Father of Brianna Ghey's teen killer is jailed for sex offences committed just days before his son's murder trial began | 6VTUP12 | 2024-03-02 06:08:01
Kyle Ratcliffe, 36, the dad of
THE father of considered one of Brianna Ghey's killers has been jailed for youngster intercourse offences.
Kyle Ratcliffe, 36, the dad of Eddie Ratcliffe, 16, was at this time caged for 15 months after admitting two counts of exposure.
He also admitted one rely of taking an indecent photo of a child.
The daddy, from Leigh, Greater Manchester, exposed himself twice to two teenage women as he drove past a bus stop last yr and in addition had a video on his telephone of a kid getting changed.
The publicity offences have been dedicated just days earlier than his son Eddie and Scarlett Jenkinson's murder trial began on November 27.
The pair stabbed Brianna Ghey, a transgender woman, 28 occasions after luring her to Culcheth Linear Park, in Warrington, Cheshire, on February 11, 2023.
Kyle Ratcliffe – a truck firm manager who beforehand ran a kickboxing fitness center in Leigh – was charged with three offences on January 17.
The fees got here simply two weeks before killers Ratcliffe and Jenkinson have been jailed for a minimum of 20 and 22 years respectively.
Prosecuting, Michelle Brown advised Manchester Crown Court how on November 22 and 23 last yr, Kyle Ratcliffe drove previous a bus stop in Salford in his Maserati.
Two 16-year-old women have been there both mornings and as Ratcliffe drove past at round 7.45am he made eye contact with them.
Through the incidents, which lasted a "matter of seconds", they noticed him masturbating and on the second occasion, one of the women took an image of the automotive and its registration plate.
VIDEO OF CHILD
The incident left their mother and father furious, the courtroom heard.
After his arrest on December 15, Ratcliffe claimed he had a "medical situation" which meant he may have the bathroom at brief notice, which prompted him to the touch his genitals.
When cops seized his telephone they discovered a video – considered a couple of months previous – of a teenage woman, between 12-15 years previous, being secretly filmed as she received modified.
He claimed he was despatched the video on Snapchat.
Additional checks of his telephone discovered web searches referring to "youngsters of faculty age" and he was arrested on January 16,
At his sentencing on Thursday, decide John Potter informed Ratcliffe, showing by way of video hyperlink from jail, it was "clear" he has a "sexual attraction in the direction of feminine youngsters and teenagers".
The decide additionally stated his son's sentencing provided "no excuse by any means" for the married father's crimes.
Jailing Ratcliffe for 15 months and ordering him to signal the intercourse offenders register for 10 years, he added: "What you have been doing was clearly abusive of your two victims, and could have had an enduring impact upon every of them.
"The reality is, Mr Ratcliffe, you made a deliberate choice to behave in this abusive, danger taking method creating the potential of hurt to others."
Ratcliffe was beforehand handed a suspended jail sentence for masturbating in entrance of a 16-year-old woman while driving his automotive in 2008.
At Ratcliffe and Jenkinson's sentencing listening to, trial decide Mrs Justice Yip imposed reporting restrictions to cease the media revealing Kyle Ratcliffe's offending.
This was so as to avoid prejudice to his case whereas its consequence remained undetermined.
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