Paedophile ring at East Ham swimming baths in 1970s

A former lifeguard who was part of a paedophile ring preying on underage schoolgirls at a swimming pool in the 1970s was spared jail today (FRI). Keith Ruggles, now 68, and his friends targeted truanting teenagers at East Ham swimming baths and took them for sex in what they dubbed the ‘blue room’. Ruggles left his wife the 14 year-old girl he assaulted – but their three year relationship ended when he asked her to pose for topless photographs. The…