Locations
Eastwood End, Wimblington, March, Cambridgeshire, PE15
Description
A sex offender breached a strict court order by speaking to three young girls - while performing an indecent act in his car.
Max Simpkins pulled up alongside them in his blue Mini Cooper and tried to engage the youngsters, aged eight and nine, in conversation. A court heard the incident in Paynes Lane, Feltwell, Norfolk, at about 5.20pm on October 23, was caught on CCTV.
The scared girls carried on walking home and told their parents, who contacted police.
The 29-year-old of Eastwood End, Wimblington, near March, pleaded guilty to breaching a sexual harm prevention order (SHPO) by having unsupervised contact with a child under 18.
He was jailed for two years and six months at Cambridge Crown Court on Friday (July 4).
Children 'did all the right things'
DC Sonia Kauser said: "Thankfully the CCTV footage not only showed us what Simpkins was doing, it recorded his voice and the words he used when trying to engage the girls.
"The children did all the right things and continued walking together, ignoring him, and returning home, telling their parents immediately what had happened.
"Simpkins offended out of county assuming he wouldn’t be apprehended but it shows how committed we are in managing sex offenders regardless of where the offence took place. I am pleased that he is now behind bars."