Locations
Cripstead Lane, Winchester, Hampshire, SO23
Description
A former aviation company director has been jailed for sexual offences against three children in Winchester.
Matthew Myatt, 57, abused two of the girls at Popham Airfield, where Myatt’s company was based, and engaged in sexual communication online with a third girl.
The abuse took place between 2016 and 2022, during which Myatt also coerced one of the girls into sending indecent images of herself to him in exchange for money.
The offences were reported to police in April 2022.
Following a police investigation, Myatt was charged with a number of offences, and pleaded guilty to the following:
- Sexual activity with a child
- Causing or inciting child prostitution or pornography
- Possession of indecent images of a child
- Sexual communication with a child
- Sexual assault
Appearing at Winchester Crown Court on 27 June, Myatt, of Cripstead Lane in Winchester, was jailed for four years and ordered to sign on the Sex Offenders’ Register indefinitely
He was also handed a restraining order, and a Sexual Harm Prevention Order with a number of prohibitions relating to his access to the internet and contact with children.