Formby paedophile given 18 years jail for ‘campaign of rape’ against schoolgirl

A Formby nurse was sentenced to 18 years in jail yesterday after subjecting a school girl to a “campaign of rape” after helping her with her homework .

52 year old Peter Reddaway, of Hawksworth Close, Formby, who most recently worked at Old Swan Walk-in centre in Liverpool, denied six counts of rape against the young girl, but has been found guilty by a jury at Liverpool Crown Court.

It also came to light, as evidence was given to the jury in the case, that Reddaway had cheated on his wife with a live-in nanny during the same period.

Judge Steven Everett said Reddaway’s victim was right to describe him as a “calculating paedophile” who hid beneath a veneer of respectability.

He said: “You are a man without any moral fibre in reality, hiding behind the façade of caring for the public.

“Sexually at least for some reason you were just simply unable to control your behaviour.”

The jury heard the first rape took place when Reddaway was helping the girl, who was in her mid-teens, with her homework.

He told the girl that he might have a maths book upstairs but pushed her on a bed and raped her, ignoring her pleas for him to stop.

The victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told the court that Reddaway claimed “he couldn’t help it because of his high sex drive”.

On another occasion, when she was home alone, he let himself into her house, went into her bedroom and raped her again.

Louise McCloskey, prosecuting, said the young woman recalled how the rapes were so regular, “they simply became part of her life”.

She said the victim eventually became so complicit she would agree to meet him and they would have sex before he went to work.

She said she was appalled by the fact he had raped her and also slept with the nanny, while his children were in his house in St Helens.

“Peter Reddaway stole from me things that should not be taken. Gifts that humans normally give freely to people they love,” she said.

“I have always felt like I’m a sheet of paper with a blot of ink – a stain that cannot be removed.”

The young woman said she had undergone counselling, but Reddaway had “destroyed her ability to trust others for life”.

Defending council, Peter Killen, said his client had given “great service to the public” through his career in the NHS.

Judge Everett said Reddaway preyed on the fact he was a respected member of the community and his victim was just a girl, “using her like a piece of meat”.

Ordering him to sign on the Sex Offenders Register for life, the judge added: “You thought she would never be believed. You believed you were almost untouchable in that regard.

“You have shown no remorse at all for what you did. I have no doubt you have no concept of the effect you had on her, which is a strange feature and a strange irony given your so-called caring profession.

“You are that calculating paedophile. You are a man with no morals.”