Locations
Victoria Street, Whitstable, Kent, CT5
Description
A sex offender from Whitstable has been jailed after admitting to a series of online offences.
Detectives from Kent Police’s Paedophile Online Investigation Team (POLIT) led an investigation in which charges were brought against James Clark, of Victoria Street, who carried out his crimes between December 2020 and January 2024.
Multiple crimes
Clark was charged with multiple offences, including nine counts of attempting sexual communication with a child; three counts of attempting to make a child watch a sexual act; three counts of attempting to incite a child to engage in sexual activity; three counts of publishing an obscene article and making and distributing indecent images of children.
Sentenced
After pleading guilty, Clark, 26, was sentenced to five and a half years’ imprisonment at Canterbury Crown Court on Friday 8 March.
He was also made the subject of an indefinite Sexual Harm Prevention Order.