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Prosecuting, Francesca Levett said: “He is 31 and in October 2019 he was convicted of similar sex offences and admitted seven offences and was sentenced to two years in prison and put on the sexual harm prevention order for ten years. “He was released on October 14 and got a phone and opened up social media accounts and about three weeks after being released he committed these offences. “It was a police officer posing as a 12-year-old girl and they began chatting via a dating application and then moved to Whatsapp. “He was asking for intimate images of the girl and sending explicit images of himself to her.
A PAEDOPHILE had his door broken down by police after an undercover officer feared for the safety of children. Dean Dickens has been spared jail after was found with indecent images of children in a hidden folder on his phone. The 43-year-old of Lorrimore Close, Billericay had been having conversations with online profiles in the lead up to the police raid being carried out on his home on August 18 last year. Basildon Crown Court heard that one of the users was an undercover officer, who raised the alarm. Prosecuting, Paul Valder said: “From December 8, 2019 he had been in conversation with an undercover officer.
The crown courts have once again seen justice handed down to various criminals in Southend and Basildon. Here is a rundown of the most serious cases heard in the past week.
Dean Dickens Dickens has been spared jail after was found with indecent images of children in a hidden folder on his phone. The 43-year-old of Lorrimore Close, Billericay had been having conversations with online profiles in the lead up to the police raid being carried out on his home on August 18 last year. Basildon Crown Court heard that one of the users was an undercover officer, who raised the alarm.
A MAN who tried to illegally import knuckleduster knives from China to Southend to give to his dad “as an ornament” has been jailed. Harry Lee claimed he did not know it was illegal to import weapons such as knuckledusters to the UK, despite sending the weapons to a Southend address that was not his own. The 25-year-old of Percy Cottis Road, Rochford, sent the package to a property in Burleigh Court, Southend, which was intercepted in September last year. Basildon Crown Court heard that a UK Border Force officer based at the Royal Mail investigations and logistics centre in Berkshire had found the suspicious package on September 1.