Registered sex offender downloaded child porn onto mobile phone
07 November 2007
Chester Evening Leader
By Hayley Maguire
A REGISTERED sex offender will be sentenced at Chester Crown Court for downloading child porn onto a mobile phone and breaching a prevention order (S.O.P.O.).
Richard James Hewitt, 31, appeared before Chester, Ellesmere Port and Neston magistrates and admitted two breaches of a sex offenders prevention order (S.O.P.O.) on March 1 and May 4 and 10 charges of making indecent photographs of a child.
Hewitt was placed on the prevention order and sex offenders register in January after being convicted of similar offences at Wrexham Magistrates Court.
The court heard Hewitt, of Law Street, Hoole, was arrested on August 31 and his mobile phone was seized.
Hewitt had been prohibited from using equipment that could download pornographic images, including mobile phones.
He was arrested again on October 31 after indecent images of children were found on the phone and he was remanded in custody.
Catherine Whincup, prosecuting, said 46 images were found on the phone including five level four
indecent videos of children.
Officers found 24 level one photographs, two level two, 11 level three and four level five.
Miss Whincup said: "Two officers in the case visited the defendant's home on two separate occasions prior to his arrest to ask him to give up any mobile phones. Full Story
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