July 2019 Sex monster faces years in jail for abusing two boys in Plymouth A sex monster faces years in jail after he was convicted of abusing two schoolboys more than 25 years ago. Twisted Martin Todd, aged 50, plied the boys with cannabis and alcohol so that he could repeatedly molest them in Plymouth. He raped one teenager and attempted to bugger the other in the 90s, a jury decided at the city’s Crown Court. Todd played card games with one of the youngsters with the loser meant to pay a sex forfeit to the other, his five-day trial heard. He even married in September 1993 at a time he was secretly molesting the pair. Todd denied that the wedding was a cover for his abuse – though he admitted to the jury he had a sexual interest in children. The boys finally came forward to police in 2016, some 20 years after the abuse stopped. Serial criminal Todd, with more than 100 offences to his name, was by that time already behind bars for later serious sexual offences against boys. A judge called him an “an unrepentant sexual predator”. He was jailed under an indeterminate sentence in 2011 for sexually abusing and attempting to rape a vulnerable 15-year-old. His latest sentence will run alongside that term. Judge James Townsend remanded him in custody to be sentenced on August 16 with the aid of probation and psychiatric reports. He told Todd: “A very lengthy sentence will be passed for the matters upon which you have been convicted. You will be remanded in custody.” Todd, being held at HMP Whatton in Nottingham, pleaded guilty before the trial to four counts of indecent assault against each of the boys between 1990 and 1996. They were aged between 12 and 15 at the time. He denied raping one boy and attempting to bugger the other during the same period – but the jury saw through his lies and convicted him by unanimous verdicts in only an hour and a half. Judge Townsend said: “I would like to pay tribute to the victims for coming forward and for the extremely restrained and dignified way they aired things which must have been extremely difficult to air in public. “It is abundantly clear that their lives have been hugely affected.” One of the boys was driven to drug abuse and it was through counselling that he decided to go to police. Shameless Todd claimed the complainants were making up the most serious offences to win compensation. Todd and his wife lived at a flat in High Street, Stonehouse, before moving to several different addresses in Devonport. He said he was teetotal, but admitted that he had smoked cannabis himself at the time of the offences. Todd initially denied any sexual offences against the pair in his police interview in March 2017. He changed his pleas to the eight indecent assaults this year. All the offences are among the most serious of their type – and three would now be classed as rape. The jury were not told of Todd’s 36 convictions for 119 offences. He was jailed for three years in 1997 for two separate sex attacks on young boys. In 2006, he was jailed for three-and-a-half years for ten breaches of a sexual offences prevention order, by befriending four families with children. He was jailed indefinitely for public protection with a minimum of five years at Leicester Crown Court in 2011. Todd lured a vulnerable 15-year-old boy to his flat from a children’s home with the offer of cannabis. While the boy was there, Todd sexually abused him. On one occasion, Todd tried to rape the boy, who managed to flee. Judge Simon Hammond described the then 41-year-old as an “unrepentant sexual predator”.