MAN JAILED AFTER BREACHING SEXUAL HARM PREVENTION ORDER
A 38-year-old man has been sentenced to prison after attempting to contact what he believed was a minor online.The individual he reached out to was actually an undercover police officer.
Stephen Francis Mitchell, from Llanegryn, was previously subject to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) issued in 2018.
Nonetheless, he violated this order in September 2023 by chatting online with someone he thought was a 12-year-old girl.
During the conversation, he requested she send him photographs of herself.
Following his arrest, authorities examined his digital devices and discovered 286 images of children engaged in sexually explicit acts, including those classified as highly serious.
In November 2025, Mitchell further committed an offence by exposing himself at a train station in front of other members of the public.
While investigators were continuing their inquiries, they found that Mitchell had also breached his SHPO by downloading prohibited applications and possessed additional indecent images.
On 8 June, he appeared at Caernarfon Crown Court and admitted to breaches involving his SHPO, attempting to communicate sexually with a minor, possessing indecent images of children, and public decency offences.
He received a prison sentence of three years and 11 months and was subjected to a new SHPO that will last indefinitely.
