March 2014 Man jailed for historical child sex offences A mechanic has been locked up for 23 years after he was found guilty of a series of historical sex attacks on two children. Alan Baskerville-Mansell, 59, of Sutton Road, Rochford, was sentenced at Isleworth Crown Court today after he was convicted last month of 13 sexual offences dating back to the 1960s. The court heard Baskerville-Mansell, who lived in Uxbridge between 1968 and 1973, assaulted a girl from when she was 11 until the age of 16. This took place when he was 14 until he was 19. Another victim, a boy aged between six and 11, was attacked at addresses in East Sussex and Essex at addresses in Eastbourne and Canvey Island in the early 1980s Both victims came forward in 2012 and after a police investigation began, Baskerville-Mansell was arrested at his home on August 9 2012 and charged on July 8 2013 with 13 offences. Detective Constable Helen Ider, from the Sexual Offences, Exploitation and Child Abuse Command, said: “I hope that the sentence handed down today will reassure the public that the Met takes the investigation of child abuse and sexual offences very seriously. “I would encourage anyone who suffered sexual abuse as a child or adult, regardless of how long ago that was, to come forward and speak to us.”