Sunday Mirror

Paedo’s jail term cut for toilet attack

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A PERVERT who tried to abuse a nine-year-old girl in a public toilet after smashing a cubicle door has had his jail term cut.

John Robert Newton, 29, was jailed for 12 years in 2015 after admitting a string of offences.

But court of appeal judge Mrs Justice McGowan reduced it to 10 years after saying the sentence was “excessive”.

Alcoholic Newton, of Workington, Cumbria, will serve at least two-thirds of his term then be on licence for eight years, when he will be monitored.

Newton had previously been caught after fitting a phone camera in a supermarke­t toilet ceiling.

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