'When he could completely ensure silence, he would sedate the victims in which case they would hjave no memory or very little memory of what he had been doing to them. It was that three-ponged tactic that allowed him to commit these horrendous offences. Mulgrew revealed: 'He had a very well established modus operandi and it was groom, threaten, sedate. 'Many will feel the nature of the offences against them, particularly male rape, is a taboo they just don't want to talk about.' 'They feel a loyalty to Mr Grimes in many ways because of the many in which he groomed them. Mulgrew said: 'One of the hardest aspects of trying a case of this nature is getting the victims to tell their accounts to a group of 12 strangers they've never met before when they are ashamed, angry. "Have a bit of vodka, have a bit of this, have a bit of cannabis." You can only imagine the offence that that would have.' Martin Mulgrew, Lead CPS Barrister, said: 'You can't imagine at the age of 11 being given crack cocaine. Many of those watching said they were left horrified by the programme last night, with one writing: 'There's a special place in hell being kept for that f******* beast on 24 Hours in Police Custody.'Įarlier this month – four decades after his first offence - Grimes was sentenced to 22 years in prison at Luton Crown Court for 11 counts of rape 8 counts of buggery, an offence which was re-classified as rape in 1994 11 counts of indecent assault, and 6 counts of indecency with a child.
It was only in 1986, after she saw an appeal on TV for the charity Childline, that she told her mother and they reported him to the police. Last night's episode of the Channel 4 show was the second in a two-part episode about the case of Carson Grimes, 65, who plied vulnerable young children, particularly boys, with alcohol and drugs, before raping and sexually assaulting them.Īccording to the Crown Prosecution Service, his reign of terror on Luton's children lasted 20 years - and is known as the largest of its kind in Bedfordshire Police's history.ĭuring the show, Natania Loftman, 44, who was first assaulted by Grimes when she was aged three in 1980, recalled spending six years being abused by the monster. 'Heartbroken' 24 Hours in Police Custody viewers were left 'physically sickened' as a sexual abuse victim described how her mother’s paedophile fiancé would 'put her on his lap' and sexually abuse her when she was three-years-old.
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