Locations
Vernon Street, Barrow-In-Furness, Cumbria, LA14
Description
A CONVICTED child sex offender has been charged with breaching the terms of his Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) and failing to comply with his notification requirements.
Louis Killip was jailed for 18 months in August 2023 after he attempted to incite a child to engage in sexual activity and attempted to engage a child in sexual communication between November 16 and December 3 2020.
On that occasion, the 52-year-old was also made the subject of a SHPO and notification requirements after he used Snapchat to solicit images and send pictures of his penis to who he believed to be a 14-year-old girl.
The defendant, of Vernon Street, Barrow, has now been charged with four counts of failing to comply with the notification requirements of the sex offenders register, one count of breaching his SHPO and a further count of making one indecent photograph of a child.
Court charges indicate Killip failed to notify police of a number of alias’s and names used on Facebook, Google Instagram and TikTok on January 23 this year.
He is also said to have failed to produce an internet enabled mobile device upon request to the police on January 21.
The Crown Prosecution Service further allege Killip made one indecent photograph of a child on November 11 2024.
Killip offered no indication of plea to the offences at South Cumbria Magistrates’ Court on January 25.
Magistrates sent the case to Preston Crown Court where he will next appear for a plea and trial preparation hearing on February 26.
They remanded the defendant back into custody ahead of the hearing due to his previous record and character, as well as deeming he would be likely to offend.