2015: MAN JAILED FOR BREACHING ORDER BANNING HIM FROM APPROACHING YOUNG GIRLS ON FACEBOOK
A 22-YEAR-OLD Kidderminster man has been jailed for eight months for breaching a court order by approaching young girls on Facebook and failing to hand over his phones to police.Samuel Turner, of Beeches Road, admitted four allegations of breaching the “risk of sexual harm” order, which had been imposed by Kidderminster magistrates in April 2013.
The order followed incidents in which he sent a “grossly offensive” letter to an ex-partner’s mother, obstructed police as they were searching for a missing 13-year-old girl and had indecent photographs of his then 15-year-old girlfriend.
The order meant that he should not contact under age girls and that, if required by police, he must hand over his computer or mobile device to be checked.
Mr Brotherton told Worcester Crown Court that, on January 1 last year, Turner contacted a 14-year-old girl on Facebook, using the name of “Jack Matthews”, and asked for her phone number.
The following day, when she looked at “Jack Matthews’” profile, she recognised it as Turner and informed police.
On January 21, Turner refused to hand over his mobile phone to police, said Mr Brotherton.
Turner then, on February 19 last year, contacted another girl by using the name “Matthew Sanders” on Facebook and, on September 2 2014, when required to hand over his mobile phone to police, told officers he did not have one.
Michael Aspinall, defending, said there was no suggestion that Turner had been accessing inappropriate material on the internet, had not been accused of grooming young girls and had no convictions for sexual offences.
Mr Aspinall described Turner as “immature”, adding: “He’s grown up too late.” He was now working in a restaurant, living with his mother and his current partner was aged 17.
Recorder Denis Desmond, jailing Turner, told him it was for “persistent flouting of a court order”.
