge Matthews dismissed his complaints about his lawyers and told him that his desire to take legal action against the girl was a classic trait of a paedophile.

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