A deviant Cleator Moor Paedophile, Graham Bain, participated in sexually explicit conversations and transmitted obscene photographs of himself to an individual he believed to be a 14-year-old girl.
Nearly ten years after avoiding incarceration and receiving rehabilitation for comparable offences, 41-year-old Graham Bain has been sentenced to a substantial immediate prison term.
Carlisle Crown Court was informed that Graham Bain was initially sentenced in 2016 for internet sexual offences. He engaged in sexually suggestive dialogue on a dating website with someone he believed to be a 14-year-old girl. Bain, whose communications included an obscene video, was conversing with an undercover police officer.
He received a suspended prison sentence, was assigned community service obligations, and was subjected to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) that imposed limitations on his freedom and internet activities.
Graham Bain was summoned to court again following the emergence of fresh crimes earlier this year.
Prosecutor Tariq Khawam stated: “Police officers visited Mr Graham Bain’s residence after receiving information from an undercover officer posing as a 14-year-old girl.”
Graham Bain was “evasive” with law enforcement, asserting the absence of specific cell phones. He subsequently guided officers to three iPhones and a Samsung device but declined to disclose the PIN codes.
Graham Bain violated the SHPO by failing to utilise police-approved surveillance software on the four phones.
Graham Bain was found to have participated in unlawful, sexually explicit communication with the officer from March 31 to April 24 of this year, utilising Snapchat, WhatsApp, and other platforms.
“You make it plain you are 42. She makes it plain she is only 14,” noted Judge Nicholas Barker, as he summed up the facts. “That does not prevent you from now approaching her in a predatory manner, communicating with her in a sexual way, ultimately suggesting you would get on a train, meet at a hotel and engage in sexual intercourse with her.”
Graham Bain had further sent two lewd images and a video of himself engaged in a sex act.
He admitted attempting to cause or incite a child aged 14 to look at an image showing a person engaging in sexual activity; attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child; and multiple SHPO breaches.
Marion Weir, mitigating, said the primary plank of Graham Bain’s mitigation was the entry of guilty pleas.
Graham Bain, latterly of The Crescent, Cleator Moor, accepted two vices in his life—the commission of this type of offending and alcohol consumption.
Although now sober for nine years, Graham Bain had previously used alcohol after losing his sight for 12 months following a rugby accident at age 14, and a cancer diagnosis he beat.
“He thought in those circumstances that alcohol could do him very little harm—but harm it did,” said Ms Weir of crimes for which he was punished in 2016.
Recent offending followed the loss of his father, with whom he had a fractured relationship. “He is determined to make good with those whom he has let down,” added the lawyer of Graham Bain’s positive pledge for the future.
Judge Barker imposed a 32-month prison sentence. “You are well aware of the serious nature of what you are doing,” said the judge of Graham Bain’s illegal activity.
Graham Bain remains subject to a SHPO—and also sex offender notification requirements—for an indefinite period.
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