A Derby Paedophile child sex offender, David Lee, has been imprisoned for installing Twitter onto his mobile device. Derby Crown Court was informed that David Lee of Ashbourne Road, Derby, Derbyshire, DE22 neglected to notify the monitoring police of his acquisition of the phone, as required.
Subsequently, when he eventually disclosed the information, they realised he had installed the social media application on it. Both infractions constituted a violation of his suspended sentence order and a three-year community order, the latter of which was imposed by the judge who has since incarcerated him.
Judge Shaun Smith KC said: “I gave you a chance back in 2020 and it looked like for a long time you were taking it. You have now committed two offences during that order. In November last year you got another chance (at the magistrates’ court with the suspended sentence) and you breached that. You know what it is all about because you have previous convictions for offences like this.
“And once month after being given that (second) chance you were uploading things on a phone you were not supposed to have. You knew what you were doing because you have a history of offences such as indecent images.”
Mark Knowles, prosecuting, said David Lee, of Ashbourne Road, has previous jail sentences for making and downloading indecent images of children. He said in 2020, Judge Smith handed the 58-year-old the three-year community order for such offences.
He said that was breached when he failed to tell the police where he was living and the defendant found himself in front of the magistrates’ court in October 2021 where David Lee was handed a suspended sentence. But in November of last year, just a month later, Lee disclosed that he had the phone.
Mr Knowles said: “He was supposed to register it but he had not and when he was interviewed said he did not register it as he kept forgetting to do so. During the interview he admitted he had downloaded Twitter to the phone.”
David Lee pleaded guilty to breaching both the community order and the suspended sentence order and has previous convictions from 2014, 2017 and 2020.
Sarah Phelan, his barrister, said: “He has attended court with a bag knowing there is likely to be a long custodial sentence. He is a man who has particular mental health problems including being medicated for anxiety and depression.”
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