Published date: 29 May 2016 |
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THE perverted past of two brothers finally caught up with them when they were jailed for sexual offences which occurred in their teens.
Mathew Parkes, 28, and his brother Samuel Parkes, 31, had lived in the Talacre and Mostyn areas of Flintshire when young.
Mathew Parkes was jailed for seven-and-a-half years at Mold Crown Court yesterday after he admitted serious sexual offences against three girls and a boy.
Samuel Parkes, received 45 months for offences against a young girl.
Both were ordered to register with the police as sex offenders for life and Sexual Harm Prevention Orders were made.
Judge Rhys Rowlands told Samuel Parkes he had admitted the indecent assault and rape of a very young girl when he himself was aged 15.
Mathew Parkes had admitted indecency and rape on one girl, indecent assault and rape of another girl, indecent assault on a third girl and indecent assault and the rape of a young boy.
He himself was aged between 13 and 16 at the time, the judge said.
“In both of your cases, it was quite depraved behaviour,” Judge Rowlands said, adding there could be no excuse for such behaviour.
Judge Rowlands said there was precious little by way of mitigation apart from their guilty pleas.
He said they had to be sentenced in line with modern guidelines but the sentences which were appropriate had to be halved because they were youths at the time.
The judge told Samuel Parkes he had raped a very young girl of primary school age, some force was used and injury caused.
In the case of Mathew Parkes, there had been four victims, all young.
He took into account they were both of good character and had not offended since but they were grave offences.
Judge Rowlands said he took into account the delays in the case and their ages at the time but on the other hand the victims had to live with what they had done to them while the brothers had got on with their lives.
It was clear their behaviour had a profound effect on the victims.
Prosecuting barrister Simon Parry told how one victim wished to read her own impact statement.
She told how she had suffered nightmares and flashbacks, had trust issues, suffered depression and anxiety and has isolated herself.
Another victim revealed in her victim impact statement how she had tried to commit suicide at a young age because of what was happening to her.
She felt very vulnerable and scared and had self-harmed.
Defending barrister Andrew Scott, for Samuel Parkes, who had carved a new life for himself in the performing arts and now lived at Edward Street in Carlisle, said his client had a “toxic” childhood, went to college to do a performing arts degree, and had then done a three-year music and drama degree course in Carlisle.
He and his partner had been due to be married but they had delayed that until the proceedings were over.
It was a case of his own childhood coming back to haunt him, Mr Scott said.
Simon Killeen, for Mathew Parkes, said his client was 16 or 17 at the time of the offences.
He had made admissions to the police which went beyond the allegations which had been made against him and which had directly led to some charges.
Mathew Parkes, now of Lon y Ffrith in Llandudno, had been in custody on remand, was a segregated, vulnerable prisoner and was described as disassociated, timid and unresponsive.
Since dropping out of university he had worked at a computer shop.
It was appreciated immediate custody was inevitable, Mr Killeen said.
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