Paedophile's final insult to the victims whose lives he ruined Philip Moore was found guilty of sexually abusing two girls following a trial in August and September A manipulative paedophile who sexually abused two young girls took his own life before being sentenced for his crimes. Philip Moore, 59, lured one girl in with promises of a fashion photo shoot, during which he sexually assaulted her and took "provocative" pictures. He was found guilty of two counts of indecent assault, two counts of sexual activity with a child, and inciting a child to engage in sexual activity following a trial at Liverpool Crown Court in August and September.
But when one of his victim's attended his sentencing on September 30, she was informed that her abuser had taken his own life - and that "when the man dies, the case dies with him". The woman, now in her 30s, was just 12-years-old when she was groomed by Moore, who would take her shopping to the Trafford Centre and buy her makeup and clothes. She said: "I was a girly girl and loved Sugar magazine.
There was a page in the magazine where it said you could send in your picture to appear in the magazine. He said he had a camera at his place of work. That's when it started.
"He took me to his work and that was where he touched me. He touched my breasts. I'd brought a few outfits for the photographs, and every time I changed into a new outfit he asked me if I wanted him to stay in the room.
He took quite provocative photographs of me." M.