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7/1/2025, 1:28:34 AM
>Pride group founder, 42, who raped a 12-year-old boy he met on dating app Grindr is jailed alongside his partner
By TOM LAWRENCE
>Published: 19:47, 30 June 2025 | Updated: 21:26, 30 June 2025
>The founder of a Pride group, who raped an 'extremely vulnerable' boy who he met on Grindr, has been jailed for 24 years.
>Stephen Ireland, 42, who co-founded Pride in Surrey in 2018, raped the child at the flat he shared with his then partner and co-defendant David Sutton, 27, in Addlestone on April 19, 2024.
>Ireland had arranged for the 12-year-old boy, referred to in court as Child A, to meet him at his flat after messaging on dating app Grindr, the court heard.
>The boy, who had been reported missing at the time, told police they had sex in the flat.
>The boy said they also smoked a bong which was later found to have contained methamphetamine, and that pornography was played on a laptop.
Gays & Noncery
By TOM LAWRENCE
>Published: 19:47, 30 June 2025 | Updated: 21:26, 30 June 2025
>The founder of a Pride group, who raped an 'extremely vulnerable' boy who he met on Grindr, has been jailed for 24 years.
>Stephen Ireland, 42, who co-founded Pride in Surrey in 2018, raped the child at the flat he shared with his then partner and co-defendant David Sutton, 27, in Addlestone on April 19, 2024.
>Ireland had arranged for the 12-year-old boy, referred to in court as Child A, to meet him at his flat after messaging on dating app Grindr, the court heard.
>The boy, who had been reported missing at the time, told police they had sex in the flat.
>The boy said they also smoked a bong which was later found to have contained methamphetamine, and that pornography was played on a laptop.
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