Latest Offenders Kent

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A Maidstone sex offender who slammed a teenager’s head against a parked van and sexually assaulted her has been jailed.

Ryan Perrins was sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment after he supplied a vulnerable girl with cannabis and sexually abused her for ‘payment’.

He will be subject to a restraining order for 10 years following his release.

For around seven months, up until October 2023, Perrins carried out a sustained campaign of abuse against his victim.

The young girl made attempts to break contact with him on numerous occasions. This resulted in the offender violently assaulting her – including one occasion when he forced her head into the side of a van – and bombarding her with 59 calls in just 12 hours.

Perrins was arrested on 31 January 2024 and later charged with possession of cannabis, assault, and sex offences.

He pleaded guilty to the drugs offence and assault when he appeared before Maidstone Crown Court on 16 December 2024 but denied four counts of sexual activity with a child.

Following a trial, Perrins, 35, of Heathorn Street, was found guilty of all charges and was sentenced at the same court on 6 June 2025.

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A registered sex offender from the Isle of Sheppey has been jailed for targeting young girls and multiple breaches of a court order.

In 2021, Paul Knight pleaded guilty to sexual offences involving children and became subject to strict conditions on his conduct.

A 10-year sexual harm prevention order (SHPO) along with sex offender notification requirements (SONR) included restrictions around his interaction with young people, use of the internet and phones, and possession of bank cards.

Knight was also required to install monitoring software on his internet-enabled devices.

Unannounced inspection

On 10 November 2023, investigators made an unannounced visit to Knight’s home address and there was a delay before he answered his door. He then handed over his mobile phone for inspection, stating it was his only device.

Suspecting Knight had bypassed the monitoring software on this phone, he was arrested.

The officers then searched his property and recovered an iPhone hidden inside a wardrobe. It was locked and Knight said it did not belong to him. They also found he had bank cards he had not declared to the police.

On the following day, Knight, of Queenborough Road, Minster-on-Sea, was charged with five breaches of his SHPO, three breaches of his SONR, and possessing indecent images of a child.

He was remanded in custody and his two phones were then sent for further digital forensic examination.

Targeting children

When investigators gained access to his iPhone, they found Knight had been communicating with multiple young girls online for several months. He had been engaging in sexually explicit conversations and had sent indecent photos of himself whilst asking for illegal ones in return.

His phones also contained a total of 129 indecent images of children including one of the most serious category.

Knight was further charged with 13 counts of causing and attempting to cause a child to engage in sexual activity, and three counts of making indecent images of children.

Guilty

He pleaded guilty to all the indictments at Maidstone Crown Court. On Monday 9 June 2025, the 61-year-old received an extended sentence with a total of eight years and three months' imprisonment.

On his release he will be required to complete an additional four years on licence. Knight will also be subject to an indefinite sexual harm prevention order.

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A sex offender from Sittingbourne who raped his victim in a hotel room after a night out has been jailed.

Daniel Holdaway was found guilty following a trial at Maidstone Crown Court.

Investigation

Kent Police launched an investigation after a woman was assaulted in the Gravesend area on 29 August 2021. Holdaway, 24, spent time with his victim during the evening before taking her to pre-booked accommodation.

The two entered a hotel room together. Despite the woman repeatedly stating her wishes to Holdaway, he ignored them and raped her.

While the offender slept, the victim was able to leave the premises and reported what happened soon afterwards.

Officers attended and initial enquiries were completed. Holdaway was arrested on 31 August 2021 and was later charged with rape.

Jailed

Holdaway, from Burnham Close, Milton Regis, pleaded not guilty. On Friday 30 May 2025, after being convicted by jury, Holdaway was sentenced to five years in prison. He will have to comply with strict sex offender notification requirements indefinitely.

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A Maidstone sex offender has been jailed after a police dog detected ‘invisible’ DNA at the crime scene.

Lloyd Cundall groomed his victim using social media platforms and convinced her to meet up in secluded areas in and around Quarry Road, including woods and alleyways.

Once out of public view, Cundall repeatedly offered the teenager cocaine, cannabis, nitrous oxide (laughing gas) balloons, and alcohol before pressurising her to perform sexual acts.

He was later arrested on 24 September 2024. An initial investigation saw detectives retrieve DNA evidence – which was invisible to the naked eye – from one of the scenes with the support of Police Dog Belle.

Cundall was subsequently charged with eight counts of sexual activity with a child.

He later pleaded guilty at Maidstone Crown Court and, on 21 May 2025, Cundall, 27, of Brenchley Road, was sentenced to seven years and six months’ imprisonment.

On release, he will serve an extended licence period of four years and be subject to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) for 15 years.

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A burglar who raped an elderly and disabled woman in her own home has been sentenced to life imprisonment.

Michael Hanmore, 46, attacked his victim at an address on the Isle of Sheppey in the early hours of Saturday 7 May 2022 before stealing her car from outside. He was arrested by Kent Police officers in London the following day and later admitted being responsible for the offences.

The resident of Queenborough Road, Sheerness was sentenced at Maidstone Crown Court on Tuesday 20 May 2025 and must serve at least 12 years in prison before being eligible for release on parole, minus the time he has already spent remanded in custody. He will also be subject to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order for the rest of his life.

Prolonged attack

Hanmores victim was woken at around 2am by the sound of someone moving in her kitchen. A short time later Hanmore burst into her bedroom and carried out a prolonged attack, which including him raping her before stamping on her arms and body whilst demanding money.

The woman then witnessed him stealing cash from within her room before he finally left the property after more than an hour inside. She later realised her mobile phone and tablet were also missing, leaving her unable to call for help until just after 9am when a visitor she was expecting arrived and was told what happened.

An investigation was carried out by Kent Police detectives who were able to use ANPR (automatic number plate recognition) technology to trace the route taken by the victims car after it was driven away from her property.

They also quickly identified Hanmore as a suspect and arrested him in Hackney, east London, on the evening of Sunday 8 May.

Analysis of his mobile phone showed it had been in the same locations as the victims car, and forensic evidence captured at the scene was also linked to him.

Hanmore pleaded guilty to charges of rape, burglary and theft of a motor vehicle prior to sentencing.

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An online child groomer who persuaded multiple young girls to send him indecent images and videos has been jailed.

Jack Davey, 21, from Meopham, lied about his age and met victims in order to sexually abuse them. He also convinced the girls to perform sexual acts during video calls that he recorded without their knowledge.

Davey was sentenced to three years and four months’ imprisonment when he appeared at Maidstone Crown Court on Friday 9 May 2025 having pleaded guilty to more than 30 separate offences. These included inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, meeting a child following sexual grooming, possessing indecent images of children and making threats to disclose private sexual images with intent to cause distress.

He must serve at least two thirds of his sentence before being eligible for parole and will spend an additional two years on licence under the terms of an extended sentence. Davey was also made subject to a 10-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) and will be on the sex offender register for life.

Arrested

Kent Police officers arrested Davey at his home in Harvel Road in May 2022 after being informed he had groomed a 13-year-old girl he had met online. Davey was 17 at the time but pretended he was younger in order to exchange sexual communications with the girl and to arrange to meet with her.

Following his arrest, by which point he had turned 18, the force was made aware of similar indecent contact between Davey and two other girls from other parts of Kent.

A review of the offender’s internet devices revealed that he had been messaging a large number of girls across various platforms in Kent and elsewhere in the country, and saving images and videos of them that were of a sexual nature.

Davey’s sentencing also includes further crimes committed between November 2023 and January 2024 of grooming a 14-year-old girl and multiple breaches of a previous SHPO.

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A registered sex offender subject to strict measures around his access of the internet was caught using a laptop to download illegal images of children.

Explicit material including the sexual abuse of children was recovered after police made an unannounced visit in Snodland to the home of Roger Crabtree.

Officers attended the Rectory Close property on 2 November 2023. 

Crabtree had been subject to an indefinite Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) - following previous convictions for making and possessing indecent images.

The SHPO meant Crabtree had to make any internet enabled devices immediately available for inspection.

Child victims abused

The inspection revealed concerning search terms linked to his web history, and this led to the seizure of a laptop and hard drives.

These were later forensically examined and found to contain 33 illegal images and videos of children, including several in the highest category showing unknown victims being subjected to abuse.

After the evidence was recovered, Crabtree was later arrested and charged with three counts of making indecent images of children.

He pleaded guilty and admitted a further charge of breaching his SHPO. This related to an incident in January 2024 when he was found to have unlawfully deleted the internet history of a Kindle device.

High risk

On 2 May 2025, Crabtree, 59, was sentenced at Maidstone Crown Court. Recorder David Wood described him as being of high risk to children, adding the material he had accessed showed ‘real victims having terrible things done to them’.

Crabtree was jailed for two years and six months. The sentence included a penalty for breaching a previous suspended sentence.

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A man who tried to meet a 13-year-old girl at Bexleyheath Station is back behind bars after police discovered he had stayed in a home where a minor resides. 

Thomas Smith, 29, of Oakhurst Avenue in Bexleyheath, was sentenced to two years in prison last March. 

He has since been released but on Thursday, May 1, he was sent back to prison for five weeks for failing to comply with sex offenders register notification requirements. 

Smith admitted having resided or stayed for at least 12 hours in a household where an under 19 resides and he failed to notify police. 

Last year Woolwich Crown Court heard how Smith had sent sexual messages and a photo of his penis to what he thought was a young girl over the court of a month. 

But when he turned up at the station to meet her he was greeted by a team of paedophile hunters who detained him and live streamed his arrest on Facebook. 

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A sex offender who persisted in making contact with potential victims to indulge his “vile behaviour” has been jailed.

Brandon Coleman, of Burma Way in Chatham, spent unsupervised time with children and used electronic devices to access the internet despite having a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO).

The 22-year-old had been given the order after being convicted of making indecent images of children in October 2021.

The strict conditions of the court order meant he should not have any contact with juveniles unless certain restrictions were in place.

It further banned him from using any devices capable of accessing the internet or storing digital images without informing the authorities and any that he did possess should be available for inspection by the police when asked.

The SHPO also ordered Coleman not to use any form of software capable of deleting internet history or making messages disappear.

Despite this, concerns were raised he was not complying with the order and an investigation found him to be in breach of it. He was arrested on October 16, 2024.

An examination of his mobile phone uncovered that he had downloaded Snapchat and was using several different online aliases.

He was charged and pleaded guilty to making an indecent image, failing to comply with notification requirements for the sex offender register and multiple breaches of a SHPO.

At Maidstone Crown Court on April 8, Coleman was sentenced to two and half years in prison.

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A registered sex offender from Maidstone has been jailed for six years after he used the internet to send explicit images and messages to a user he believed to be a young child. 

On 17 July 2024, a Kent Police offender management team was alerted to suspicious activity linked to Terry Coleman’s use of social media.

Coleman, 60, had been subject to the terms of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) following previous convictions for illegal child images, and began interacting with a Snapchat user purporting to be a teenage girl.

For the two weeks that followed, Coleman bombarded the account with sexualised messages and explicit photos and videos of himself.

He encouraged her to engage in inappropriate conversation, and requested she engage in sexual activity and share intimate photos.

On 1 August, officers attended Coleman’s home address in McKenzie Close, Aylesford and arrested him.

A search led to the seizure of a smart TV, capable of accessing the internet, which Coleman had not registered with Kent Police as required by the SHPO.

Guilty pleas

Coleman was charged the same day with attempting to engage in sexual communications with a child, causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, and causing a child to look at a sexual image.

He also admitted breaches of his Sexual Harm Prevention Order, failing to comply with notification requirements, and possession of cannabis.

He pleaded guilty and was sentenced at Maidstone Crown Court on 2 April 2025 to six years' imprisonment. 

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A convicted Medway sex offender who breached the terms of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) has been jailed.

Ian Collard, formerly of Station Road, Gillingham, downloaded banned apps and set up online dating profiles despite being forbidden to do so.

Court order

Collard, 34, became the subject of a SHPO after pleading guilty to attempting to cause a girl to engage in sexual activity in 2018. The court order included conditions that he must not access the internet without informing the authorities and must make any devices available for inspection by officers when asked.

The SHPO also stipulated that the offender must not use any form of social media, dating apps or dating websites; install any app capable of automatically deleting messages or making messages disappear, or contact any person without their expressed consent.

Order breached

Following a routine visit by Kent Police officers, Collard was found to be in breach of the court order. An examination of his mobile phone uncovered prohibited activity, including that he had downloaded Snapchat and was using several different aliases for various dating app profiles.

Collard was arrested on 17 May 2024 and charged the same day with seven breaches of the SHPO and three breaches of the Sex Offenders’ Notification Requirements.

Jailed

He pleaded guilty and on Friday 14 March 2025 at Maidstone Crown Court, was sentenced to three years in prison.

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A prison sentence has been imposed on a man who downloaded thousands of indecent images of children.

Paul Redford, 64, from Melbourne Avenue, Ramsgate, joined a social media application in 2022 where he used the platform to download and share the images with other users.

On 1 March 2024, officers from Kent Police’s Paedophile Online Investigation Team attended Redford’s home address following information received that indecent images of children were being accessed from the property.

Upon arrival and when officers told him why they were there, he admitted he was responsible.

After his phone was downloaded, officers found 730 of the most serious category A images and videos, 642 category B and 944 category C. They also found he had distributed 40 images and videos through the social media application.

Charged

Redford was later charged with making and distributing indecent images of children and possessing extreme pornography and prohibited items. He pleaded guilty to the offences and at Canterbury Crown Court on Thursday 6 March 2025 he was jailed for two years and four months.

He was also given a 10 year Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) and is subject to strict sex offender notification requirements for 10 years.

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A sex offender from Snodland looking for a ‘secret boyfriend’ has been jailed after officers recognised the bedroom wallpaper in images he sent to his victim.

On 20 November 2023, Jack Hickey, 28, of Woodlands Avenue, created a profile for Chat Avenue, an online chatroom service, before proactively targeting a user he believed to be a teenage boy.

After convincing his victim to communicate via Snapchat, a messaging platform used for privacy features such as disappearing messages, Hickey began sending them pictures and sexually explicit messages, including an indecent image of himself.

Arrested

An investigation by digital forensic analysts identified Hickey as the offender and attended his address on 30 November, where they were able to match the wallpaper and missing coving in one of the images to that in his bedroom.

Hickey was arrested at the scene and subsequently made subject to sex offenders notification requirements while he awaited sentencing.

Between 15 and 19 November 2024, he created and used another Snapchat account to communicate with what he believed to be another teenage boy, in a breach of his conditions.

Once more Hickey bombarded his target with lewd messages, repeatedly asking them to take part in video calls and take explicit photographs while wearing a school uniform. Hickey eventually arranged to meet his victim in Canterbury after dark.

When Hickey arrived at the agreed meeting point, officers were waiting to arrest him and remand him to custody.

Sentenced

Hickey was sentenced to four years and 10 months’ imprisonment at Maidstone Crown Court on Wednesday 19 February 2025, after pleading guilty to:

• Attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child;
• Causing a child to look at an image of a person engaging in sexual activity;
• Making indecent photographs;
• Arranging a child sex offence;
• Attempting to meet a child;
• Breaching a Sexual Harm Prevention Order.

Investigating officer, Detective Constable Steph Kirkin, said:

‘Hickey is a predator who targeted victims he believed to be young and vulnerable. He repeatedly sent his victims a barrage of lewd messages in a bid to coerce them into sharing content for his own gratification. ‘Despite being captured and registered as a sex offender, Hickey shamelessly continued his abhorrent behaviour, resulting in a swift remand and custodial sentence.’

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A sex offender who was found by officers in a child’s bed after gaining the trust of the victim’s family has been jailed.

Jake Booth of Pembury Grove in Tonbridge was already banned from communicating with children when he met the teenage girl online and started living in her home.

The 22-year-old created an internet chat group for motorbike enthusiasts and used the forum to contact the child.

From there, their conversations moved to Snapchat and Booth made arrangements to meet the girl and her parents.

After gaining the confidence of the family, he convinced them they were simply close friends so he was allowed to stay in their home.

But, unbeknown to the family, Booth was the subject of a sexual harm prevention order following previous convictions for making indecent images of children in 2022.

This 10-year order included strict measures to protect children and meant he was prohibited from having any unsupervised contact or communication with anyone under 16.

On April 11, 2024, Booth was arrested and found in the child’s bed by officers.

He was charged with 14 offences relating to breaches of a sexual harm prevention order and sex offender notification requirements.

Booth pleaded guilty at Maidstone Crown Court and on January 31 and he was sentenced to three years in prison.

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A convicted Maidstone sex offender has been jailed for multiple breaches of an order designed to curb his behaviour.

Owen Payne had previously received a suspended prison sentence for attempting to incite a child to engage in sexual activity and was also made subject of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) that required him to notify police of any internet-enabled devices he had access to.

In September 2024 during a routine check of his home in Cornwallis Avenue, patrols seized three mobile phones, a tablet, a gaming device and a computer. None of the devices nor any of Payne’s 16 online aliases had been reported to police under the terms of his SHPO.

Further searches of the address led to the seizure of nine bladed weapons including knives and swords.

Payne, 24, was subsequently charged with breaching a SHPO, failing to comply with notification requirements and multiple counts of possessing an illegal weapon in a private place. He pleaded guilty to all offences and was sentenced to two years and eight months’ imprisonment at Maidstone Crown Court on Tuesday 4 February 2025.