Clos yr Onnen, with its well-kept homes and neatly manicured gardens, is like thousands of unassuming suburban streets throughout Wales. Just a stone’s throw from the medieval castle in the charming seaside town of Kidwelly, the quiet and overlooked cul-de-sac is outwardly unremarkable. Children’s bikes and scooters lean against lamposts as cars trundle back and forth on school runs, journeys to work, and trips to the shops.
This Carmarthenshire estate is, on the face of it, certainly not the most likely setting for a satanic paedophile ring. Yet it was here that former Tesco security guard Colin Batley, now 56 years old, established his depraved cult which saw children and young adults intimidated into having sex in the most horrific circumstances. Batley is now eligible to be freed from prison after serving 12 years of his jail sentence for indecent assaults, causing prostitution for personal gain, causing a child to have sex and inciting a child to have sex, and 11 counts of rape.
Read more his potential release here . As ordinary, law-abiding families went about their daily lives in the dozens of homes in Clos yr Onnen Batley and three of his neighbours established an occult-inspired sex ring which stole the childhoods of its victims. The full, shocking scale of the abuse perpetrated by the cult came finally came to light when they were jailed for a total of 36 years in 2011 – with “quasi-religious” sect leader Batley warned he may never be freed.
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