Aaron Goosey 45

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A Cambridgeshire sex offender who "failed to learn his lesson" was caught with more indecent images of children.

Police officers who visited Aaron Goosey's home unannounced became suspicious after checks revealed he had deleted a social media messaging app.

The 44-year-old already had 36 convictions including exposure, making indecent images of children and breaches of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) and Sex Offenders Register notification requirements. As part of his SHPO, Goosey, 44, is monitored by Cambridgeshire Police's Management of Sexual or Violent Offender (MOSOVO) team.

After the visit by officers in April, Goosey’s phone was seized. It was found to contain 46 indecent images of children and one video of the same nature.

Further checks revealed the images were sent on a messaging app since deleted by Goosey – something he is banned from doing by the terms of his SHPO. Chats on Facebook Messenger had also been deleted and Goosey had failed to tell police of a new alias name he had used, breaching his Sex Offenders Register notification requirements.

Goosey was arrested but denied using the messaging app he had deleted, denied seeing any indecent image and said he had never heard of the alias name. However, he later admitted charges including two counts of making indecent images of children, failing to comply with Sex Offenders Register notification requirements and breaching a SHPO.

At Cambridge Crown Court on Friday (December 8), Goosey, of Pennine Way, Peterborough, was handed a total of two years and six months in prison. He was placed on the Sex Offenders Register for life and the SHPO already in place was extended indefinitely, to monitor any future offending.

Constable Beckie Hallam, who investigated, said: “The main aim of the MOSOVO team is to protect vulnerable children, whether in the real world or online. Cases such as these help to highlight that work, which most of the time goes on behind the scenes. A child is victimised when an indecent image is taken and every time it is viewed or shared.

“Goosey’s offending shows he had failed to learn his lesson. I hope he now reflects on his actions and he will continue to be monitored by the team on his release from prison.”