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Showjumper 'pestered rider for sex in exchange for free lessons - then they both had threesome with underage girl'
A showjumper has been accused of 'pestering' a female rider for sex in exchange for free lessons - before the pair then went on to have a threesome with an underage teenager just months later, a court has heard. Horse-riding instructor Guy Simmonds, 37, began flirting with fellow rider Lauren Jarvis, 26, when she attended his yard for a lesson with her horse. A court heard Jarvis said Simmonds told her: 'I wish you would ride me like you ride your horses.' She received WhatsApp messages from Simmonds on the same day as the lesson asking her for 'inappropriate images.' Giving evidence, Jarvis said: 'He was trying to get me to send him inappropriate images while I was in a relationship with my boyfriend. It was the same day I had the riding lesson. 'I approached my boyfriend and made him aware and then I blocked Guy for a little while on WhatsApp messenger.' Cardiff Crown Court heard Jarvis spoke with Simmonds two years later when she received a message from him saying 'hi' after she had broken up with her long-term partner. She said: 'He started to become quite flirty towards me. He started pestering me for sex.' Jarvis said Simmonds sent flirty messages to her every week until she finally 'gave in' and had sex with him in October 2023 - three months before the alleged threesome with an underage girl. She told the jury Simmonds came to her home in Newport, Gwent, under the guise of coming for a coffee before they had sex for the first time. Jarvis said: 'He was ok at first then he started being flirty. 'He wanted me to have sex with him. He asked me to have sex with him. I felt uncomfortable. He asked me a few times before I gave in. 'When he asked it was quite calm at first, then it got quite aggressive because I wasn't giving in.' Jarvis, who worked night shifts as support care worker, said Simmonds told her she could have free riding lessons in exchange for sex. She said: 'He said I could have the lessons weekly with him if I returned the favour with sex. I didn't want to do it. He kept pestering me for that sex.' Jarvis said Simmonds repeatedly turned up at her flat before letting himself in to have sex with her - leaving her feeling 'scared.' She said she started to pay £40 an hour for lessons in a bid to stop him turning up at her address. The court heard the alleged threesome took place in January last year when Simmonds messaged Jarvis to see if the victim was at her house. But Jarvis claims she believed the conversation was 'banter and a wind up' before Simmonds walked in and said: 'Who am I having first?' Jarvis said: 'I said I didn't want to take any part in a threesome at all. He said: 'I didn't come here for nothing.' He meant that he wanted sex. He said it very aggressively.' The court heard Jarvis had sex with Simmonds but claims the underage victim went downstairs while the encounter took place. Jarvis said the victim returned upstairs before she left the youngster alone with Simmonds in her bedroom for between 10 to 15 minutes. The court heard Simmonds messaged Jarvis after the alleged threesome to say: 'Hey, I have a feeling that she has said about us. If anyone asks for sake of both of us nothing ever happened that night xx.' Prosecutor James Hartson said there had been a 'clear element of grooming behaviour' from Simmonds before the threesome even though he had 'no doubt at all' about the victim's age. Simmonds told the court he had made an agreement with his partner Rebecca Dimes, 34, that he could 'stray' in their relationship but she 'did not want to know anything about it.' He denied any sexual contact with the victim and claimed the girl had faked WhatsApp conversations relating to the alleged threesome. Simmonds is accused of six counts of sexual activity with a child and Jarvis faces one charge of sexual activity with a child. Simmonds, of Undy, Gwent, and Jarvis, of Newport, deny all charges. The trial, before judge Lucy Crowther, continues.
The Independent
an hour ago
- The Independent
Police pay rise: Officers' salary to increase 4.2% in England and Wales
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The Independent
an hour ago
- The Independent
Miscarriage of justice watchdog investigates cases of 175 people handed abolished indefinite jail terms
The country's miscarriage of justice watchdog is investigating at least 175 cases which saw offenders, including children and young people, handed abolished indefinite jail terms. The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) has announced it has launched a major project to review applications from prisoners languishing on Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) jail terms. The open-ended sentences, which were scrapped in 2012 and have been described as 'psychological torture' by the UN, have left thousands trapped in jail for up to 22 times longer than their original tariff. This includes many who were children at the time of their offence and handed a type of IPP sentence for under-18s called a Detention for Public Protection (DPP) jail term. Now scores of cases are set to be reviewed by the watchdog after a string of IPP and DPP sentences were overturned by the Court of Appeal. Eight of 12 cases referred to the appeal judges for review have resulted in the sentences being quashed, reduced or substituted. This includes father-of-three Leighton Williams, who was wrongly handed an IPP sentence with a 30-month tariff for a drunken fight aged 19. He served almost 16 years under the sentence – mostly in custody – before it was quashed and replaced with a five-year determinate sentence in the Court of Appeal last year. If he had served half of that time in custody, he would have been out of prison by the time he was 22. Three appeal judges finally set him free on 9 May last year, aged 36, after finding the original sentencing judge had wrongly counted a previous offence, committed when he was 17, against him. After he was released, he told The Independent the jail term had robbed him of 16 years, adding: 'I have missed out on growing up with my friends. Going out. Getting a trade, being able to work. Just living a normal life. 'I deserved to go to jail – I understand that. There is no doubt about that. But for the length of time – I don't think you can justify that.' In a similar ruling in October, Darren Hilling's IPP sentence was quashed and substituted because the sentencing judge had failed to attach the necessary importance to his age and maturity when he committed his crime aged 21. Other victims of the scandal, whose tragic cases have been highlighted by The Independent, include: Leroy Douglas, who has served almost 20 years for robbing a mobile phone; Thomas White, 42, who set himself alight in his cell and has served 13 years for stealing a phone; and Abdullahi Suleman, 41, who is still inside 19 years after he was jailed for a laptop robbery. At total of 2,486 IPP prisoners were still languishing in overcrowded prisons without a release date at end of June. Almost 700 of them have served at least ten years longer than their original tariff. At least 94 IPP prisoners have taken their own lives in prison as they lose hope of getting out, according to campaigners. The CCRC project will see the body – tasked with independently reviewing alleged miscarriages of justice – consider up to eight current applications from people serving IPP and DPP sentences, before systematically re-reviewing a backlog of 175 historic applications to see if they should be referred to the Court of Appeal in light of the recent judgments. 'This starts with young people principally because that's where the chink of light is from the Court of Appeal,' CCRC chair Dame Vera Baird told The Independent. Reviews will start with those who were handed indefinite jail terms as children, before looking at those aged 18 to 25, followed by those over 25. This is because sentencing judges may have considered previous convictions as children when they handed out the jail terms to adults. However there is no timeline for the wide-ranging review and Dame Vera warned the CCRC has been allocated no additional resources for the project. The news has been welcomed by campaigners, including the Howard League for Penal Reform, which this summer called for a special CCRC process for IPP prisoners in a major report on the jail term. Other recommendations put forward in the report, including seeing all remaining prisoners given a release date to work towards at their next Parole Review, are being considered by the government. Their director of campaigns Andrew Neilson said he was thrilled to see the CCRC take this 'hugely positive' step, adding: 'Justice is long overdue to the thousands of people serving IPP sentences in prisons and in the community, and we hope that this will be one of many similar policies that will finally end the suffering of this abolished sentence for good.'
