Locations
Queen's Road, Gillingham, Kent, ME7
Description
A registered sex offender who continued to target young girls online has been jailed.
Police were alerted to Alfie Murray’s reoffending after receiving a report from a girl last October about indecent messages she had received from a man online.
Investigators identified Murray, who is from Medway, as the offender with the usernames KLOWN.7010 and ALFIEMILWALL85.
He had asked for indecent images, made threats and caused the victim considerable distress until she blocked him from contacting her.
Murray was convicted on June 1, 2022, of sex offences involving children and was made subject to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO).
This had a number of conditions which included notifying the police if he took possession of an internet-enabled device or had any unsupervised communication with a child aged under 16.
He also had to make his devices available for inspection by a police officer and allow monitoring software to be installed.
“Murray has exhibited a willingness to breach the conditions of his court order and subject further children to his appalling obscene conduct…”
Murray was arrested on January 4 this year and when officers searched his house they recovered undeclared internet-enabled devices and proof he had been contacting many other children.
Murray, of Queens Road, Gillingham, was charged and pleaded guilty at Maidstone Crown Court to six counts of breaching his SHPO, one count of breaching his sex offender notification requirements and one count of communicating sexually with a child.
The 32-year-old was sentenced last Thursday (May 30) to three years’ imprisonment.
This included the activation of a suspended sentence and he will have to serve 18 months in prison with the remainder to be completed on licence.
PC Leona Valsler, of the Medway Offender Management Unit, said: “We regularly visit registered sex offenders who are subject to court orders and notification requirements, to monitor their behaviour and prevent them committing further crimes.
“We also install software on their phones and computers to monitor activity online and will make unannounced visits at their home addresses to check their compliance.
“Murray has exhibited a willingness to breach the conditions of his court order and subject further children to his appalling obscene conduct. He has shown himself to be entirely untrustworthy and the court has quite rightly sent him to prison.”