WIFE OF PLYMOUTH SEX MONSTER IN COURT FOR BREACHING ORDER
The wife of a sex monster provided a taxi service for her husband and his victim in breach of her own court order.Rebecca Ford, aged 54, gave Michael Ford and the boy lifts which put him in a position to play perverted games with the youngster.
But she was unaware of his sick intentions and was not present when the offences took place.
Rebecca Ford, biologically a man but identifying as a woman, was also “dominated and manipulated” by theatre group leader Michael Ford, Plymouth Crown Court heard.
Michael Ford, aged 69, was handed a 12-year sentence for inciting the boy into sexual activity.
With a long record of sexual offences, he will serve at least seven years behind bars after he was convicted by a jury earlier this year.
Michael Ford, head of the disbanded Playwriters Organisation, had the youngster pour water and sugar down his trousers.
He persuaded the boy to handcuff him and smack his backside after getting him alone and tricking him into indulging his fetish.
The court has now heard that Rebecca Ford on three occasions gave lifts to her husband and the boy.
She was also briefly with Michael Ford and the youngster at home.
Rebecca Ford is not allowed to be with a child unless she has permission from a parent – and a parent who knows about her own conviction.
Under her previous name of Martin Syms, she was handed a Sexual Offences Prevention Order at Exeter Crown Court in 2007, having been convicted of possessing indecent images of children.
Rebecca Ford, who shared a home with her husband at Medway Place in Efford, pleaded guilty to four breaches of the order within three weeks.
Suspending her prison sentence, Judge William Mousley said: “You were under some considerable pressure from him (Michael Ford) to do as you did.
You were to a significant extent controlled and manipulated by him in the context of your relationship.
“That relationship is now over, you have a new partner and you are shortly moving to a new address.” Judge Mousley also noted these were the first breaches of the order in more than 12 years.
He said that Rebecca Ford would be vulnerable in a men’s prison – though he stressed this was not the reason for suspending the prison sentence.
The defendant admitted that a conviction in 2006 involved getting girls to tie him up.
Ford attended Torquay Boys Grammar School and studied librarianship and information studies at the University of Leeds.
