SHAME SHAME
FORMER THANET CABBIE JAILED FOR OVER 15 YEARS FOR RAPE OFFENCES AGAINST CHILDREN
A former Thanet cabbie has been jailed for three offences of rape of a child and one of sexual activity with a child. Shane Aaron Keeler, from Ramsgate, appeared for sen- tencing at Canterbury Crown Court on 22 February. He was sentenced to 14 and a half years imprisonment, followed by one additional year on licence. Keeler had previous complaints of harassment, stalking and breaches of restraining and non molestation orders against him.
A victim who dropped their case in order for the rape offences against children to be brought forward said: “I’m glad I dropped my original case against him as if I didn’t, this current case wouldn’t have been brought to light, and due to the nature of this case as horrific as it is, he is off the streets for a lot longer. “The mental trauma is horrific.
I
just can’t believe everything he has done to people and (previously) got away with. “Until the restraining order and
charges of harassment, he had a clean record which is absolutely disgusting considering the amount of things found against him. But no-one was brave enough to go further. “I get so angry that for so long he has been let off. A true narcissist and bully. He is a nasty man who fooled many victims and manipulated many people.” Keeler had previously been stripped of his taxi licence by Thanet council after being deemed unfit to hold it.
PAEDOPHILE VALE TAXI/BUS DRIVER LEFT VICTIMS SUICIDAL AFTER ATTACKS SPANNING DECADES
A paedophile carried out a series of sexual assaults on vulnerable young girls over several decades. Dennis Yarr subjected his victims to sickening attacks leaving them suicidal, depressed and unable to feel safe around men. A hearing at Cardiff Crown Court on 20 March heard Yarr, who is Scottish and was working as a bus and taxi driver in the Vale of Glamorgan, accused his victims of lying before being found guilty of indecent assault and indecency with a child at trial in February this year. Judge Timothy Petts said Yarr had shown “no remorse” for his actions and described him as “manipulative and predatory”. The court heard Yarr, 63, of Westage-on-Sea, Kent, carried out a series of disgusting attacks on a young girl in the 1990s. This included touching inside her underwear and on one occasion
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penetrating her. He told his vic- tim not to tell anyone to stop her reporting the ordeal. Yarr was also found to have indecently assaulted another girl in the 1990s by encouraging her to get into his car before asking her to sit on his lap while he drove, at which point he touched her crotch area. The court also heard Yarr had carried out another offence on a girl when he was a teenager in the 1970s by getting her to sit on his lap and perform a sex act. He later pleaded guilty to indecent assault and was given a conditional discharge. South Wales Police began investigating Yarr after one of his victims came forward. He was arrested in Margate, Kent, in
December 2020 and two more victims later came forward. Yarr was found guilty of four counts of indecent assault and one count of indecency with a child following a week-long trial at Cardiff Crown Court last month. Judge Timothy Petts said Yarr had caused “severe
psychological
harm” to his victims and that there was “very little” to mitigate what he had done. He said it was noted that the defendant “showed no remorse” and was “manipulative and predatory” in how he carried out the attacks and tried to prevent his victims from reporting what had happened. Yarr was sentenced to seven years in prison and an extra year on licence. He will be registered as a sex offender for life. He was also banned from working with children or vulnerable adults and a sexual harm prevention order was made.
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