Solihull sex offender kidnapped and sexually assaulted vulnerable schoolgirl
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Stephen Penrice, of Maryport, was working on Eastbourne Pier after it had been gutted by a fire. The 44-year-old fell through the Victorian structure and died after landing on the pebble beach 30ft below. It is alleged that the company he worked for, MPM North West Ltd, failed to act in its duty of care towards him. Site foreman Paul Dixon, 53, and project director Michael Hawkins, 37, have gone on trial accused of manslaughter by gross negligence. At Brighton Crown Court a jury was this week sworn in to hear evidence in the case before High Court judge Sir Michael Soole.
1/1 A CONTRACTOR plunged to his death at an “obviously dangerous” site where he was working to restore a town’s fire damaged pier, a court heard. Stephen Penrice was working on Eastbourne Pier after it had been gutted by a fire. The 44-year-old fell through the Victorian structure and died after landing on the pebble beach 30ft below. It is alleged that the company he worked for, MPM North West Ltd, failed to act in its duty of care towards him. Site foreman Paul Dixon, 53, and project director Michael Hawkins, 37, have gone on trial accused of manslaughter by gross negligence.
Retired police sergeant Derek Seekings, 66, is led away in handcuffs into a prison van at Lewes Crown Court A FORMER police sergeant who raped a woman while on a break from work has been jailed. Derek Seekings was handed an 11-year prison sentence on Wednesday afternoon after being convicted of two counts of rape. The 66-year-old inflicted “severe psychological harm” on his victim, Lewes Crown Court heard. In a statement read out at Lewes Crown Court, the woman described the impact the attacks had on her. She said: “I am nervous of phone numbers I do not know or when someone is unexpectedly at the door.”
Derek Seekings, 66, went round to the home of the woman while he was on duty
Seekings pushed the woman onto the bed in an upstairs bedroom and raped her
On a second occasion he raped the same woman once again as she protested
The victim said she had been left suicidal, fearful and stressed from the trauma
Seekings, now retired from Surrey Police, was jailed for 11 years at Lewes Crown Court after being found guilty of two counts of rape between 1994 and 2000