Locations
Mersea Road, Colchester, Essex, CO2
Description
A sex offender who served a year in prison for possessing a quarter-million indecent images has breached his sexual harm prevention order by deleting his WhatsApp history.
Jonathon Turkentine, 68, was jailed in 2022 but denied any sexual interest in children. His barrister told Ipswich Crown Court he viewed the images and movies for "artistic reasons" while researching the "perfect female form."
As part of his sentence, Turkentine received a ten-year sexual harm prevention order prohibiting him from deleting internet or message history.
Court papers show he breached it by deleting WhatsApp photos and enabling an auto-delete setting for messages.
Turkentine, of Mersea Road, Colchester, appeared at Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court last week and admitted one count of breaching the order.
Magistrates fined him £141, plus £110 in costs to the Crown Prosecution Service and a £56 victim surcharge, totaling £307.
He must pay by December 3.