NOTTINGHAM MAN HANDED SUSPENDED SENTENCE FOR CHILD SEXUAL OFFENSES AND ONLINE GROOMING
A pervert was warned he would be "eaten alive in prison" as a judge dealt with him for trying to meet a teenage girl in a hotel.Nathan Inger sent sexual messages on Snapchat to the child and a picture of his private region.
Inger appeared at Nottingham Crown Court on Wednesday (September 20), where Judge Stuart Rafferty KC spelled out to him what prison would be like - and added, "you couldn't look after yourself in a strong wind".
He warned, in prison, people are screaming, doors are banging, there are fights going on, and people in his position have to be locked away.
Whilst the judge decided to give him "one final chance", he urged Inger to think about prison: "I'm not making it up.
They would eat you alive", he said.
Inger was handed 18 months in prison, suspended for two years, after he pleaded guilty to two charges of possessing a prohibited image of a child, downloading indecent photos of children, breaching a sexual harm prevention order three times, and failing to comply with a community order.
Aged 24 and of Isandula Road, Basford, he was on a three-year community order for four previous offences of engaging in sexual communication with a child, and his punishment included a sexual harm prevention order.
This banned him from deleting his internet history, possessing any device capable of accessing the internet and making any device available for inspection.
But when police checked on March 9 last year he was asked to provide devices he used to access the internet.
He took a significant amount of time finding his phone - and used that time to delete indecent images of children.
Inger admitted to police that he spoke sexually on Snapchat to a girl he believed was 15 years old and that he was making plans to meet her in a hotel.
After his arrest, he revealed there was a second phone, which he kept hidden from police and probation officers, and confessed it would also contain indecent images.
Judge Rafferty stated that Inger had been viewing indecent photos of children for sexual reasons and contacting a person whose identity was uncertain, whether real or fake.
"You have been making arrangements or trying to see that person at a hotel," said the judge.
"What would have happened if you had?" He decided to keep Inger on the community order, increasing his rehabilitation activity days by 20 and extending the sexual harm prevention order for five years.
"Woe betide you if there are any more hidden phones," warned the judge.
