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An evil pervert horribly abused a little boy and girl when
on the run from jail, the Old Bailey heard.

Francis McMorrow, 31, threatened to kill both children in
two separate incidents unless they complied with his sickening
demands.

And both were left hysterical after the jobless former
university student struck when they were playing with friends.

The court heard on August 9, 1990, ‘professional burglar’
McMorrow walked out of Camp Hill open jail on the Isle of Wight
when serving two years for receiving stolen goods.

Six days later he was at the Kent Hall community centre
football pitch in Golders Green where a seven-year-old boy was
playing with his pal.

When the boy’s friend left to take discarded food crates
back to a grocer’s store, McMorrow asked the victim to help him
retrieve a pram from wasteland.

The boy agreed but suddenly McMorrow’s manner changed,
said prosecutor Mr Simon Wild.

‘The man said he would kill me if I didn’t do as he said,’
the lad later told police.

‘He pushed me on the ground and pulled my tracksuit
bottoms down.

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‘I was crying and I was shouting.

The man kept saying stop
screaming.

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After McMorrow had abused the boy his mother found him
near the scene ‘hysterical and crying uncontrollably.

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On September 17 the pervert was watching an
eight-year-old girl as she collected conkers with her friend near
a nursery in Langtry Road, St Johns Wood.

The girl’s friend went home and McMorrow asked her pal to
help him find his son’s football.

When they went behind the nursery building McMorrow
grabbed the little girl from behind and put his hand over her
mouth.

He snarled: ‘If you scream I will kill you’ – and dragged
her behind a shed.

McMorrow ordered her to lie down and she later told po
lice: ‘I got on the ground because I didn’t want to die.

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The pervert then yanked her knickers down and carried out a
repulsive sexual assault.

The court heard both children were injured as a result of
the attacks.

McMorrow, of no fixed address, was arrested on another
matter two days later but was not connected to the crimes against
the children until last summer.

The little boy picked him out on an identification parade
and he was linked to the attack on the girl by genetic
fingerprinting.

He admitted committing an act of gross indecency
(buggery) on the boy.

McMorrow also pleaded guilty to committing an act of gross
indecency (buggery) on the girl and attempting to rape her.

The court heard he had studied at Cork University in his
youth but during the 1980s he became a professional burglar,
amassing 22 convictions for those crimes.

He also had previous convictions taking cars and handling
stolen goods but none for sex offences.

Judge Kenneth Richardson, QC, remanded McMorrow for psy
chiatric reports but warned: ‘It must not be supposed I have even
a provisional view of what the right sentence is.

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