Paedophile’s victim ‘lucky to be alive’

PAEDOPHILE Peter Voisey’s six-year-old victim was “lucky to be alive”, a leading criminologist said yesterday.

Professor David Wilson said such horrific crimes were mercifully rare, and have remained so since the early 1970s.

But the author, who studies sex offenders and their rehabilitation, said many predatory abusers in Voisey’s position would have gone on to kill their victim, given the level of control he had over her once she was forced into his car. “Without wishing to scare anybody, she is lucky to be alive,” he said.