Latest Offenders Workington

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A man has been jailed for 20 months after making online sexual advances to a police officer he believed was a 12-year-old girl.

Jonsen Lamb did not realise he was chatting to and making sexual suggestions to an undercover officer in April, Carlisle Crown Court heard.

The 26-year-old, of Low Seaton Village, near Workington, pleaded guilty to attempted sexual communication with a child and attempting to cause a child to watch a sexual act.

He also admitted breaching sex offender notification requirements by failing to keep police up to date with personal information.

Lamb had been subject to notification requirements since April 2021 when he was given a community punishment and ordered to undergo rehabilitation work for previous sexualised online chat with a decoy he believed was a child.

The court was told during the latest incident and despite it being made clear the "girl" was more than half his age, Lamb sent a series of sexual suggestions as well as explicit still and moving images.

He also asked for pictures to be sent to him and asked about the pair meeting up.

'Pretty dangerous'

After two days of online exchanges, the operative terminated their chat.

Lamb was arrested and surrendered a phone on which police found the message thread after he provided the device PIN.

Defending Lamb, Marion Weir said a probation officer's pre-sentence report referred to him as being immature as well as having poor social communication skills.

The court was told he was also still coming to terms with an autism diagnosis.

Lamb had completed previous court-imposed rehabilitation work and remained offence-free for a time.

But earlier his year he reverted back to what a prosecutor called "carbon copy" offending amid "struggles and stresses" in his life.

Judge Michael Fanning said Lamb was a "pretty dangerous young man" who posed a "high risk to children".

As well as the jail term, he will remain subject to sex offender notification requirements for 10 years.

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A REPEAT sex offender from Workington is back behind bars after police were tipped off about his perverted online activities.

At Carlisle Crown Court, 27-year-old Jonathan Fell was given a 32-month jail term for his latest offending, which involved him viewing naked and sexualised images of children.

Police say they acted after receiving concerning reports about his use of social media in December of last year.

After his arrest, police examined Fell’s mobile phone – and found sufficient evidence to bring a number of charges, including an allegation that he had breached his existing sexual harm prevention order.

At court, the defendant, of Firth View Walk, Workington, admitted the following offences:

• Two counts of downloading indecent child images between November 30 last year and December 3. Three of the images were Category C and one was Category B.
• Possessing indecent child images – one that was assessed as Category B and one as Category A.
• And four breaches of his sexual harm prevention order - by accessing a file sharing website and by accessing two social media sites, which is banned under the terms of his order.

All of the offences were committed in the Cockermouth area at a time when he was living in Mawsons Court in the town. Police arrested Fell on December 3 last year, but he refused to answer questions.

After he was jailed, and put on the Sex Offender Register for a decade, Cumbria Police’s Detective Constable Mark Cox said: “The breach of a court-imposed Sexual Harm Prevention Order is taken extremely seriously by the police and the courts.

 “One of Cumbria Constabulary’s main priorities is the protection of the public from the risk of serious sexual offenders.

“As soon as officers were made aware of the potential breaches, they acted and were able to quickly secure evidence against Fell, which has resulted in him being sentenced to significant further time in prison.”

The defendant has lived in Cockermouth, Workington and Carlisle.