Bogus Pc paedophile gets four years

A bogus police officer who tried to kidnap two young schoolgirls in the Black Country has been sent to custody for four years.

Stephen Allin, of Kinver, was dressed as a police officer and his car was fitted with a siren-type sound system when he tried to lure a 13-year-old girl into an alleyway in Brierley Hill, Wolverhampton Crown Court heard.

Judge Michael Challinor told 20-year-old Allin: "The public has a right to expect courts to protect children from being taken from the streets by men in cars."

He told her he was a policeman and that he wanted a private word before offering the youngster a lift in his car but she quickly walked away and later described Allin to police as a paedophile, said Mark Phillips, prosecuting. The second girl, who was 12 years of age, was out in Quarry Bank four days later when she was confronted by Allin who told her: "I'm a cop, come with me" but she ran home.

Samantha Powis, defending, argued there was no evidence 20-year-old Allin committed the offences for sexual reasons. She said: "No sexual advances were made, they were not pursued, threatened or touched."

Allin did not have a history of molesting young girls, she added. "This is something he did and something he cannot explain."

Judge Challinor said Allin had clearly planned over a number of days how he would snatch the girls as he drove around the Dudley area in a car belonging to his mother.

Referring to a large number of testimonials from friends of Allin, he said: "I doubt if any of these people believed you to be capable of stalking young girls which is what you have admitted.

"The potential harm you could have done is represented by the fact I feel you had in mind some form of sexual activity on those girls."

The judge said it was his duty to protect young girls in the future from the serious risk of harm at Allin's hands and he extended his licence on release from custody to nine years.

Allin, of Castle Street, Kinver, admitted two charges of attempted kidnap. He was also barred from ever working with children and made the subject of a 10-year sexual offenders protection order.

Back in August a Wolverhampton pervert was jailed after admitting luring a six-year-old girl from the back garden of her West Midland home before committing serious sexual offences against her.

Wolverhampton Crown Court was told that Ronald Turner had spoken to the child on a couple of earlier occasions before luring away from safety after spotting her playing.

The 51-year-old with previous convictions for indecent exposure and indecent assault confessed to be being attracted to young girls. Turner, of Jenks Avenue, Bushbury, Wolverhampton pleaded guilty to rape and also admitted inciting the girl to engage in sexual activity. He was jailed for four-and-a-half years.