Convicted killer Alun Kyte gets third life sentence for historical sex offences

Alun Kyte is serving a life sentence for killing two women in the 1990s

A killer who murdered two women in the 1990s has been given a third life sentence for raping and sexually abusing a boy.

Alun Kyte, 58, lured the nine-year-old to his home in Staffordshire with the promise of toys before he attacked him.

The five-year campaign of abuse, which began in the late 1980s, saw Kyte punch, choke, and rape the boy.

Kyte was told at Nottingham Crown Court he would serve a minimum of 10 years and eight months in prison.

He is currently serving a life sentence, with a minimum term of 25 years, for the murders of two sex workers, 20-year-old Samo Paull and Tracy Turner, 30.

In passing sentence at Nottingham Crown Court on Thursday, Judge Nirmal Shant KC said Kyte had carried out "brutal" campaign of attacks on a "young, defenceless boy".

He said the violence had been "extreme" and added: "On several occasions during this behaviour, you told him you would kill him, you would kill members of his family, and you would kill him last if he told anybody about what you had done.

"The trauma still lives with him."

Kyte appeared via a video link from prison and gave no reaction as the sentence was read out.

'Scared and vulnerable'

In an impact statement read out by prosecutor Ben Lawrence, his victim said he still suffered from depression and anxiety, with anti-depressants affecting his ability to have children of his own, adding he had been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.

He said he grew up feeling "scared and vulnerable" and could not form friendships, be open with people or trust anyone.

"I would live in constant fear of when I was going to be abused next," he said.

"I never had the chance to be the person I wanted to be or could have been."

In February 2023 Kyte was convicted of 11 offences, relating to the boy, at Nottingham Crown Court and the court heard the abuse had spanned five years.

Kyte gave the boy 50p after the first assault and threatened his family after each further attack, the prosecution said.

Giving evidence, the victim, who said he had been choked at times until he became unconscious, added he was scared that Kyte would harm his family so he decided to "get it over and done with".

Samo Paull and Tracy Turner were both strangled by Kyte

In his evidence, Kyte denied anything had happened or that the victim had ever been inside his house.

Jurors found him guilty of four counts of indecency with a child, three of attempting to choke, two of indecent assault on a male, and two other serious sexual offences.

Previous convictions

In March 2000, he was jailed for the murders of Ms Paull and Ms Turner.

Ms Paull met Kyte in Balsall Heath, Birmingham, in December 1993 and her body was later found near the M1 in Leicestershire. She had been strangled.

Ms Turner met him at an M6 service station in March 1994 and she was also found strangled to death near Lutterworth, Leicestershire.

In 2013, the former lorry driver failed to reduce the 25-year minimum period he must serve.

Previously, in January 1999, Kyte was found guilty of a rape committed in Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, in 1997 and given a seven-year sentence.