Five years in jail for raping child
PAEDOPHILE Tristan Myatt must spend at least five years behind bars after raping a child and sexually assaulting young children.
The 20-year-old, pictured, admitted one charge of raping a child under 13, six sexual assaults of children and two sexual assaults by penetration of children.
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Tristan Myatt
He also admitted two offences of making indecent images of children, four charges of distributing indecent photographs of children and 10 offences of possessing indecent photos of children.
Myatt had been arrested as part of a Scotland Yard operation and detectives raided his Waterloo Road home in Cobridge in February.
They seized his computer and he admitted accessing websites for paedophiles and using chat rooms to talk to other paedophiles.
Alexander Jacobs, prosecuting at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court, said: "He said he was a paedophile and had a sexual preference for six to nine-year-old girls."
Officers found 36,146 indecent pictures of children and 660 movies on Myatt's computer.
Mr Jacobs said there was evidence of Myatt distributing images and trading with others and that the defendant groomed his victims before taking advantage of them.
The court heard Myatt was involved in setting up numerous online chat rooms and he would sometimes advise less computer-literate paedophiles on how to avoid detection.
Anthony Longworth, defending, said Myatt, who has no previous convictions, has shown a willingness to co-operate with the authorities to address his behaviour.
Judge Paul Glenn said he had considered jailing Myatt for life. But he told Myatt he must serve at least five years before he tries to convince the parole board he no longer poses a risk of re-offending.
He is on the sex offenders' register for life and was disqualified from working with children for life.
Judge Glenn told him: "You betrayed the innocence of these young children. Three of your victims were extremely young – three, four and five.
"I do not know what long-term effect your abuse is going to have on the children.
"Everything I have read about you causes me great concern. You represent a serious and ongoing risk to children."
Following the sentence, Detective Inspector Steff Lungrin, of Staffordshire Police's major investigation department, said: "The sentence is just.
"I am comforted by the fact that the victims, their families and the wider community can be confident that they are safe from the risk of further abuse by Tristan Myatt and can try to rebuild their lives."
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by Anon, cobridge
Thursday, October 23 2008, 5:41PM
“As a friend of his Mother's i was totally gobsmacked.He was a very polite,well mannered helpful youngster,it makes my stomach wrench to think that my own children used to play football with him.I dont know what went wrong with his life,what he has done is irrepairable.Five years is not enough.Those poor children are mentally scarred for life.The judge was right 'LIFE' was a better verdict.Well Done Mr Paul Glenn,now he has 5 years to convince half a dozen parole boarders how genuine and sincere he can be,obviously he has a talent for this otherwise he would'nt of got within spitting distance of any of these children in the 1st place,had he not been so convincing!!
Thought - 1 island in the Middle of nowhere & fill it with these dregs of society,let them do what their disgusting minds want them to do - to each other!”
by michelle, s.o.t
Thursday, October 09 2008, 11:54AM
“ru hven a laugh how can u feel sorry for that scum bag u clearly hve no idea about children and there rights to be save scum like that dont deserve any1 to feel sorry for them”
by samantha, Longton
Thursday, October 09 2008, 9:51AM
“Are you joking Bertie? U must not have children or you belong in the same place as this scumbag!”
by Bertie Wooster, Dubai
Thursday, October 09 2008, 9:24AM
“Congrats, people! Your splenetic, barely-literate stream of bigotry has achieved the impossible - you've made me feel sorry for a convicted sex offender.”
by sam, sot
Thursday, October 09 2008, 8:36AM
“5 years its wrong he should hve his ding dong cut of and hung its a joke i know of some of the familys he has hurt and they need more than 5 years for wot he has done to there children he has took all the childrens lifes away at young age its disguting”
by Chas, Etruria
Wednesday, October 08 2008, 9:58PM
“What a truly angry country we live in.”
by jayne, hanley
Wednesday, October 08 2008, 9:47PM
“living a few doors away and seeing the damage that he has done to the children will live with us forever. how are we supposed to know who is likeley to be a paedophile?
i wish he could be hanged.”
by Samantha, Longton
Wednesday, October 08 2008, 7:56PM
“i was this lads boss for 2 years, he never said anythin in regards to kids or said anythin rude or out of line, he was a really well mannered polite person, we thought he was abit weird but im in total shock, it jus goes to show u dont really no everythin about someone”
by samantha, Longton
Wednesday, October 08 2008, 7:51PM
“I was this lads Boss, this is so weird, he never even mentioned children or never said anythin out of line, it just goes to show you never really no a person do you?”
by Ben Scott, Stoke-on-Trent
Wednesday, October 08 2008, 7:18PM
“Upon hearing about this I was both shocked and bewildered.
I used to work with Tristian Myatt at the Burger King branch that was located on Etruria Road, Hanley just a few years ago, so to discover that someone I have conversed and associated myself with in the past could surface as this perverted animal is sickening.
The sheer scale of evidence against him and the multiple charges should've yielded a longer sentence than that which was served. The current conviction system is a joke with lenient terms being handed down sparingly.
I think I'll never take a person on face value ever again- evidently some peoples skeletons are a little to fresh in their closets.”