Locations
Trackside, Oakenshaw, Bradford, BD12
Description
A CONVICTED sex offender has been jailed for 22 months for grooming two vulnerable teenage boys in breach of a court order.
Richard Daish, 49, of Trackside, Oakenshaw, Bradford, pleaded guilty to three breaches of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order.
He was sentenced at Bradford Crown Court today on a link to HMP Leeds where he was remanded in custody.
Prosecutor Nicola Hoskins said the police called at Daishs home to discover a 17-year-old boy was at the property.
The court heard that the youth was vulnerable and at risk of exploitation.
The police seized Daishs phone and found that he had been in contact with another boy aged 16.
There was then a third breach of the order involving the first victim returning to the address, Miss Hoskins said.
The court heard they were serious breaches over three months involving grooming behaviour.
Lydia Pearce said in mitigation that Daish wanted an immediate prison sentence but she asked that it be kept to the minimum length possible.
Recorder Tahir Khan QC said Daish knew full well what the terms of the order were. He was prohibited from contacting the boys or letting them into his address.
His probation officer had assessed him as at a high risk of reoffending.
Daish was jailed for 16 months for the first two breaches with six months to run consecutively for the third breach committed while on bail.