A 39-year-old Cardiff Paedophile, Mark Manship, has been sentenced to 19 years in prison, with a further eight years on extended license, after confessing to various sexual offences against two girls in Bristol.
Mark Manship, from Cardiff, committed rape, sexual assault, and disseminated obscene photos of a “very young” girl online.
He was additionally convicted of capturing an obscene photograph of a schoolgirl in 2011.
Mark Manship was sentenced today (27 June) at Bristol Crown Court, where he received a Sexual Harm Prevention Order, a restraining order, and was placed on the Sex Offenders’ Register.
The court was informed that Mark Manship was apprehended after transmitting sexually explicit messages detailing child abuse and sharing indecent photographs of minors with an undercover FBI agent in December 2020, who subsequently alerted the authorities in the UK.
Mark Manship was apprehended by Avon and Somerset Police, and an examination of his equipment revealed hundreds of obscene photographs of minors.
He was charged with the following offences:
- One count of rape of a child under 13
- Four counts of sexual assault of a child under 13
- Two counts of taking indecent photographs of a child
- Two counts of distributing indecent photographs of a child
- One count of making indecent photographs of a child
Mark Manship pleaded guilty to each offence when he appeared at Bristol Crown Court last month.
In a victim personal statement, the court was told of the significant impact of his crimes and that it “continues to echo through every part” of their lives.
It said they “no longer feel safe in their own world,” and that there is now “fear where there used to be comfort; suspicion where there used to be ease”.
Sentencing Mark Manship, the judge said: “The facts of this case are extremely distressing. They are nothing short of revolting or horrific.”
He handed him a 19-year prison sentence with an extend licence period of eight years.
He also granted lifelong Sexual Harm Prevention and Restraining orders and added Mark Manship to the sex offenders’ register.
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