Boy, 10, attacked by sex offender Shaun Tudor after he was allowed out unsupervised
- Shaun Tudor, 43, sexually assaulted and tried to rape victim
- Spent entire adult life in psychiatric hospitals including two spells in maximum security Rampton
- Had previously assaulted two young boys
- Parents: ‘Why was Tudor allowed out unaccompanied?’
- Judge tells him he is unlikely ever to be freed
By Katherine Faulkner
Last updated at 9:53 PM on 16th November 2011
Dangerous: Shaun Tudor has been jailed indefinitely for the attempted rape and sexual assault of a ten-year-old boy in Rainworth, Nottinghamshire
A convicted sex offender attacked a ten-year-old boy just minutes after being allowed to walk out of his secure unit unsupervised.
Shaun Tudor, who has spent 23 years in psychiatric institutions, was granted unescorted leave even though he had a history of attacking boys – and once did so while on leave from another unit.
In his latest attack, Tudor dragged his terrified victim into some bushes within ten minutes of being let out.
The 43-year-old, who completed two spells totalling seven years at high-security mental institution Rampton, then sexually assaulted and attempted to rape the boy.
Yesterday, at Nottingham Crown Court, Tudor was jailed indefinitely over the attack, in Rainworth, Nottinghamshire.
The court heard that it had left the family of Tudor’s victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, in ‘turmoil’, and forced them to leave the area.
After sentencing, the family’s solicitor, Martin Lee, said: ‘They feel terribly let down by the system that allowed Tudor to be placed at this unit in a residential area. And they have other questions. Why was Tudor, with his record, allowed out of the unit unaccompanied?’
Tudor struck on a ‘sunny afternoon’ last July, the court heard.
Tudor told the two boys he was ‘looking at nature’ then pretended to fall over. When the victim went to help him up, he grabbed him and carried him off into bushes and carried out sex attack
His victim was playing with a friend in woods 250 yards from his home.
After being released from the nearby St Andrew’s Healthcare Centre on a two-hour leave of absence, Tudor spotted the boys and told them he was ‘looking at nature’. He then pretended to fall over, and when his victim went to help him up, Tudor grabbed him and carried him into bushes, out of the sight of his friend.
There, Tudor attacked the boy, before threatening to ‘track him down and kill him’ if he reported what had happened.
The boy returned to his friend and initially didn’t say anything.
Answers wanted: Tudor had been given unsupervised leave from the St Andrew’s Healthcare Centre (pictured) in Mansfield when the attack took place
Predator: Tudor has spent his whole adult life in psychiatric units including two spells at maximum-security Rampton Hospital (pictured) in Nottinghamshire
’The attack on their son has had a devastating effect on their family. Why was Tudor, with his record, allowed out
of the unit unaccompanied?’
But when he got home, he began sobbing and told his horrified mother, who called the police.
Tudor was picked up eight hours later, around five miles away. After his arrest, he told officers: ‘I’ve been doing so well for the last 24 years.’
Tudor had indecently assaulted young boys on two previous occasions – in 1984, when he was just 16, and then again four years later.
Tudor was convicted of indecent assault over the second attack, on a seven-year-old boy, which happened while he was on weekend leave from a psychiatric hospital in Birmingham.
Warning: A judge told Tudor at Nottingham Crown Court (pictured) that he would serve at least four years and 10 months before being considered for release, but said it was unlikely he would be freed
‘A PREFERENCE FOR YOUNG BOYS’: TUDOR’S OFFENDING BEGAN AT 16
Tudor first came to the attention of the authorities in 1984 at the age of 16 when he was given a care order for indecently assaulting a six-year-old boy, Nottingham Crown Court heard.
Four years later, he launched a horrific attack on a seven-year-old boy while on weekend leave while being treated at a psychiatric hospital in Birmingham.
The court heard he approached the youngster, who was on a bike, and marched him down to a river where he ordered him to remove his trousers.
But when the frightened boy soiled himself, Tudor became angry and held his head under water while striking him with a rock.
He was convicted of indecent assault and given his first hospital order.
Since then, Tudor has never been free, spending his entire adult life in different psychiatric hospitals across the UK.
He was in Rampton from 1988 to 1995, returning for a second spell in 1998.
Tudor was moved to St Andrew’s in Nottinghamshire from a low security unit in Northamptonshire when it was reclassified as a ‘locked unit’.
Steven Taylor, mitigating, said his ‘grading risk had gone up and down under different regimes’ over the years.
He added: ‘His preference clearly is for young boys and he was unable to control himself on this latest occasion.
‘He probably convinced himself that he would be able to manage in the community.’
He was sent to Rampton, the high security mental institution which has treated ‘Angel of Death’ nurse Beverley Allitt, Soham murderer Ian Huntley and serial killer Mark Rowntree. He was there until 1995, returning for a spell in 1998.
The court heard Tudor had been moved to the medium-to-low security St Andrew’s Centre eight months before his latest attack. It was also told that in a pre-sentence report, Tudor said: ‘I will definitely reoffend against children if I am released into the community.’
Steven Taylor, defending, said that Tudor ‘plainly was not safe to be out on unescorted leave’, and that ‘someone at St Andrew’s had taken a chance’.
But Judge John Burgess said he believed there was an ‘element of deviousness’ about how Tudor answered questions which allowed him to be granted leave, and that he ‘appeared to have learned what to say to impress’.
Judge Burgess said he was imposing a jail term, instead of the hospital orders Tudor had been subject to in the past, because ‘everything had been tried and not worked’.
He handed Tudor, who admitted attempted rape and sexual assault, an indeterminate sentence for public protection with a recommendation he serve at least four years and ten months before being considered for release.
In reality, the judge said, it was unlikely he would ever be freed.
A spokesman for St Andrew’s Healthcare, a not-for-profit mental health charity, said: ‘St Andrew’s wants to reassure the community of its commitment to good practice and that an incident of this type is exceptionally rare.’
He said the decision to allow Tudor unescorted leave was ‘clinically appropriate, based on the information available at the time’.
Detective Inspector Caroline Racher, of Nottinghamshire Police, said: ‘We…have been working with the management at St Andrew’s to ensure there can be no repetition of such a terrible incident.’
Shamed peer allowed back into House of Lords despite failing to repay a penny of her £125,000 false expenses
- Baroness Uddin owns three properties with her husband but says she is ‘too poor’ to repay money
- Peer had ‘never been seen’ at main home in Maidstone
- Fears she will use tax-free £300-per-day House of Lords allowance to slowly pay back £125k
By Kirsty Walker
Last updated at 5:23 PM on 13th November 2011
Shamed: Baroness Uddin could return to the House of Lords without repaying £125,000 in expenses
Shamed Labour peer Baroness Uddin will be allowed to return to her seat in the House of Lords despite failing to repay a penny of the money she was fined for cheating on her expenses.
Lady Uddin, the country’s first female peer, was booted out of the Lords for 18 months and ordered to repay £125,000. Despite owning three properties with her husband, she claims she is now too poor to repay the money.
It has now emerged that the Lords authorities are powerless to prevent Lady Uddin, whose suspension ends in April, from returning to the House of Lords.
A ruling by the committee for privileges and conduct in the Lords says that it would be illegal to make her return conditional on the repayment of the money.
It has warned that such an arrangement would amount to a permanent ban and this would infringe her ‘right’ as a peer to be called to the House by the Queen at the start of a new Parliament.
Lady Uddin was exposed as a cheat in May 2009 after it was reported that she had never been seen at her designated ‘main home’ in Kent.
The small flat in Maidstone allowed her to claim £174 a night while she was actually living at her family home in London, provided by a housing association.
Lady Uddin has always denied wrongdoing, but an investigation by the Lords authorities found she had deliberately exploited the system to boost her income.
The failure by the authorities to prevent the peer returning to the Lords has angered her fellow peers.
They fear that Lady Uddin wants to use her peers’ tax-free allowance of £300 a day to gradually pay back her debts. If she attended the House of Lords frequently, she could pay back all £125,000 in three years.
‘Main home’: Baroness Uddin’s property in Maidstone, Kent, which she listed as her primary residence. Neighbours said she was never seen there
This would mean that the disgraced peer would end up repaying taxpayers with their own money.
Liberal Democrat peer Lord Oakeshott said: ‘It can’t be right to let a disgraced peer back before they have repaid their bogus expenses. If you do not pay your fines, you go to prison.’
His view is shared by a sub-committee on Lords’ conduct which has warned that she should not be allowed to come back until the money has been repaid.
The subcommittee, chaired by former M15 head Baroness Manningham-Buller, said in a report earlier this month: ‘We do not consider a member should be able to return to service of the house while repayment of amounts which were wrongfully claimed is still due.
‘This risks bringing the house into further disrepute, especially if the member concerned is able to claim further attendance allowances from the public purse.’
Fellow expenses cheats in the Lords have either paid back the money or have vowed to do so before they return. Lord Hanningfield has promised to pay back the £30,000 he falsely claimed, while fellow Conservative Lord Taylor of Warwick has already paid back the full amount of £24,000.
Lady Uddin’s main home is in Wapping, East London. She pays reduced rent as it is a housing association property intended for people on low incomes.
She still owns the flat in Maidstone, which has been advertised for let for £695 a month. Meanwhile, her husband owns a mansion in Bangladesh which is decorated with Italian marble and cost around £140,000.
Lady Uddin has declined to comment. When the scandal broke, she insisted that she had stayed regularly in the Kent home.
The Crown Prosecution Service announced on 10 March 2010 that Baroness Uddin would not face any charges on the grounds that a senior parliamentary official ruled that a Peers ‘main house’ might be a place they visit only once a month.
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