EXCLUSIVE: Shoebury 'sex ring' paedophile had a history of abusing children

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EXCLUSIVE: Former charity boss recalls 'shock' of uncovering Shoebury 'paedophile ring'

Wednesday, 20 April 2016 By Charles Thomson in Crime
Chris Hickey A FORMER charity boss has spoken about how he learned a paedophile ring' was operating in Shoebury in the late 1980s.
Chris Hickey former manager of the Rainer Foundation, a young offenders' charity in Weston Road, Southend is the fourth whistleblower to voice concerns over Essex Police's investigation into the abuse of dozens of boys.
Mr Hickey, now a HR consultant, is believed to have received the first abuse disclosure from one of the victims.
He said: "The first time I had any real sense that something really strange was going on, I was working with this young lad. He slowly started to burn himself with a cigarette, rather than tell me what was going on."
Mr Hickey was tracked down by the Yellow Advertiser and is now cooperating with an Essex Police review, announced last month, into whether the case was properly investigated.
Two men were jailed in 1990 but whistleblowers say the victims reported abuse by more paedophiles who were not prosecuted. They also claim police failed to interview multiple victims and that most of those who were interviewed never received appropriate after-care.
Mr Hickey co-authored a 1990 report criticising the patchy' response by local agencies, which said victims had already suffered problems including self-harming, displaying abusive behaviour' towards younger children and graduating into the local rent boy scene'.
Recounting the moment the first boy a cheeky chappy' and prolific car thief' disclosed his abuse, Mr Hickey said: "It was late afternoon. He was getting less and less responsive. The silences were getting longer and longer. I knew I just had to sit there.
"The room was going dark and I wouldn't even get up to turn the light on because I knew if I moved the spell would be broken and if he was going to say something, he was going to say it now.
"I'd been working with him for well over a year and I knew there was something going on. I waited and waited and I watched him burn himself with a cigarette and then he told me."
Mr Hickey said the disclosure left him shellshocked'. In the coming weeks the boy revealed he had become a recruiter' for the paedophiles to stop his own abuse. Soon afterwards, more boys began coming forward to local charities, including 12 to 15 who disclosed to Rainer.
Mr Hickey said: "It was terrible when you realised what had happened. We had no idea this was going on and then it all unfolded before our eyes. It is an experience seared into my memory."
Essex Police urged victims and witnesses to call 101 and ask for DCI Tracey Harman.
Alternatively, call one of these specialist victim helplines:
National Association for People Abused in Childhood 0808 801 0331.
SERICC (south and west Essex) 01375 380609.
CARA (mid and north Essex) 01206 769795.
SoSRC (Southend) 01702 667590.
National Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse 0808 800 5000.
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Quote: EXCLUSIVE: Paedophile at centre of Shoebury review has been convicted 10 times in last three years

Wednesday, 25 May 2016 By Charles Thomson in Crime
Brian Tanner (left) and Dennis King outside Chelmsford Crown Court in April 1990 where they were both convicted of sex offences against boys. Photo: Anglia Press Agency. A PAEDOPHILE at the centre of an Essex Police review has been convicted 10 times in the last three years, the Yellow Advertiser can reveal.
Court documents obtained by the YA show Dennis King, now 81, last appeared before the courts just eight months ago.
The prolific child sex offender was one of two men convicted in 1990 following a police investigation into the abuse of boys in Shoeburyness.
King, then aged 55 and living in Cunningham Close, Shoebury, received a four-year jail term after pleading guilty to four counts of gross indecency and three counts of attempted buggery.
The second man, Brian Tanner then 57 and living in Beedell Avenue, Westcliff got three years for three counts of gross indecency and three counts of attempted buggery. He has since died.
Police are reviewing the 1990 case after four whistleblowers reported 'failures' which they claim led some victims to self-harm, commit suicide and, in one case, go on to abuse children.
Court papers have shown that in March 2013 King was convicted at Peterborough Crown Court of two counts of possessing an indecent image of a child, two counts of possessing a prohibited image of a child, two counts of making an indecent image of a child, one count of taking an indecent image of a child and one count of possessing bestial pornography. He was jailed for a year.
In November 2014 he was back before the same court, where he pleaded guilty to causing or inciting a child under 16 to engage in sexual activity. He was jailed for 13 months and ordered to sign the Sex Offenders Register for 10 years.
Then, in September 2015, he was sentenced at the same court for breaching a Sexual Offences Prevention Order. The documents do not reveal the nature of the breach but show he was ordered to comply with an 18-month community order.
Papers show King's offending in Peterborough had begun years earlier. In May 1996 he pleaded guilty to two indecent assaults on a male and one count of taking an indecent photo of a child.
He was handed a three-year probation order, but that was revoked 13 months later and he was jailed for five years. The sentence was reduced on appeal to four years in May 1998.
In April 2000 he stood trial and was convicted of two indecent assaults on a male and one count of intending to pervert the course of justice. He was jailed for seven months.
Last month the YA revealed King had a string of child sex offences to his name before 1990.
In 1966 he was jailed for abusing two boys he met in a public toilet on a Southend seafront.
Documents detailing his appeal, which he lost, stated that by that time he had already served six months for attempting to procure gross indecency with a 15-year-old. When that sentenced was handed down, two more offences were taken into consideration, one concerning a nine-year-old.
He had also been fined for importuning immoral purposes and, in September 1964, had been sentenced to one year's prison for attempting to procure indecency.
Essex Police has urged any victims of King, Tanner or any other paedophile in Shoeburyness in the late 1980s to contact Detective Tracey Harman by dialling 101 and cooperate with the review.
Otherwise, call one of these specialist helplines:
National Association for People Abused in Childhood 0808 801 0331
SERICC (south and west Essex) 01375 380609
CARA (mid and north Essex) 01206 769795
SoSRC (Southend) 01702 667590
National Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse 0808 800 5000

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