December 2015 Derby man caught with indecent images of children 8 DAYS after escaping jail sentence A SEX offender “with a predilection for children” was caught with indecent images on his mobile just eight days after escaping a jail term for the same offence.  Derby Crown Court was told that James Lowry had been jailed for six years in 2008 for possessing 25,000 images of children and for attempting to meet an underage girl for sex. He was placed on the sex offenders register for life and was made the subject of a sexual harm prevention order. On his release, the order meant that his use of the internet was restricted but it was discovered that he had been chatting to under 16s on his mobile phone in 2014 and he was arrested and charged with breaching the order.  That offence saw him handed a suspended prison term but, just eight days after leaving the court, officers visited his home and discovered he had offended in the same way again. Judge Jonathan Bennett jailed Lowry, 40, of Wilkins Drive, Allenton, for 12 months after he pleaded guilty to the second breach of his order. He said: “You have a record that indicates a predilection for children and, after being jailed for six years in 2008, you were released with a sexual harm prevention order. “But, in October 2014, you appeared before the courts having broken that. “You must have feared you were going back to prison but you were not, you were handed a suspended sentence. But, within days of receiving that, you committed the same offences again. “That demonstrates quite a calculated defiance and I have to activate that suspended sentence.” Jonathan Janes, prosecuting, said that, when police arrested Lowry, eight days after he was handed the suspended sentence at Nottingham Crown Court, they found he had been logging on to chat rooms frequented by under 16s. He said: “He had been using the internet unsupervised and he had not just been going on the internet but had been attempting to chat to people online who he knew or suspected to be under the age of 16. “One log saw him say: ‘I am 30, I don’t suppose you want to chat any further?’ “There were others he had been chatting to on the internet who said they were 17 but we simply don’t know how old these children are.” Mr Janes said a “trawl” of his mobile phone also discovered images of children. Stuart Lody, for Lowry, said jailing his client would see him offend again when he was released. Mr Lody said: “I am not blackmailing the court by saying if you jail him he will only come out and offend again. “A community order is a way that his liberty can be controlled to a significant degree. “The choice is between seizing the bull by the horns and trying to wrestle it to the ground or putting it in a pen and then seeing what happens when it is let out again.”