Overview
- Nottingham Crown Court sentenced Shane York, 32, to an extended nine-year term, comprising six years in custody and three years on licence.
- York pleaded guilty to ten offences, including two counts of sexual assault on a child, stalking causing serious alarm or distress, and taking indecent photographs of children.
- Police said he followed the boy from school for months, photographed and logged sightings, tried to book viewings at the family home, sent fake letters to estate agents, and sought a job at the boy’s school.
- Searches after his July 2025 arrest found more than 1,700 indecent images and videos of children, additional prohibited images, and extreme pornographic material involving animals.
- Detectives established two separate sexual assaults on a young child in 2023 and 2024, and the court imposed restraining and sexual harm prevention orders as officers described him as dangerous.