Francis Keeley A Watford man has been put behind bars after failing to comply with the requirements of being on the sex offenders' register. Francis Keeley, of no fixed abode, was sentenced to 56 days' prison after he appeared at Hatfield Magistrates' Court on Monday February 3. Court papers state that the year-old showed a "flagrant disregard for court orders", meaning that "only a custodial sentence" could be justified.
On January 21, Keeley left his address and failed to register a new address or no fixed abode status within three days, therefore breaching his requirement to register with police under the Sexual Offences Act The force had appealed for help to trace him last week, describing him as being on recall to prison.
Richard Faulkner Monitoring software identifies convicted sex offender accessing illegal images. Software used by the police to monitor convicted sex offenders led to the discovery that a man living near Snodland was accessing thousands of illegal images of children. Richard Faulkner was the subject of a sexual harm prevention order SHPO , which prohibited him using any device capable of accessing the internet unless it had been installed with a web monitoring program.
The SHPO had been made by the courts in January , following previous convictions related to Faulkner and the access of indecent images. Several months later, on 26 August, an alert was raised in connection to a computer Faulkner had registered with Kent Police. This showed he had again been accessing illegal material. He was arrested days later, and searches were carried out at his home near High Street, Wouldham. The computer was seized, along with several other devices not previously made available to police for inspection and which was another SHPO requirement.
During an initial police interview Faulkner denied any wrongdoing, claiming he no longer had any sexual interest in children. He insisted he had no knowledge of how illegal images would be on his computer. His lies were exposed when the device was later forensically examined, along with another hard drive.
