Paedophile Melvin Miller to spend longer behind bars

After 46-year-old Melvin Miller was jailed in April 2020 one of his victims revealed that he had actually begun raping her when she was just five years old, earlier than she had previously disclosed.

Investigating officers re-examined his computer hard drive and found an eight-minute video showing him raping her at that age.

He had been put behind bars for raping her beginning when she was six or seven and today (Friday) the same judge sentenced him to 15 years imprisonment for the earlier attacks.

Liverpool Crown Court heard that the 2020 sentence meant he would have been able to apply for parole in April 2028 but the new sentence, which runs from today, means he will not be able to contact the Parole Board until about October 2029.

Liverpool Crown Court

In reaching the sentence Judge Neil Flewitt, QC, explained that he had to consider the totality of the offending and appropriate overall sentence.

Miller, formerly of St Helens, had pleaded guilty to six offences involving rape and other serious sexual offences.

When he was sentenced in April 2020 the court heard that he had filmed himself raping and sexually abusing the two girls in St Helens. 

John Wyn Williams, prosecuting, said, ”They were all recorded for his own personal sexual gratification."

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He had added them to his “library” of 255,000 disgusting child abuse photographs and videos, 6,000 of them in the most serious category.

He admitted 30 sexual offences and five of making or possessing indecent images of children.

Judge Flewitt said then that both victims suffered "severe psychological harm" and the younger girl's life had been "turned upside down".

He said: "I have no doubt what you did to her will remain with her for the rest of her life."