TWO depraved "partners in paedophilic abuse" have been jailed for a total of more than 14 years after they worked as a team to rape and photograph an 11-year-old girl.

Andrew Bristow, 47, of Clifton Villas, Manningham, Bradford, sexually abused the child while Michael Peters, 71, took the pictures, Bradford Crown Court heard today.

The pair groomed the girl with offers of money and cigarettes and told her she would get into trouble if she told anyone, prosecutor Simon Waley said.

Bristow, who pleaded guilty to twice raping the girl and sexually touching a ten-year-old girl, was imprisoned for eight and a half years.

Peters, of Athol Crescent, Ovenden, Halifax, admitted taking indecent photographs of the rapes and sexually touching a boy of 13 after police pieced together a shredded photograph of him and the boy naked together on a bed. He was jailed for six years.

Mr Waley said a police investigation into the men's activities led to an address in Halifax being searched on July 23, 2015, and indecent images and a bag of shredded paper seized.

Peters admitted to the police he had previously had a sexual interest in children but said he had destroyed the photos five years earlier.

The rape victim, now in her early 20s, said she met up with Bristow and Peters when she was a child and called at their home for cigarettes up to four times a week.

Peters then offered her money to remove her top and she was given £5 and told: "Nobody's going to know. If you tell anyone, you are going to get into trouble."

Bristow then sexually assaulted her in the bedroom and she was twice raped by him while Peters took photos.

Bristow abused the girl aged ten in 2006, texting her to ask to see her in her underwear and putting his hand down her shirt.

When he was arrested, Bristow told the police he had known Peters for 20 years and visited him up to five times a day.

Peters told investigating officers he and Bristow had lived together for 16 years.

Peters had a previous conviction dating from 1971 for outraging public decency, the court was told. He followed two boys in a hire car and made indecent suggestions to them.

Michael Collins, barrister for Bristow, said his client had been sexually abused as a boy.

He was depressed, with suicidal thoughts, and knew he faced a lengthy jail sentence.

He had no previous convictions for sexual offences and had not committed any offences since 2006.

Nicholas Clarke, for Peters, said he had been very honest with his probation officer, admitting living "in the shadows" as a predatory paedophile, between 1971 and 2005.

He was now too old and ill to commit any further offences.

Judge Jonathan Rose told Bristow and Peters: "There is not a single right thinking, decent person who will not be filled with anything but utter revulsion."

Judge Rose added that members of the public who learned that Peters had been sexually offending against children for 50 years would be revolted and would want him to die in prison but Peters could be sentenced only for the offences admitted on the charge sheet, not for what he had confessed to his probation officer.

Judge Rose told the pair: "You have descended to real depths of depravity."

He continued: "You have entered into a relationship together. You have become partners in paedophilic abuse."

Both men must register as sex offenders for the rest of their lives and both are subject to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order without limit of time.

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