Disgusting paedophile laughed in victim's faces... now he can be pictured for the first time

This is the paedophile who laughed in the face of his victims when they begged him to stop abusing them.

David Blackburn targeted two girls from when they were aged just nine and seven-years-old - threatening them not to speak out about the abuse. He was a teenage boy when he started molesting the victims. But he continued as an adult, even after he got married and had children of his own.

One of the girls was raped by Blackburn, of Quarry Green, Northwood, Kirkby, more than three decades ago. She burst into tears and clenched her fists when he was jailed for 19 years on Monday, as supporters celebrated and hugged her in the public gallery.

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Merseyside Police said it did not take a mugshot of Blackburn because he attended a voluntary interview, meaning the Liverpool ECHO , which reported on the case, did not have a photo of him. But the publication can now show you the face of the man who "grotesquely abused" situations to use the girls as his "sexual playthings".

Blackburn was found guilty after a harrowing trial at Liverpool Crown Court. He denied any wrongdoing, but was convicted of five counts of indecent assault and one count of indecency with a child in relation to his first victim, when she was aged between nine and 13.

The now adult victim said Blackburn touched her sexually, performed a sex act on her, exposed himself and asked her to touch him, and showed her sexual pictures in a book. Martine Snowdon, prosecuting, said: "She would ask him to stop when he touched her but he would just laugh."

Blackburn was convicted of 15 counts of indecent assault, two counts of indecency with a