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Paedophile loses appeal against conviction (24 March 2014)

Date: 24/03/2014
Duncan Lewis, Crime Solicitors, Paedophile loses appeal against conviction

A former security guard from the West Midlands convicted of raping and sexually abusing girls as young as seven had lost his Appeal Court bid to clear his name.

Mark Henry Allen, now aged 72, of Hillside Road in Dudley, West Midlands was jailed for 13 years by Wolverhampton Crown Court in 2009.

Allen had abused girls over a 30-year period, the court was told, including the rape of a seven-year-old girl.

The Birmingham Mail reports that Allen lodged an appeal against his conviction in the High Court, claiming that he did not receive a fair trial.

Lady Justice Rafferty, Mr Justice Royce and Judge Simon Tonking ruled that Allen’s criticism of his defence team who handled his trial was unwarranted and threw out his appeal. They added that the jury’s verdict had not been compromised in any way at Allen’s trial.

Lawyers representing Allen at his Appeal Court hearing said that at his trial the jury should have been given a modified “good character” direction as he had no previous convictions for sex crimes.

Allen had denied the charges.

Lady Justice Rafferty told a hearing of the criminal Appeal Court, however:

“There is nothing in this application and it is dismissed.”

Allen’s paedophile activities were exposed when one of his victims reported him to the police.

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