18 notorious UK criminals locked up for more than 200 years in March
| Published date | 06 April 2023 |
| Publication title | Birmingham Mail: Web Edition Articles (England) |
A police community support officer who committed a campaign of voyeurism in swimming pool changing rooms, and a woman who falsely claimed to have been the victim of a grooming gang were also locked up, Manchester Evening News reports.
The criminals we looked at were served combined prison sentences of more than 200 years.
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Alun Titford and Sarah Lloyd-Jones
A mother and father who left their morbidly obese teenage daughter in bed-ridden squalor were locked up for gross negligence manslaughter on March 1. Kaylea Titford was found in conditions described as "unfit for any animal", in soiled clothing and bed linen, following her death at the family home in Newtown, Powys.
Kaylea, who had spina bifida and used a wheelchair, died after suffering inflammation and infection from ulceration, arising from obesity and immobility. Swansea Crown Court heard the 16-year-old weighed 22st 13lb, with a BMI of 70, at the time of her death in October 2020.
Kaylea's mum Sarah Lloyd-Jones, 40, was imprisoned for six years, while her dad, Alun Titford, 45, was told he would spend seven years and six months behind bars. The court heard that in her last hours, as Kaylea lay screaming in bed, her father texted her twice telling her to stop but did not go and see her.
Kaylea had also sent a series of text messages to her mother pleading for help to clean the weeping sores on her legs and get rid of the flies landing on her, Lloyd-Jones replied, "For f sake."
Emergency service workers, who were called to the house after she was found dead, described feeling sick due to a "rotting" smell in her room, while maggots were feeding on her body. The tragic teenager's specially adapted room was dirty and cluttered, with bottles of urine near her bed and dog faeces in the en-suite bathroom.
Titford, who had denied manslaughter by gross negligence, told his trial he had let his daughter down so badly because he was "lazy" – leaving his partner to look after her. Care worker Lloyd-Jones, who had six children with Titford, had previously admitted the same charge.
Passing sentence, Mr Justice Griffiths said the pair had committed "shocking and prolonged neglect over lockdown."
Wayne Couzens
Sarah Everard's killer was sentenced for a series of flashing incidents that took place before he kidnapped, raped and murdered the 33-year-old Londoner in March 2021. The former Met Police officer was already serving a whole-life prison term, and was handed 19 months for the sexual offences.
Couzens, 50, was supposed to be on duty and working from home when he exposed himself to a female cyclist in a country lane in Kent in November 2020. He then went on to expose himself to female attendants at a McDonald's drive-through in Swanley, Kent, twice in February 2021 – the last incident just days before he snatched Ms Everard in south London.
Couzens pleaded guilty to three charges of indecent exposure, with three further counts to lie on court file. Ms Everard's mother Susan attended court by video-link to see her daughter's killer sent down for the crimes.
During the Old Bailey hearing, Couzens’ victims questioned whether Ms Everard could have been saved if police had arrested him for indecent exposure sooner. The female cyclist said: "Four months after you exposed yourself to me, you raped and murdered an innocent woman. There were opportunities to identify you and they were not taken. I did not feel that, when I reported your crime, it was taken as seriously as I felt that it should have been."
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Stuart Cundy, who leads the Met's Directorate of Professional Standards, apologised. He said: "I have read the victim impact statements and it is clear to me the hurt and trauma that he inflicted on them.
"It is their courage that has been crucial in bringing him to justice and I am sorry for what they have gone through. Like so many, I wish he had been arrested for these offences before he went on to kidnap, rape and murder Sarah Everard and I am sorry he wasn't."
Stephen Bear
Stephen Bear was found guilty of disclosing private sexual photographs and films over a sex video of him and ex-girlfriend Georgia Harrison that was shared on the website OnlyFans.
Ms Harrison, who said she stood in solidarity with other victims of revenge porn following his sentencing, waived her right to anonymity to speak out about her ordeal.
Bear, 33, captured the video on CCTV cameras in his garden on August 2 2020. A court heard the pair had consensual sex at his home in Loughton, Essex, but Ms Harrison, 28, did not know they were being recorded. Ms Harrison said when Bear showed her the footage she told him "never to send" it to anyone and "made it plain how upset she would be if he did", prosecutor Jacqueline Carey KC said.
But Bear sent the footage to someone on WhatsApp later that day, and later that year Ms Harrison was made aware that it was circulating online, the court heard. Ms Carey said Bear uploaded the footage "either himself or had it uploaded to OnlyFans and profited financially".
The former roofer denied all charges but was found guilty of voyeurism and of two counts of disclosing private sexual photographs and films with intent to cause distress. He was jailed for 21 months, ordered to sign the Sex Offenders' Register, made subject to notification requirements for ten years, and was handed a restraining order not to contact Ms Harrison for five years.
As he walked to Chelmsford Crown Court for his...
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