Kinver man jailed for attempted kidnap (From Stourbridge News)

Kinver man jailed for attempted kidnap

6:40pm Tuesday 24th November 2009

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A 20-YEAR-OLD Kinver man who posed as a police officer when he tried to kidnap two young schoolgirls in the Stourbridge area has been put behind bars for four years.

Judge Michael Challinor at Wolverhampton Crown Court told Stephen Allin: "The public and the parents of these two young girls have a right to expect courts to protect children being taken from the streets by men in cars."

He said Allin had clearly planned over a number of days how he would snatch the girls as he drove around the area in a car belonging to his mother.

The Judge said he had music in his car that made a sound like a police siren, he was dressed like a police officer and he told the two girls he was a policeman.

The judge added: "The potential harm you could have done is represented by the fact I feel you had in mind some form of sexual activity on those girls.”

He said he had read a large number of testimonials from friends of Allin and went on: "I doubt if any of these people believed you to be capable of stalking young girls which is what you have admitted."

Judge Challinor said it was his duty to protect young girls in the future from the serious risk of harm at Allin's hands and he extended his licence on release from custody to nine years.

Allin, of Castle Street, admitted two charges of attempted kidnap and was further barred from ever working with children and made the subject of a ten-year Sexual Offenders Protection Order.

Mark Phillips, prosecuting, said he tried to lure a 13-year-old girl into an alleyway in Brierley Hill after telling her he was a policeman and he wanted a private word.

He offered the schoolgirl a lift in his car, but she quickly walked away from the scene and later described Allin to police as a paedophile.

The second girl who was 12, said Mr Phillips, was out in Quarry Bank four days later and Allin told her: "I'm a cop. Come with me" - but she ran home.

Samantha Powis, defending, maintained there was no evidence Allin committed the offences for sexual reasons adding: "No sexual advances were made, they were not pursued, threatened or touched."

She said Allin did not have a history of molesting young girls as she concluded: "This is something he did and something he cannot explain."

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