HERE is a look at some court cases we covered in July which saw defendants sent to jail.
Connor Jackson & Thomas Stanley
A man has been jailed for two years for making, possessing and distributing indecent images of children after an electronic monitoring service alerted police.
Registered sex offender Connor Jackson, 27 years, of Seel Street, Liverpool city centre, was today Friday, July 14 sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court to two years in prison for possession of indecent images of a child (categories A, B and C) and breach of a sexual harm prevention order.
Following an operation by Merseyside Police Sex Offender Unit on March 24, Jackson and his co-accused Thomas Edward Stanley, 33, of Phoenix Brow, St Helens were arrested simultaneously and their homes searched.
The warrants were triggered by an alert from eSafe Global monitoring service – the first time the pioneering system has been used successfully by Merseyside Police to identify offending.
The investigation revealed Jackson had been in conversation with Stanley who had sent him a video of another screen which displayed an indecent video of a boy.
The interaction meant Stanley was in breach of a condition on his Sexual Harm Prevention Order not to associate with other registered sex offenders.
As a result, a number of items were recovered at Thomas Stanley’s home, including the USB stick referred to in the messages, which contained Category A (the most severe), B and C images. Other devices recovered from his home contained further indecent images.
Thomas Stanley was sentenced on June 1 2023 to 32 months imprisonment for breach of a sexual harm prevention order, distributing indecent photographs of children, making indecent photographs of children and possessing an indecent photograph of a child.
Jackson was jailed for two years on July 14.
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James Goulding
A ST HELENS man who was an associate of two arsonists who started a fire which led to a grandfather dying from injuries he suffered trying to flee the blaze has been put behind bars.
George Redmond, 76, fell and broke his hip while trying to escape a fire at a house in Liverpool on September 1 last year. blaze. He sadly passed away in hospital on September 16 from his injuries.
Wayne Hepburn, 46, of no fixed address, and Fraser Dolman, 37, of Richmond Drive, Leigh pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit manslaughter and arson with intent at Liverpool Crown Court on Monday, July 17.
Hepburn received 15 years in prison, while Dolman received 16 years and three months.
Meanwhile, James Goulding, 26 of Dentons Green, St Helens, who was an associate of the two men was also sentenced today to six years for drugs offences on a separate matter.
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Lewis Hudson
A SADISTIC domineering boyfriend repeatedly callously tortured his partner’s beloved cat and battered it to death was jailed.
Mr Challinor had told the court that the couple formed a relationship in early 2021 and they moved in together in Prescot. He eventually agreed she could have a cat and he was initially affectionate to Binx “but things changed and he started to be cruel towards it.
Putting Lewis Hudson behind bars for 27 months a judge said at Liverpool Crown Court on Wednesday, July 26: “It is alarming to observe you plainly have in you a taste for sadistic cruelty.”
Judge Brian Cummings, KC, told 23-year-old Hudson the charges he had admitted “represent what is frankly a sickening catalogue of cruelty towards a defenceless animal over a period of nearly eight months.
Judge Cummings banned Lewis, of Crispin Road, Netherley, from keeping any animal for life.
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