Shropshire paedophile jailed for breaching court order
A convicted sex offender has been jailed for breaching the reporting requirements of his sentence after he was forced out of his Shropshire accommodation.
Robert Jeffrey, 47, had slept in the car park near a Shrewsbury bed and breakfast having been told he had to leave the premises.
Over a five-day period in May the defendant had failed to report his whereabouts to police as required under a Sexual Offences Prevention Order imposed by the courts.
At Shrewsbury Crown Court, Judge Robin Onions said he had no alternative but to sentence Jeffrey to a period of custody.
He described Jeffrey's case as an "unhappy story" as the defendant had been forced to move accommodation on a number of occasions because of people's reaction to the nature of his criminal convictions.
Jeffrey, who has had previous addresses in Market Drayton and Bicton Heath in Shrewsbury, was given an eight-month sentence having admitted the notification breach and was ordered to pay a £180 criminal courts charge.
The court heard that Jeffrey had to be registered as a sex offender until 2028 and had previous convictions for breaches of the order.
In 2007 Jeffrey had been made subject of a 10-year sexual offences order which banned him from using the internet after he admitted making indecent images of children. In October 2013 he was jailed for two years and nine months for six offences of failing to comply with the Sexual Offences Prevention Order which included trying to groom the teenage daughters of his former school friends by befriending their mothers on Facebook.
Miss Emma Lineton, for Jeffrey, said her client had been "out of contact" for five days, but had arranged to see his offender manager. When they met he was arrested and recalled to prison on licence.
Miss Lineton said that the problems were just going to continue when Jeffrey was next released from custody.
