Jailed 'Romeo' taxi driver phoned teen girl 8,900 times Court heard Colin Robinshaw, 36, befriended girl, 14, and showered her with gifts before coercing her into sexual activity 
Colin Robinshaw
A taxi driver who considered himself to be a Romeo sent a photo of himself, naked from the waist down, to a 14-year-old girl’s mobile phone, a court heard.
Colin Robinshaw, 36, bombarded her with thousands of calls and text messages and tried to arrange a sexual encounter.
A court heard today how he rang her 8,900 times over a four-month period and, on one occasion, took her to a secluded spot in his taxi and groped her.
He also persuaded his victim to send him explicit photographs of herself.
Mold Crown Court heard how he set about grooming her and he called himself Romeo in text messages and asked her to call herself Juliet, telling her he wanted to be with her.
Robinshaw, of Cambrian Terrace, Tywyn, was jailed for three years after he admitted charges of sexual activity with a child, causing a child to engage in sexual activity, and attempting to arrange the commission of a sexual offence by encouraging her to engage in sexual activity.
Judge Niclas Parry – who said Robinshaw failed to appreciate the seriousness of what he had done and regarded it as “fooling around” – ordered him to register indefinitely as a sex offender.
He was also made the subject of a Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO) under which he must not stay in the same house as children and he must never contact the victim.
Prosecuting barrister Karl Scholz said Robinshaw was first challenged when a “love letter” he had sent to the schoolgirl was discovered by a member of her family.
The letter described his love for her and how he also wanted her in his bed.
He went on to send her a photograph of himself naked from the waist down and he showered her with gifts including a iPod, a mobile phone and a necklace.
Between the beginning of October 2012 and the end of January 2013 he made 8,900 phone calls to her and she had contacted him 4,500 times.
She felt more and more under his control and after initially refusing, agreed to send her photographs of herself.
The taxi driver told her to use aliases when sending texts – and said he would call himself Romeo and she should call herself Juliet.
Mr Scholz said before his arrest, Robinshaw messaged her telling her to delete all texts she had received from him.
The hard drive had been removed from his computer and could not be found, and he got a new phone the day before his arrest and police never found the old one.
But messages were found, after her phone was analysed.
Judge Parry said that the defendant had spent months grooming the girl with his intention of obtaining sexual gratification at her expense.
He befriended her, they exchanged phone numbers and he then “literally bombarded her” with text messages and phone calls. She was spending up to three hours a day on the phone with him.
The 20-year age disparity and his controlling behaviour were aggravating features and it was obvious that he had no comprehension of the gravity of the matter.
Mr Scholz said the defendant was a man of good character at the time of the offences but he had since been convicted of groping the breasts of a teenage girl at a party.
Simon Rogers, defending, said that his client’s greatest mitigation was his early guilty pleas which had prevented the need for the girl to give evidence.
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