Former Cambridge medicine student jailed for sexual offences related to children

A former University of Cambridge medical student has been given a prison sentence of four years and eight months after admitting a series of sexual offences related to children.

25-year-old Lorcan Elliott admitted to to 22 offences and being in possession of 604 indecent images of children, BBC Reports.

Elliott,  from Orton Southgate, Peterborough, also admitted to distributing indecent images, having sexual communications with children and inciting them to engage in sexual activity. He was arrested in May 2023 at his student accommodation.

Two academics from the University of Cambridge gave Elliott character references. Prosecutor Samantha Marsh said Elliott was “on the verge of qualifying as a doctor” just before the offences were uncovered.

Samantha described Elliott as posing as a “sugar daddy” online. He targeted over 15 victims aged 13 to 15 in his sexual online interactions.

He had offered children up to £800, depending on their “sexual limits”, though there is no evidence this money was ever received by the victims.

Elliottan, ex-student from Clare College, had been added to the sex offender register and put his head in his hands and cried when he was sentenced.

The Judge said that Elliott had chatted with some of the boys in a bedroom within their family homes. He added: “It would have been completely evident to you from the faces of those boys and their state of physical development that they were children”.

The Judge added that he accepted Elliott was “remorseful” but the offences remained “extremely grave”. He said it was clear, in many cases Elliott, was chatting with an individual boy in a bedroom within the environment of their family home: “Your victims ranged in age from 15 down to 13

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“It would have been completely evident to you from the faces of those boys and their state of physical development that they were children.”

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