Former mayor jailed for sex with 13-year-old girl

A former town mayor has been jailed for nine years after a court heard he had sex with a 13-year-old girl and let her share a bed with him and his wife.

Simon Thornton, 46, a former Tory councillor, told police who arrested him: “You know I am the Mayor of Godalming?”

Guildford Crown Court heard yesterday that Thornton, from Bordon, Hampshire, had admitted to 22 charges, including 13 counts of sexual activity with a child aged over 13 and nine counts of taking indecent images.