November 2018: Released and back living in Farnworth. He runs a motocross school at leisure lakes mx track in Southport and also Astley raceway in Leigh, Lancashire September 2016 Man jailed for sexual assault of four-year-old girl A Motocross rider who sexually assaulted a four-year-old girl has been jailed. Oliver Sandifordsmith, aged 28, cried in the dock as he was sentenced to four and a half years in prison. He denied sexual assault but a jury at Bolton Crown Court found him guilty. The court heard that Sandifordsmith assaulted the girl in June 2014 while she was at his home, in Martin Avenue, with her parents and his next door neighbour. Sandifordsmith’s saliva was found in the girl’s knickers after they were sent away for DNA analysis. In his summing up, Judge Timothy Clayson told the court that Sandifordsmith said he had been showing the victim’s father and his neighbour his motocross bikes in his garage. He claimed that while in the garage he had put his dog’s ball in his mouth to “stop the dog jumping up”. The court heard that Sandifordsmith had then gone upstairs to get teddy bears to give to the victim’s mother for her daughter, when the little girl followed him upstairs. It is at this point that he sexually assaulted her. Judge Clayson said: “This offence is extremely wrong and he has made the parents’ distress so much greater by how he has chosen to defend himself.” Sentencing Sandifordsmith he added: “This offence took place when she was in your home as a guest. “There is an element of breach of trust because she would have felt comfortable around you because of the friendship between you and her parents. “You fabricated lies and made false allegations against the victim’s mother which exacerbated her distress.” In the public gallery a female family member cried and screamed out “no no no” as the sentence was passed. Sandifordsmith said “I love you” to his family as he was led from the dock. He runs a motocross school at leisure lakes mx track in Southport and also Astley raceway in Leigh, Lancashire He will serve half of his sentence in custody and half on licence. He was also ordered to sign the sex offenders register for life.