This is the shocking moment police arrest a man who tried to throw a boy off a 30-metre cliff after he was caught sexually abusing a girl.
Anthony Stocks, 54, has been found guilty of attempting to murder a ten-year-old boy after he groomed his little sister and made her dependent on him while working as an extra on several films.
A panel of 12 jurors at Oxford Crown Court today unanimously found Stocks, of Goring, Reading, guilty of all eight charges, including attempted murder, rape and sexual assault.
The images show the moment he was arrested by the police at his home, where an officer reads him the long list of crimes he committed.
The video then shows Stocks being questioned by police after the boy fell, where he claims he slipped of his own volition. He can also be seen telling police that he didn’t want the boy to fall off the cliff.
Anthony Stocks, 54, has been found guilty of attempting to murder a ten-year-old boy after he groomed his little sister.
This is the moment the police arrive at Stocks’ property and explain why they are arresting him
The court heard how the young woman confided on the boy, whose names cannot be identified for legal reasons, after the attacks and said he “was afraid.” Stocks then realized that the boy was aware of the assaults and had planned to “disturb” him.
In September 2022, Stocks took the boy to Ovingdean, Sussex, after several weeks earlier he contemplated pushing him off a cliff in a quarry.
One witness claims he saw “a small shape fall as if it had been thrown off the cliff,” followed by “a scream,” but the boy says he couldn’t remember if he was pushed or fell.
He was then flown to St George’s Hospital in London, where he was found to have several fractures to his head and arm, a neck deformity and a laceration to his spleen and kidney.
When interviewed by police, the girl said Stocks had admitted she was going to push the boy off the cliff “because she wanted to get rid of him.”
Today, jurors heard that the 10-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, “miraculously” survived the 100ft fall after landing on the concrete under the path at the foot of the cliffs.
Prosecutors claimed the twice-married defendant decided to lure the boy on a trip to London to see Chelsea’s football stadium before pushing him off a cliff in Brighton because the boy had tried to stop Stocks from sexually abusing his sister. younger.
After spending several months in the hospital, the boy told police he “knew everything” about the sexual abuse his younger sister allegedly suffered at the hands of Stocks, after the girl confided in him that Stocks was asking her to have sex with him “practically.” every day.’
The boy began to “interfere” and stay with his sister whenever the abuser was around in a bid to stop the abuse, which “really bothered” Stocks, jurors heard.
In his police interview, the boy increasingly described his suspicions about Stocks’ behavior toward his sister after seeing him kiss the girl “on the lips” before “going behind the bushes” at a park where children they played
In a police interview, Stocks can be seen shaking his head when asked if he wanted the boy to fall off the cliff.
Another clip shows Stocks saying he tried to tell the boy to stay away from the edge of the wall.
The boy said: ‘Every time my sister went somewhere, he (Stocks) followed her. Then she told me that he asked her to have sex with him. It happened practically every day.
‘I felt very sad for her. I didn’t know what to do at that moment. I don’t think he (Stocks) knew that I knew everything. But he was disappointed and sighed every time I was there, because nothing would happen.’
The boy’s sister, who gave live evidence at the trial, said Stocks had “scared” her and she did not speak to anyone about the alleged sexual assaults she was suffering except her little brother.
When asked why she told her brother, the girl replied: “So he would help me.”
The girl added that, a few nights before the trip to the Chelsea stadium, Stocks approached her and said: “I’m going to push him off a cliff.” I want to get rid of him so we can be together.
The court heard that the girl had tried to warn her brother not to go to Stocks, to no avail, as the boy was a big Chelsea fan and had “always wanted” to see the stadium.
When police arrested Stocks, he denied touching the girl and claims the boy’s fall was accidental.
Last week he told the jury that he was a film fan and wanted to take the boy to the edge of the cliff at Ovingdean to “see where they filmed Quadrophenia”, a 1979 British drama film based on the 1973 rock opera of the same name by The Who.
Following the sentencing, Stocks’ defense lawyer Martin Rutherford told Judge Nigel Daly there was no evidence the defendant suffered from any form of mental illness.
Stocks is in custody and is due to appear again at Oxford Crown Court at the end of July for sentencing.
Judge Daly said: ‘These are very serious offences. I am going to have to consider the dangerousness in light of the accusation, particularly in light of the attempted murder that is motivated by the first six counts of rape and sexual assault of a young girl.
‘This will take some time. I want to see a lot of things about your background. In any case, a prolonged custodial sentence will be imposed.’
Stocks was found guilty of four counts of sexual assault on a child under 13 and one count of causing or inciting a child under 13 to engage in sexual activity.
He was also found guilty of one count of raping a child on at least three occasions and attempted murder, but denied all charges.
