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Banker jailed for turning girl into a 'sex slave'
29.05.09
A City banker, who used his position as a top table tennis player to turn a schoolgirl competitor into a sex slave, was jailed for 12 months today.
Gary Tendler, 36, groomed the 15-year-old with explicit text messages before plying her with alcohol, whisking her off to West End bars and clubs and molesting her repeatedly.
The £150,000-a-year banker, who was arrested at the London offices of Dutch bank ABN-AMRO in 2007, met the child at a competition in Lincolnshire.
London's Snaresbrook Crown Court heard the married father-of-two's groping sessions in the back of his BMW were interspersed with "coaching" on company table tennis tables meant for staff recreation.
Reader views (4)
Not long enough - he 'groomed' her- doesn't this make him a pedophile? Put the pervert away for a lot longer as James Andrews states 30 years sounds about right. He abused her - of that there is no doubt. A married man with two children - ooh I would be worried about my kids with him....
- Barbara, sydney, Australia,
I don't understand 12 months instead of 30 years or life.
- James Andrews, sacramento, California USA
This sounds more like a Lolita style affair. Sex slave headline implies domination and/or rape. Before the feminists start whingeing, this does not for one moment excuse this man's gross abuse of trust, but it was not completely without consent on her part. Sounds more like a case of unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl who was almost at the age of consent. Sentence seems about right to distinguish this sort of thing with far more serious offences, such as rape.
- Nik Cholerton, Fulham, London.
12 months is woefully inadequate. This is a man who has stepped beyond the line from imagination to reality. More would have followed. '12 months' ignores this.
- Rogan, Irving
