Extradited paedophile professor on rape charges

Fugitive: Julian Myerscough A FORMER law lecturer arrested in Romania almost three years after he fled his Crown Court trial in England has been returned to the UK where he has been charged with 11 further offences.

Bolton man Julian Myerscough (56), a former criminal law lecturer at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, went on the run from Ipswich Crown Court in September 2015 before a jury found him guilty of downloading indecent images of children.

Shortly after he went missing, he was convicted of 13 counts of possession of indecent images of a child and three counts of breaching a sexual harm prevention order.

He was sentenced in his absence at Chelmsford Crown Court last year to three years and six months’ imprisonment and a sexual harm prevention order.

Myerscough, whose extradition was approved at a Romanian court, arrived back in the UK on Monday and was due to appear before Ipswich Magistrates Court yesterday charged with 11 offences alleged to have happened between 2001 and 2010, Suffolk Police said yesterday.

The fresh offences include two counts of raping a girl under the age of 13, as well as four counts of assault against a girl under the age of 13 and four counts of indecently assaulting a girl under the age of 14. The remaining charge relates to the assault/ill-treating of a child to cause unnecessary suffering.

Myerscough initially fled to Dublin in October 2015 where he was subsequently arrested but was later released from prison after thwarting extradition efforts with a series of appeals.