Record details
Philip Evans, 43, of Caerphilly, has been jailed for 16 weeks after admitting he failed to comply with sex offender notification requirements while homeless.
Evans appeared at Newport Magistrates’ Court and pleaded guilty to breaching the requirements of a notification order under the Sexual Offences Act 2003. On 28 September he failed, without reasonable excuse, to notify police on a weekly basis that he was of no fixed abode.
The court heard that registered sex offenders must regularly update police about their address and living arrangements. Evans admitted the offence at the first opportunity and received full credit for his early guilty plea. Magistrates said the sentence would otherwise have been 24 weeks’ imprisonment.
Sentencing him, the court imposed an immediate 16-week custodial term, stating that the offence was so serious that only a prison sentence could be justified, given the nature of the breach and Evans’ previous record. The sentence will run concurrently with a recall prison term he was already serving.
A second allegation that Evans breached a sexual harm prevention order by failing to notify police weekly was withdrawn by the prosecution, and no conviction was recorded. He was ordered to pay £85 in prosecution costs.
