ADAM WEBB OF NEWCASTLE SENTENCED FOR BREACHES AND DISTURBING ONLINE SEARCHES
Adam Webb, a resident of Newcastle with a history of sexual offenses against young girls, conducted a series of disturbing searches on a phone he was not authorized to possess.The searches included phrases such as "children's homes in Newcastle," and reflect his ongoing risk to children.
Webb, 26, previously committed serious sex crimes in 2014, including offenses against two girls aged six and eight.
He was subject to a sexual harm prevention order (SHPO) due to these offences.
However, he breached this order multiple times.
Recently, he appeared in Newcastle Crown Court after breaching the order again.
It was revealed that Webb obtained a mobile phone without informing the police, as required, and failed to provide the passcode for another device.
A investigation of the first phone uncovered a series of alarming searches, such as "teen porn," "schoolgirls," "British schoolgirl rape porn," "under skirt little girl," "children's homes in Newcastle," "famous paedophiles," and "how to clean your phone." Webb, of Ozanam House in Newcastle, who is considered a danger to children, received a three-year prison sentence after admitting to two breaches of the SHPO.
Recorder Geraldine Kelly commented: "How you behaved in relation to those phones, keeping possession of one from the officers and refusing to hand over the pass code, making those searches followed by a search of how to clean your phone, is entirely in keeping with how the probation officer finds you to be during your recent supervision.
They have noted how deceitful you are to avoid the consequences of that order." She added, "The purpose is to keep children safe from your sexual offending, and you seem determined to avoid that order.
You are a high risk to children." The court heard Webb has 12 prior convictions related to sex offences or breaches of relevant orders and was on licence at the time of the latest breaches.
In 2014, he was convicted of sexual assault, causing a child to engage in sexual activity, and sexual activity in the presence of a child.
During these offences, he approached young girls he did not know, performed a sex act in front of them, and asked them to touch him, which they refused.
He also sexually assaulted one of the girls.
Defence lawyer Mark Harrison stated, "He claims he was not the owner of the phone during that period and it was given to him by a friend to sell."
