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A 37-year-old man has been jailed after he pleaded guilty to child sex offences.
At the end of April this year, Ashley Brian Evans befriended a girl on Facebook he believed to be 14 years old.
He then proceeded to engage with her in inappropriate conversations - asking for indecent photos of her as well as in her school uniform, while trying to engage her in explicit chat. He also sent her an inappropriate video of himself.
What Evans didn’t know however, is that the 14-year-old girl was actually an adult.
Northamptonshire Police was contacted, and Evans was arrested and subsequently charged with attempting to cause a child to watch a person engaging in sexual activity, attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child, attempting to cause a child to engage in sexual activity, and possession of Class A drugs.
After pleading guilty to the offences at Northampton Crown Court at an earlier hearing, Evans returned to the same court earlier this month (December 12) where he was sentenced to three years and four months in prison.
Lead investigator - Detective Constable Jon Brawn from the Force’s Paedophile Online Investigation Team, said:
“I hope this case demonstrates the consequences of attempting to engage a child in sexual chat online.
“If you are caught - and you will be eventually - you will end up in prison.
“We have had some really good results this year in our team and we plan to be just as determined and relentless in 2026.”