Locations
Blackburn, Lancashire, BB1-BB2
Description
A registered sex offender who was caught with more than 2,000 indecent images of children on a hidden mobile phone has been sent back to prison.
David Martin Nappin, 38, was released on licence following a previous prison sentence on July 30, 2020.
As part of the previous sentence, Nappin the subject of a 10-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order, limiting his contact with children and use of the internet. He was also made subject to a notification requirement.
Those requirements meant that he had to make any device capable of accessing the internet to the police or a probation officer on request.
On November 10, 2020, officers from the East (MOSOVO) Management of Sexual and Violent Offender Team were contacted by the manager of the probation hostel in Blackburn where Nappin was living to say that an unregistered phone had been discovered in the defendants room.
Nappin was arrested, charged and recalled to prison while the investigation progressed.
Nappin had also sent the hostel manager a message on his registered mobile phone which read: you'll find something, the stuff that got me in trouble last time.
Officers from the MOSOVO unit attended Nappins place of work the same day arrested him and seized his registered and unregistered mobile phones.
On the unregistered mobile phone, experts found 2209 illegal files. Of those 802 were Category A the most serious examples of child sexual abuse - 491 were Category B and 898 were Category C. There were also eight prohibited images and to extreme pornographic images.
Robert Richards, from the East MOSOVO Team, said: Following an investigation by Lancashire Police, registered sex offender David Nappin was convicted of possessing over 2209 indecent images of children, including 802 of the most serious category A photographs and videos. The images in this case were described as harrowing, and Nappin by his own admission, not only wishes to view indecent images, but to also act on those desires, and presents a very high risk of serious harm to female children under 10.