{"id":26458,"date":"2018-02-27T18:21:15","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T18:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/?p=26458"},"modified":"2018-02-27T18:21:15","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T18:21:15","slug":"child-sex-offender-jailed-victim-saw-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2018\/02\/27\/child-sex-offender-jailed-victim-saw-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Child sex offender jailed after victim saw him in the street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A CHILD sex offender has been jailed after being caught when one of his victims recognised him in the street.<br \/>\nIan Miller, 45, was confronted in the street last year by a man he had sexually assaulted almost 30 years ago, when the victim was a child.<br \/>\nThe victim was in a car driving through St Mellons when he spotted Miller and recognised him as his former abuser.<br \/>\nPolice were called to the confrontation and Miller was caught on a body camera saying: &#8220;I abused him when he was a kid&#8221;.<br \/>\nToday Miller, of St Mellons, appeared at Cardiff Crown Court where he pleaded guilty to six counts of indecency and indecent assault with two children, between 1987-1990.<br \/>\nHe was jailed for three years and four months with a 10 year sexual harm prevention order at Cardiff Crown Court.<br \/>\nJudge Michael Fitton QC said that Miller showed \u201can indication of a pattern of behaviour\u201d but conceded he showed \u201cgenuine remorse\u201d.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_26461\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26461\" style=\"width: 4288px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26461\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/02\/Cardiff_Crown_Court-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4288\" height=\"3216\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26461\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26461\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/02\/Cardiff_Crown_Court-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4288\" height=\"3216\" \/><\/noscript> Cardiff Crown Court<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nProsecutor Nigel Fryer, said that the male complainant wrestled with this abuse for years and suffered \u201csevere psychological harm\u201d.<br \/>\nThe court heard that Miller, aged 14 or 15 at the time of committing the offences, knew the two younger children from playing together.<br \/>\nThe male complainant was under 14 years old and the female complainant was aged under 13, at the time Miller committed the offences.<br \/>\nThe abuse happened to the male complainant in a gulley and to the female complainant in two properties, one of which was her grandparents&#8217; house.<br \/>\nMiller was charged with committing four counts of indecency with a male person and indecency with a child on the male complainant and two counts on the female complainant, including indecent assault and indecency with a child.<br \/>\nNicolas Jones, defending, said that Miller \u201cwants the victims\u2019 families to know that he is sorry and he does not want the victims to think that he is getting off lightly\u201d.<br \/>\nMiller, who is married with four children, was arrested on August 8, 2017, after the confrontation with the male complainant on Crickhowell Road, in St. Mellons.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nMr Fryer described how Miller\u2019s crimes had a substantial impact on the male complainant\u2019s behaviour including leading him to take an overdose.<br \/>\n\u201cI have no sense of what or who I was,\u201d said the male complainant in his statement.<br \/>\nThe complainant now has children, but said he still feels \u201clike a child in my head\u201d.<br \/>\nThe complainant also said he could not remember how many times it happened, but that it was more than one occasion.<br \/>\nThe female complainant did not give a statement but Mr Fryer said that she dealt the abuse through counselling and the support of her family.<br \/>\nMiller told the police about his offences against the female complainant before it was discovered.<br \/>\nMr Jones pointed out that none of the offending continued when Miller was an adult, and he was a man of \u201cgood character\u201d.<br \/>\nJudge Michael Fitton QC said Miller\u2019s crimes required \u201cplanning, forethought or grooming\u201d which raised the culpability, but took into account Miller&#8217;s early guilty plea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A CHILD sex offender has been jailed after being caught when one of his victims recognised him in the street. 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