ALEXANDRIA PERVERT OAP BROKE SEX CRIME RESTRICTIONS
A pervert OAP who avoided jail for sexual messages to a decoy child broke a court order meant to tightly monitor his behaviour.James Leino pleaded guilty earlier this year for communications with an adult he believed to be a child under the age of 13.
Part of the 69-year-old's punishment was being put on a sexual harm prevention order (SHPO) for five years with strict limits on his use of digital devices.
But he then broke one of the rules months later on June 4 when he deleted WhatsApp messages from his phone.
Leino, of Lansbury Street, Alexandria, pleaded guilty to that new charge and returned to Dumbarton Sheriff Court on December 2 for sentencing.
Sheriff Maxwell Hendry was unimpressed.
He said: "He was given a copy of [the SHPO] in black and white.
It expressly says he is not to delete [messages].
He says all he had been doing was messaging his wife and 'inadvertently deleted automatically'." The court order is in place to check who and what he is messaging, he said.
Defence solicitor Jonathan Paul said: "He is very concerned about being sentenced today.
He didn't realise the seriousness of the matter.
It was a stupid mistake." The sheriff said the fact Leino only started offending at this later stage of life was a "worrying sign".
"I don't know if you think this is relatively minor matter," he said to the man in the dock.
"You were told what you must not do.
And there was a very clear reason.
The court takes a very serious view of his." In March he was ordered to be supervised by social workers for two years, and attend counselling for that time.
He must do an additional 180 hours of unpaid work in the community in the next year.
That is on top of the 180 hours he was ordered to do in March.
