Jail for paedophile dubbed a ‘Poundshop Jimmy Savile’

A ‘Poundshop Jimmy Savile’ has been jailed for 16 years after he groomed his victims by pretending to be a ‘fixer’ who could make children’s dreams come true. Michael Murphy, 72, posed as a music industry to groom young girls an claimed he was a road manager for Eighties chart toppers Soft Cell. Between 1980 and 2007, Murphy befriended the families of his victims, many of whom are not known to each other. Murphy would speak of his connections to…