{"id":493284,"date":"2026-03-24T21:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T21:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/493284\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T21:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T21:27:10","slug":"repulsive-paedophile-jailed-for-child-sexual-abuse-in-bristol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/493284\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Repulsive&#8217; paedophile jailed for child sexual abuse in Bristol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A &#8220;repulsive&#8221; paedophile has been jailed for eight years after sexually abusing an eight-year-old girl.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Matthew McKenzie, of Totterdown in Bristol, was sentenced at Bristol Crown Court on 17 March. He will be subject to a 15-year sexual harm prevention order and will remain on the Sex Offenders&#8217; Register indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Avon and Somerset Police said the 47-year-old sexually touched the child and carried out sexual acts with her &#8220;for his own gratification&#8221; in June 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His victim told the court she suffers from nightmares about McKenzie, and often wakes up &#8220;crying in an absolute panic, fearing that he is coming for me&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A &#8220;repulsive&#8221; paedophile has been jailed for eight years after sexually abusing an eight-year-old girl. Matthew McKenzie, of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-493284","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}