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  1. Article · Sep 17, 2026 · Josh Bolton

    Bushey teacher told undercover officer he 'abused a school pupil' (opens the original)

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    The former Bushey Meads schoolteacher jailed for planning to rape a 10-year-old girl claimed that he had previously abused a pupil, the Watford Observer has learnt following his sentencing. Matthew O'Kelly, who had worked as a teacher for 21 years, was jailed for 10-and-a-half years on Monday after he was caught in an undercover police operation targeting paedophiles. During online conversations with an officer posing as the mother of a young girl, O'Kelly made "detailed and elaborate" plans to

  2. Article · Sep 14, 2026 · Josh Bolton

    Bushey teacher planned to rape girl, 10, and bragged about abusing another child (opens the original)

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    A schoolteacher who had been watching child sexual abuse content since 2009 made plans to rape a 10-year-old girl and bragged that he had abused another child, St Albans Crown Court heard. Matthew O’Kelly, a former employee at Bushey Meads School, was jailed for 10-and-a-half years today (September 14). The PE teacher, 43, came to police attention when he messaged an undercover officer on a chat app on November 19 last year. The officer was posing as the mum of a 10-year-old girl named Grace and

  3. Article · Sep 1, 2026 · Josh Bolton

    Teen whose 60mph horror crash badly injured pensioner gets suspended prison sentence (opens the original)

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    A teenager who caused serious injury to a 74-year-old man in a horror crash has been given a suspended sentence. Mohammed Khan crashed his Volkswagen Golf into former Park Ward councillor Peter Jeffree’s stationary car at the junction of Stratford Way and Cassiobury Drive on September 5 last year. A court heard that Khan, who had three friends in his car, was speeding at around 60mph on a 30mph residential road. He had overtaken another car at speed before he “shot across the junction without an

  4. Article · Aug 7, 2026 · Josh Bolton

    Paedophile Watford chef 'Shy Chris' said he wanted to warm up girl, 13, with cuddles (opens the original)

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    A Watford chef who called himself ‘Shy Chris’ was jailed after saying he wanted to warm up a 13-year-old girl with “kisses and cuddles”. Christopher Quigley thought he was talking to a child online but was chatting with an undercover police officer who was out to catch paedophiles. The 44-year-old had only recently been released from prison for previous child sex offences when he was arrested on Fulford Grove, Watford on April 20. Prosecutor Serena Lit said that on March 3, a police officer posi

  5. Article · Aug 7, 2026 · Josh Bolton

    Watford man 'became amateurish drug dealer' after falling into debt (opens the original)

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    A Watford man became an “amateurish” drug dealer after falling into debt, a court heard. Hadrian Follett, 63, appeared at St Albans Magistrates’ Court on Thursday (August 6) - three-and-a-half years after he was arrested in South Oxhey. No explanation was given for the justice delay, which a magistrate labelled “remarkable”. Prosecutor Nadine Mathurasangh said that at around 2.15pm on March 14, 2023, police spotted a silver Chevrolet “acting suspiciously” on Maylands Road. Hadrian Follett pictur

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