August 2020 Sex offender jailed after police discover new address A registered sex offender who used an internet alias and failed to tell police he was staying at a new address in Gloucester has been jailed. Ashley Hammond, 39, of Falklands Drive, Wisbech, was placed on the Sex Offenders’ Register after being convicted in 2017 of meeting a girl under the age of 16 following sexual grooming. He was also handed a Sexual Harm Prevention Order preventing him from having any unsupervised contact with children under 16 and having any device capable of accessing the internet. Officers from the force’s Public Protection Unit, who are responsible for managing all registered sex offenders in the community, discovered Hammond had failed to notify them of a new address he was staying at after getting into a new relationship. He had also used an alias name on a games console – something he also should have declared to officers. Hammond was subsequently arrested for two counts of failing to comply with the notification requirements of the Sex Offenders’ Register. In police interview he admitted both offences, telling officers he had “forgot” to notify them of the new address. He admitted staying at his new girlfriend’s house in Gloucester from late March and for all of April. He also agreed it was his car caught on ANPR travelling to Gloucestershire. Hammond eventually told officers that he hadn’t notified them of the address as he knew they would inform his new girlfriend of his previous convictions and that he was on the register. He said the alias name on the games console was “just a mistake” and he had no reason to keep it from police. Hammond pleaded guilty to the two charges at Cambridge Crown Court on Tuesday (11 August). He was sentenced the same day, and handed 18 months in prison, after also admitting breaching a suspended sentence for previous charges of the same nature. Sentencing, Judge David Farrell QC told Hammond he had previously been given “yet another chance” to abide by the law but had ignored this. He told Hammond he had been unable to comply with notification requirements put in place to protect women from him and his past behaviour, adding that he could have relationships but simply needed to comply with the requirements. Judge Farrell warned Hammond that he couldn’t do the same again and said he had been “given enough chances” therefore only an immediate prison sentence was appropriate punishment. January 2019 Convicted paedophile breaches court order by not registering his mobile phone with police A sex offender living in Wisbech, who was caught and sentenced in a paedophile sting two years ago, was back in court today for breaking a court order about the use of a mobile phone. Ashley Hammond, 38, was before a judge at Cambridge Crown Court for breaching two sexual offences orders imposed nearly two years ago. Hammond, 38, appeared at Peterborough Crown Court in March 2017 after he sent sexual messages and images over Facebook to what he believed was a 13-year-old girl, but was actually a man. The court heard Hammond had driven to meet her for sex. Hammond was given a three-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) prohibiting him from owning a mobile phone without making it available upon request for inspection by a police officer. However, in October of last year police visited Hammond’s address in Falklands Drive, Wisbech, and noticed an iPhone charger on his bedside table. Hammond admitted he had owned an unregistered iPhone since late 2017. Hammond had also breached his SHPO by not notifying police that he had been staying at his girlfriend’s house for three months of 2018. He pleaded guilty to twice breaching the order and today (January 22) at Cambridge Crown Court was sentenced 16 months imprisonment, suspended for two years. A new term was also added to his SHPO, preventing him from deleting his internet history. Hammond was also placed under an indefinite restraining order which will prevent him from contacting his now ex-girlfriend and her children, or entering their home address.