Locations
Mill Road, Cambridge, CB1
Description
A paedophile who groomed a teenage boy to take part in sexual acts with his own brother has been jailed.
Leon Richardson, of Mill Road, Cambridge, began speaking to the schoolboy through social media on 10 October.
The teenager replied to Richardson and the messages started off innocent, but after a few days became sexual.
Richardson, 22, sent sexually explicit images and videos of himself to the boy and asked him to do the same, to which the boy obliged.
He also persuaded the boy to take part in sexual acts with his own brother, who was younger than him. These acts were recorded and sent to Richardson.
Richardson went on to request to meet the teenager under the guise of teaching him to play the guitar.
The sexual messages continued for a few months, until 29 December, but were found after the boy’s parents checked his phone after he had become withdrawn and secretive with the device.
After realising the conversations had been discovered Richardson visited Parkside Police Station, in Cambridge, and admitted the offences.
In police interview Richardson again admitted the crimes and said he wanted help.
At Cambridge Crown Court on 29 January, Richardson admitted charges including:
- Engaging in sexual communication with a child
- Causing a child aged 13 to 15 to watch or look at an image of sexual activity
- Causing or inciting a boy under the age of 13 to engage in sexual activity
- Causing a boy aged 13 to 15 to engage in sexual activity
He was sentenced at the same court today (4 April) where he was handed five years and four months in prison, with an extra three years on licence
Richardson was also given a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO), to monitor future offending, which was ordered to run indefinitely. He must sign the Sex Offenders Register for life.