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Daily Mail
6 hours ago
- Daily Mail
Showjumper, 37, accused of having threesome with fellow rider and an underage girl had a 'mutual understanding' with this girlfriend that he could have sex with other women, court hears
A showjumper accused of having a threesome with a fellow rider and an underage girl had a 'mutual understanding' with his girlfriend he could have sex with other women, a court has heard. Guy Simmonds, 37, and Rebecca Dimes, 34, agreed they could sleep with other people in their relationship as long as she 'did not want to know anything about it'. The horse-riding instructor and fellow rider Lauren Jarvis, 26, are alleged to have had sex with the schoolgirl last year, despite knowing she was under 16, and agreeing to a 'pact of silence'. The court heard there had been a 'clear element of grooming behaviour' from the 37-year-old before the alleged threesome took place, even though he had 'no doubt at all' about the victim's age. It was previously heard Simmonds called himself 'daddy' in messages to the youngster and would also use a horse trailer to have 'repeated' sex with her while Miss Dimes was away. Simmonds, who ran a riding school in the Monmouthshire village of Undy, is accused of six counts of engaging in sexual activity with a child, while Jervis, from Newport, faces one count of the same offence. Both have denied all charges against them. Miss Dimes, who works in horse transportation, met Simmonds on Tinder before the pair sparked a relationship and moved in together in 2022. Prosecutor James Hartson asked her: 'You say there was an understanding that he might stray. Did he say "This is how it is going to be?"' Giving evidence, Miss Dimes replied: 'No. It was a mutual understanding.' She told Cardiff Crown Court she believed the schoolgirl victim would tell 'stories' - and would often talk about sex. She said: 'She always had a lot of stories about friends or people she had fallen out with.' Mr Hartson asked the girlfriend if she had been 'coached or manipulated' by Simmonds over what to say - but she replied: 'No.' The prosecutor said Simmonds also made a 'continued and deliberate decision' to lie to police after being asked 39 times about the whereabouts of his mobile phone. This was after he threw it away, telling officers he had thrown it into a bin a Tesco supermarket because it was broken and claimed it would have been the 'magic key' to getting the charges dropped. But he later claimed he didn't know what happened to the phone after he misplaced it before going to the police station. Mr Hartson said: 'You did have it when you went to your mother's at the time of your arrest, but by the time you arrived at the police station it had vanished. Where did it go?' Simmonds replied: 'If I knew that I would have told police.' Simmonds also told police he either burned or threw away the mattress which the complainant alleges he abused her on in the back of his lorry because it was 'covered in faeces and urine from mice'. In the interview he claimed he did not know the girl, who is now 16, was going to be at Jarvis' home when he visited on the day of a 'so-called threesome'. But the court also heard he had sent Jarvis a text shortly beforehand asking: '[The child's name] there yet? Don't want to turn up the same time her mum drops her off.' Simmonds had messaged Jarvis '5.30 for fun?' before the alleged sexual activity. When Jarvis wrote that the child had 'literally just walked in', he replied: 'I'll be five minutes.' After the alleged abuse, Simmonds texted Jarvis: 'You both loved that haha.' The court heard Jarvis went on to text him: 'Yeah, you missed round two [wink emoji] xx.' Simmonds answered 'no comment' when asked to explain the messages, before arguing that 'everything can be taken out of context'. Pressed on why he had sent the texts, he said: 'In hindsight I can't remember. It was nothing to do with having sex with [the child] or Lauren.' Earlier in the interview, Simmonds claimed he went to the house that day only to see Jarvis, and had not known the child would be there. 'They were just sort of having a girls' night, you know, films and stuff, which wasn't my scene,' he said. 'So I made my excuses and left after about 10 minutes.' The girl alleges Simmonds took her into a horsebox on a number of occasions and penetrated her in the full knowledge she was underage and the abuse culminated in the 'so-called threesome'. Simmonds later made calls from prison asking his mother to pay off the victim's 'fickle' family. He said: 'There is £20,000 in my account. Just f***ing give it to them. I don't care. £20,000 now and then £10,000 a year for three years.' Simmonds denied any sexual contact with the victim and claimed the girl had faked WhatsApp conversations relating to the alleged threesome. He told police that Jarvis was a 'friend with benefits' and they had sex about four times. Following the alleged threesome, he messaged Jarvis to say: 'Hey, I have a feeling that she has said about us. If anyone asks for sake of both of us nothing ever happened that night xx.' But he claimed he sent this message because the girl had been 'texting everybody absolute c**p' and 'being a nuisance' in a row over other females she believed were close to him. Simmonds is accused of six counts of sexual activity with a child and Jarvis faces one charge of sexual activity with a child. Simmonds, of Undy, Gwent, and Jarvis, of Newport, deny all charges. The trial, before judge Lucy Crowther, continues.
Daily Mail
a day ago
- Daily Mail
Showjumper, 37, threw away mobile phone and burned mattress days before being arrested over threesome with rider, 26, and underage girl, court told
A showjumper threw away his mobile phone and burned his mattress just days before being arrested over having a threesome with an underage girl and a horse rider, a court was told. Horse-riding instructor Guy Simmonds, 37, and fellow rider Lauren Jarvis, 26, allegedly had sex with the schoolgirl in January last year despite knowing she was under 16. Simmonds, who ran a riding school in the Monmouthshire village of Undy, is accused of six counts of engaging in sexual activity with a child. His co-defendant Jarvis, from Newport, faces one count of the same offence. Both have denied all charges against them. The jury at Cardiff Crown Court was this week played a police interview in which Simmonds claimed he threw his phone away at a Tesco supermarket because it was broken. Simmonds also told police he either burned or threw away the mattress which the complainant alleges he abused her on in the back of his lorry because it was 'covered in faeces and urine from mice'. In the interview he claimed he did not know the girl, who is now 16, was going to be at Jarvis' home when he visited on the day of a 'so-called threesome'. But the court also heard he had sent Jarvis a text shortly beforehand asking: '[The child's name] there yet? Don't want to turn up the same time her mum drops her off.' As the interview turned to the subject of the texts, Simmonds answered 'no comment' to many questions. When the officer asked why he did not want to see the girl's mother, he claimed they'd 'had a few words' previously but declined to explain further. Simmonds had messaged Jarvis '5.30 for fun?' before the alleged sexual activity. When Jarvis wrote that the child had 'literally just walked in', he replied: 'I'll be five minutes.' After the alleged abuse, Simmonds texted Jarvis: 'You both loved that haha.' The court heard Jarvis went on to text him: 'Yeah, you missed round two [wink emoji] xx.' Simmonds answered 'no comment' when asked to explain the messages, before arguing that 'everything can be taken out of context'. Pressed on why he had sent the texts, he said: 'In hindsight I can't remember. It was nothing to do with having sex with [the child] or Lauren.' Earlier in the interview, Simmonds claimed he went to the house that day only to see Jarvis, and had not known the child would be there. 'They were just sort of having a girls' night, you know, films and stuff, which wasn't my scene,' he said. 'So I made my excuses and left after about 10 minutes.' Asked if he had thought it was strange Jarvis was spending time with someone so young, he replied: 'I think, especially with girls, you tend to have quite an age gap between, you know, friends. If they're just doing normal 'girly night in' things, to me it wouldn't be something to raise.' The girl alleges Simmonds took her into a horsebox on a number of occasions and penetrated her in the full knowledge she was underage. The court heard the abuse culminated in the 'so-called threesome'. In the police interview, Simmonds described Jarvis as a 'friend with benefits'. He said he had sex with her about four times but then 'thought better of it' and decided to 'concentrate on what I've got with my partner'. Simmonds claimed he could not have been 'any more frustrated' that days before his arrest he had thrown away his phone, which he alleged was broken. Asked if he had destroyed it to conceal evidence, he replied: 'I haven't.' The girl alleges he had intercourse with her on a mattress in the back of a lorry. Simmonds responded that he had only had sex with his partner on the mattress, which he claimed he had since burned or thrown away due to its condition. The interviewing officer also asked about a towel found in the lorry. Simmonds said this was likely to have his semen on it but that this would only have been because he handled it after masturbating. Asked if the towel would have the child's DNA on it, he replied: 'I don't know. She could have used it to dry her hands.' He went on to say people sometimes took shelter in the lorry when it was raining heavily. He was also quizzed on a message in which he told Jarvis: 'Hey, I have a feeling that [name of the child] has said about us. If anyone asks for sake of both of us nothing ever happened that night xx.' Jarvis replied: 'Hey, who's she told? Oh God has she really, what's she trying to do, make our lives hell? Of course I will xx.' Simmonds claimed he had sent this message because the girl had been 'texting everybody absolute c**p' and 'being a nuisance' in a row over other females whom she believed to be close to him. Asked why he was so worried about a 'teenage melodrama' that he decided to message Jarvis, he replied: 'I was just trying to get people to not carry on with this stuff.' He claimed police had been involved after the child allegedly harassed another female. The girl claimed she consented to have sex with Simmonds the first time but that 'the other times he would just sort of expect me to follow him and it would go from there'. Simmonds denies any sexual activity with her. She alleged there was an occasion when Simmonds was on top of her and he took out his phone. There was allegedly a flash from the phone, which made her feel 'adamant' he was 'having sex with me but obviously videoing at the same time'. Simmonds denies ever doing so. Simmonds also claims the victim lied about the encounter before creating bogus WhatsApp conversations after he rejected her. He said the girl may have used a 'pranking' app to create the messages or even messaged herself from another device while using his name. He said: 'I believe the messages to be fake.' When quizzed about his concerns about not turning up at the same time at her mother, he told the court he was only intending on having sex with Jarvis after the pair were involved in an affair - and he wanted to make sure he was not spotted. He said: 'It was solely because I was cheating on my partner and I know the girl and her mum knew my partner.' Simmonds told the court the girl had previously made him and his partner feel 'uncomfortable' by using 'inappropriate' language about sex. He said: 'There were rumours that she was telling people that I had been trying it on with her. I was worried. 'The horse world is very small. I wanted to keep my reputation. She was a very volatile person.' Prosecutor James Hartson said Simmonds added the underage teenage girl on Facebook and said: 'Thanks for accepting' before being told her age. The jury has heard how Simmonds wanted to give a £50,000 'pay off' to the family of the girl when he was arrested. He allegedly called his mother from prison to ask her to take £20,000 from his account to pay the family of the schoolgirl. A court heard Simmonds was recorded in phone calls saying: 'They are so fickle. Buying that f***ing mum will work. 'There is £20,000 in my account. Just f***ing give it to them. I don't care.' He added: '£20,000 now and then £10,000 a year for three years.' Earlier in the trial, prosecutor James Hartson told the jury the case was not one of rape nor of sexual assault but of sexual activity with a child, an offence enacted to 'protect children from sexual exploitation by adults and to protect them from themselves - it is as simple as that'. Jarvis denies any sexual activity took place involving herself and the schoolgirl, although she has alleged the girl wanted it to happen. Text messages on the subject were 'banter' and a 'wind up', according to Jarvis, who did accept having sex with Simmonds. Simmonds and Jarvis deny engaging in sexual activity with a child. The trial continues.
ABC News
4 days ago
- ABC News
Doctor Douglas William McCarthy admits sexually assaulting two teenage girls
A doctor charged with sexual offences against underage teenage girls has pleaded guilty to assaulting two of his accusers, as his court trial continues. WARNING: This article contains details some readers may find distressing. Douglas William McCarthy, 63, is on trial in the WA District Court on sex charges related to eight girls, most of whom were aged 14 and 15 at the time of the alleged offending. The court had heard Mr McCarthy allegedly paid girls for photos, and engaged in sexual acts with them, even keeping a "video library". On Monday morning, he pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual penetration involving one victim, and two counts of sexual penetration involving another victim. Both girls were aged between 13 and 16 at the time. But Mr McCarthy is maintaining he is not guilty of "persistent sexual conduct" involving those girls, which requires three or more separate incidents to be proven. His trial on those charges, and others involving other alleged victims, is continuing. Mr McCarthy largely practised as a GP in the state's South West region when he committed the alleged offences but has since been suspended. The pleas in front of the jury trial came after several days of evidence from alleged victims, both in police interviews and direct testimony to the court. One alleged victim who gave evidence to the court said she had "non-consensual sex" with Mr McCarthy three times and went on to describe one instance in a bathroom. "He didn't ask, he just told," she said. Another alleged victim said she was 15 when she went to see Mr McCarthy at his home, where he allegedly sexually assaulted her on a massage table.
Daily Mail
4 days ago
- Daily Mail
The tragic life of teenage mum-of-two allegedly at the centre of suicide banker's under-age sex probe
New details have emerged of the 18-year-old mother of two accused of recruiting two underage girls for sex with a top banker who then took his own life after his arrest. Shauntelle Went is charged with procuring the two girls, aged 14 and 15, to visit CommBank boss Christopher James McCann, 50, for sex at his Brisbane hotel room. One of the girls was living in a residential care home supervised by the Department of Child Safety at the time, according to the Courier Mail. She and McCann were both charged with using electronic communication to procure a child under 16 for a sexual act, and faces a maximum of ten years in jail. Police allege McCann, from Curl Curl on Sydney 's northern beaches, agreed a price with Went for her to procure underage girls to meet him at the Sofitel on May 14. Went allegedly waited in the Sofitel's downstairs foyer when the girls went up to his room, but then McCann contacted the front desk asking the girls to leave. McCann, CommBank's Sydney-based head of health and social infrastructure, was freed on bail to live at a friend's home in Mudgeeraba on the Gold Coast. Two days later he was found dead at a beauty spot in Springbrook National Park in the Gold Coast hinterland. Shauntelle Went has had a traumatic life in the years leading up to her being charged for the child procurement case of two underage girls which saw a bank executive take his life Went was also released on bail, with Magistrate Louise Shepherd telling her: 'You are a vulnerable young 18-year-old woman who was working at the time as a sex worker from a traumatic background.' While it is unclear when she first became a sex worker, she has had several previous run-ins with police, run away from home and experienced family tragedy. Her social media reveals she has been sexually active from a young age, giving birth to her first child in 2021 when she was aged just 14, and her second child two years later. In April 2021, Went's younger brother, Aiden, died after disappearing at the Cedar Creek Falls on the Gold Coast. The 13-year-old went swimming at 5pm at the popular swimming hole, but did not resurface. Police drivers pulled his body from the water around 10pm. He and Went's mother, Sherry Carroll, said she did not know how she would recover from the loss. Went has since posted on social media about the death of her brother, and also admits she struggles with her looks and body image. She has also spoken online about smoking cannabis and drinking alcohol from a young age. Shauntelle with family (left) at the funeral for her brother who died aged 13 drowning at a Gold Coast swimming hole. Aiden Braumann disappeared under the water at Cedar Creek Falls in April 2021 In 2022, after the birth of her first child, a baby daughter, Went posted: 'I know that I've made bad decisions in the past. 'But from now on I'm going to be doing whatever I need to do to change to be a better person for myself my family my fiancé my daughter. 'I choose to change, so if any of you want to start drama you will be blocked not interested in the childish crap.' Last year she admitted in another post that she and her partner were on Centrelink after he lost his job, living with her mother, but otherwise homeless. She has now hit back at social media trolls attacking her personal appearance and her work on the OnlyFans adult content platform, and to refute the criminal charges against her. Went responded to the abuse on her TikTok page, boasting that she made $16,000 in two days on OnlyFans 'so I don't give a f*** which (sic) any of y'all have to say'. 'You think I give a f*** about who don't like me? B***h my family don't even like me,' she added. Went was ordered to live at Brassall near Ipswich under her bail conditions, and left court with her partner Tyronne McTackett, the father of her younger child. Went is due back in court on the child procurement charge on August 4.
Daily Mail
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Taskmaster star ALEX HORNE: ‘I'm embarrassed to order fizzy water – I've got reverse snobbishness about it'
My favourite drink as a child was milk – I had at least a pint a night. I've never broken a bone, I swear all that milk is why. I won't name the pub I was first served in, where I grew up in Midhurst, East Sussex – because I was underage and I think it's still going. There's an argument for there being a pub that serves underage people in every town, because at least you know where everyone is. On my 21st birthday, I was at the top of Machu Picchu in Peru with my mate Mike, and he'd smuggled a bottle of champagne. [ Alcohol is banned within the ruins.] It was my grandpa's funeral that day as well, and because I couldn't go we toasted him there. My wife Rachel [a newsreader] and I went to The Comedy Store in London on our first date. I knocked a pint of beer over her shoes and it was just swimming around for the whole show. I'm not clumsy, but sometimes I don't realise how tall I am [he's 6ft 2in]. We're still together 26 years later. Rachel is trying to keep me alive as I near my 50s. The first drink I have every day is a probiotic thing she gives me. The next is a pint-sized smoothie, which is sometimes nice and sometimes not. I had a very nice evening with Sporty Spice recently at a charity quiz. Me, Mel C, her partner and my wife ended up in a pub, and Mel got behind the bar to pull pints – because she's a Spice Girl they didn't mind. I sat next to David Suchet and his wife on a flight the other day, too. We were all off to Morocco, and he said he was going to treat himself to a men's djellaba robe. So I decided to treat myself to one, too. I'm embarrassed to order fizzy water – I've got reverse snobbishness about it. When there's a bottle of water with a sell-by date, I think that's nonsense. It says it's come from a mountain, you know, two million years ago, but it goes off in April. On Taskmaster I've drunk a lot of bad things. The comedian Nabhaan Rizwan made a cocktail in a bin that hadn't been cleaned. So I was forced to drink bin juice. That was grotty. After a few drinks I'll probably sing the Liverpool FC Mo Salah song, to the tune of Sit Down by James. I'm a Liverpool fan, but I'm not a karaoke person. Or a campfire singer. Greg Davies [Horne's co-host on Taskmaster] and I went on a notorious camping trip in 2020. We met up near Whipsnade Zoo and got merry on vodka Red Bull. I can't recall much of what happened – except the lions roaring. The person I'd most like to have a drink with living or dead is my friend [the comedian] Tim Key, who is very much alive. We used to live together but don't get to see each other very often now. Having a drink with him is always the most pleasure I get, apart from having a drink with my wife. The best advice I've ever been given over a drink was when I married Rachel. The wedding was in Northern Ireland, where she's from, and a family friend took me to one side in the toilet. Drink in hand he said, slightly threateningly, 'Look after her.' It was good advice, and I have. My signature drink is a White Russian, because it is basically milk. Rachel and I were at uni together, and we had a Russian-themed party with a bathtub full of it, made using milk, Kahlúa and chocolate powder. We would just dip our glasses in. I'd have WKD served at my funeral, because my first TV role was in the WKD adverts in the early 2000s. It's awful – I'm in a karate lesson, and the instructor makes me pull his finger. He farts then the ad says, 'Have you got a WKD side?' Alex Horne's children's book The Last Pebble is out now (Walker Books, £7.99). or call 020 3176 2937. Free UK delivery on orders over £25. getty images
