Phillip Davies 55

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A SEX offender has been jailed for breaching a court order just two months after it was made.

Phillip Davies of Hawarden Road, Caergwrle, appeared at Mold Crown Court for sentence on Thursday.

The 55-year-old had previously been found guilty of breaching a sexual harm prevention order (SHPO).

Richard Edwards, prosecuting, told the court Davies was made the subject of the 10-year SHPO in February 2024 after being convicted of attempting to cause a child to engage in a sexual act and attempted sexual communication with a child.

As part of the order, police installed a piece of monitoring software on his mobile phone.

The software in question tracks static and moving images, words and phrases on screen and the device's keyboard input - and sends a signal to a server every hour to verify that it is active.

But in April 2024, following a review of the defendant's phone, officers noticed Davies was receiving notifications from dating sites; when there was no evidence of him using such sites in his internet history.

When asked about this, the defendant claimed the monitoring software had stopped working, and that he'd "had to turn it back on manually."

Checks were made and Davies' lies were revealed - when it was confirmed he had actually stopped it from working himself.

Mr Edwards said the defendant's behaviour represented a 'persistent breach.'

Dafydd Roberts, defending, told the court: "It is a very strange case and a difficult one to mitigate for Mr Davies.

"He maintains his denial that he did anything deliberately and says the app still switches itself off."

Mr Roberts told the court despite the latest offences, his client had demonstrated 'near-exemplary' compliance with the community requirements of his suspended sentence order.

But he also conceded that by his latest conviction, Davies was in breach of that order.

"There is more work that can be done with this defendant," he added.

"And there is a suggestion that he could be dealt with in the community - I invite Your Honour to consider drawing back."

Judge Niclas Parry told Davies: "You were given a suspended sentence for serious sexual offences involving what you believed were young children.

"Within two months of being given that opportunity, you were deliberately breaching your SHPO."

The Judge handed down a sentence of 12 months concurrent on each of the breach offences - and activated 12 months of the breached suspended sentence to run consecutive.

That made a total of two years immediate custody.