Febuary 2011 Pervert grandad locked up in child sex case A GREAT-grandfather who simulated sex with a schoolgirl has been jailed for six years by a judge at Worcester Crown Court. Brian Parker, aged 75, was convicted by a jury of eight counts of sexual assault on a child, one of exposure and one of causing a child to watch a sex act. Judge Richard Rundell told Parker, of Signal House, Redstone Caravan Park, Stourport, that he would remain a risk to young girls for the rest of his life. He said the defendant was responsible for “appalling acts of indecency” and his behaviour towards another girl was revealed during the trial as “graphic and appalling” although not criminal. The judge said he had drawn back from an indeterminate sentence because of the pensioner’s age and the fact that his past behaviour had been made public. In 2006 Parker was given a three year community order by a judge for five offences of making indecent pseudo images of children by downloading them from the internet. The judge said some of the present offending happened while Parker was taking part in a sex offenders’ programme under the community order. He passed an indefinite sexual offences prevention order on Parker forbidding contact with any child under the age of 16. Parker must also sign the sex offenders’ register for the rest of his life. Prosecutor Harpreet Sandhu said Parker was found guilty at Hereford Crown Court last November after a four day trial. His victim had been a girl aged between 10 and 13. The offences happened between January 2007 and December 2009. The most serious offence had been simulated sex with the victim. Defence counsel Adam Western said Parker was arrested at Manchester airport in January last year. Due to deteriorating health he was “a very different man” to the one who carried out the offences. “Prison bears down hard on all offenders, but particularly on the elderly,” he said. “He has lost four stones in weight during his remand in custody and has to put up with a hard regime.” Mr Western said Parker and his partner, a woman in her late 50s, had been together for 28 years. He rings her five times a day from prison. Parker felt their separation acutely, particularly as she was suffering from illness and he could not be with her at a difficult time. July 2006 Pensioner spared jail A PENSIONER who copied a notorious child porn film has been spared a jail sentence. Brian Parker, of Kidderminster, insisted to police he found the Vicky CD rom in a box of videos he bought at a car boot sale. Prosecutor Michael Conry said it showed an 11-year-old girl abused by a relative, which was posted on the internet for paedophiles to view. Two of the images found at 70-year-old Parker’s home in Whittall Drive West, Birchen Coppice, showed scenes of sadism, Worcester Crown Court heard. Parker admitted copying the CD rom in July, 2004. He was arrested after police raided his home last year. He admitted five counts of making indecent photographs of children by copying and asked for 10 similar offences to be taken into consideration. Judge Bruce Coles warned he had come “very close” to a prison sentence to reflect society’s “abhorrence and disgust” at such crimes but he was able to draw back due to Parker’s age, health problems and his low risk of reoffending. He was given a three-year community rehabilitation order with a condition that he attend a sex offenders’ programme run by the probation service. Parker must also register as a sex offender for five years and is banned from having contact with children under 18. Mr Conry said the defendant told police he had no interest in child porn but admitted he had invited women to pose for him naked. Former building worker, Parker, had copied the images while “messing around” with new technology, said Tim Sapwell, defending, when he should have handed them in to police. He had not bought them or downloaded them from the internet.