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Pc convicted of child sex charges
A policeman has been jailed for six years for sexually abusing six young girls at his home in a Leics village.
Pc Julian Glynn, 47, was found guilty of 10 counts of indecency with a child and two charges of indecent assault. He denied them all.
Jurors at Northampton Crown Court took less than an hour to return unanimous guilty verdicts on the ex-Royal Marine and Falklands veteran from Sapcote.
He was given 12 jail terms which totalled six years' detention.
'Sapcote Towers'
Glynn was accused of indecently assaulting five teenage girls at his village home between 1988 and 1994.
The jury of six men and six women heard Glynn's police house was a popular play area for youngsters because of the play equipment and climbing frames in its back garden.
His family is set to lose the police home they were living in following his conviction.
Glynn had nicknamed the garden equipment Sapcote Towers and said children always visited the family home during the summer months to play.
This was where the father of three, a serving officer with Leicestershire Police, tricked five girls, aged seven to 14, into "forfeit" games while his wife was out at work.
Five girls - now in their 20s - said Glynn, 47, would take them inside and ask them to take a blindfolded test before committing an act of indecency on them.
A sixth girl, then aged 15, accused him of an indecent assault while he helped train air cadets.
'Obscene pattern'
Sentencing Glynn, judge Peter Ross said: "You perverted a perfectly proper children's game to your own perverted use in order to obtain sexual gratification.
"These offences were planned by you, prepared for by you and, I am afraid, are all part of an obscene pattern.
"You saw children as sexual objects to be used and controlled for your own purposes."
After the case, Det Insp Liz Underwood, of Leicestershire Police's child protection unit, said: "I would like to pay tribute to the six young women who are victims in this case.
"They have been forced to resurrect painful memories of abuse that occurred many years ago when they were children.
"They have shown both courage and maturity in the way that they have come to court and given evidence at a trial. I know that none of them found that easy."
She said that detectives were "not aware" of any other victims in the village. "There is always the possibility and we would encourage them to come forward," she added.
Pension review
Ch Supt Paul Gibson, of the force's professional standards department, said Glynn's 20-year pension provision would be passed to Home Secretary David Blunkett, for a final say on withdrawing the allowance.
Glynn will also face a misconduct hearing where he could lose his job.
Mr Gibson said police would have to seize the couple's home but said the authorities would be "sensitive" to the family's needs before evicting them.
A policeman has been jailed for six years for sexually abusing six young girls at his home in a Leics village.
Pc Julian Glynn, 47, was found guilty of 10 counts of indecency with a child and two charges of indecent assault. He denied them all.
Jurors at Northampton Crown Court took less than an hour to return unanimous guilty verdicts on the ex-Royal Marine and Falklands veteran from Sapcote.
He was given 12 jail terms which totalled six years' detention.
'Sapcote Towers'
Glynn was accused of indecently assaulting five teenage girls at his village home between 1988 and 1994.
The jury of six men and six women heard Glynn's police house was a popular play area for youngsters because of the play equipment and climbing frames in its back garden.
His family is set to lose the police home they were living in following his conviction.
Glynn had nicknamed the garden equipment Sapcote Towers and said children always visited the family home during the summer months to play.
This was where the father of three, a serving officer with Leicestershire Police, tricked five girls, aged seven to 14, into "forfeit" games while his wife was out at work.
Five girls - now in their 20s - said Glynn, 47, would take them inside and ask them to take a blindfolded test before committing an act of indecency on them.
A sixth girl, then aged 15, accused him of an indecent assault while he helped train air cadets.
'Obscene pattern'
Sentencing Glynn, judge Peter Ross said: "You perverted a perfectly proper children's game to your own perverted use in order to obtain sexual gratification.
"These offences were planned by you, prepared for by you and, I am afraid, are all part of an obscene pattern.
"You saw children as sexual objects to be used and controlled for your own purposes."
After the case, Det Insp Liz Underwood, of Leicestershire Police's child protection unit, said: "I would like to pay tribute to the six young women who are victims in this case.
"They have been forced to resurrect painful memories of abuse that occurred many years ago when they were children.
"They have shown both courage and maturity in the way that they have come to court and given evidence at a trial. I know that none of them found that easy."
She said that detectives were "not aware" of any other victims in the village. "There is always the possibility and we would encourage them to come forward," she added.
Pension review
Ch Supt Paul Gibson, of the force's professional standards department, said Glynn's 20-year pension provision would be passed to Home Secretary David Blunkett, for a final say on withdrawing the allowance.
Glynn will also face a misconduct hearing where he could lose his job.
Mr Gibson said police would have to seize the couple's home but said the authorities would be "sensitive" to the family's needs before evicting them.
