Overview

• Reinaldo Goncalo Bertoni Filho received a nine-year prison sentence with a subsequent four-year licence period at Guildford Crown Court on July 28.
• Investigators matched the DNA he provided in September 2024 during vetting for a Police Community Support Officer role to profiles from unsolved 2017 attacks.
• The offences involved a 15-year-old cyclist cornered and assaulted on a footpath in Hogsmill Open Space and a 10-year-old walker attacked in Claygate Common.
• Filho pleaded guilty to sexual assault by penetration in May and was found guilty of a separate charge of sexual assault on a child under 13 at an earlier hearing.
• He was issued a Sexual Harm Prevention Order and will be required to join the Sex Offenders Register upon his release.