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Pervert Kieran Slater has been jailed after police found indecent images on his phone – just weeks after being handed a suspended prison sentence. The 26-year-old had walked out of Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court on August 30 after admitting downloading and distributing indecent images of children.
But he has breached his Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) by twice installing Snapchat and was in breach of the Sex Offenders’ Register by not giving police his user name. The mobile phone – containing indecent images of children – was found under his pillow.
In his police interview Slater said he had not changed his bedsheets for 12 months and did not know the phone was there.
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Slater, of Hallfield Grove, Tunstall, pleaded guilty to making indecent images of children; failing to comply with the notification requirements of the Sex Offenders’ Register; and three charges of breaching his SHPO. The offences placed him in breach of the suspended jail sentence.
Anis Ali, mitigating, said the order Slater received in August was in its infancy. He said Slater had resigned himself to receiving a custodial sentence. Mr Ali added that Slater is ‘relatively immature’.
Judge Graeme Smith jailed Slater for two-and-a-half years. The defendant remains on the Sex Offenders’ Register and subject to the SHPO for 10 years.
Judge Smith said: “It is very disappointing to see you back in front of me a couple of months after I sentenced you. It is clear that the police had given you very clear instructions and you decided to go outside the instructions.”
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