Crooked couples whose crimes eventually caught up with them


Crooked couples whose crimes eventually caught up with them

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A deputy headteacher sent photos of schoolchildren to her paedophile boyfriend to feed his "insatiable appetite". Julie Morris and David Morris filmed themselves jointly raping a


young girl in abuse a judge said was "almost beyond belief". The couple laughed about the abuse in vile WhatsApp messages and Julie Morris "giggled" on camera. They were


caught out after David Morris, then 52, from Eccleston, St Helens, sent indecent photos to another paedophile online. Julie Morris, 44 at the time, worked at St George's Central Primary


School in Tyldesley, Wigan, where she was the "safeguarding lead". Liverpool Crown Court heard none of the offences committed by the pair were related to her job. But it emerged


she sent non-indecent photos of pupils at the Church of England school to her boyfriend, at his request. Judge Andrew Menary QC said during the trial in December 2021 that a police


investigation uncovered "almost unbelievably" 175,000 pages of messages the couple exchanged on WhatsApp. Judge Menary said: "In each other you found some sort of soulmate -


whether active or passive - with a shared interest in or willingness to engage in the most serious depraved and corrupting sexual abuse in relation to children." When their "sordid


secret" came to light, the couple tried to avoid arrest, but were caught in a campervan on their way to the Lake District with £10,000. Julie Morris admitted 18 sexual offences,


including two counts of rape, while David Morris admitted 34 sexual offences, including seven counts of rape. Judge Menary said they were both "dangerous" and the case demonstrated


"human depravity really knows no depths". He told the pair: "You have lost your good names and your careers." Judge Menary jailed Julie Morris for 13 years and four


months, and David Morris for 16 years, each with an extended four years on licence. Read the full story here.