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A convicted pimp accused of defying a ban on accessing sex websites failed today in a High Court bid to be re-released from custody.

This is the repulsive animal abuser jailed last week for his shocking mistreatment of ten dogs – some of who had parts of their face torn off.

A paedophile who groomed a teenage girl and wrote about their activities in his diary has been jailed. Andrew McRoberts, from Ballinderry, Co Antrim, was handed a three-year sentence, half of which will be spent in jail and half on licence. The 32-year-old pleaded guilty to six counts of sexual activity with a child, sexual communication with a child and possessing an indecent image of a child, all committed on dates between April 2018 and July 2019. His crimes came to light in August 2019 when...

A filthy farmer who abused a teenage girl half his age says hes "prepared for prison" when hes sentenced this week. Andrew McRoberts (32) pleaded guilty last week to a total of eight serious sex offences, including sexual activity with a child who was just 14 at the time the abuse began. But the self-confessed child abuser - who kept a disgusting diary of his twisted deeds as well as used condoms - gave an extraordinary interview from his doorstep to the Sunday World. He told us: "Im no paedo, ...

Andrew McRoberts She outlined how she met him at a vintage tractor rally. After a week of exchanging messages, "he said that he liked her," even though she was only 14 at the time. That was the start of their sexual relationship, but the abuse continued for about 16 months, during which time they had sex on 20 to 30 occasions. Images "She spoke throughout (the police interview) as being in a relationship, a boyfriend and girlfriend relationship. We know, of course, that it was a series of crimi...

A Belfast man who got "way in over his head" when he conspired with a gangland murder victim to import £180,000 of cocaine into Belfast has been handed a 26-month sentence. Liam Dewars co-accused Warren Crossan was gunned down in broad daylight in west Belfast in June last year after being linked in gangland circles to the murder of Dublin hitman Robbie Lawlor in Belfast several weeks earlier. Ordering Belfast man Dewar to spend half his sentence in jail and half on supervised licence conditi...

A BELFAST criminal has been jailed for conspiring to import cocaine with a murder victim suspected of involvement in the fatal shooting of Dublin hitman Robbie Lawlor. Liam Dewar was sentenced to 26 months in prison on Friday for conspiring with Warren Crossan to import £180,000 of cocaine into Northern Ireland. Crossan from Belfast was arrested in relation to the murder of notorious criminal Lawlor last year and was himself later shot dead in a revenge attack. Lawlor was shot dead in Belfast ...

A Belfast man has admitted conspiring with a murder victim to import £180,000 of cocaine. Liam Dewar was due to go on trial at Craigavon Crown Court next week but defence counsel Peter Coiley asked for two of the three charges to be put to the 26-year-old again on Friday. Appearing from the offices of Trevor Smyth & Co. Dewar entered guilty pleas to conspiring with murder victim Warren Crossan to import cocaine and to possession of the Class A drug with intent to supply on 8 November 2019. A f...

None of the facts were opened today but previous courts have heard how Dewar, formerly from Rodney Parade, was arrested when cops stopped a van he was driving on the A1 close to Hillsborough. An initial search found nothing and the van was locked into Creighton’s Garage for the weekend while Dewar was freed on police bail. Cops couldn’t find the drugs hidden inside the van and were about to hand it back when a gang tried unsuccessfully to bust it out so suspicious detectives had another l...

A teenager who kicked a female police officer in the face at a mass beach party in north Down during the summer lockdown has had the charges against him withdrawn. The 17-year-old, who was one of four youths arrested on Bangor’s Ballyholme Beach at the end of May, is instead to meet with his victim or a police representative. More than 400 youths had gathered on the beach to drink alcohol and party in breach of social distancing guidelines and sections of the crowd attacked cops who attempted...