18 years for 'determined' paedophile
A prolific paedophile who simulated the murders of his daughters’ school friends after drugging them during overnight stays at his home was today sentenced to 18 years in prison by a British court.
Glyn Martin, 53, showed no emotion as Judge Michael Mettyear said he would remain a danger to children for some considerable time.
Martin earlier pleaded guilty at Hull Crown Court to 57 counts of indecent assault, child abduction, indecency with a child, administering noxious substances and taking indecent photos.
The court heard how police discovered nearly 6,000 indecent photos during their investigation, involving more than 2,000 victims.
On undeveloped rolls another 12,000 images were found, featuring 1,100 girls.
The judge said Martin was a determined and calculating paedophile.
He told him: “I am sentencing you for your sexual activities towards female children between 1987 and 2003. Those 57 offences are merely examples of your persistence, abusive conduct between these years.
“All the evidence in the case indicates you are a determined paedophile. Your offences were carefully prepared and calculated. Your victims were young and numerous.
“You worked hard to put yourself in a position to carry out your perverted activities. You knew the risks you were running and you sought to avoid detection for your crimes.
“In the end it was chance that you were caught.”
The judge said there was documentation that Martin was to carry out further “unspeakably evil” crimes against children.
He said: “It is also clear from the documentation that you wished to commit further unspeakably evil crimes against children, including their abduction, rape, torture and murder.”
The Recorder of Hull said no judge had the power to sentence somebody for the thoughts in their mind.
He added: “There is no offence of thinking evil thoughts, however vile they may be. Nonetheless, the fact that you were consumed by such fantasies and in my view if the appropriate circumstances had arisen, you would have turned some of those fantasies into reality.”
The judge ordered Martin to sign the Sex Offenders’ Register and banned him from working with children for life.
As the sentence was passed it was greeted with cries of “yes” from the public gallery and relatives shouted abuse at Martin as he was led away.
