Holbeach Police – John Edward Bates

Assaults on boys [scouts] proved Bates sent to jail for four years

Assaults on boys proved. Sex case PC guilty

NEWSFLASH: Bates was sent to jail for four years.

Sex case policeman John Edward Bates has been found guilty of indecently assaulting eleven young boys.

The jury at Nottingham Crown Court took more than ten hours to reach its verdict on the 15 charges facing the former Spalding scoutmaster.

Sentence was due to be passed yesterday morning.

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PC [John Bates] Accuses CID Chief

PC [ John Bates ] Accuses CID Chief

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Policeman John Bates has accused the head of Lincolnshire CID and another senior officer of masterminding a conspiracy against him.

He has alleged that Detective Chief Superintendent Ray Moyses and Detective Chief Inspector Bob Warner plotted with boys he is accused of assaulting.

Lincolnshire Free Press, Tuesday July 12, 1983

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[Scout] Youths Deny Making Up Allegations

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Spalding police constable John Bates – charged with indecently assaulting young boys – has been described by a police inspector as “a first-class leader and scout organiser”.

Insp Keith Woods, also an administrator of scouts, told Nottingham Crown Court that 35-year-old Bates had devoted a great deal of his spare time to scouting.

Spalding Guardian, Friday July 8, 1983

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Jury told boys [scouts] were shown ‘blue’ films

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A policeman loaned hard-core sex magazines to fellow constable John Bates – who in turn showed them to teenage boys, a court has been told.

The pornographic magazines were stored at Holbeach police station in PC Alan Williams Bradley’s locker, Nottingham Crown Court heard on Friday.

The magazines and three “blue” films were shown to excite the boys while they visited Bates, a scoutmaster, at his flat in Spalding, said Mr Desmond Fennell, QC, prosecuting.

Lincolnshire Free Press, Tuesday July 5, 1983

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PC [John Bates] On Sex Charges – ‘Jekyll and Hyde character’

PC [John Bates] On Sex Charges – ‘Jekyll and Hyde character’ – claim

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A Spalding policeman and scoutmaster betrayed the trust put in him by indecently assaulting teenage boys, a court has heard.

John Edward Bates (35) was described as a “Jekyll and Hyde” character – on the one hand he was said to be a pillar of society, on the other a man who interfered with youngsters while they were in his care.

Spalding Guardian, Friday July 1, 1983 – Reporter: Pauline Hill

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