Police get more calls after sex offender jailed

Detectives investigating a lorry driver jailed for sex offences are set to follow up more calls they have received from the public.

Craig France, 33, of Hammonds Drive, Peterborough, was jailed for 10 years and seven months in late March after admitting offences against four women.

A senior detective said after France was sentenced at Cambridge Crown Court, police were "absolutely open" to the possibility there could be more victims.

Cambridgeshire Constabulary has since told the BBC it has received nine further calls in relation to the case.

France had admitted raping one woman and admitted sex assault, voyeurism and exposing himself in public.

The court heard that France committed offences after inviting people back to parties at his home following nights out in Peterborough, between 2021 and 2023.

Judge Mark Bishop heard how France knew his victims, had filmed some offences without their knowledge and shared footage.

However, Beth O'Reilly KC, who represented France, said the case was not "straightforward", adding that following a relationship break-up in 2019 France had led a "rather hedonistic lifestyle".

Det Ch Insp Helen Tebbit said in March that France's sexual behaviour was "abhorrent".

"We are absolutely open to the possibility that there could be further victims," she told journalists.

"If anyone feels that they have been affected by Craig France in terms of his offending behaviour, or have any information that they think would be relevant to us in our investigation, then they should come forward to the police."

In an update, a police spokesman told the BBC: "We have received nine calls in relation to the case since the conviction and we will now be following these up."

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