July 2019 ‘Danger to children’ Glen Jones, who lived in York, is back behind bars A convicted child rapist and is back behind bars after being caught downloading indecent images of children at York’s probation hostel. Glen Jones, 42, was on life parole and subject to a court order aimed at protecting the public by restricting his activities, said Andrew Semple, prosecuting at York Crown Court. But monitoring software installed by North Yorkshire Police on his mobile phone alerted officers that he was looking at indecent images of boys aged two to 12 and he was arrested. Most of the images had been downloaded from YouTube in the early hours of April 25. Jones, originally from Maidstone, was recalled to prison following his arrest for his latest offence. He had been on parole since October 2017. His solicitor advocate Nicholas Hammond said it may be “some considerable time” before the Parole Board considers him safe enough to be let out of prison again. In 2007, he was sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison after he raped an 11-year-old boy and sexually assaulted three other young boys. He was also found with 10,000 indecent images of children Judge Peter Kelson QC told Jones: “In my view, you clearly remain dangerous, a danger to children. I would like them (the parole board members) to have these sentencing remarks.” He said Jones had avoided being convicted of breaching a sexual harm prevention order (SHPO) “by a technicality” and added a condition to it to remove the loophole. Jones admitted downloading indecent images of children and was jailed for four months. He continues to serve the indefinite sentence for public protection given at Maidstone Crown Court in 2007 for 20 sexual offences against boys including rape. Mr Semple said the SHPO restricts Jones’ use of the internet including stopping him deleting his browser’s history. By March 2018 he was on parole and living at the hostel in Boroughbridge Road, York. North Yorkshire Police installed the software with his consent in April 2018. Mr Semple said Jones had chatted online to at least one other man about perverted images and told police he had deleted his YouTube history. Because it was not browser history, that didn’t breach the SHPO. The judge added a condition preventing Jones from deleting any record of his internet activities. January 2007 Man jailed for child sex offences A man who raped an 11-year-old boy and sexually assaulted three other young boys has been sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison. Glen Jones, 30, a bar manager from Bower Mount Road, Maidstone, Kent, committed the offences in east London between February 2001 and August 2006. Jones, who police found had downloaded 10,000 indecent images of children, admitted 20 serious sexual offences. A Maidstone Crown Court judge said he would serve at least half the sentence. Kent Police said Jones was originally arrested as part of an international operation targeting paedophiles. He pleaded guilty in November to: three charges of indecent assault on a male; five of indecency with a child; three of rape of a child under 13; one of sexual activity with a child; two of assault by penetration; one of distributing indecent photographs of children; two of taking indecent photographs of children; and three of making indecent photographs of children. Sentencing Jones on Friday, Judge Jeremy Carey said he had “indulged his perverted interest in young boys by sexually abusing them”. Prosecutor Fiona Moore-Graham told the court that he would play “dares” with the 11-year-old he raped, as well as taking showers with the boy and giving him beer. Jones photographed himself carrying out sex acts with all four young boys, and then put the pictures on a website he set up. His defence counsel, Timothy Banks, told the court: “He does not wish to remain someone who is attracted to young males.” Jones was placed on the sex offenders register for life, and also banned from ever working with or having unsupervised access to children.