August 2001 Man gets ten years for sex assaults A 52-YEAR-OLD former Southampton man who was convicted of rape and indecent assault charges involving three girls was yesterday jailed for ten and a half years. Reginald Tagoe, a former railway worker, was convicted of two charges of rape and three of indecent assault by a jury at Swansea Crown Court. All his victims were under ten. He had denied the charges. The jury had heard that Tagoe befriended the girls’ parents while living in an old ambulance in which he travelled around Pembrokeshire during 1999 and 2000. He won the parents’ trust and began taking a group of their children out on trips in the area. It was during these trips that he committed the offences, raping one girl twice and indecently assaulting all three. He was discovered when one of the girls told her parents. Tagoe was also placed on the sex offenders’ register for an indefinite period.