A teacher accused of sexually assaulting eight girls at school has been cleared of all charges.
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Liverpool Crown Court, when asked to stand and confirm his name by the court clerk, Ratchford shook his head and said “sore back”. READ MORE: Updates as killers who hunted down teen in pack face sentenceOnce the hearing got underway, Martyn Walsh, prosecuting, detailed that an online paedophile hunter group named Elite Hunters set up a decoy account of a 14-year-old girl at the end of 2020. Ratchford engaged with the account, began communication and the messages quickly became sexually explicit.
The messages started with general chat, but Ratchford soon offered the ‘girl’ money and said he would buy her clothes. The messages continued in a sexual nature and he asked her to get a hotel room with him. Mr Walsh said: “These went beyond the usual sexual content that this court often sees.
” Ratchford asked the ‘girl’ to commit sexual acts on herself and send pictures of herself doing so, and sent her an image of himself naked in the shower. Members of the paedophile hunter group went to Ratchford’s home at the same time as they called the police, and live streamed his arrest. During the trial, he told the jury that he was “well aware” they were a paedophile hunter group, and he was “winding them up”.
Ratchford was found unanimously guilty by a jury of 12. He has previous convictions for driving offences, burglary, and common assault, but none of a sexual nature. Fiona McNiell, defending, said: “There is not a great deal I can say with respect to his defendant.
He sticks to the claim that he was tricking them. ” However she did say that he has now sought some help for his mental health issues, and had previously served in the army. It was also detailed that probation services assessed Ratchford as a high risk of harm to
.A teacher accused of sexually assaulting eight girls at school has been cleared of all charges.
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