Mum blasts sex offender sentencing ‘Who are the judiciary interested in protecting?’

THE Solicitor General has apologised to the relatives of a victim of a child sex offender after a series of errors in the way he was sentenced meant he was not given as long a jail term as he could have been.

- Tristan CORK

The apology from Ellie Reeves MP came before a hearing at Bristol Crown Court, in which the judge who presided over the errors acknowledged mistakes were made, but declined to allow a review that could have seen them rectified.

That has left the victim's mother - who was the one to point out the mistakes and appealed to the Attorney General - saying she is “absolutely livid’, and furious at the decision by the leading judge in the south west, the Honorary Recorder of Bristol, Peter Blair KC.

The saga began when James Kelvin was brought to Bristol Crown Court at two hearings earlier this year, charged with a series of child sex offences. The Post reported in June that the 51-year-old had pleaded guilty to making hundreds of indecent images of children, including dozens of the most serious kind, over a period of two years, while he lived in Bristol.