LURGAN MAN ACCUSED OF ATTEMPTED SEXUAL COMMUNICATION WITH ‘MULTIPLE FEMALE DECOYS’
A 76-year-old Lurgan man charged with attempted sexual communication with ‘multiple female decoys’ has had his case further adjourned to December 19.The charge sheet alleges that ‘for the purpose of obtaining sexual gratification’ the defendant ‘intentionally attempted to communicate with multiple female decoys, a person under 16 years, the communication being sexual or intended to encourage the said persons to make a communication that was sexual, and you did not reasonably believe that the female decoys were 16 years or over’.
Frederick John Stanley English, of Glenview Drive, is charged in relation to dates between May 2 and May 31 in 2023.
The case was mentioned at Craigavon Magistrates’ Court on Friday.
The defendant is on continuing bail.
Conditions include having no unsupervised contact with children outside of ‘normal every day interaction’, not to use any internet-enabled device to connect to social media sites, and to allow police to inspect any device.
