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`Na�ve' bar man locked
up for sex with girl, 12
A PUB worker who had sex with a 12-
year-old schoolgirl after she set up a
secret rendezvous with him has been
locked up for rape.
Thomas Parcell, 20, spent the weekend
with the girl � who contacted him by
text after finding his number on a toilet
door at her Cambridge school.
Parcell, aged 19 at the time of the
episode in March, exchanged hundreds
of texts with the youngster in which she
told him she was 16 and called Stacey
and sent him a picture of a woman's
chest she � falsely � claimed was her
own. He claimed his name was John and
that he was 19 � and sent her a lewd
picture of himself, Cambridge Crown
Court heard.
The girl set up a meeting with Parcell
after school, taking a change of clothes
with her, Sara Walker, prosecuting, told
the court.
Parcell, of Hall Close, Bourn, picked
her up and took her to a friend's house
in Hardwick before going to work at a
local pub � she waited in the car while
he finished his shift.
The court heard they had sex that
night in the vehicle and then again the
following day � this time at his house.
The youngster stayed with Parcell for a
third night � again at his home � to
where police traced her.
Asked by an officer if she had wanted
to have sex, the girl answered: "Not
really", but accepted she "just did it"
and had not been forced.
Describing Parcell as immature and
na�ve, Melanie Benn, mitigating, said
the girl wore makeup when they met
and looked older than her age. Parcell
thought the girl was 16, she added.
Parcell, who has never been in trouble
with the law before, admitted rape on
the basis the girl was not capable of
giving consent because of her age.
Sending him to a young offender ins-
titution for two years, Judge Gareth
Hawkesworth dubbed him "a typical
teenager whose heart was ruled by the
wrong part of his body and not his
head".
While he accepted the girl had dec-
eived him, the judge told Parcell that an
entire weekend spent with her should
have rung alarm bells about her age.
"If you had spent one second thinking
about it you would have determined she
was not the age she was representing to
you. But you had no interest in doing so.
Your interest was only in having sex,"
he said.
Parcell was also ordered to sign on the
Sex Offender Register, where his name
will remain for the next 10 years, and
was also banned from working with
children under the age of 16 for the
forseeable future.
Women officers top sick-day list
WOMEN police officers
on the beat take more
days off sick than their
male counterparts in
Cambridgeshire.
Male officers missed
8,160 days due to illness.
The force has 1,041 men
in uniform.
But women officers,
who number 349, took
4,345 sick days during
the same period, from
April 2007 to March 2008.
The figures were
released under the
Freedom of Information
Act.
Chief may go
for top job
CHIEF Constable Julie Spence says
she is "seriously considering"
applying for the top job at the
Metropolitan Police.
The �253,000 Commissioner's role
is now officially up for grabs, with
the appearance of the first advert-
isement this week.
And Mrs Spence, who has headed
the Cambridgeshire force since 2005,
has confirmed she is giving careful
thought to throwing her hat into the
ring.
The final decision lies with Home
Secretary Jacqui Smith, who will
take advice from the Metropolitan
Police Authority (MPA) and London
mayor Boris Johnson.
The advert, in the Police Review
magazine and on the Home Office
and MPA websites, calls for someone
capable of leading 50,000 staff and
managing a budget of �3.5 billion.
It says: "He or she will demon-
strate an outstanding track record in
countering terrorism, serious and
organised crime, and serious violent
crime; in managing change in neigh-
bourhood and other policing fun-
ctions; and in building the public's
confidence in the service at all
levels."
Mrs Spence has crossed swords
with Ms Smith several times, but her
interventions on policy matters have
given her a high public profile.
If Mrs Spence did get the job she
would be the first female officer to
hold the position, but she will face
tough competition from frontrunner
Sir Paul Stephenson, who is Sir Ian's
deputy and will take over as Acting
Commissioner on December 1.
Mrs Spence has until noon on
December 1 to submit an application.
New �160k grant to help
fight the flab in childrenFIGHTING the flab among
children in Cambridgeshire
will be hard work if the
statistics are to be believed.
Figures gathered by NHS Cam-
bridgeshire in its most recent child
measurement study found 19.6 per
cent of the county's reception age
children are overweight or obese.
Cambridgeshire Together, a
group of organisations including
NHS Cambridgeshire and local
councils, aims to trim that number
with a new Government grant of
�160,000.
Leisure centre workers and
teaching assistants will be among
those given training to make
"interventions" � spotting children
with problems and getting their
families involved with education
programmes on the need to provide
a healthy diet and exercise for kids.
But will such a strategy reach
the right parents, and can it
succeed in the face of multi-million
pound advertising budgets?
Breaking the child measurement
figures down to individual dist-
ricts, the scale of the task becomes
evident. In Cambridge, 19.2 per
cent of reception children were
found to be obese.
In Fenland, generally viewed as
the most deprived area of the
county, 29.1 per cent of children
were categorised as overweight or
obese. But for Year 6 children, the
figures are even worse. In Cam-
bridge, 31.2 per cent were found to
be overweight or obese, narrowly
behind Fenland with 33.1 per cent.
Val Thomas, assistant director of
health improvement at NHS
Cambridgeshire, said that people
working with children need to be
given the skills to help parents.
She said: "For example, leisure
centre staff would be trained in
different types of interventions.
That training can also be extended
to community groups.
"The aim is that professionals
have the skills to raise it in a
sensitive way."
Ms Thomas said the scheme
would involve lessons on how to
cook healthily, with community
halls being the ideal venue for
families to come together and
learn.
She added: "You start with the
basics of looking at what is needed
in a child's diet. If you have a busy
mum, it would be about how you
can do that with a limited amount
of time. And one of the messages
will be that you can still eat
healthily on a limited budget."
Work will take place across
Cambridgeshire. Even in the most
affluent district, South Cambridge-
shire, 26.8 per cent of Year 6 pupils
are judged overweight or obese.
Ms Thomas does not believe that
intervening to help parents con-
stitutes excessive "nannying".
She said: "This is about giving
people information, advising them
and getting them to think about the
long-term health implications.
"Obesity in children is linked to
poor educational achievement and
to mental health problems, part-
icularly around bullying. Those
problems can continue on through-
out life."
The new grant comes from
Government rewards for public
services meeting agreed perform-
ance targets.
Cllr John Batchelor, chairman of
the children and young people's
services scrutiny committee, said
of childhood obesity: "This is a
huge problem for the future. When
we get the next set of child meas-
urement figures in the new year,
I'm not expecting good news.
"But we have to do something,
because this has huge implications
for the NHS.
"How you can effectively go
about changing people's behaviour
is really quite difficult.
"How many parents can they
possibly contact? And who is really
encouraging unhealthy eating? It is
those who manufacture and advert-
ise unhealthy foods.
"It is good news that there is
�160,000 available, but there is
much more money going into the
other side � trying to encourage
people to eat this rubbish."
BY JJoohhnn MMoorrggaann
Email: editorial@stneotsweeklynews.co.uk
BBIIGG PPRROOBBLLEEMM . . . Cambridgeshire has
received a grant of �160,000 for
interventions to halt childhood obesity, on
the rise in the county.

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