Neighbour’s ‘party’ was a sick bid to rape me: Mum-of-three reveals horror attack at just 15

EXCLUSIVE: Brave Jade Richards waives anonymity to warn other young girls after paedophile forced her to perform sex act.

Ordeal ... mum-of-three Jade Richards reveals how paedophile plied her with booze as a teen

JADE RICHARDS was much like any other teen and spent her evenings hanging out with mates in the cul-de-sac where she lived.

Then one night, as they had often done before, she and two friends went round to neighbour Alan Wills’s house to drink alcohol at one of his legendary parties.

Survivor ... Jade Richards in her teenage years

But this time the naive 15-year-old’s excitement turned to terror when she realised his game of truth or dare was just a sick attempt to sexually abuse her and her underage friends.

Wills, 46, forced Jade to perform a sex act on him, then attempted to rape her. 


Fortunately she managed to fight him off before grabbing her mates and escaping from the house.
After she reported the attack to the police, an investigation was launched and it was revealed that Wills was part of a well-known paedophile ring.

Thanks to Jade’s testimony, he was given a 16-year jail sentence and the rest of the child sex ring are now also behind bars.

Seven years on, Jade, now 22 and a full-time mum, has waived her right to anonymity and is bravely speaking out in the hope that other young girls do not fall into a similar trap.

The scene was set for Jade’s nightmare after her mum and stepdad split up when she was 11, and she and her mum moved to Camborne in Cornwall. She soon made new friends in the cul-de-sac.
She says: “It was nice to be able to play with other kids my age. A group of us would hang out and that’s when I first met Alan.

“He was the cool neighbour that everyone wanted to know. He was nothing like any of the dads we’d known. He invited us round and offered us booze and cigarettes. “Since my parents had split I’d become a bit of a rebel. I didn’t hesitate to take him up on it.

“It was the perfect antidote to the stress of home. “We’d see him almost every day and his boozy house parties became legendary. Even when he asked me to kiss and hug him, I didn’t think anything of it.

“Once he tapped my bottom as I left, but I just shrugged it off, I was having too much fun.” Wills, a married father of three, liked to host pool parties and Jade recalls: “At one party I remember downing a drink but then I was violently sick.

“I couldn’t keep my eyes open and when I came round, all my friends had gone. I could just see Alan’s figure in the kitchen. “He told me I’d been out for three hours. I was completely disoriented and when I discovered I was bleeding from my groin, I made my excuses and left.

“Every time I went round to Alan’s house I was out cold after just one drink. It became a running joke with my friends. They thought it was hysterical.