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Thursday, July 17, 2008, 10:09
Allister Garnham, 60, formerly of Danbury but now living in Norwich, pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting a seven-year-old, two sex assaults and a third offence of engaging in sexual activity with young girls.
His conduct was branded as “lamentable” by the judge who jailed him at Chelmsford Crown Court this week.
Prosecutor Diane Pigot told the court Garnham, pictured inset, had initially told one of his victims, who was just seven when he first assaulted her in the mid-1980s, that what he had done was their “little secret”.
Then he had told her that if she spoke to any one about what had happened he would kill her mother.
His other victim was 12 years old when he subjected her to a series of sex assaults. At the time of the attacks, which took place in 2005, he was living near Danbury outside Chelmsford.
Judge Anthony Goldstaub QC ordered Garnham to be placed onto the Sex Offenders' Register for the rest of his life and told him he had no alternative but to jail him.
“You must go to prison. These are appalling crimes,” said the judge. “This was a lamentable catalogue of offending. It requires a stern sentence.”
Defending counsel Emma Nash told the court that at one time Garnham lived at the care home in Jersey which is currently at the centre of a child abuse scandal.
She said that he had lived for years at the Jersey home with his brother and had been a victim of abuse himself when he was young.
An Essex Police spokesman said: “We hope the court verdict and sentence will allow the victims some closure.”
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