Soldier-turned-teacher sexually assaulted teen lady | UK | News | EUROtoday

A soldier turned schoolteacher who misplaced his leg serving in Afghanistan has been jailed after sexually assaulting a lady. Simon Taylor, 43, labored in schooling after a part of his proper leg was amputated when his automobile was hit by a roadside bomb in 2009.

The military veteran was a instructor at Hethersett Academy, Norfolkthe place he preyed on {the teenager} who was a pupil on the college. Judge Andrew Shaw, sentencing Taylor at Norwich Crown Court on Tuesday, mentioned: “You groomed her, you manipulated her, you sent her indecent images of your genitalia.”

Isobel Ascherson, prosecuting, mentioned the offending spanned greater than two years and continued as soon as the lady had left the college. She mentioned Taylor made the teenager “think that he was the only one who cared or could help her or would help her”.

Norwich Crown Court heard Taylor would message the lady on the college’s messaging platform and this led to him being served a written warning, however the contact continued.

The prosecutor mentioned that married father Taylor, now of Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, had “groomed” the lady, including he “wanted to have sex with (the girl) and wanted to meet outside school”.

She mentioned Taylor had threatened to hurt himself if the lady didn’t ship him pictures, telling the courtroom that in a single message he wrote: “I look forward to some fun, as long as we’re both looking for fun, we can just have some fun until you find a nice lad hey”.

The prosecutor mentioned Taylor admitted 5 offences at an earlier listening to, together with to sexual exercise with a toddler by an individual able of belief. In one incident he touched the lady’s thigh below her skirt in school.

He additionally admitted two counts of sexual communication with a toddler and two counts of sexual assault.

Ms Ascherson mentioned each of the sexual assault counts associated to him touching the lady’s breasts, as soon as in a automobile whereas the lady was nonetheless a pupil on the college and on one other event in a automobile after she had left the college.

The lady reported Taylor to the police and likewise “told his wife what he had done to her”, the courtroom heard.

Reading her sufferer influence assertion in courtroom, the lady mentioned: “My childhood was stolen from me. I never had the chance to be a normal teenager.”

Richard English KC, defending Taylor, mentioned his consumer “accepts he has caused real and great harm”. He mentioned Taylor “doesn’t seek to blame any of what happened on the injury he sustained” and added that he “received no proper or therapeutic intervention after he was discharged from the Army”.

Mr English mentioned: “It’s clear his mental health may have contributed to what happened.”

Taylor was sentenced to 4 and a half years. He was ordered to signal the Sex Offenders’ Register and can be topic to a lifelong Sexual Harm Prevention Order in addition to a restraining order which prevents him from contacting the lady or her mother and father. Taylor may also be barred from working with kids.