Southampton 2020-07-13

Craig Steadman 34

Repeatedly showed his genitals at HMP Channings.

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Offender ID: O-3085

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Landguard Road, Southampton, SO15

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A perverted prisoner has been jailed for exposing himself nine times including on at least six occasions in a Devon jail.

Craig Steadman, aged 30, repeatedly showed his genitals at HMP Channings Wood near Newton Abbot, a court heard.

He was jailed at Plymouth Crown Court for a total of two years and four months for nine offences over eight months.

Steadman, from Languard Road, Southampton, pleaded guilty to nine offences of indecently exposing his genitals intending to cause fear or distress between September 3 last year and June 28 this year.

The first two offences were in Winchester, Hampshire, followed by six at the prison.

The final count was also in Newton Abbot but the location is unspecified in the charges.

Judge William Mousley QC, handed him sentences of between two months and eight months for the offences, all of them consecutive.

The sentences got longer as the offending went on and added up to 28 months.

He was also ordered to pay 181 victim surcharge.

Steadman, who appeared from prison over videolink, will also have to sign the Sex Offender Register for a decade.

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