Neighbours have described a couple who were convicted of horrific child abuse as ‘creepy and furtive’ and said they would stop their children from playing outside when paedophile Andrew Hadwin was around.
Hadwin, 39, and Cheryl Pickles, 35, who tormented children by starving them and forcing them to eat soap, were said to have ‘all sorts of strange noises coming from their home’ in the village of Fishburn, County Durham.
The pair were charged with several offences of child neglect and sexual activity with a child, and one count of perverting the course of justice.
Hadwin was also charged with three counts of rape in relation to historic abuse of another child which happened when she was a little girl.
Cheryl Pickles and Anthony Hadwin were convicted for abusing and neglecting children, forcing them to eat soap and scavenge for scraps after a seven-week trial at Teesside Crown Court
Hadwin was convicted of three counts of rape, seven counts of neglect, and one count…
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