Sion Wyn Thomas, a Bangor Paedophile on a suspended sentence, reverted to his previous behaviour and had indecent photographs on the Kik application. Sion Wyn Thomas, 43, communicated with a someone purportedly sharing similar interests; nevertheless, that individual was an undercover officer of the Metropolitan Police.
Authorities discovered little women’s garments and undergarments in his vehicle. Caernarfon Crown Court was informed that Sion Wyn Thomas, residing on Orme Road, Bangor, received a 12-month jail sentence, suspended for 18 months, for the distribution of indecent photographs of minors, together with a ten-year sexual harm prevention order, in December 2021.
Sion Wyn Thomas fulfilled the standards; however, the probation service described his attitude as “superficial.”
Earlier this year, a Metropolitan Police officer investigating online sexual exploitation of minors established many Messenger accounts, including one on the Kik application, stated prosecutor Elen Owen.
She said people with shared interests could join a group, which could have up to 50 members or more.
Ms Owen said that on April 18 this year the police officer using a certain profile name was contacted by someone using the “John Smith” profile, who said he was a 39-year-old man. It was Sion Wyn Thomas.
Ms Owen said after exchanges between them and further enquiries North Wales Police decided to go to Sion Wyn Thomas’s home. They searched his property and his car and found “small-sized women’s clothing and underwear” in the vehicle.
Police also seized his phone and tablet and found 15 images of naked girls, images of girls aged between eight and 12 and chats about the sexual abuse of young girls. It was however unclear whether Sion Wyn Thomas himself had contributed to those conversations, said Ms Owen.
Sion Wyn Thomas admitted breaching a sexual harm prevention order and breaching the terms of a suspended sentence.
Anna Price, defending, said Sion Wyn Thomas can’t explain his behaviour. It was towards the end of the suspension of his sentence from 2021.
Sion Wyn Thomas did comply with the rehabilitation activity and alcohol treatment treatment requirement programme from that sentence, she added.
But the court heard today the probation service deemed his attendance at meetings “superficial”.
Indeed the judge His Honour Rhys Rowlands told Sion Wyn Thomas today the terms of his SHPO prohibited him from using social media without strict controls but he went onto Kik.
He had shown “unnatural and extremely worrying behaviour”.
The judge added: “It shows you have learned absolutely nothing from your time on the suspended sentence.” His non-compliance with the SHPO showed he was “seeking to revert to (his) old ways”.
He said there was no prospect of rehabilitation and jailed Sion Wyn Thomas for ten months for breaching the SHPO and six months to run consecutively for breaching the terms of a suspended sentence.
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