Notorious Paedophiles Sentenced

Phillip Tuffill

Two notorious paedophiles have been sentenced at the Old Bailey for further historic sexual crimes.

Phillip Tuffill, 64, was still serving a 14-year sentence at Category C HMP Oakwood, Featherstone, Wolverhampton when charged with the offences.

Jan Timothy Fuller, 62, of Harcourt Street, Stone-on-Trent had completed his six-year sentence when he was hauled back to court on the new counts.

Last week at the Central Criminal Court Tuffill received three years imprisonment and Fuller six years imprisonment.

The complainant was molested by both defendants when he was aged approximately nine to sixteen years-old.

Tuffill was originally charged with one count of indecent assault; gross indecency and attempted buggery against the boy when he was approximately fourteen years-old between July 20, 1982 and July 22, 1983.

Fuller also initially appeared at Bromley Magistrates Court in 2021 charged with twenty-five counts relating the same boy between July 20, 1977 and July 22, 1985.

The charges relate to abuse beginning when the victim was aged approximately nine years-old.

He was charged with fourteen counts of indecent assault; eight counts of gross indecency; two counts of buggery and one count of attempted buggery.

Jan Timothy Fuller

The offences were said to have occurred at West Wickham Leisure Centre; Rye, East Sussex; on a train; in Fuller’s car and Fuller’s mother’s house.

The victim told police Fuller touched him intimately between his legs while the pair were travelling on a train in the late 1970’s, progressing to sexual activity in the defendant’s car.

He gave a statement that Fuller performed oral sex on him, which escalated to the defendant performing anal sex on him at his mother’s house.

Many of the counts reflected multiple incidents of sexual abuse, particularly the boy having to pleasure Fuller.

Tuffill ensured he had access to young boys as a member of the St. Bartholemew’s Church choir in Sydenham, south-east London.

He shared a house with Fuller in Gowland Place, Beckenham.

In 1987 Fuller received six months imprisonment for gross indecency with a boy and eighteen months imprisonment in 2005 for indecently assaulting a boy.