The paedophile brother of TV presenter Phillip Schofield is to be sentenced for little one intercourse offences.
Timothy Schofield, 54, was convicted of 11 sexual offences involving a toddler between October 2016 and October 2019, together with two of sexual exercise with a toddler, after a trial at Exeter Crown Courtroom.
Schofield, a civilian police employee from Bathtub, Somerset, instructed the jury whereas giving proof that he had watched pornography with the boy who he insisted was over the age of 16 on the time.
He claimed they’d masturbated whereas sitting aside and denied performing sexual acts on {the teenager}.
Nevertheless, the jury discovered Schofield responsible on all counts with a majority of 10-2 after greater than five-and-a-half hours of deliberation.
Avon and Somerset Police later dismissed Schofield, who had been suspended from his job on the drive’s headquarters in Portishead after being arrested and charged, with out discover.
In the course of the trial, jurors heard how Schofield instructed his elder brother Phillip in September 2021 that he and the complainant had watched pornography collectively.
In an announcement launch by his lawyer after the responsible verdict, the This Morning host mentioned: “My overwhelming concern is and has all the time been for the wellbeing of the sufferer and his household. I hope that their privateness will now be revered.
“If any crime had ever been confessed to me by my brother, I might have acted instantly to guard the sufferer and their household.
“These are despicable crimes, and I welcome the responsible verdicts. So far as I’m involved, I not have a brother.”
Timothy Schofield was convicted of three counts of inflicting a toddler to look at sexual exercise, three of partaking in sexual exercise within the presence of a kid, three of inflicting a toddler to interact in sexual exercise and two of sexual exercise with a toddler.
Mrs Justice Cutts remanded the defendant into custody following his convictions at Exeter Crown Courtroom in April.
The decide will sentence Schofield at Bristol Crown Courtroom at 9.30am on Friday.
