Harley Street Sex Therapist Sentenced After "Public Shaming"

A Harley Street-trained registered sex therapist was trapped in an internet sting after grooming and trying to meet an imaginary 13 year-old boy after explicit online chats.

Giles Dee-Shapland, 51, also a registered psychotherapist and hypnotherapist encouraged ‘Ben’ to play with himself and promised to take him to gents’ toilets to witness or engage in gay sex.

Describing himself as a ‘Holistic Sex Therapist’ and member of the British Society of Clinical Hypnosis Dee-Shapland employed his skills and experience to groom the boy.

At Isleworth Crown Court he received twenty-two months imprisonment, suspended for two years and is now subject to a ten-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order, prohibiting unsupervised contact with children.

Church youth group leader Dee-Shapland, of Walham Green Court, Cedarne Road, Fulham describes himself as ‘Sexpert at SimplySxy’ with a special interest in trauma and psychosexual disorder.

Before the trial he pleaded guilty to one count of attempting to cause a child to engage in sexual activity on September 19, 2020.

The jury unanimously convicted him of attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child on August 8, 2020 and attempting to meet a child on October 3, 2020 after grooming.

Dee-Shapland was exposed by the citizen-led Phoenix group, who confronted him at Bayswater Underground Station, where he had arranged to meet the boy.

He has since complained about the “public shaming” aspect of his exposure as a sex offender.

“This was a decoy person operated by the so-called paedophile hunter group Phoenix,” explained prosecutor Oliver Wellings. 

Dee-Shapland was on an adult internet chatroom when he began communicating with ‘Ben’.

“This defendant engaged in extensive communication about his sexual experience and encouraged ‘Ben’ to pleasure himself and arranged to meet him to ’show him the sights.’

“In his evidence to the jury he sought to portray himself as a sexual therapist, assisting a young boy with his sexuality.

“There was extensive grooming with ‘Ben’ who was a real thirteen year-old boy as far as the defendant knew. The amount of chat was considerable over a three-month period and was persistent and prolonged.”

Judge Lindsey Rose told first-time-offender Dee-Shapland: “Ben stated that he was thirteen years-old, but that did not stop you for a moment.

“I do not accept that communication was for friendship, it was for sexual reasons and it lasted three months.

“I have seen the large amount of messages sent back and forth and within a few messages you started talking about sexual matters and your sexual urges.

“You continually pushed the conversation back to sexual topics for your own sexual gratification.

“You hoped that this would develop further and pushed him to say how he felt about you.

“You saw your opportunity to meet this young boy when he said he was coming to London. 

“You did not plan to just show him around, but to take him to mens’ toilets and your intention was for him to be involved or watch others engage in sexual activity.

“In clear manipulating behaviour you told him what to say to his mother about meeting you.

“You are a trained psychotherapist and sex therapist and you used your training and expertise in those online conversations. It is clear you used that knowledge and training to manipulate what you thought was a young child.

“I’m told you have been subject to shaming online and face-to-face and have not been able to assist at your church, where you have been an active member.

“You still do not accept you are sexually attracted to children and are someone who cannot face your criminal behaviour.

“These are very serious matters,” Judge Rose told Dee-Shapland, adding she was only able to suspend the sentence because she felt he was capable of addressing his offending.

“The defendant has been a member of a regulatory body and I want to check they are aware of these convictions and it is noted on their register,” added the judge.

“He is not practicing and has not been for some time,” said Dee-Shapland’s lawyer Helen Butcher. 

“This was one very unfortunate episode out of the blue. This has been quite a shattering experience for him.

“He felt he was of high regard and was seen by others in a high regard, but there has now been public shaming, which is perhaps unique to these offences, causing anxiety for his own safety and stress.

“He is assessed as a ‘low risk’ of re-conviction and there has been nothing since September, 2020.

“He is described as isolated, lonely and seeking meaningful relationships.”

Dee-Shapland was also sentenced to a six-month electronically-monitored tagged curfew between 9pm and 6am and must complete a thirty day rehabilitation activity requirement.

He must also sign the sex offenders register for ten years.

Teenager Raped By Host Who Plied Her with Rum

Ten Years: McQuade

A rapist, who encouraged a 17 year-old to get drunk on rum before attacking her when she arrived at his flat to just “hang out,” is starting a ten-year prison sentence today.

Market trader Francis McQuade, 35, struck after the teen had consensual sex with two other men at the property, forcing her to the bathroom floor while throttling her.

The father-of-three, of Pankhurst House, Du Cane Road, Shepherd’s Bush - who admitted smoking crack earlier that day - even popped out to a local shop for more rum to continue drinking into the early hours.

He fought the case, but was convicted unanimously by an Isleworth Crown Court jury after an eight-day trial of one count of rape and one of attempted rape at the address on January 20. 

“The defendant strangled her during the rape, preventing her breathing and causing her pain,” said prosecutor Cyrus Shroff. “She was extremely drunk and had already been exposed to exploitative behaviour by the two other men.

“This defendant was pressuring her to drink alcohol and down glasses of rum and he was sexually aggressive towards her from the moment she arrived at the flat.

“He had been saying he wanted to have sex with her and was aggressively sexual towards her throughout the evening and on his own evidence was very drunk.”

Judge Kwame Inyundo told suited McQuade, who has been locked-up since his arrest: “You are over two years older than her and that night she came to your home to ‘hang out.’

“You met her at the front door showing signs of intoxication and made sexual references and continued to make crude sexual gestures to her when she was alone in the room with you.

“She went into the bathroom to have sex with her boyfriend and you and the other guest took more than a passing interest in this.

“All three of the men were drunk and each of them were encouraging her to drink strong alcoholic spirits,” added the judge. “She then had further sexual activity with the other guest.

“You considered that you should be party to sexual activity with her, but she did not want or consent to sexual activity with you.

“She said she was in pain and wanted to be sick in an attempt to put you off, but you physically forced her when she was intoxicated and grabbed her by the neck and forced her to the bathroom floor.”

After the rape the teenager tried to crash out on the living-room floor, but McQuade positioned himself behind her.

“You tried to pull her trousers down and kiss her and your behaviour was bizarre and erratic,” Judge Inyundo told him. “You would suddenly change from speaking softly to aggressively.

“The victim used her phone to make recordings and it is obvious to anybody listening to them your intention was to have sexual activity with her.”

After eventually leaving the flat in the early hours the victim called police from a nearby bus stop and McQuade was arrested shortly afterwards.

Despite the jury’s unanimous verdicts McQuade still maintains his innocence, claiming in his pre-sentence report sex with the young woman was consensual.

“The recordings overwhelmingly show the opposite,” announced the judge. 

McQuade comes from a large family of North End Road, Fulham market traders and was a well-known and popular character on his parents’ curtain stall.

However, while travelling in Australia he was violently attacked in Melbourne, resulting in serious head trauma and a brain injury that required three immediate surgeries.

This injury has effected his behaviour since and was a factor in the offending, said Emma White, defending. “This is a man who acts on impulse rather than pre-meditation.

“He is susceptible to making bad choices and there is a link between his brain injury and his vulnerability.

“It is also suspected he was a victim of cuckooing by a Somalian drug gang.

“The doctor says the brain injury ‘played a moderate part or perhaps a more significant role’ inn the offence.”

In her victim impact statement the teenager said: “I no longer enjoy going out with friends without feeling fear or paranoia.

“I have had long periods of depression and have contemplated suicide. I do not socialise with male friends and this will stay with me for the rest of my life.

“I will never love anyone and I have a lifetime of trauma and fear.”

However, Ms White reminded the judge: “I would ask your honour to approach some of what she said in her victim impact statement with caution.

“This trial was delayed because she could not be found. She was enjoying herself at the Notting Hill Carnival.

“It is a step too far to say she was plied with alcohol to assist this offending.

“This is a group that in effect took over his home and were drinking and potentially taking drugs,” added the lawyer. 

A DNA test confirmed sexual contact with the victim.

“It is obvious from the medical reports the brain injury you received is a matter that cannot be put aside,” announced Judge Inyundo. “The impact of it is the principal mitigation in the case.

“You lack impulse control and are open to influence. The consequences of that brain injury did play a part and that will be reflected in the sentence.”

McQuade, who will serve two-thirds of the sentence before he can be considered for parole must also sign the sex offenders register for life.

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.

Locksmith Denies Being 'Blade Runners' ULEZ Lookout

A locksmith has denied being a ‘Blade Runners’ lookout when police arrested him with a ladder moments after one of London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s despised ULEZ cameras was destroyed.

Jon Wentworth, 54, appeared at Bromley Magistrates’ Court yesterday
and was bailed to return for a trial on February 12, next year.

The cameras enforce Transport for London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone, which charges the drivers of older vehicles £12.50 a day with a fine of up to £180.

Wentworth, of Downlink Avenue, Bexleyheath pleaded not guilty to one count of causing criminal damage to a camera in nearby Arbuthnot Lane on November 7.

Prosecutor Akram Ramna told the court the camera was fixed above a traffic light on the busy road and was damaged in the early hours.

“The Crown’s case is that police received a phone call from a home address on Arbuthnot Lane that they could see three males causing damage to a ULEZ camera.

“The caller said they were woken by a grinding noise of something being cut and saw one male standing outside their address as a lookout and there were sparks going everywhere.

“There were another two males on ladders who were able to evade the police officers, but one suspect was crossing the road with a ladder in his hands when he was stopped by the police.

“This was the defendant Mr Wentworth, who also had a pair of pliers in his back pocket and another pair of pliers were found at the scene.”

Wentworth’s lawyer Anna Jemmison said: “The defendant accepts being in the area, but not that he was one of the three men committing criminal damage or assisting or encouraging any other person to do so.

“There is no forensic evidence linking my client to the criminal damage.

“As far as possession of the ladder he was out walking and seeing it in the middle of the road was concerned for pedestrians and motorists and moved the ladder.

“He did have a tool on him. He is a locksmith and needed it for work that day.”

NHS Surgeon's £64K Wages Swindle

An NHS surgeon today admitted forging timesheets to falsely inflate his working hours in a £64,938 swindle.

Kingston Hospital Ear Nose & Throat (ENT) specialist Kifayat Ullah, 40, had switched to a reduced 22.5 hour working week, but continued claiming wages for a full 45 hour week.

Appearing with the support of his wife at Wimbledon Magistrates’ Court Ullah, who lives in a £1.5m two-bedroom flat in Primrose Hill Road, Primrose Hill, Hampstead heard he faces a potential prison sentence of four-and-a-half years.

He pleaded guilty to one count of making a false instrument, with intent it be accepted as genuine, between December 4, 2020 and June 30, 2021, namely timesheets.

Ullah was employed as a locum at Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust via the MedicsPro Recruitment Agency.

Prosecutor Laura Boca told the court: “Doctor Ullah is a specialist ENT surgeon and was contracted via MedicsPro full-time from November, 2020.

“At his own request his hours were reduced to twenty-two-and-a-half hours per week and the defendant submitted false time sheets, claiming £64,938.

“Of this, £56,718 was actually paid to the defendant.

“When he was interviewed he denied any wrongdoing, agreeing his hours were reduced to twenty-two-and-a-half hours and he was paid for forty-five hours.

“He admitted the time sheets may have included times he did not work, but he said it was not deliberate.”

Requesting the magistrates send Ullah to the Crown Court for sentencing Ms Boca explained: “The starting point on the sentencing guidelines is four years and six months imprisonment.

“This defendant is a doctor working in the NHS and has abused this position to forge time sheets and abuse the trust of the NHS.”

A total of twenty-nine time sheets were forged by Ullah.

Bench Chair Judith Way agreed Ullah needs to be sentenced by a Crown Court judge. “This court cannot deal with this case today, our sentencing powers are inadequate.”

She told Ullah: “You will be sentenced at Kingston-upon-Thames Crown Court and we are asking for a pre-sentence report to be done, which will help the court when you are sentenced.”

He was released on bail until a sentencing date is fixed.