December 2003 Sex beast jailed A ROCHDALE man who carried out a catalogue of sex assaults on schoolchildren as young as seven has been jailed for five-and-a-half years. Paedophile Brian Whitehead, 39, was said to have showed one young girl photographs of Page Three models before abusing her. Whitehead, of Denver Road, Rochdale, denied the offences but following a trial at Manchester’s Minshull Street Crown Court he was convicted of three counts of indecency with a child, four indecent assaults and attempted rape. The court heard he had abused three girls and a boy between 1979 and 1987. Whitehead must sign the Sex Offender Register for life. He was cleared of raping a 16-year-old girl and two further indecent assaults.