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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/paedophile-gang-ring-leader-jailed.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Paedophile Colin Blanchard has been jailed for a minimum of nine years" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-paedophile-gang-ring-leader-jailed.jpg" alt="Paedophile Colin Blanchard has been jailed for a minimum of nine years"/></a></p>
<p>The leader of an online paedophile ring which drew in four female accomplices has been given an indeterminate sentence with a minimum term of nine years.</p>
<p>IT consultant Colin Blanchard, 40, convinced four women &#8211; Vanessa George, 40, Tracy Lyons, 41, Tracy Dawber, 44, and Angela Allen, 40 &#8211; to sexually assault young children and share the images.</p>
<p>Also sentenced alongside Blanchard at Bristol Crown Court on Monday were Lyons, who was jailed for seven years and Dawber, who was jailed for four years. George and Allen are already serving prison sentences for the offences.</p>
<p>Prosecutors have described the defendants as &#8220;one of the most sickening paedophile rings this country has seen&#8221;. Police smashed the gang when a work colleague of Blanchard found child sex abuse images on his computer in June 2009 and called police. </p>
<p>The net closed in on the rest when detectives identified nursery worker George, mother-of-nine Lyons, community care worker Dawber and ex-prostitute Allen as being the other members.</p>
<p>Blanchard met the women over the internet and convinced them to sexually assault young children and send him the perverted images.</p>
<p>George abused young children at Little Ted&#8217;s nursery in Plymouth, and Allen and Lyons both assaulted youngsters to please Blanchard. Unlike the other women, Dawber actually met Blanchard and was in a year-long relationship with him. She sexually assaulted a child and allowed Blanchard to take pictures of the abuse on his mobile phone.</p>
<p>Blanchard, George, Allen and Lyons pleaded guilty to a string of charges of sexual assault and making and possessing child pornography. The final member of the ring to be convicted was Dawber, who was found guilty in October after a re-trial. Mother-of-two George, of Douglass Road, Efford, Plymouth, Devon, and single mother Allen, of Nine Acre Gardens, Bulwell, Nottingham, were given indeterminate prison sentences in December 2009.</p>
<p>Blanchard, of Yea Fold, Rochdale, Greater Manchester, pleaded guilty to taking indecent photographs of children, distribution of an indecent image and sexual assault of a child under the age of 13. He had previously admitted 19 other sex abuse charges.</p>
<p>Dawber, of Bedford Road, Southport, Merseyside, was convicted in October of sexual assault, arrangement or commission of a child sex offence and five offences of permitting an indecent image to be taken. Lyons, of Hewett Road, North End, Portsmouth, Hants, pleaded guilty to assault of a child by penetration, sexual assault of a child under 13, causing a child under 13 to engage in sexual activity and three offences of distributing indecent photographs of a child.</p>
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