Judge adjourns sentence on sex offender
A judge has adjourned sentence on a Mid Wales man who he said he regarded as a danger to children.
Judge Rhys Rowlands said that the case of Stephen Meredith, 60, a convicted sex offender who had downloaded indecent images of children, was a disturbing case.
Meredith was due to be sentenced at Mold Crown Court yesterday afternoon but the judge adjourned the case to give Dyfed Powys police and the CPS a chance to draw up a Sexual Offences Prevention Order to curb his activities on his release from the inevitable prison sentence that he would receive.
The judge remanded him in custody pending sentence in two weeks time.
"This is a very, very worrying case," the judge told him.
"It is a case which I view very seriously. There will be an immediate custodial sentence."
He said that the court would have to consider an extended sentence with an extended licence.
"In my view he poses a very real threat to young children, maybe not directly at this stage. But these crimes to not have invisible victims." Meredith of The Old Creamery at Four Crosses previously appeared at Welshpool Magistrates Court where he admitted four charges relating to indecent images of children.
Police were making a routine check at Meredith's home in May because he was a convicted sex offender and he told them that he had "something on my computer that's not good".
