\n Andrew Speers from Bell Court in Northfield\u00a0was jailed for 25 years on Thursday, July 10, after being found guilty of multiple offences.\n<\/p>\n
\n The 53-year-old will remain on the sex offender register for the rest of his life.\n<\/p>\n
\n Speers was arrested in July last year after a warrant was carried out at his home address.\n<\/p>\n
\n His digital devices were seized and were found to contain a substantial amount child sexual abuse material.\n<\/p>\n
\n Following further investigation from West Midlands Police’s\u00a0OCSET (Online Child Sexual Exploitation Team), the 53-year-old man was also arrested for raping a child.\n<\/p>\n
\n Speers pleaded guilty to making indecent images of children, but not guilty to multiple offences of raping a child.\n<\/p>\n
\n Following a trial at Birmingham Crown Court, the 53-year-old was found guilty in March this year.\n<\/p>\n
\n A spokesperson for West Midlands Police said: “This was a truly horrendous case, but thankfully due to the bravery of the victim coming forward, we were able to ensure Speers has now been jailed.\n<\/p>\n
\n “We would encourage anyone who has suffered sex offences to come forward and tell their story.\n<\/p>\n
\n “We know that reporting rape, sexual assault or another sexual crime like indecent exposure or upskirting can be daunting.\n<\/p>\n
\n “We’re here to support you whether you’re ready to report it to us or if you’d prefer to talk to someone else.\n<\/p>\n
\n “If you want to talk it through before deciding whether to report to us, you can talk to a Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC), an Independent Sexual Violence Advisor service (ISVA) or another support service”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andrew Speers from Bell Court in Northfield\u00a0was jailed for 25 years on Thursday, July 10, after being found…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-293365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}