Cannabis smoking Devon child abuser told victim 'It's just like Shameless' here


A cannabis smoker has been warned he faces jail after he was found guilty of having sex with child.


Allan Sherlock shared the drug with the girl and had sex with her during a two year relationship when she was 14 and 15 and he was living at Dartmouth and Totnes.


She told police she met him when he was walking down Queen Elizabeth Drive in Paignton smoking a cannabis joint and he said it was normal on that estate, which he compared to the television series Shameless.


The girl went to polices after the relationship ended and Sherlock sent threatening messages to her new boyfriend. One showed a picture of a baseball bat and told the new boyfriend to 'see if she still loves you with half a face'.



Sherlock, aged 30, of Parkers Close, Totnes, and formerly of Jubilee Close, Dartmouth, denied but was convicted on four counts of sexual activity with a child.


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He was cleared by the jury at Exeter Crown Court of two similar charges which related to a time when the girl was 13 and one count of assaulting her.


Recorder Mr Ignatius Hughes, QC, adjourned sentence and ordered a pre-sentence report. He released Sherlock on a tagged curfew but warned him an immediate jail sentence is likely.


He said: "You must understand that the overwhelming likelihood, if not inevitability, of an immediate sentence."


During a four day trial the girl said Sherlock befriended her by giving her cannabis and they started a consensual relationship when she was 13 or 14.


She said it turned sour after he moved to Totnes shortly before her 16th birthday because he became possessive and controlling. After she left him, her new boyfriend received text threats.


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Sherlock said the sexual relationship only started when he moved to Totnes and at the time he thought she was at least 16. He said she never told him his age while they were together.


Mr Barry White, defending, said Sherlock suffers from a paranoid personality disorder, adult ADHD, is on the autistic spectrum and needs anti-psychotic medication. He said he will be very vulnerable in prison.


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