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Verified against listed sources Child sexual offencesGrooming & child-contact offencesRape

MARC GOTHORP

Age 45 · LINCOLN, LINCOLNSHIRE

Court outcome10 YEARS IN PRISON

Case and court outcome

Sentence type
Immediate custody

Verified case summary

This man, Marc Gothorp, is forty-five and from Lincoln.

He received a sentence of serious child sexual and image offences uncovered by specialist investigators.

Lincolnshire Police said Gothorp admitted three counts of arranging or facilitating the rape of a child under thirteen.

His other offences involved making one thousand eight hundred and seventy Category A images, one thousand three hundred and sixteen Category B images and five hundred and ninety-two Category C images.

He also admitted distributing twenty-one Category A files.

Officers from the force's Paedophile Online Investigation Team arrested him in November twenty twenty-five as part of work with a regional organised crime unit.

At sentencing, Lincoln Crown Court found that Gothorp met the legal criteria for a dangerous offender.

He received ten years in prison and a Sexual Harm Prevention Order.