September 2022 Convicted paedophile sent sexual messages to schoolgirl A boasting Snapchat predator has been jailed after he offered to send pictures of his ‘big package’ to a schoolgirl. David Collings, of Topsham, claimed to be a 21-year-old Londoner called Gypsy Davy but was actually a 26-year-old pervert who has a history of online sexual abuse against young girls He was banned from using Snapchat by a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) but installed the app on his phone despite a specific warning from the police, Exeter Crown Court was told. He used two different accounts on the app, calling himself Davyboy and GypsyDave and made contact with the girl from Essex earlier this year. The police were alerted after her horrified mother found a stream of messages on her phone in which he offered to send her pictures of his boy and sent a voice note which asked Ive got a big package, can you handle it?. Collings is a registered sex offender who has previously performed webcam sex acts while being watched online by an 11-year-old girl. The SHPO was intended to prevent him doing the same thing again and allowed the police to monitor his internet and social media activity. His police offender manager caught him with Snapchat on his phone four times in six months during unannounced visits. He was given a specific warning on the first occasion and prosecuted over the other three. Collings, of Exeter Road, admitted sexual communications with a child, two breaches of the SHPO, and breach of a suspended sentence imposed for the first breach in March. He was jailed for a total of a year and 10 months by Judge Timothy Rose, who put him on the sex offenders register for 10 years and imposed a tighter SHPO which will last for the same length of time. He told him: You carried on doing as you pleased. I have to look at the history of what you have done and you have breached the order for the third time. That raises a profound concern about the level of risk that you pose and will continue to pose in terms of committing sexual offences directed towards young people. “I have made a new SHPO but your history does not indicate much optimism that you will comply with it. Essex Police contacted the Devon and Cornwall force in February this year over messages that had been sent to a 15-year-old girl from a Snapchat account in Devon. Inquiries led them to identify Collings, who had used two different names and claimed to be aged 21 and living in London. He repeatedly asked for pictures from the girl and offered to send explicit pictures of himself, despite her telling him not to. The victim felt uncomfortable and each time she was asked, she said no. He sent a voice note which said Ive got a big package, can you handle me? to which she did not reply. Shortly afterwards, the childs mother found the messages and took the phone away. She said she had been concerned about a change in her daughters behaviour over the six weeks in which the messages were sent. Collings currently works locally as a building labourer January 2017 Pervert performed sex acts over internet in front of 11-year-old girls A man performed indecent acts over the internet in front of two 11-year-old girls, a court heard. David Collings, aged 20, twice performed the sex act in front of a webcam with children watching through their own computers. Collings, of West Street, Liskeard, pleaded guilty to making a child under 13 watch sexual activity for the purpose of obtaining gratification. The offences occurred between July 1 and July 31 and August 4 and August 8, both in 2015. Collings entered his pleas before city magistrates and was sent to Plymouth Crown Court to face a harsher sentence. Judge Paul Darlow adjourned sentence until February 24 for a probation officer to prepare a report. Collings, who must notify police if he changes address in the meantime, was released on bail.