Second life sentence for ‘sadistic’ paedophile

A “COMMITTED and sadistic paedophile” serving a life sentence for rape was convicted of further offences after he wrote a story in prison called Monsters Do Exist.

Cardiff Crown Court heard Aaron Hughes attended a writing class in prison and penned the document described by prosecutors as a cross between memoirs and “extreme sexual fantasy”.

After the work came to light and was handed to police, officers located three further victims who were all teenagers at the time and interviewed them.

Caroline Rees, prosecuting, said the writing was “extremely distressing”.

Ms Rees said: “This was the defendant’s writing about serious sexual offending in explicit and unimaginably horrific detail.”

She told the court the document was written by “a committed and sadistic paedophile”.

Prosecutors said the first victim described himself as an “unhappy child” and the judge noted he was vulnerable to the defendant, who was nearly a decade older than him at the time.

The court heard Hughes gave the boy alcohol, cigarettes and cannabis and asked him to marry him.

The second victim said the defendant promised him gifts and told him he loved him before touching him sexually.

Ms Rees said: “He did not understand what was going on.”

The third victim told police he had run away from home and thought the defendant “seemed nice” but later realised how he was manipulated.

Prosecutors said Hughes told the boy he had worked for the police as a karate instructor – lies intended to gain his trust.

The court heard the defendant and his then-boyfriend Niall Kemble were playing cards and gave the boy alcohol and cannabis.

When he lost, they told him he would have to carry out “a forfeit” and Hughes raped him while Kemble watched.

Kemble, 26, from Llanedeyrn, was jailed for six months in November 2016 for his involvement in the offence.

Ms Rees said the victim felt “dirty” and “in shock”.

Asked by police how the incident made him feel, he replied: “Angry. I didn’t realise it had but it has affected me all this time. I tried to block it out but that does not help.”

He added: “It’s disgusting he can just take what he wants and does not have to live with the consequences.”

Hughes was arrested in June 2015 and initially denied the allegations, saying his victims were “lying” based on their own “fantasies”. He refused to attend court when his case was listed last November and then changed his pleas five days before his trial was due to start.

Hughes was sentenced in February 2000 to five years in a young offender institution for three counts of raping a child. The court heard three defendants were involved and raped the child 90 times while he was tied up.

Ms Rees said he then repeatedly breached a Sexual Offending Prevention Order.

He was sentenced in May 2014 for two counts of raping a three-year-old child and making indecent images of the incident.

The prosecutor said: “The child was heavily sedated on prescription medication.”

Hughes was jailed for life with a minimum term of 12 years.

Susan Ferrier, defending, said her client was scared to leave prison in case the offending happened again.

Judge Daniel Williams said: “The harm done to each of these three young men has been immeasurable.”

A report by the Probation Service noted he had been watching television programmes involving children while in prison.

Hughes, 35, pleaded guilty to five counts relating to the period between 2004-08 – raping a child, engaging in sexual activity with a child, and causing a child to engage in sexual activity.

Judge Williams told the defendant: “Your guilty pleas do not reveal a shred of remorse.” He passed a new sentence of life imprisonment with a minimum term of 11 years.