Paedophile jailed after admitting 24 sexual offences against children as young as six

A PAEDOPHILE from Malvern has been jailed for 24 sexual offences against children as young as six years old.

Michael Farney, 51, incited eight young girls to carry out sexual acts, as well as making them look at sexual images.

He then tried to do the same to two more girls.

The long list of charges against Farney also included making 40 indecent images of children.

Six of these images were category A, which is the worst kind, while seven were category B and 26 were category C.

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Sentenced

Last month, he entered guilty pleas to all 24 charges at Worcester Crown Court.

Farney, of Michael Crescent, Malvern, appeared in court again on Thursday, October 15 to be sentenced.

He has now been jailed for nine years and 4 months.

Sentences for each of the two dozen offences ranged from 2 years to nine years and 4 months, but they will all run concurrently.

Farney has also been ordered to sign the Sex Offenders Register for life, as well as being subject to a lifelong sexual harm prevention order, which bars him from working with children.

His devices will be seized and he will have to pay a £228 surcharge.