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Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria
Description
A REGISTERED sex offender has been locked up after officers caught him using a device to view extreme pornography featuring bestiality.
Kainen Joughin-Griffiths, formerly, of Woodbine Lane in Newton-in-Furness near Barrow, hid his internet search history and bought a new Xbox without telling the police.
He pleaded guilty at the first opportunity to three counts of breaching the terms of his sexual harm prevention order and being in possession of cannabis.
Preston Crown Court heard the offences came after the 21-year-old received a three-year community order for eight individual charges on March 19 this year.
On that occasion, Joughin-Griffiths admitted to attempting to engage in sexual communications with a 14-year-old American schoolgirl, making over 750 indecent images of children (including 502 of category A), the worst of its kind, as well as possessing 257 extreme pornographic images.
As a result, he was also made the subject of notification requirements and a sexual harm prevention order for five years, the court heard.
Prosecuting the case on September 24, Richard Flook said the defendant was prohibited from using any computer or device capable of accessing the internet.
He said police attended the Skelwith Bridge Hotel, Ambleside, to arrest the defendant on suspicion of possessing extreme pornographic images on August 4.
“This was due to an eSafe safeguarding report that an account registered to the defendant had viewed extreme pornography featuring bestiality," he said.
The court heard the images were found to contain legal adult pornography, borderline images, pseudo-pornographic images but also multiple images of bestiality.
During a search of the defendant’s room, police obtained a Samsung phone, Xbox One Series S and Xbox One.
“When the various devices seized were examined, it became apparent that the defendant had breached his SHPO,” Mr Flook said.
“The Xbox Series S was examined and discovered to have been used without any monitoring software installed and the Xbox One had not been disclosed to the police.
“It also became apparent that the defendant had been using the Samsung device on secret mode which enables private browsing. Officers also found that the defendant had deleted messages on WhatsApp.”
The court was told the browsing history on the Xbox Series S showed that Joughin-Griffiths had visited an adult pornography website as well as viewing a site with the title ‘Porn Video Zoophilia’.
Recorder Michelle Brown, who originally sentenced the defendant to the community order, jailed Joughin-Griffiths for 32 months.