November 2008 Twisted rapist loses legal fight A “DEPRAVED” paedophile who began attacking children when he was just 12 has failed to challenge his life sentence at the Appeal Court. Jamie Iain Jewitt, branded “the bad dream maker” by one of his victims, was locked up for life at Newcastle Crown Court in December 2003 after admitting raping two little boys. The court heard how the 30-year-old, of Saxon Way, Jarrow, wore a mask from the horror movie Scream to carry out his depraved attacks on one youngster. Yesterday, he launched an appeal against his life term at the Criminal Appeal Court in London. But his case was rejected as “unarguable” by top judges, Lord Justice Thomas, Mr Justice Pitchford and Judge Richard Brown. Refusing his case, Mr Justice Pitchford described the “extremely disturbing circumstances” which lay behind Jewitt’s life sentence. Every expert who reported on him prior to sentence deemed Jewitt an extreme ongoing danger after he attacked a 10-year-old boy while already being investigated for similar attacks on a six-year-old. When he was only 12, he had sexually assaulted the six-year-old girl, but not been prosecuted, the court was told. In 1993, by then in his mid-teens, he was convicted of indecently assaulting a six-year-old boy and ordered to undergo treatment in an attempt to end his offending. However, a year later, he was discharged from the court order after those supervising his treatment found him unwilling to engage with the help he was being offered. A probation officer, who interviewed him in connection with the most recent rape offences, said the degree of planning and depravity, his obsession with sex and his age at first conviction “significantly” increased his level of “dangerousness”. Dismissing his appeal case, the judge said Jewitt had lodged his complaint against the sentence far too late, and his argument that he’d struggled to find a solicitor willing to support his application was not a suitable excuse. “This was, in our view, unusually depraved offending by a disturbed young man with entrenched, deviant sexual fantasies,” he added. “The sentencing judge imposed what we regard as a virtually inevitable sentence of life imprisonment. There is no reason to interfere with it.”