Locations
Foundry Lane, Southampton, Hampshire, SO15
Description
A Southampton man has been jailed after he was caught sending sexual communications to an undercover police officer, who he believed was a child.
Christopher Jay Swaine, 41, of Foundry Lane, appeared at Southampton Crown Court last week where he was sentenced to three years and ten months in prison.
Swaine was identified by police via covert conversations with two fictional 12-year-old girls, with the final messages culminating on Christmas Eve, 2021.
He was arrested and, following an examination of his mobile phones, charged with two offences of attempted sexual communication with a child and two charges of attempting to cause or incite a child to engage in sexual activity.
He admitted all offences at court in April.
As well as his prison sentence, Swaine will also be on the sex offenders’ register and subject to a sexual harm prevention order.