Is Walcott paedophile Ellee Nicoll grooming a young girl near you? Have you seen her recently and do you know where she is?
A SHOP worker was jailed in 2022 after she “groomed” a teenager into having sex with her.
Before they said they loved each other and started having sex, Ellee Nicoll bought the girl presents, handed her money, called her “pretty,” and offered other praises.
Hearing the now 25-year-old Walcot woman, Ellee Nicoll, “cultivated” the relationship, spending months sexting with the youngster, she decided to see a “lesbian film” with her to normalise “what [she] wanted to happen”.
The penny dropped, and the girl felt “sick” about what had happened when her mother got worried about how close the duo was and advised the youngster what grooming may look like.
Judge Jason Taylor QC said, sentencing her to immediate incarceration, “alarm bells should have been ringing loud and clear in your mind, but you were seemingly tone death.”
He noted the victim’s mental health issues and said Ellee Nicoll “must have realised what her grooming meant to her.”
Her jail term was two years and two months.
Prosecutor Andrew Houston said, opening the case at Swindon Crown Court on Thursday, May 26, that Ellee Nicoll, who works at a Swindon Co-Op, first befriended the victim and that she looked up to her like a “big sister”.
But the relationship rapidly evolved, he added, with the victim bringing up sexting first and also forwarding photographs of her nude and in knickers.
Although the defence contested this, Ellee Nicoll allegedly emailed images back.
Messages unearthed over time revealed “heavy sexual flirtation” between the two, and associates of the defendant discovered the duo were “touchy-feely” and would smack each other on the bottom.
Ellee Nicoll’s mother had advised her to avoid the schoolgirl, Mr Houston said, but she disregarded the advice.
One night, the girl’s mother offered Ellee Nicoll a place to stay after a family argument; not knowing the girls’ closeness, she stated they could share a bed.
He informed the court that they agreed to do things to each other after viewing “a lesbian film in bed.”
Ellee Nicoll called it “the best night of her life” in the following days, while the victim claimed she had “no regrets.”
Declaring the offending as “out of character,” Gareth James said it had “had a devastating effect on her already.”
“She does seem to be a defendant who can properly and accurately be described as a vulnerable defendant herself and perhaps immature, and perhaps didn’t think through the consequences of her actions, having effectively fallen for feelings she shouldn’t have had,” Mr James said.
He also mentioned that his client is willingly trying to improve her mental health since it has suffered a “significant adverse impact”. He begged Judge Taylor to mandate a suspended sentence.
He said: “Given the undoubted effect already upon Miss Ellee Nicoll and her concerns for her future problems and the work she has already undertaken voluntarily, [this] demonstrates very clearly there is a significant prospect of rehabilitation.”
Judge Taylor pointed out that although Ellee Nicoll “did not set out” to groom the girl, grooming happened anyway.
“The right thing to say was softly remark ‘that is not proper’ when she emailed you naked pictures of herself. You didn’t.
“You had grown so desensitised from her age that you found no pause for reflection in the cold, hard light of day.
“No regrets” for [the victim] evolved to shame, and by the police interview time, she felt sick.
Sometimes teenagers need protection from themselves.
Judge Taylor went on: “Although it is less common, female offending of this kind is no less profound. What you did will damage a child victim still here. Experience of the courts has often proved this.
“For thus, even if the sentence had been within the range of being suspendable, I would have reluctantly said appropriate punishment could only be achieved by immediate imprisonment.”
Ellee Nicoll, Concord Walk, Walcot, was imprisoned for two years and two months after pleading guilty to sexual action with a minor and sexual communication with a child.
Ten years of a sexual harm prevention order were decided upon, along with a restraining order keeping her away from the victim.
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