Appeal rejected for under-age abuser

Friday 23 September 2016

A Jersey fisherman and volunteer lifeboatman has lost his appeal against his conviction for sexually assaulting two under-age girls.

Nicholas Marvin, 51, was sentenced in June at the Royal Court to five years and four months in prison for offences going back between 15 and 20 years ago.

The Appeal Court decision today backed the convictions and described them as “entirely correct.”

Marvin was found guilty of four counts of sexual abuse – three of which involved a girl aged between three and seven years old when the assaults took place - and sentenced to five years and four months in prison. 

The court were told the cases were in relation to historical abuse which occurred between February 1996 and February 2002.

Marvin’s appeal was based on four grounds, but all of these were rejected by the Appeal Court today, in a judgment which took an hour to deliver.

He was told the grounds for his appeal had “no merit.” 

Commissioner Julian Clyde-Smith was praised for his handling of the court case by the Appeal Court. 

Neither Defence Advocate Mike Preston or Crown Advocate Thomas wished to comment today on the Appeal Court ruling.