Jailed: Man caught with vile images of children
A MAN described as a ‘high risk offender’ has been jailed after being caught with indecent images of children.
Lewis senior, aged 20, was visited at home by a police officer who seized his mobile phone and a UsB stick.
After analysing both devices, officers found 28 category A images, Minshull street Crown Court heard.
Officers also found 52 category B images and 188 category C images and including videos.
senior, of Whalley Range, had just been handed an 18 month suspended sentence for similar offences, when he was arrested for these offences and recalled back to prison.
He is now serving the full 18 months imprisonment.
senior pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to two offences of possession of indecent images, three offences of making indecent images of children and one offence of possessing extreme pornographic images, as well as a breach of a sexual Harm Prevention Order.
Outlining the facts of the breach of the order, prosecutor Timothy Ashmole said that when the sHPO was put in place in september last year, one of the directions was that he was not to have access or use social media.
“He was visited at his home address on July 13 2020 by a police officer and he was found to be in possession of a mobile phone and he had access to social media,” Mr Ashmole said.
senior was said to have a number of previous convictions for possession of indecent images and breaching court orders.
In mitigation, his defence lawyer stuart duke said: “Regarding the breach, he intended to send a message to his ex-girlfriend with his telephone number on it.
“There was nothing unpleasant about the message he sent to his ex-girlfriend.”
sentencing him, Judge Bernadette Baxter said: “You are a persistent breacher. Your pre-sentence report makes for troubling reading.”
senior, of Withington Road, was sentenced to eight months imprisonment which will run alongside his current 18 month sentence for which he was recalled.
Another four months imprisonment will be served consecutively.