A convicted sex offender informed the police that they would locate his curriculum vitae on a confiscated memory stick, subsequently admitting that it contained disturbing photographs of child sexual abuse, as presented in court.
Christopher Brown, 34, was discovered to have violated the conditions of his sex offender notification obligations by residing overnight in an adult woman’s bed, exceeding 12 hours away from his listed residence.
At the beginning of this year, when the police reached out to the woman, she was oblivious to the fact that the man with whom she had been intimate was a three-time convicted sex offender. She had been in a relationship with the man since October 2021.
Brown asserted that he was perplexed over his obligations under the notification requirements. He even created a ‘calendar’ for the police, attempting to enumerate the times and dates he had visited the woman’s residence.
Prosecutor Alex Radley told Oxford Crown Court that during a first search of his home, Brown initially suggested that his curriculum vitae would be found on a memory stick that had not been registered with police.
Later, he confessed: “I’ll be honest. My CV isn’t on the memory stick. There’s stuff there I shouldn’t have.”
The defendant’s devices were analysed and, in total, he had 804 images and videos in the worst category, 252 in category B and 43 category C videos. He had three ‘extreme’ pornographic videos.
Brown, of South Street, Banbury, admitted possession of indecent images and breaching sex offender notification requirements.
The court heard he was first put on the sex offender register in 2016, when he was given a suspended sentence for indecent exposure. The 10 week sentence was later activated after he failed to comply with the court order.
He had since been convicted of having indecent images of children and breach of a sexual harm prevention order.
A probation officer, going through her pre-sentence report with the judge in court, said she was recommending an immediate prison sentence – to the slight surprise of the judge.
Brown had been given a number of previous chances to comply with the probation service, she said.
Mitigating, Gordana Austin said her client recognised his offences had been committed when he was ‘on his own, lonely’. From living on his own, he had moved back in with his parents.
He was said to have previously worked as a chef then cycled through agency jobs before being taken on as a handyman on constructions sites – a job that he enjoyed.
Recorder Paul Reid jailed the defendant for a total of two years.
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