January 2017 Prison for child sex offender A man from the Isle of Wight is starting a prison sentence for multiple sexual offences against young girls in Crawley and Kent Richard Jones, 63, was formerly known as Richard Ernest Bloch. He now lives in Grange Road, Shanklin, but used to live at Colwyn Close and also Francis Edwards Way, both in Crawley, until 1996. Jones was sentenced at Brighton Crown Court on Thursday, January 12 to a total of seven-and-a-half years and will be a registered sex offender for life. He was convicted of nine sexual offences, seven of indecent assault and two of gross indecency, against four young girls between 1991 and 2002. Six of the indecent assault offences were committed against three of the girls in Crawley. The two gross indecency offences and one indecent assault were committed against the fourth girl in Ruislip, Middlesex, and Sissinghurst, Kent.