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Colin Blanchard
May 2011
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The Shadow Line | Breaking A Female Paedophile Ring | Human Target | Rubicon | Psychoville 2 | Ideal
10 January 2011
Colin Blanchard: the disturbing backstory to a crime of our times
With access to extracts from police interviews, the Guardian pieces together a complex, lengthy operation
Colin Blanchard could spend life in jail for role in paedophile ring
Judge gives former IT consultant an indeterminate sentence, emphasising he is so dangerous that he may never be freed
Man in nursery paedophile ring is given indeterminate sentence
Colin Blanchard to serve a minimum of nine years in jail after being sentence alongside two other members of gang
October 2010
Woman found guilty of sexually assaulting baby
Community care worker Tracy Dawber let Colin Blanchard take pictures as she abused child
December 2009
Vanessa George was 'obsessed' with child abuse co-defendant
Nursery school worker Vanessa George seemed prepared to do anything to please Colin Blanchard, sentencing hearing told
November 2009
Southport woman faces child sex charges
Southport woman charged with paedophile offences
1 October 2009
Nursery sex abuse case: Profiles of Vanessa George, Colin Blanchard and Angela Allen
Nursery sex abuse case: the culprits
Timeline: Plymouth child sex abuse case
Nursery sex abuse case: the three culprits
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