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Runners in high spirits for big race THE weather held off as a big field of over 1,200 runners took on the Basingstoke Half Marathon on Sunday. This was the eighth year the race has been held, with competitors raising money for St Michael’s Hospice and Macmillan Cancer Support as well as their own charities. Matthew Bennet from Southampton Athletic Club was the overall winner with a time of 1:12.33. Hart Road Runners’ Lesley Locks was the fi rst woman home in 10th position overall, completing the course in 1:24.14. See page 3 for full story.
Runners head out into the countryside for the Basingstoke Half Marathon. Picture: Sussex Sport Photography
Man watched ‘vile’ child sex abuse via global streaming By Adam Flinn A MAN who watched a four-year-old girl being sexually abused online as it was streamed live to a global audience has avoided prison. Gareth Gascoigne-Leopold, of Rectory Lane in Tadley, was given a five year prison sentence, suspended for two years, at Lewes Crown Court on Friday. The 35-year-old was one of six people from the UK to watch the abuse
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in December 2015, broadcast via an online video streaming forum. He was also given a 10-year sexual harm prevention order, and ordered to attend a rehabilitation course and get internet sex offender’s treatment. The girl, who is from Denmark, has since been identified and is being safeguarded by the authorities. Sentencing, judge Recorder Swirsky told Gascoigne-Leopold the “images you watched were vile and the children involved are likely to be
scarred for life”. Gascoigne-Leopold’s arrest is part of a wider investigation being carried out by the National Crime Agency (NCA) into the streaming of child sexual abuse. He was arrested at Gatwick airport having travelled back from Spain in December 2016, and charged with four offences on July 4 this year. These were intentionally encouraging and/or assisting the commission of an offence, possessing an
extreme pornographic image, possessing an indecent photograph/ pseudo-photograph, and possessing a prohibited image of a child. Graham Ellis, from the NCA’s child exploitation and online protection command, said: “The abuse this little girl suffered was unimaginable. That it was also streamed live around the world makes it even more horrific. “The individuals who were logged into the forum to watch this abuse
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