March 2017 Rapist who had online ‘paedophile manual’ locked up for more than seven years A teenage rapist who had an online ‘paedophile manual’ has been locked up for seven-and-a-half years. Luke Alexander Morrison, 19, raped two young girls when he was a child himself, Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court heard. Morrison, of Cornhill Gardens, Leek, pleaded guilty to two charges of raping a girl when she was aged between four and six and one charge of raping a girl aged five or six years old. He also pleaded guilty to possessing and distributing indecent images and videos and to possessing extreme pornography. Jennifer Josephs, prosecuting, told the court Morrison raped one of his victims when he was just 12. She said the girls told someone at their school that they had been attacked. When he was arrested, police seized two laptops from his home. They found that he had bought an online guide to abusing children and how to get away with it, the court heard. Miss Josephs told the court: “He had downloaded what we refer to in the law as a ‘paedophile manual.’” She said officers found indecent images and videos on both laptops, with 69 in the worst category. Police officers also discovered he had been distributing the images using Skype. Miss Josephs said Morrison had told his victims to never tell anyone and their self-confidence has been affected. Adam Watkins, defending, said: “This is a deeply troubling case. “The defendant has previously been sexually abused and that has affected him massively. “It must be taken into a consideration that he was only a child when he was offending.” Judge Paul Glenn detained Morrison in a Young Offender’s Institution and made him the subject of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order, banning him from unsupervised contact with children under the age of 16. The judge told Morrison: “You have turned their life upside down. “Why should they have to feel guilty for what happened to them? “You have contributed to the abuse of children by viewing this material.”