The Carmarthen Paedophile, Julian Jakeman, who arranged to meet and sexually assault a five-year-old girl at a leased Airbnb claimed to the police upon his arrest that he was a paedophile hunter attempting to apprehend offenders.
Julian Jakeman confided his intentions to exploit the girl to an individual he presumed to be her father, who was, in fact, an undercover police investigator operating online.
Julian Jakeman upheld his innocence until the trial date, at which point he altered his plea; nonetheless, he subsequently reiterated the claims made by the paedophile hunter to the writer of his pre-sentence report.
A judge deemed the 39-year-old’s assertions as “laughable” and stated that no substantial progress could be achieved until he acknowledged his identity as a paedophile.
Tom Scapens, prosecuting, informed Swansea Crown Court that in October 2021, the South East Regional Organised Crime Unit was conducting an operation to locate online child sex offenders, during which an officer managed an account on the messaging and chat application Kik.
He stated that Julian Jakeman, under the alias Gareth under the moniker TidyGuy2021, reached out to the officer in a public forum, subsequently transitioning their dialogue to a private chat.
The court was informed that Julian Jakeman promptly initiated discussions regarding sexual topics with the new acquaintance and transmitted images of a girl he falsely asserted was his 17-year-old daughter, claiming she engaged in oral sex with him. The identity of the girl in the photographs has never been determined.
The prosecutor stated that Julian Jakeman enquired about the decoy’s children, to which the undercover cop responded that he had a five-year-old daughter and an eight-year-old son.
The defendant expressed a preference for the girl over the boy and proceeded to detail the sexual activities he intended to conduct on the child.
The court was informed that the two individuals thereafter deliberated on arranging a meeting, negotiated the rental of an Airbnb, and established the “rules” for the encounter, stipulating that the girl must not experience discomfort during the sexual activity.
Consequently, the police in Wales were alerted, leading to the execution of a search warrant at the defendant’s residence. The prosecutor stated that the defendant and his “now former partner” were present at the property.
Julian Jakeman informed the detectives that he had been masquerading as a paedophile online to identify sex offenders.
The court was informed that during his following questioning, the defendant reiterated his assertion of being a paedophile hunter and provided authorities with the name of a previous girlfriend who, he claimed, was aware of his online activities and could corroborate his account.
Officers found the woman and conversed with her; she asserted her ignorance regarding the allegations made by her ex and expressed that she was “horrified” to be implicated in the investigation.
Julian Jakeman informed detectives that he had reported the paedophiles he discovered on Kik to the app’s administrators; however, police enquiries with the firm managing the app revealed that no such reports had been submitted.
The court was informed that officers discovered 23,780 messages on Julian Jakeman’s Kik profile, distributed across 1,000 distinct chat logs.
An analysis of the chat logs revealed 28 instances in which the defendant engaged in discussions of a sexual nature or disseminated indecent photographs to others.
Authorities discovered 51 obscene photographs on the device, including 13 classified as Category A, depicting the most severe kinds of sexual exploitation.
The court reviewed one of the films. Julian Jakeman has depicted a girl aged four to six being sexually assaulted by two adult guys.
The prosecution stated that, for unspecified reasons, the defendant had not been charged with the distribution of indecent photos.
Julian Jakeman, of Priory Street, Carmarthen, had earlier entered a guilty plea on the initial day of trial for orchestrating or assisting the perpetration of a child sex offence, as well as for three charges of possession of indecent pictures classified as Categories A, B, and C. He possesses no prior convictions.
The judge stated that the little girl seen in the video discovered on Julian Jakeman’s phone was a genuine child, subjected to “horrific abuse and torture” for the gratification of others like the defendant.
The defendant received a 10% discount for his guilty plea to the arranging or facilitating violation, resulting in a 40-month jail sentence. Additionally, he was sentenced to eight months for the image offences, which were acknowledged at the magistrates’ court, to be served concurrently with the previous sentence.
Julian Jakeman will serve a maximum of 20 months in custody before being released on licence to complete the remaining in the community.
The defendant will be a registered sex offender for life and has been subjected to an indefinite sexual harm prevention order.
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