PAEDOPHILE TOLD HIS MUM 'I'VE MESSED UP AND I'M GOING TO JAIL' AND HE WAS RIGHT
A man who had just been spared prison after being found with a stash of sickening child abuse images told his mum "I've messed up...I've done it again and I'm going to jail" as police returned to his door.
Withing weeks of walking out of court after being charged for identical offences, Jay Coleman continued downloading the depraved material.
A year after he was handed the second chance when a judge gave him an eight-month imprisonment, suspended for 18 months, the 22-year-old was arrested again at his home in Walton, Merseyside.
Police swooped after officers received intelligence relating to the further distribution of such materials via social media.
Liverpool Crown Court heard Derek Jones, prosecuting, detail how a Samsung mobile phone was seized from Coleman on June 11 2025.
He was then told his mum upon his arrest: "I've messed up.
I've done it again.
I'm going to jail." His device was found to contain nine category A indecent images - those graded as showing the most serious forms of abuse.
Coleman admitted possession of indecent images of children, two counts of making indecent images, possession of prohibited images of children, breaching a sexual harm prevention order and breaching a suspended sentence.
Appearing in the dock wearing a white shirt and black tie underneath a grey jacket, he was jailed for 14 months.
Sentencing, Recorder Eric Lamb said: "On that occasion, you were given a further opportunity, no doubt because of the likely impact of immediate custody upon your caring duties for your mother, because of your youth and because of the opportunity that there might be to work with you in the future." "During the currency of that suspended term of imprisonment, you went on to commit exactly the same sort of offending again." "It has been urged eloquently on your behalf by Ms Badman that, in fact, the offending occurred very quickly, before the work with you could come into effect, but, nonetheless, you were all too aware that you had been sentenced to prison for having done this in the past.
You knew and were warned that any further offending would lead to the imposition of the eight months held in suspense on that occasion." "In such circumstances, you having been left in no doubt when the suspended sentence was imposed, what it was imposed for and what would be the consequence of any further offending, that you have gone on to repeat the same conduct makes it, in my judgement, necessary that there should be an immediate custodial term in this case." "There must be a downward adjustment to reflect the mental health issues that you have had, the steps you have taken to amend your mental health and the fact that you were isolated and had become desensitised." Coleman was also handed a new sexual harm prevention order which will run for the next decade.
He will be required to sign the sex offenders' register for 10 years.
