Self-harm pervert is jailed for 20 years

A MAN who groomed a teenager before sexually abusing her and encouraging her to cut herself to satisfy his “twisted appetite” has been jailed for 20 years.

- By Stanley Murphy-Johns

Father-of-two Karl Davies, 42, admitted 17 offences relating to a girl aged between 13 and 14.

He is the first to be convicted for encouraging serious self-harm to a child.

Davies, of the Wirral, showed “no pity and no mercy” for the “catastrophic” impact on his victim and had a “monstrous sense of sexual entitlement”, Manchester Crown Court heard.