L’affermazione del ricatto del molestatore sessuale ha dato alla polizia prove dannose per perseguirlo per i suoi vili crimini

>A Nottinghamshire sex offender inadvertently revealed his vile and illegal activities to police after reporting that someone was trying to blackmail him. Nottingham Crown Court heard how Andrew Mayfield handed over his phone so the police could examine it for evidence of a crime against him.

>But when it was analysed, it was found to contain multiple indecent images of children. Then, after being released on bail, the 50-year-old began exchanging explicit messages with a person he believed to be a teenage boy, but was actually a gang of so-called paedophile hunters.

>This week’s hearing was told how Mayfield called Nottinghamshire Police on September 16 last year after receiving a message via social media accusing him of exchanging explicit messages with a teenage boy. When officers arrived at his house, Mayfield handed over his mobile phone and displayed a series of messages and images, some of which had been deleted in a failed bid to avoid incriminating himself.

>After his arrest on suspicion of engaging in sexual communication with a child, Mayfield’s phone was forensically examined and was found to contain multiple indecent images of children. He was then interviewed and released on conditional bail, with instructions not to have contact with anyone under the age of 18.

>Despite this condition, he then began exchanging explicit messages with a person he believed to be a teenage boy. In reality, he was exchanging messages with members of an online activist group, who confronted him at his home on November 5 and called Nottinghamshire Police.

>His phone was later found to contain a series of sexually explicit messages to a boy who told Mayfield he was still at school. Despite this experience Mayfield then committed an almost identical offence with another decoy he believed to be a 14-year-old – an offence that led him to be arrested for a third time.

>Mayfield, of Alexander Road, Farnsfield, later pleaded guilty to three counts of making an indecent photograph of a child and two counts of attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child and was jailed for 20 months. He was also added to the sex offenders’ register and made the subject of a sexual harm prevention order which will tightly restrict his online activities and access to children in the future.

Astoundingly, there are comments in Nottinghamshire Live where that report is, pointing the finger at immigrants.