May 2010 Pervert jailed after ‘revolting’ attacks A PAEDOPHILE who committed a series of “particularly revolting” offences against a young child blamed her for starting it when confronted with his sick crimes, Northampton Crown Court heard. Tony Parry, aged 72, repeatedly subjected his victim to a series of vile sexual assaults, ensuring her silence by telling her it would be their secret. But the young girl later revealed to a relative what Parry had been doing when she was caught acting sexually provocatively with another child. Rebecca Wade, prosecuting, said Parry was confronted about his deviant behaviour by the child’s mother. “The defendant said, ‘She started it. Oh God, what have I done? How do I put this right?’,” she added. Miss Wade added: “The child clearly found it hard to talk about what had happened when she was video interviewed and when pressed, she said she did not want to think about it any more.” Parry, of High Woods, Overstone Lakes, pleaded not guilty when he appeared in court earlier this year. The case was adjourned for trial, but he returned to court last month to admit five charges of sexual assault. Judge Charles Wide QC said: “One assumes he was not prepared to admit his guilt and spare this young girl the anxiety of having to come to trial. “He strung it out, and strung it out, denying his guilt when there was this young girl waiting to give evidence when he knew perfectly well she was telling the truth and he wasn’t. These were repeated offences against a very young girl; that’s an aggravating factor, and they were particularly revolting.” Judge Wide jailed him for four years, banned him from ever working with children and placed him on the sex offenders’ register. “What you did was a gross breach of trust. “These offences have had a serious impact, as they were bound to, upon an already vulnerable girl.”