A MAN from Abergele who posed as a child online to obtain indecent images of a girl has been jailed.

Kyle Pritchard, 32, of Maes y Mor, Ffordd Gwelfryn, was handed a six-year sentence (four in custody, two on licence), at Mold Crown Court today (July 13).

He had previously admitted charges of breaching his sexual harm prevention order (SHPO), inciting a girl to engage in sexual activity, making an indecent photo of a child, and engaging in sexual communication with a child.

Prosecuting, Richard Edwards told the court that, following previous convictions for sexual offences, Pritchard was jailed for 22 months in February 2017.

Pritchard was also made the subject of a 10-year SHPO, the terms of which included preventing him from seeking to communication with any female younger than 16.

Despite this, in August 2021, a woman contacted police to report that her 10-year-old daughter had been asked to send naked images of herself online to a person posing under the name “Kyle”.

The girl’s parents became aware of the offences after finding indecent images she had taken of herself on her phone; when asked about them, she said someone had asked her for some “sexy pictures”.

Pritchard told the girl he was aged 12, and enquiries ultimately led officers to his address.

When they attended, Pritchard initially told them he did not possess of a mobile phone, or indeed any device capable of accessing the Internet.

But after being informed that his entire house would be searched if he continued to make such denials, Pritchard then retrieved his phone and gave it to officers; he was then arrested.

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Defending, Sarah Yates said Pritchard had lived “quite an isolated life”, and had “very little contact with the outside world”.

That he committed the same offence as previously was, Ms Yates accepted, “not a good position to start in”, but she said he “appreciates completely that what he did was wrong”.

Sentencing, Judge Rhys Rowlands made Pritchard subject to sex offenders register notification requirements indefinitely.

He described him as posing a "significant risk to children", and being at a "high risk of re-offending" following this "worrying" case.

Judge Rowlands told him: “It’s clear to me, both from what you did and from what you told others after, that you resented the terms of the SHPO.

“As such, I’m afraid it’s plain to me that, despite assistance offered to you by the probation service in the past, you have reverted to your previous behaviour.

“She was only 10 - a primary school child- and you, at the time, would have been 29 or 30.

“It’s quite appalling and disgusting, but still you did it; and you’ve done it previously.

“The simple inability to recognise the blame for your offending rests solely with you.”