‘Depraved’ woman who raped girl and filmed it spotted laughing and smiling in the dock

A “depraved” woman who raped a girl with a 62-year-old man was told in court today that she could receive a life sentence. Vicki Bevan sexually abused a vulnerable victim, who cannot be named as she is entitled to lifelong anonymity.

The 37-year-old raped and performed sex acts on the young child with Paul Rafferty, 62, and also molested her with a second man, Tony Hutton, 42. The group filmed and photographed the horrific sexual abuse, and shared the images among themselves along with twisted messages, the Liverpool Echo reports.

The three paedophiles, all from St Helens, appeared in the dock for sentencing at Liverpool Crown Court on Friday morning. Bevan laughed and smiled with security officers, then wiped away tears with a white tissue when the judge entered court.

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The city's top judge said he was considering an "indefinite sentence" - meaning a life sentence - for Bevan and that he required written submissions from the prosecution and her defence lawyers on this matter. Judge Andrew Menary, QC, said: "Obviously of particular concern for the court is the fact that there are exchanges of messages involving shockingly depraved fantasies.

"And they didn't remain as simply fantasies, some of these were played out in real life. I won't go into the detail of what they are now. Just when you think you have heard the worst, another one comes along. It's all of that, that the court will be concerned with."

The judge told Jonathan Duffy, defending Bevan, that he was "bound to have in mind the nature of the sentence in this case and in particular the possibility of an indefinite sentence". He said written