HOMELESS SEX OFFENDER JAILED FOR BREACHING COURT ORDERS
Update 15/04/2026: Steve James, of no fixed abode, breached his sexual harm prevention order and failed to tell police he was homeless.The 31-year-old was sentenced at Oxford Crown Court on April 14.
Alexandra Bushell, prosecuting, told the court that James pleaded guilty to the breach of the sexual harm prevention order and three counts of failing to comply with notification requirements.
The court heard that he had accessed porn on his phone between March 11 and 15 this year and deleted his internet history.
One of his notification requirements of being on the sex offenders' register is to tell police if he is homeless every seven days.
James failed to do this three times between December last year and February this year.
The court heard James has 13 previous convictions for 22 offences.
Judge Pringle handed James a prison sentence of 16 months.
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Police have released an image of a homeless sex offender jailed for breaching court orders.
Steve James, of no fixed abode, failed to inform police of his whereabouts in breach of a court order to do so every seven days.
James, 30, was sentenced at Oxford Crown Court on Monday, October 13.
He pleaded guilty to the breach.
James was first convicted in 2017 and placed on the sex offenders register.
He then breached his order four times in 2020 and in 2021, he was convicted for using violence to enter a property in Botley Road where there was someone present who opposed his entry.
In 2022, he failed to comply with notification requirements before the breaches in December last year.
His charges also put him in breach of a 12-week prison sentence, suspended for 12 months, issued on October 30, 2023.
In 2024, he was jailed for 36 weeks for a further breach.
On the most recent occasion, the court heard he found himself homeless on May 4, and would have had to notify police of this on May 11.
However he didn't do that and was next found outside a pub in Margate, Kent, on June 6.
The court heard he admitted the offence in police interview.
In mitigation, it was heard that James had become an 'avid reader' in custody and had ambitions to become a personal trainer.
James was jailed for 12 months.
