A registered sex offender has been jailed after breaching the conditions of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO).
As part of the SHPO, Martin Phillip Simms, aged 42, of Park Mews in Sandown – who moved to the Island to live with his parents in June 2021 – is prohibited from deleting his internet history.
He is also required to produce digital devices to police for inspection on request and inform police of any online usernames he has within 3 days of creating them.
On 2nd September this year police, accompanied by probation workers, visited his home address unannounced.
During the visit, the internet history on his mobile phone was examined and officers could see had been using a teen chat room app on a different device.
Simms – a registered sex offender for life since October 2007 when he was found guilty of attempting to meet a child – eventually admitted he had a second device, which was located hidden in bedsheets underneath a mattress in his bedroom and subsequently handed to police for inspection.
On checking this device, the teen chat app was not present and Simms admitted he had deleted it including all of its internet history. He also admitted that the username for the app was not one that he had registered to the police, which he was required to do.
Police established that the device held 2 other apps with 2 further usernames which had not been registered with police. These were again social media apps for chatting with young people.
Simms was charged with 3 counts of breaching a sexual harm order, which he admitted when he appeared at Isle of Wight Magistrates’ Court on Friday 3rd September.
Appearing at Newport Crown Court today (Friday 15th October), Simms was handed an 18 month jail sentence. Simms is already serving a 7 year sentence, on licence, which is due to expire in 2024 – he will serve the remainder of that sentence in prison before then beginning his 18 month jail sentence for the SHPO breaches.
PC Keith Haywood, from the Isle of Wight Offender Management Team, said:
“We invest significant resources into the protection of the public and the management of sex offenders, and it’s a duty we take very seriously.
“Officers will often make unannounced visits to offenders where they are subject to an intrusive investigative interview process. This helps us understand their routines, interests and behaviours.
“On this occasion, Simms was visibly uncomfortable with our presence, and it was clear from the examination of his phone that he had no intention of sticking to the conditions of his Sexual Harm Prevention Order.
“These orders are put in place to protect the public, and ensure that individuals do not re-offend. Where they choose to disregard them, they are rightly punished and I am pleased that Simms is now behind bars.”
In 2011, Simms was convicted for grooming a 13-year-old child and just 2 years later was convicted for grooming again and was imprisoned for 7 years with a 3 year extended license.
Another lowlife scum rightly off our streets.
Another classic example of the hand wringing do gooders get him out of jail on licence, only for the filthy s cumbag to carry on as normal.
when will these virtue signalling fools realise – the pervs and crims are playing them for mugs.
They will never realise. Remember in their eyes the perpetrator is the innocent one.
My main gripe is with the do gooders, they are more responsible than anybody for why British society has gone so far into the gutter in recent decades. Many people don’t like seeing that said though, which is why I guess so many of my comments get deleted when I mention it.
Let’s just hope he gets what he deserves whilst he’s banged up.
sounds like he will quite enjoy some rough justice lol
Probably come out and join the police force,
A repeat offender who i assume will repeat again as soon as he can.
When one sees the vaild comments on here removed, one can see that the UK now has no hope of winning the battle against criminals.
For they must love the weak, pathetic, undeserved symathy and poor sentences that they receive now.
As we see often on here any truth in views unless ultra feeble are removed, presumably in the vain hope, ‘if we are nice, then crims will be nice’ Good luck with that, they see it as not niceness but weakness to further exploit, and they do and will so increasingly.