By James Simons-
Paedo Stuart Sargent is police informant who may have benefited from a degree of police leniency, his neighbors allege.
After a long investigation by The Eye Of Media.Com, it now appears that the extreme paedophile jailed in February 2017, was an informant.
The Eye Of Media.Com revealed last December that Stuart Sargent was bailed three doors away from where he lived with three young children where he lived when he committed serious offences of paedophilia. Sargent was bailed to live with his mother, Sue Sargent.
31 year old Sargent was caught circulating vile images of children online in 2016 and claimed to prefer children as young as three years of age. Sargent also claimed to have abused his own daughter, but was living with his step daughter at the time.
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When Sargent was originally jailed in February 2016, the fact he was bailed just three doors away from three little children was kept from the public. Only when the father of one of the three young children discovered this that he raised alarm with The Eye Of Media.Com. His father, who we cannot name for legal reasons, is a member of The eye of media.com.
Neighbours where the serious paedo lived on Albert Road in Southend, have strongly alleged that he was a police informant. One neighbour told the eye of media.com that Sargent was quite open about reporting drug dealers to the police.
Further research into the jailed paedo discovered he had openly admitted to the local Southend Echo that he had been calling the police for drug dealers. He even volunteered his name to Echo reporters without any fear of comebacks. The aggrieved father of his stepdaughter believes this shows him to be a paedophile.
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Essex police told The Eye Of Media.Com that ”operational sensitivities” do not permit them to disclose whether an individual is a police informant or not. Two females on the road where Sargent lived, told the eye of media.com that he had threatened them violently.
One woman called Claire, said he threatened her with a machete on one occasion, but police refused to act, stating that because the threat occurred from his garden meant they couldn’t take any action against him.
Essex police refused to comment when confronted with this claim. Informants enjoy certain protection from police in exchange for them reporting crime, but being bailed so close to property where they have committed is not one of the privileges an informant is expected to enjoy.
There is no evidence to suggest that Stuart Sargent was in fact a regular police informant, or that he was granted bail so close to his former resident because he was an informant. However, the entire circumstances are highly suspicious. A freedom of information request to Essex police inquiring of their risk assessment procedures was declined because it would breach the data protection rights of Stuart Sargent, police told the eye of media.com.
A complaint has been made to the ICO, and the investigation into the case continues.
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