Peterborough 2024-12-23

Aaron Batchelor 29

Sex offender who began sexual chats with 14-year-old decoy.

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Offender ID: O-6577

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Wootton Avenue, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE2

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A registered sex offender who began sexual chats with what he thought was a 14-year-old boy has been jailed. Aaron Batchelor, 29, sent messages to the boy who was actually an undercover police officer.

Batchelor, of Wootton Avenue, Fletton, Peterborough, sent messages on Snapchat and WhatsApp between June 5 and July 3 of this year. He was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison at Cambridge Crown Court on Friday (December 20).

He admitted attempting to engage in sexual communications with a child and three counts of breaching, and two attempted breaches, of a sexual harm prevention order.

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