June 2019 Child rapist gets long jail term as hideous lies exposed A former council worker has been jailed after a jury found him guilty of raping a girl when she was 13 years old. Kevin Roe, 63, had denied two offences of rape, two charges of serious sexual assault and two sexual assaults on the same under-age girl. But a jury at Hull Crown Court unanimously found him guilty of all charges after deliberating for just over three hours.  During the trial, the court heard his assaults started when the girl was just 11 years old. He raped the youngster on at least four occasions when she was 13 and 14, having unprotected sex with her. Rose, of Vale Crescent, Bilton Wilton, near Pocklington, breathed deeply and closed his eyes when the verdicts were announced. Jailing him for 12-and-a-half years, Judge David Tremberg told him: “You subjected the complainant to a series of humiliations and degradations. “You knew what you were doing was seriously wrong but you were unable to stop yourself doing it over and over again. “You are still in complete denial even in the teeth of compelling evidence against you.” The judge praised the courage of his victim to give evidence in court. He said: “What is clear from the level of distress shown during her evidence is that the legacy of this abuse was and continues to be deep-seated and enduring. “What you (Roe) have done to her has infected her life and it continues to cast a shadow over her life. “Some victims of abuse quite understandably never find it possible to move on from their experience. It is hoped she is not one of them.” In a victim impact statement, the girl said she experienced flashbacks about the abuse, could not sleep and felt socially isolated as a result. Roe, who worked as a council highways technician for 23 years, claimed during the trial he was impotent and unable to have sex. He also said a series of sexual social media messages sent by him to the girl as innocent texts, claiming some of their sexual content was the result of predictive text mistakes. But a jury dismissed his excuses and lies and found him guilty. The police were first alerted to his crimes in 2017 when a relative of the girl witnessed “inappropriate behaviour” by Roe, who had been rubbing her legs. Before working for Humberside County Council for 23 years, Roe served for eight years with the Prince of Wales Own Regiment. More recently he worked as a steward at Beverley Rugby Club and for UK Mail in Pocklington. Passing sentence, Judge Tremberg said: “Clearly only an immediate custodial sentence is appropriate in this case.”