Paedo clown gets 16yrs jail
Surveying the ruins Eye of the storm HURRICANE Michael has ripped through the South East of America, killing five people and destroying hundreds of homes.
Recorded as the third-strongest storm to hit the mainland US, 155mph winds snapped trees, ripped off roofs and sent floodwaters surging through towns.
Sarah Radney, 11, died after a tree fell on a home in Seminole County, Georgia. Four people were killed in Gadsden County, Florida, including a man who died after a tree fell on a home.
Blocked roads and fallen power lines delayed help.
The Category 4 hurricane, which struck on Wednesday, is now a trop- ical storm heading to the Carolinas. Linda Albrecht, a councillor in Mexico Beach, Florida, said it felt “like a nightmare”. Florida governor Rick Scott said: “It is the worst storm the Florida Panhandle has seen.” Around 375,000 people CARNAGE Battered sign were ordered to evacuate from the west of the state. More than 338,000 customers in Florida and 343,000 in Georgia were said to be without power.
Another 125,000 people were without electricity in the Carolinas and Alabama.
Lisa Dawn Parker, 51, of Panama City Beach, Florida, said: “The resort next to us is completely demolished.” A PAEDOPHILE who exploited his job as children’s entertainer to molest boys has been jailed for 16 years.
Charles Mason, 65, who performed in Hertfordshire as Marmaduke the Clown, was found guilty of 16 sex assaults on five males aged between 12 and 20 from 1985 and 2001.
Jailing him at St Albans crown court, Judge Marie Catterson told Mason, of Theydon Bois, Essex: “The effect of such abuse on those subjected to it is incalculable and profound.”