In 2024, the Offender Database reported that Steven Shevlin, the Shoreham and Worthing Sex Offender, had been incarcerated for violating a sexual harm prevention order designed to mitigate his criminal behaviour.
Steven Shevlin, 34, violated the order by failing to register a new car with the police and was apprehended while driving it under the influence of drugs.
He possessed a counterfeit license plate, narcotics, and firearms. During the police search of his Ford Transit, they discovered cannabis, an extendable baton, and a knuckle duster.
Steven Shevlin, residing on Stoney Lane in Shoreham and previously of Worthing, was apprehended near Arundel by officers from the Specialist Enforcement Unit (SEU), which seeks to prevent offenders from using the road network.
This was in response to a request from the Violent Sex Offender Register Team (ViSOR), which monitors offenders under sexual harm prevention orders and collaborates with other police units to execute these mandates.
Crawley CID detectives assembled the case, and Steven Shevlin was sentenced by Judge Martin Huseyin at Lewes Crown Court on Thursday, May 16.
Steven Shevlin acknowledged violating the sexual harm prevention order established in 2020, which mandated him to furnish information to law enforcement to save the public from potential sexual harm.
He confessed to operating an undeclared automobile with fraudulent license plates and without insurance, while in possession of narcotics.
After failing a roadside drug test, he acknowledged his refusal to provide a blood sample and admitted to possessing guns in his vehicle.
Judge Huseyin sentenced Steven Shevlin to 50 weeks of incarceration and imposed a three-year driving ban following his apprehension last November.
The court was informed that Steven Shevlin possessed a history of substance abuse and sexual offences, having engaged in public immorality and indecent exposure.
He has a history of violence and had previously been apprehended with firearms.
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