HINCKLEY MAN JAILED AFTER SEX WITH 13-YEAR-OLD GIRL DURING TRIAL ON SADISTIC ATTACK
A violent thug who had sex with a 13-year-old Nuneaton girl while he was on trial for sadistically torturing another teen has been branded a danger to the public.Kyle Ashton had pleaded not guilty at Warwick Crown Court to nine charges of sexual activity with a child and one of attempting to engage in penetrative sexual activity with her.
But when the case was listed again at the request of his lawyers, Ashton, 19, of Willowbank Road, Hinckley, changed his pleas to guilty.
And after hearing that the offences began while he was standing trial at Birmingham Crown Court on charges of wounding a 15-year-old boy with intent and false imprisonment, Judge Anthony Potter imposed an extended prison sentence on him.
Ashton, who committed the offences at his mother’s home in Blackatree Road, Nuneaton, was jailed for three years consecutive to an eight-year sentence he is already serving, with a three-year extended period on licence.
As a result, he will not begin serving it until he would have been due to be freed from the eight-year sentence – and will then have to spend at least two of the three years in jail before the Parole Board will even consider his release.
If he is freed before serving the full sentence, he will be on licence for the rest of the period and for a further three years, Judge Potter explained.
What did Kyle Ashton do?
Prosecutor John O’Higgins said that in May the mother of a 13-year-old Nuneaton girl checked her daughter's phone and saw material which disturbed her because it showed contact with an unknown man.
“She turned detective and traced him through Facebook, then got a friend to make contact with him posing as a teenager," Mr O'Higgins said.
“In that conversation the friend posed as a 15-year-old child who was a virgin, and the defendant indicated that he would have sex with her.” So the 13-year-old’s mother contacted the police, and when an officer spoke to the girl she revealed that they had first made contact through Facebook, and the chat quickly became sexual.
They began to meet after exchanging intimate pictures, and over about a month various sexual activities had taken place with him at his mother’s home in Blackatree Road.
When Ashton was arrested, he accepted the sexual activity had taken place, but claimed the girl, who accepted she had said she was 14, had misled him about her age and told him she was 16.
Mr O’Higgins pointed out that the offences had begun at a time while Ashton was on bail during a trial at Birmingham Crown Court in April which led to him being convicted of wounding with intent and false imprisonment.
That had involved him and two other people holding a 15-year-old boy captive at a flat where Ashton was living at the time in New Moseley Road, Birmingham, for six hours, during which he was subjected to ‘an ordeal which can only be described as torture.’ It included them stubbing lit cigarettes out on his face, setting light to his pubic hair, stabbing him, beating him with a curtain pole, and causing burns to his genitals.
Ashton was jailed in June over that incident along with twins Lucy and Christopher Pyatt-Pierce.
Lucy Pyatt-Pierce, from Fordhouse Lane, Stirchley, was jailed for four years having also been found guilty on the same counts.
Christopher Pyatt-Pierce, from Glendower Road, Perry Barr, was given a two-year sentence having been found guilty on the lesser charge of wounding plus false imprisonment.
And Mr O’Higgins added that the offences with the girl continued while Ashton remained on bail following his conviction.
