A convicted sex offender was looking at ‘dog porn’ within weeks of being spared prison for sharing child sex abuse images.
Simon Jenkins, 62, received an 18 month jail sentence suspended for two years at Isleworth Crown Court in September 2021 for distributing indecent images of children and possession of extreme pornography.
But within barely a month he was searching Google for ‘bestiality images’.
Prosecutor Steven Molloy told a judge in Oxford on Thursday (April 13): “The defendant had [also] accessed a website which it would appear contained extreme pornography bestiality involving dogs.”
When the police caught up with him last summer, he was living at a new address.
Although the probation service was aware of the new address, he had failed to register it with the police - a breach of the requirements encumbent on him as a registered sex offender.
Jenkins, of Knowle End, Wormington, pleaded guilty at the magistrates’ court last month to possession of extreme pornography and breaching sex offender notification requirements.
Mitigating, Kellie Enever asked the judge to follow the recommendation in a probation service pre-sentence report and sentence her client without sending him to prison.
At the time, Jenkins had been drinking heavily and had not yet had the chance to start working with the probation service.
Since his arrest, he had got sober and was working in exchange for his bed and board at a caravan park. He received a very modest weekly income.
Ms Enever said her client had ‘no recollection’ of the bestiality material police were to find on his phone. He accepted that he had looked at them.
Recorder John Ryder KC told the advocate: “Speaking for myself, I’d have thought they were somewhat memorable.”
The judge spared Jenkins an immediate prison term. Sentencing, he told the defendant: “You must understand that it is an obligation to comply with all the terms of your court order and you’re not entitled simply to forget those terms.
“You have an obligation and it is your responsibility to act in accordance with it.”
In imposing a three year community order for the bestiality material and fining him £50 for breaching the suspended sentence order, he said: “I am not trivialising that. I am not trivialising the breach of a court order.
“As Mrs Enever said, these breaches occurred very early in the order and putting it, really, in practical terms the therapeutic aspects of it had had no opportunity to take effect.”
As part of the community order, Jenkins must complete up to 60 rehabilitation activity requirement sessions with the probation service and pay £85 in costs.
Ending the hearing, Recorder Ryder said: “Engage with this order and overcome this inclination.”
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