Horrifying court document reveals life of two predators hiding in plain sight

They abused children with impunity beneath the nose of a heartbroken town that was already on the look out for predators – now a NSW couple is staring down potential decades in prison.

They’re two of Australia’s most heinous paedophiles, a couple with unfettered access to children and even a day care centre, who abused dozens of boys between them in suburban homes and down quiet country lanes in a town that’s always on high alert for predators just like them.

Now details of their crimes – most too graphic to publish – have emerged as they prepare for potential decades in prison.

Timothy Doyle and Steven Garrad, both in their late 20s, each pleaded guilty earlier this year to dozens and dozens of charges including multiple counts of sexual intercourse with a child under 10-years-old.

It’s understood Garrad pleaded guilty to abusing nine children while Doyle admitted to abusing 28 victims.

The pair are awaiting sentence from prison, a far cry from their previous life together in what was once known as the poet’s village.

Timothy Doyle and Steven Garrad, both in their late 20s, each pleaded guilty earlier this year to dozens and dozens of charges of child sex abuse.

Doyle and Garrad’s idyllic hometown, Kendall on the NSW mid-north coast, became infamous when William Tyrrell vanished from a dead-end road in 2014.

The couple is not linked to William’s disappearance but they lived in Kendall as police, journalists and suspicious locals turned over every rock searching for anyone with a shady past or criminal conviction.

But Doyle and Garrad were ‘cleanskins’ with no criminal records – perhaps that’s how they abused children so brazenly in a town so difficult to hide as a paedophile.

But the couple came undone because, as court documents reveal, they filmed and shared everything with a group of like-minded predators including another 20-something who lived three hours south.

Justin Radford was an awkward teenager who grew into a forgettable young man working for a company contracted to a local news branch of Nine television.

A tip off led Australian Federal Police to Radford’s bedroom where they found and seized USB sticks and electronic devices filled with content from the child abusing online group.

Wyong man Justin Radford, 29. Picture: Supplied

The 30-year-old’s “horrific and depraved” contributions to the syndicate, which included animals and children, landed him two decades in prison but also spiralled into dozens of arrests.

Radford, inadvertently, led police to Doyle and Garrad along with many others through their web of messages and videos.

A police fact sheet in Garrad’s case, released by the NSW District Court last week, spells out multiple videos he and Doyle filmed with two of their victims.

The victims cannot be identified but police previously said Doyle used his position at a daycare centre to gain access to 16 young victims.

What can be published is that Garrad and Doyle abused the boys over a period of years with one child being aged just three-years-old in some sickening videos.

USBs containing images and videos of the abuse were seized by police during raids in Kendall.

Many videos were filmed in the abusers’ homes, the homes of their elderly parents and in public places including cars and roadsides around the Mid-North Coast.

The police document lists scant but awful details; school uniform, “McDonalds playdate”, a backyard swimming pool, and a cartoon movie at a local cinema.

Garrad and Doyle both took plea deals; dozens of charges were dropped in exchange for confessions that averted traumatic and expensive trials.

But the charges remain so serious that it’s unlikely either will see the world outside prison for decades.

Garrad pleaded guilty to more than 100 offences, including a potential 31 life sentences, Doyle pleaded guilty to 248 offences including 30 potential life sentences.