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| Freckle clue child abuser jailed | |
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| A paedophile who was caught out by the distinctive freckles on his hand, has been jailed for six years. | A paedophile who was caught out by the distinctive freckles on his hand, has been jailed for six years. |
| Dean Hardy, 50, from Orpington, south-east London, took photos of young girls being sexually abused during a business trip he made to Thailand. | Dean Hardy, 50, from Orpington, south-east London, took photos of young girls being sexually abused during a business trip he made to Thailand. |
| A police forensics team found freckles on a male thumb in the photos matched those on the father-of-one's left hand. | |
| Hardy, who admitted indecent assault and taking indecent photos, was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court. | Hardy, who admitted indecent assault and taking indecent photos, was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court. |
| The court had been told 63 indecent photos were found on memory cards from Hardy's cameras and his computer hard drive. | |
| 'Unique case' | |
| Two photographs showed South-East Asian girls, aged between eight and 10, being abused by an adult. | |
| Hardy's face was not in the photographs but a forensic anthropologist found the freckles and blemishes on the male thumb were identical to his. | |
| Prosecuting, Peter Zinner, said the case was "the first of its kind". | |
| Police also found evidence the furniture salesman had travelled to Thailand between March and April 2004, when the pictures were taken. | |
| Hardy pleaded guilty to two counts of indecent assault of a girl under the age of 13, four counts of taking indecent photographs of children and one count of possessing indecent photographs. |