A Derby Paedophile retiree, Lionel Winson, with a prior record of child sex offences has admitted guilt to an additional 17 charges. Lionel Winson confessed to attempting to communicate with young girls online and collecting abhorrent child exploitation photos.
Lionel Winson, aged 78, neglected to inform the police of his social media usage, as mandated by the conditions of an order imposed due to previous offences. In 2009, the Normanton paedophile was imprisoned for attempting to communicate with a 13-year-old girl who was, in fact, an undercover police officer. He now confronts a month-long period of uncertainty over the outcome of his recent offences.
On Monday, May 15, in Southern Derbyshire Magistrates’ Court, the presiding judge stated: “We are referring your case to the crown court due to the severity of the offences, which exceed our jurisdiction.” The crown court requires a current pre-sentence report, and you are obligated to attend to St Mary’s Wharf police station within three days from today.
“You are aware of the conditions (of your bail) and if you breach any of them you can be brought back to court.” In 2014 Lionel Winson, of Douglas Street, was handed a sexual harm prevention order at Derby Crown Court for carrying out similar offences to the ones he this week pleaded guilty to.
Under the terms of the order, Lionel Winson must tell the police who are monitoring him of any social media accounts he has set up along with the relevant passwords. But he failed to do this on accounts including WhatsApp, Kik and Snapchat.
Lionel Winson pleaded guilty to four charges of attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child in relation to four victims. Lionel Winson also pleaded guilty to charges of breaching a sexual harm prevention order, attempting to breach a sexual harm prevention order, failing to comply with the requirements of the sex offender register and one count of making indecent images of children.
Lionel Winson was jailed for three years and three months in 2009 for a 2007 offence of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and possession of indecent images. On that occasion, he groomed a girl he believed to be aged 13 but who turned out to be a police officer posing as a young teen and who met him at St Pancras railway station in London.
In 2011 he breached the lifetime order he was handed and he did the same in 2015 when he hid electronic devices he should have told the police about but didn’t at his then address in Sedgefield Green, Mickleover. The defendant will be sentenced at Derby Crown Court on June 19.
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