Paedo Postman Jailed 9 Years

A PAEDOPHILE ex-postman has been jailed for nine-and-a-half years for a string of “vile” sex crimes against vulnerable young girls.

And Peter Stafford-Simpson went to jail with stinging criticism from a judge.

Judge Rodney Jameson QC said one of the most distressing aspects of the trial was watching a now young woman “struggling to cope to relive the ordeal” that she had been turned into a virtual “child prostitute” by Stafford-Simpson.

Stafford-Simpson, 48, lured young girls to perform sex acts on him by offering them cash and alcohol. He later asked them to urinate in a jar and his mouth, the court heard.

He was sentenced yesterday at Leeds Crown Court for committing 18 sexual offences against teenage girls between 2006 and 2011 including sex with a child.

He had earlier been cleared of three counts of raping a 15-year-old girl.

Stafford-Simpson, of Fenton Road, Lockwood, claimed throughout the trial it was a case of mistaken identity, saying he had never even met any of the six girls who later gave evidence revealing his crimes.

But the judge told him: “These were despicable crimes. You were throughout a mature man and they involved seven different victims, six of them children.

“They were crimes carried out with breathtaking selfishness and an utter lack of scruples.

“The consequences of your repeated acts were devastating for many of your victims.

“You are either utterly dishonest in your denials to the police and court or entirely in denial.”

Prosecutor Rob Miers had told at the trial how one of the girls became ‘infatuated’ by Stafford-Simpson and he had sex with her knowing she was only 15.