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Police have released an image of a homeless sex offender jailed for breaching court orders.
Steve James, of no fixed abode, failed to inform police of his whereabouts in breach of a court order to do so every seven days.
James, 30, was sentenced at Oxford Crown Court on Monday, October 13.
He pleaded guilty to the breach.
James was first convicted in 2017 and placed on the sex offenders register.
He then breached his order four times in 2020 and in 2021, he was convicted for using violence to enter a property in Botley Road where there was someone present who opposed his entry.
In 2022, he failed to comply with notification requirements before the breaches in December last year.
His charges also put him in breach of a 12-week prison sentence, suspended for 12 months, issued on October 30, 2023.
In 2024, he was jailed for 36 weeks for a further breach.
On the most recent occasion, the court heard he found himself homeless on May 4, and would have had to notify police of this on May 11.
However he didn't do that and was next found outside a pub in Margate, Kent, on June 6.
The court heard he admitted the offence in police interview.
In mitigation, it was heard that James had become an 'avid reader' in custody and had ambitions to become a personal trainer.
James was jailed for 12 months.