Wheelchair-bound sex fiend Robert Garrott jailed
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by Keith Hunt
A pervert pensioner has
been jailed for 17 years for sex abuse offences a judge described
as "simply dreadful".
Wheelchair-bound Robert Garrott,
63, had already been recalled to prison to serve the remainder of
an eight-year sentence for indecency.
Great grandmother Jane Twort,
65, of Drawbridge House, Maidstone, was sentenced to four years
imprisonment after being convicted of child cruelty and causing or
encouraging child prostitution.
Garrott, of no fixed address,
denied three charges of rape and five of indecency with a child,
dating back over 30 years, but was convicted in
December.
He admitted indecency with a
child involving another girl.
Maidstone Crown Court heard
Garrott raped a teenager in the back of his car in Mote Park,
Maidstone.
On another occasion Garrott was
teaching her to drive, despite her being under age, when she drove
his car into a barrier in the hope he would not attack her. But he
still raped her.
Garrott, a former coalman, met
the girls through CB radio. It was while he was being charged that
he admitted abusing the second girl.
Twort, a mother-of-five, had
sent young girls out for sex with older men in the early 1980s in
return for payment in cash and kind. If the customer was not
satisfied, she would arrange for the child to be caned.
Passing sentence on Garrott,
Judge Charles Macdonald QC said: "The facts of the case are simply
dreadful. It was a shocking breach of trust."
Both victims, he said, had been
"blighted" by the abuse. One had found it difficult to form
relationships and had prolonged mental illness.
There was no mitigation, apart
from serious medical conditions. "Physical injuries do not prevent
him serving a sentence in custody," said the judge,
Judge Macdonald said Twort had
no insight into her offending, as she continued to maintain her
innocence. There was no remorse or contrition.
Her case, he said, "did not come
anywhere near" exceptional circumstances which would allow the
sentence to be suspended.
The judge added that having to
sentence Twort under "old law" prevented him from passing "adequate
punishment".
Both Garrott and Twort were
banned from working with children and their names will appear on
the sex offenders’ register for life.
Tuesday, February 07 2012
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