A young sadistic couple acted out dark séxual fantasies on a 14-year-old girl after grooming her on internet chat rooms, a court heard today.
Married
engineer Christopher Zeb, 26, and his deviant mistress Poppy Knight,
22, blindfolded, bit and bruised their teenage victim in a seedy 24-hour
séx session in a hotel.
The
schoolgirl, whose name police found in a document in Zeb's home
entitled 'Slaves In Training', told her mother she was going to stay
with a schoolfriend before catching a train to Manchester and spending
the night with the couple.
A judge today condemned the pair's 'serious séxual offences' as he jailed Zeb for six-and-a-half years and Knight for 30 months.
Sitting
at Oxford Crown Court, Judge Ian Pringle heard that married Zeb began
an extramarital affair with Knight in 2011, which 'quickly developed
into a sadistic séxual relationship'.
Within the relationship, Knight acted as her lover's consenting 'slave', taking pleasure in him inflicting pain upon her.
But Zeb also trawled websites and chat rooms looking for younger 'slaves' to feed his séxual desires.
On
Easter Sunday last year, Zeb and Knight travelled to Manchester to meet
a 14-year-old girl from Bolton, Lancashire, who cannot be named for
legal reasons.
Prosecutor
Cathy Olliver said: 'During the Easter holidays in 2012, she lied to
her mother about going to a friend's house in Bolton. Instead she got
the train to Manchester.
'Mr Zeb and Miss Knight picked her up at the station and drove her to a hotel.'
After
going out for a meal together, the trio went upstairs to the bedroom
where the girl was blindfolded and twice forced to perform a séx act on
Zeb.
They
then made a 'den' out of bedclothes in the room which all they entered
into naked, and began an orgy which Knight filmed. As she did so, she
encouraged the girl, the court heard.
'Poppy Knight had brought the morning after pill for her, so she didn't use condoms', the prosecutor said.
'Poppy
Knight is fully participating and praises her...It's clear from [the
girl's] interview she was not aware she was being filmed'.
She
added: 'Her parents had no idea where she was that evening. They didn't
know she was in a hotel in a strange city or what was happening to her
for that entire night.'
The
girl, who had returned home with bite marks and bruises after her
ordeal, did not complain to the police, but the alarm was raised when
the father of a 12-year-old girl from Humberside raised the alarm after
discovering Zeb was grooming her online.
The horrified father found out she had sent Zeb pictures of herself and he had asked to meet up with her.
Police
raided Zeb's marital home in Banbury, Oxfordshire, last September and
seized his computer and a mobile phone found hidden in his loft.
Detectives
discovered the hotel room video on his computer, along with a word
document entitled 'Slaves In Training' which detailed girls he was
targeting on the internet.
They
also found séxual pictures Zeb had encouraged both the 12 and 14 year
old girls to email to him after he'd set them tasks to 'please daddy'.
When police seized the girls' phones, they found Zeb's phone number stored in them saved under the name 'Master'.
Mrs Olliver said: 'It was clear he had contacted, in a séxualised manner, a number of girls.'
Investigating officers also found that Knight had been in contact with the 14-year-old girl they met in Manchester.
In an email exchange read out in court, she told the schoolgirl they were 'slave sisters' and they had to please Zeb.
Zeb
had admitted nine offences, including abducting a child, meeting a
female aged under 16 after séxual grooming and five child séx offences.
One count referred to séxual activity with a child aged under 13.
Knight, of Banbury, had admitted eight similar offences related only to the 14-year-old girl.
Shocked
relatives of the pair, including Zeb's parents, sat in silence in the
public gallery as Knight's counsel David Bright claimed she was also one
of Zeb's victims and that she was following orders as his slave because
of his 'evil and malign influence'.
Zeb's defence counsel Trudi Yeatman told the judge: 'He's not in denial. He fully accepts the extent of his offending.'
Mrs
Yeatman added that Zeb and Knight's relationship was 'dark and often
sadistic' but at all times consensual between the two of them.
Judge
Pringle said to Zeb: 'I've had to look at seven clips and videos which
depict clearly what took place. You were the main perpetrator of that
abuse, and abuse it was.'
He
said to both: 'You subjected that girl to all forms of intercourse and I
would be failing grossly in my duty if I was not to impose on both of
you a sentence of immediate imprisonment.'
The
judge ordered Zeb and Knight sign the séx offenders register and be
banned from contact with children. He also banned them from using the
internet on a computer not fitted with police monitoring software.
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