A PROLIFIC paedo has been jailed for raping and sexually assaulting young girls after grooming them on Snapchat.
Senior NHS executive Paul Lipscombe targeted the six victims, who were aged between 12 and 15, on the social media app using fake names.
The 51-year-old then lured them into meeting him in secluded locations before raping and sexually assaulting them.
Lipscombe’s depraved crimes came to light in April last year after a 15-year-old was reported missing in Lincolnshire.
Officers found the victim at a home in Leicestershire and he was initially arrested on suspicion of kidnap.
Once the girl was safe, she revealed twisted Lipscombe had raped her.
The fiend has now been jailed for 28 years after pleading guilty to a total of 34 crimes against the six girls.
His charges included 21 counts of sexual activity with a child, two counts of raping a child under 13 and three counts of sexual assault of a child under 13.
Lipscombe also admitted six counts of making indecent photographs of children, one of causing or indicting a child to engage in sexual activity and one count of distributing indecent photographs of children.
Leicestershire Police today revealed they are investigating whether the paedo targeted more underage girls.
The court was told Lipscombe masqueraded under the names Dom Woodmore and George when preying on the victims, who were from all over the UK.
He messaged them over a seven month period – claiming on one occasion to be a therapist to get one of the young girls to trust him.
Another message in March last year read: “If there’s anything you need – help, advice, beers, vapes, lifts whatever – just let me know”.
Lipscombe also replied to one girl who told him she was turning 15: “OMG really?? We should celebrate! What would you like to do?”
After gaining their trust, Lipscombe would lure the victims to private locations where he would carry out the depraved attacks.
Footage released by police showed cops swooping on the fiend as he waited in his car at a drive-through restaurant.
Officers told him they were arresting him on suspicion of kidnap after the 15-year-old victim vanished.
Lipscombe then told them: “I haven’t kidnapped anyone. I know exactly where she is.”
Following his arrest, police discovered he had abused five further girls after grooming them on Snapchat.
They also found he had been making and distributing indecent images of children using AI.
He also set up a website where others could buy the twisted images of children and pay him to create images for them using the technology.
One of the girls, who was 12 at the time, bravely spoke out to reveal how Lipscombe convinced her that he was her boyfriend.
She said: “I regret ever accepting his request when he randomly added me on Snapchat.
“I regret ever falling for his lies and meeting him. He did things to me that I wasn’t old enough to understand and now because of him I am scared of meeting new people.
“I lied to my parents to protect him, but he was the adult, I was the child. I shouldn’t have had to protect him.
“I feel disgust towards him for what he did to me.”
The 15-year-old whose kidnapping uncovered Lipscombe’s vile crimes said no amount of time in prison would make up for what he did.
She continued: “I no longer like going out alone and I get really scared if I am out and men are close to me.
“Before all of this I could only see the good in people, but he has opened my eyes and I now see just how evil people can be.”
Another of the girls, who was aged 14, said she is “haunted by the memories and the nightmares”.
In an emotional statement, a second 14-year-old told how she feels “so overwhelmed, reserved and more closed off to the world”.
She added: “My anxiety is a lot worse – I feel constantly sick. When I do get to sleep, I have nightmares about him – I see him and hear his voice.
“I feel isolated from my friends because I can’t talk to them about what happened as I don’t want them to know. I am anxious about future relationships – how do I know that not everyone is like him?
“I don’t know how I heal from this. I just have to take it one day at a time.”
Leicester Police confirmed an investigation into Lipscombe is ongoing and have asked potential victims to come forward.
Detective Constable Lauren Speight from the CAIU, said: “Our investigation into the offending carried out by this man is continuing.
“We suspect he may have been in contact with other girls and could well have committed sexual offences against others. We would urge anyone who has been in contact with him to contact us.”
Anyone with information can visit https://mipp.police.uk/operation/33EM19I75-PO1 or ring Leicestershire Police on 101.
