A woman paedophile has been jailed after she committed “shockingly depraved” sexual abuse on a girl, including rape.

Vicki Bevan was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 10 years at Liverpool Crown Court after admitting 36 sexual offences, having been seen laughing in the dock at a previous hearing.

The 37-year-old, from St Helens in Merseyside, appeared in court on Friday with two men – 62-year-old Paul Rafferty and Tony Hutton, aged 42.

Rafferty was jailed for 10 years, with four years extended licence, after he pleaded guilty to 10 sexual offences, including rape.

Hutton was handed a prison term of four years after admitting four sexual offences.

Ahead of Friday’s sentences, the judge in the case said “just when you think you have heard the worst, another one comes along”.

Recorder of Liverpool Andrew Menary QC said: “Of particular concern to the court is the fact that there are exchanges of messages which are shockingly depraved fantasies.

“And they did not remain as fantasies, some of these were played out in real life.”

Judge Menary said any “blame sharing” claim by Bevan in her defence, that she was “led on” by the others, would not be accepted.

At a previous hearing in March, Bevan laughed and smiled with the prison officers in the dock before wiping away tears with a white tissue when the judge came into court.

The girl who was abused, as a victim of sexual offences, cannot be identified.

The three defendants entered their guilty pleas in February.

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