UK’s worst woman paedophile banned from 3 counties
As she’s set to be released from jail in days...
BRiTAiN’s most notorious female paedophile will be subjected to a huge exclusion zone banning her from at least three counties after her release from jail.
in an unprecedented open letter to Vanessa George’s victims, the Chief Probation Officer yesterday assured family members that she will be subjected to ‘extremely strict’ restrictions when she leaves prison within days.
sonia Crozier said she shares the ‘disgust’ at the paedophile’s crimes, which she described as ‘horrifying’.
George, 49, a former nursery worker, was jailed for a minimum of seven years in 2009 after she sexually abused up to 30 babies and toddlers in her care. she photographed herself abusing the children at a nursery in Plymouth and then sent the images to other perverts.
But in July, despite outrage from her victims and MPs, a Parole Board panel ordered her release.
Efforts to keep her in prison have now been exhausted and she is due to be freed before the end of this month.
in the letter, Miss Crozier said she knew George’s release was worrying to the people of Plymouth, ‘where memories of her abuse are still vivid and frightening’.
But she said the Parole Board had imposed an ‘unusually large’ exclusion zone preventing the criminal from returning to all of Devon and Cornwall. The board had said it will also ‘consider sympathetically any further requests for exclusion zones, to prevent any victim from coming into contact inadvertently with George’.
it is understood that George has already been banned from a third British county and has been told she must avoid up to 20 other places in the UK upon her release.
One of George’s family members, who does not wish to be named, said: ‘There are so many people who feel very strongly about what she did. it’s no wonder they are stopping her from coming back to Devon. it’s probably safer in prison for her.’
Miss Crozier’s letter, sent to local news publication Plymouth Live, said George has also been banned from working with children again, will be on the sex offenders’ register for the rest of her life, and will not be allowed unsupervised contact with any children.
‘if she breaches any of these conditions or if her probation officer thinks there is an increasing chance she might re-offend – she can be immediately recalled to prison,’ the letter said. ‘ Nothing can take away the pain caused to victims and the fear felt by the community about her release – but i hope that your readers will find some reassurance in the extremely strict safeguards which are in place and the services available to any victim who wants them.’
For the past ten years parents who sent their children to Little
‘Still vivid and frightening’
Ted’s Nursery in Plymouth have endured the agony of not knowing whether they were abused by 18-stone George.
A mother of two teenage daughters, she admitted 13 sexual assault charges, but refused to name which of the 30 babies and toddlers on a police shortlist she had attacked.
Miss Crozier said ‘ one of the most tragic elements’ of the case was the fact that police are still unable to identify which children were abused, leaving hundreds of people in the dark about whether or not their child was a victim.
she assured these families that it was not too late to contact a victim service to request support.
Miss Crozier said any parents who ask for support will be updated about any developments in George’s case.
she added: ‘This includes being notified once she has been released and whether she is ever recalled to prison for a breach of licence conditions.
‘if she is ever recalled, they will be given the opportunity to make a statement to the Parole Board about how the crime impacted them and will be able to express their views on licence conditions.
‘ Exceptionally, this will also apply for George’s co-defendants in this case, Colin Blanchard and Angela Allen, when they become eligible for parole consideration.’