Here are the rapists, sex offenders and perverts who’ve been locked up this year and will be spending Christmas behind bars.
1. Barry Williams.
Barry Williams, of Ferryhill was sentenced to 18 months in prison and a ten-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order after after engaging in inappropriate communications with a ‘teenage girl’ - who was an undercover cop - who he asked to send explicit messages and indecent images and videos. When police officers seized and searched Williams electronic devices they found “truly horrific” Category A, B and C indecent images and videos – with hundreds of child victims featured. | Durham Constabulary Photo: Durham Constabulary
2. Rhys Conn
Rhys Conn, 33, of Attlee Avenue, Blackhall Colliery, has been jailed for 11 years after raping and indecently assaulting a teenage girl. | Durham Constabulary. Photo: Durham Constabulary.
3. John Briggs
John Briggs, 60, of Houghton, has been jailed for four years after sexually assaulting a child. He was ordered to abide by a sexual harm prevention order and to sign the sex offenders register indefinitely. | NP Photo: NP
4. Mark Williamson
Mark Williamson, 47, was sentenced to 30 months behind bars after admitting attempting to have sexual communication with a child and attempting to arrange a child sex offence. He was also given a lifelong sex offender registration and a sexual harm prevention order. | Northumbria Police Photo: Mark Williamson