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A pervert who was caught having sex chats with a police officer posing as a young girl is back in jail. Dean Warren was jailed for 20 months last September after he tried to persuade a 13-year-old 'girl' to take part in sex videos
But the 'girl' was in fact a decoy. In his police interview he admitted his behaviour was for his own sexual gratification. In his police interview he admitted his behaviour was for his own sexual gratification.
As well as the jail sentence, 34-year-old Warren was made the subject of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) for 10 years which prohibits him from using any device capable of accessing the internet unless it has the capacity to retain internet use and does not delete internet history.
But Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court heard the police visited Warren on May 13, the day after his release from prison. They checked his phone and gave him advice about removing some apps.
Officers returned to his home on June 29 and again checked his phone. Prosecutor Rupert Jones said: "It revealed a Virtual Private Network (VPN), which allows the user to browse the internet without the history being recorded. He told the police he had used it to view adult pornography. The usage placed him in breach of the SHPO.
"He had installed the My Cleaner app which is designed to delete evidence of activity. And he had used WhatsApp and Facebook social messaging platforms but had deleted some of the messages sent."
He was arrested. He said he used the VPN to view adult pornography. He said he realised he should have paid more attention to the detail of the terms of the SHPO.
Warren, of no fixed address but formerly of Bentilee, pleaded guilty to three charges of breaching a SHPO. Rob Holt, mitigating, said Warren accepted he would be jailed as he has been recalled until March.
Mr Holt said: "These offences started quickly after his release. He deleted the history. There is no suggestion that there was any contact with children. My instructions are that he was in contact with adults and viewing adult pornography. There seems to be no inherent interest in children."
Recorder Anthony Warner said: "The SHPO made at the time you were sentenced is an important part of the protection of the public in the case of a sex offender such as you going forward.
"Very shortly after you were released you were visited by the police and it was quickly discovered that you had been deleting messages and using apps designed to disguise internet activity. All were a breach of the SHPO.
"It is a deliberate and very serious breach involving the deletion of social media messages and the use of apps designed to disguise internet activity.
"The aggravating features are there were three breaches of the same order and they were very soon after your release from the sentence passed on you for the offences which gave rise to the order in the first place.
"You need to consider how you are going to respond going forward because if you continue to breach the SHPO you will be in the cycle of returning to prison, unless you engage and are assiduous in following the requirements of the SHPO."