June 2022 Jail warning for man caught sending explicit messages for second time A man who sent explicit messages to an underage girl – again – was warned he faces an immediate spell in jail. Matthew Meyer, 29, was locked up for a year in 2013 when he sent sexually explicit texts to what he thought was an 11-year-old girl but were, in fact, replied to by the child’s mother. Almost a decade on, he appeared in the dock at Oxford Crown Court on Thursday facing similar charges. Meyer, of Stockham Park, Wantage, pleaded guilty to attempted sexual communication with a 13-year-old girl in June last year and attempting to cause a child to watch a sexual act. Adjourning the case for the preparation of psychiatric and probation service reports, Judge Maria Lamb said: “I am quite clear that at the front of the court’s thinking is going to be an immediate prison sentence and you need to understand that.” She bailed Meyer to return to court on August 12, but warned him not to ‘hold out’ hope for anything other than a jail sentence. Julian Lynch appeared for the defendant. In 2013, Oxford Crown Court heard how Meyer, then 20, swapped messages with an 11-year-old girl over several months via the smartphone app Kik Messenger. When the girl received a text asking if she was naked, she showed it to her mother. The mum replied on her daughter’s behalf, prompting Meyer to send further explicit exhortations to perform sexual acts as well as sending photographs of his genitals. She called the police and was said to have been left ‘stressed and sickened’. Judge Patrick Eccles, who jailed him for 12 months, said the defendant must bear some ‘moral culpability’ for his actions. He said: “The court has to serve victims and their parents who, frankly, would not feel their children were protected if there were not to be a sentence of imprisonment in this case.” December 2013 Mother intercepted abuser’s sex messages to daughter A 20-year0old man sent sexually explicit phone messages to what he thought was an 11-year-old girl but was actually her mother. Matthew Meyer, of Orchard Way, Wantage, was jailed for 12 months on Thursday at Oxford Crown Court after he admitted attempting to incite a child to engage in sexual activity. Giles Curtis-Raleigh, prosecuting, said the exchange took place between January 20 and March 10 this year using a smartphone app Kik Messenger. He said the girl received a message asking if she was in the nude, which she showed to her mother who replied by pretending to be her daughter. Mr Curtis-Raleigh said Meyer then started sending messages encouraging the girl to carry out a sexual act, as well as sending her pictures of his private parts. The barrister said the girl’s mum was left feeling “stressed and sickened” and called the police. Judge Patrick Eccles said despite his problems the defendant must bear some “moral culpability” for his actions. He said: “The court has to serve victims and their parents who, frankly, would not feel their children were protected if there were not to be a sentence of imprisonment in this case.” Meyer jailed for 12 months and told to pay a £100 victims’ surcharge.