A CHILD rapist breached his sexual harm prevention order by failing to notify police of numerous usernames he used to access incest pornography on adult websites.

Preston Crown Court heard how 48-year-old Jason Richards was jailed for 10 years in 2008 for raping and sexually assaulting a girl under 13.

As part of that sentence he was banned him from having unsupervised contact with children.

Prosecuting, Elizabeth Evans said Richards had breached the order in January 2018 when caught in the company of a small child at Blackpool Pleasure Beach. For that offence he was jailed for 32 months.

And it was days after being released on licence for that offence that he breached a notification requirement of the order.

Ms Evans said: "Having been released on May 20 he was visited by DC Spencer on May 29. On request the defendant gave DC Spencer permission to look at his phone.

"There was a huge amount of internet history, some of which gave the police cause for concern. Included within that were sites being visited were adult dating sites and pornography sites.

"The defendant set up nine usernames in total in order to access those websites."

Ms Evans said Richards had breached the order by failing to notify police he was using usernames, including firefly, Jason and darts, within the required three day period.

She also said police were concerned that although Richards had been accessing 'mainstream sites' he had searching for videos of sexual activity relating to fathers and their daughters. However she said that was not something the police were investigating.

Richards, of Lydia Street, Accrington, pleaded guilty to failing to comply with his notification requirements.

Defending, David Farley said his client had not realised that he had to inform police of usernames he was using online, and instead thought the notification requirements only applied to actual names or aliases.

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He said: "It should be said on his behalf that when police inspected his phone they saw his internet usage. Although his rate of usage caused some concern it would be more concerning if it was blank and they didn't know what he was doing."

The court heard that as a result of committing the notification offence, Richards had been recalled to prison to serve out the remaining 15 months of sexual harm prevention order breach sentence.

Recorder Kate Bex QC jailed him for a further four weeks for his latest offending.