She was victim of ‘coercive’ partner
THE barrister defending Joanne Foster told Chester Crown Court that her offending was as a result of a ‘coercive’ relationship with her fellow defendant Gary Keenan.
Mark Connor said that Foster had lost her former partner after a violent assault in Macclesfield town centre in 2009 and had later taken up with Keenan after he pursued her
He said: “There was an element of a coercive and controlling relationship where he wanted her to have sex with other men.”
He said his client ‘has lost everything’ and had received counselling since her arrest to which she had responded well.
For Keenan, Wayne Goldstein said his client had served ‘on the front line’ during his time as a soldier and had later been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Sentencing the pair, Judge Patrick Thompson said they had engaged in ‘depraved sexual activity in public’.
He also imposed a Sexual Harm Prevention Order on them both which will limit their activities for 10 years.
Speaking after the sentencing, Detective Constable Ian Forbes from Cheshire police’s paedophile investigation team, said: “This result and imprisonment of Foster and Keenan shows that our unit is dedicated to hunting down paedophiles and bringing them to justice.”