Former Hounslow School Employee Guilty Of Sex Offences
Given a seventeen year jail sentence for crimes against two teenage girls
A former employee at a school in Hounslow Borough who sexually abused two underage girls has been jailed for seventeen years this week at Isleworth Crown Court.
30-year-old Stephen Thomas, of Sedgecombe Avenue in Kenton Thomas had been found guilty on Friday, 20 January of four counts of sexual activity with a child, one count of rape of a female under 16 years of age and one count of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, following a two week trial at the same court.
In January 2015, Thomas started a sexual relationship with a 13-year-old girl from Hounslow. The girl's father had suspicions of sexual activity between the two after seeing his messages on his daughter's Facebook account.
On 8 June 2015, the father caught Thomas sexually assaulting his daughter and he called the police. Thomas was arrested that day and bailed pending further enquiries.
During the investigation, it was reported that Thomas had a sexual relationship in 2008 with a 15-year-old girl who was a pupil at the Hounslow school where he worked at the time. He was no longer working at the school when he started abusing the 13-year-old girl. The name of the school has not been published by the police.
Thomas was charged with various sexual offences on 22 April last year relating to both victims including a charge of rape against the younger girl..
Detective Constable Phil Cotter, the investigating officer from the Met's Sexual Offences, Exploitation and Child Abuse Command, said,"These offences committed by Thomas are of an extremely serious nature and have had a significant impact on the lives of the victims and their family.
"He committed these offences whilst in a position of trust and manipulated the victims to satisfy his own means. I hope the sentence gives the victims and their family some sort of closure for what has been a horrendous ordeal."
April 12, 2017