July 2019 Swindon sex offender given two-year detention order for messaging teenage boy online A man classed as a high-risk sex offender has been given a two-year detention order after messaging a teenage boy online. Joe Matthews, 20, of Colbourne Street, appeared at Swindon Crown Court on July 1 charged with breaching a sexual harm prevention order (SHPO) and was ordered to serve ten months in a young offenders’ institution. The offences came to light when the Swindon man was visited at his home by a police officer working for the Management of Sexual/Violent Offenders (MOSOVO) team at Wiltshire Police. This was because he was classed as a high-risk registered sex offender, who had a previous conviction for possession of indecent images of children. Under the terms of his SHPO his electronic devices were routinely checked by police. On April 23, Matthews’ Instagram account was checked on his mobile phone and officers discovered inappropriate conversations with a 15-year-old boy, which included discussions of child sexual abuse.