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A Sexual Harm Prevention Order banned Jake Pinhorn from having devices that were not declared to police officers
A Walton paedophile has been jailed after breaching a court order barring him from having undeclared smartphones. Jake Pinhorn was handed a 10-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) in 2018 when he was convicted of making and distributing indecent images of children.
He was also ordered to sign the sex offenders' register. But police say the 31-year-old's risk management officer believed he was accessing the internet again on an undeclared smartphone.
This suspicion was confirmed when a warrant was conducted at Pinhorn's home. There, police say, a smartphone was discovered that was attributed to him.
Police say he was also found to have breached the terms of the sex offenders' register by staying at an address he had failed to disclose to the police.
He has now been jailed for a year after appearing before Guildford Crown Court. Pinhorn admitted breaching the terms of his register and his SHPO when he appeared in the dock.
PC John Rose, from Surrey Police’s High Harm Perpetrator Unit, said: “This result shows that we will work tirelessly and robustly to bring convicted sex offenders who breach the conditions placed upon them to justice. Sexual Harm Prevention Orders are ultimately put in place to protect the community and manage risk around further offending, which is why any breach is taken incredibly seriously and we will never hesitate to take action.”