Spalding paedophile faces lengthy jail sentence after being convicted of nine sex offences against children

A paedophile faces a lengthy jail sentence after he was convicted of sex offences against two children today.

Marvin Scampion, 48, was found guilty of nine charges - including one attempted rape of a child aged under 13 - after a two week trial at Lincoln Crown Court.

The jury cleared Scampion, of Edward Road, Spalding, of one sexual assault charge after deliberating for six hours.

After the guilty verdicts Judge James House KC remanded Scampion into custody.

He will be sentenced at Lincoln Crown Court on April 17.

Scampion had denied nine sexual offences against two children and one charge of child cruelty.

But the jury heard Scampion was arrested in January 2020 after one of the victims made disclosures at school.

His victims, who can not be named to protect their anonymity and are both now adults, gave evidence against Scampion in court.

In his evidence Scampion accepted he had developed an addiction to pornography but denied it led him to commit sexual offences.

But prosecution barrister Laura Blackband suggested to Scampion that his pornographic preferences caused him to take sexual risks.

Ms Blackband alleged Scampion had abused both of these children and thought he had got away with it.

Scampion was convicted of four sexual offences against a boy under the age of 13 between April 2008 and December 2011.

They included a charge of attempted rape, one charge of sexual assault, one count of causing a child to watch a sexual act and one charge of causing or inciting a boy under 13 to engage in sexual activity.

Scampion was also found guilty of two charges of sexually assaulting a girl under 13 by touching and two charges of engaging in sexual activity while a child is present.

Those four charges occurred between January 2015 and July 2016.

Scampion was also convicted of a single charge of cruelty to a child aged under 16.