Telford sex offender jailed for lying about address
A tattoo artist who served time for attempted rape has been jailed for lying to police for more than two years about where he was living.
Terry Moore, 44, repeatedly told sex offender monitoring officers he was staying with his mother, in Brookside, Telford, when he had in fact moved in with his new partner elsewhere in the town.
He was previously jailed for four years for the attempted rape of a woman in 2007.
Moore served the half the term before being released with indefinite sex offenders' requirements to tell West Mercia Police whenever he changed address within three days.
He was also given a caution for indecency in 1998.
For the latest matters defendant pleaded guilty to two counts of failing to comply with sex offences requirements between 2016 and 2018 at a hearing held at Shrewsbury Crown Court on Wednesday.
Lied
The court heard that he lied about his situation because he knew that once his partner found out it would be a "deal breaker" as he had broken up with previous girlfriends due to his past.
The defendant met his latest partner on social media in regarding him completing a tattoo for her, they fell in love and he moved into her home in summer 2016.
But during police notification checks in December 2016, July 2017, January and June 2018 he continued to use his mother's address.
Mr Parry said matters came to a head in November 2018 when the woman phoned the police after there were issues when the defendant came home drunk one evening. The attending officers recorded that he lived at her address with her and her children.
He told the court that the couple split up following that incident and he returned to his family's address, but the woman later confirmed that he had been living with her since 2016. He was subsequently arrested.
Remorseful
Ms Dawn Telford, probation officer, told the court she had interviewed Moore and he was remorseful and accepted that "it had been a selfish act" not to have told the police about the change in address, but he knew they would have disclosed his past to the woman.
"He is of low medium risk of offending on the sex offending scale which can be reduced by us doing some work with him to work on the deficit in his thinking skills. He says if he returns to jail he will lose his new job and prison will affect his anxiety and depression," Ms Telford said.
Moore was due to start a working at a Much Wenlock factory on Monday.
However, for the offences Judge Peter Barrie jailed Moore, of Beaconsfield, Woodside, for eight months on each count to run concurrently.
The judge told him that the fact that he lied to the police for such a long period was an aggravating factor and a serious breach.
"The notification requirements play an important part. They are put in place for public protection and reflects a view of someone convicted of serious sex offences, who remains a risk that people want to know about. I recognise that it is difficult trying to build a life.
"Your partner will find out in the end. You were putting off the inevitable day and when she found out, it wasn't from you," Judge Barrie said.
He added that although he was giving him full credit for his early guilty pleas, he could not suspend the sentence.
"You have to serve it," the judge said.
