Convicted child sex offender who failed to reveal perverted past jailed

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A convicted sex offender began a relationship with a Leamington woman and spent nights at her home, where a 13-year-old girl also lived, without revealing his convictions to her



That put former Stratford man Marcus Lamb in breach of an order imposed when he had been jailed in 2015 for inciting a girl to take part in sexual activity.

And at Coventry Crown Court, the 27-year-old, of Avenue Road, Leamington, was jailed for 27 months after pleading guilty to breaching the sexual harm prevention order.

Prosecutor Siobhan Collins said in 2012 Lamb had been jailed for 18 months for having sex with a 15-year-old girl and inciting a 13-year-old to take part in sex acts.

And after his release from that sentence, he incited another 15-year-old to send him pictures of herself performing sex acts and was also caught with indecent images of children.

As a result Lamb, of Goose Lane, Lower Quinton, at the time, was jailed in 2015 for three-and-a-half years, ordered to register as a sex offender for life, and made subject to a sexual harm prevention order.

Under that order he was not allowed to have unsupervised contact with any child under the age of 16, and any supervising person had to be over 21 and to have been told of his convictions by his police offender manager.

After his release from prison Lamb began a relationship with a Leamington woman, and when the police went to her flat on an unrelated matter in May this year, they found him there.

And as they were explaining why they were there, the woman told them her 13-year-old granddaughter, who lived with her, was asleep in the flat.

As a result she was asked about her relationship with Lamb, and said they had met in March and that he had been her partner for the past seven weeks.

She said Lamb, who had told her he had been in the Army, which was a lie to explain his absence while he was in jail, came to her home every other day and had stayed over on three nights.

She knew nothing of Lamb’s history as a sex offender, and in the presence of the police Lamb told her he was on the sex offenders’ register because of ‘a false allegation of rape.’

The woman has since said she felt ‘shocked and sickened’ on learning of Lamb’s offending.

And Miss Collins added: “The Crown would say this was a persistent breach. He was at this woman’s home every other day, knowing there was a 13-year-old present. There is a real risk of him continuing to offend against young females.”

Jailing Lamb, Judge Andrew Lockhart QC also imposed a new sexual harm prevention order for 20 years.

He told Lamb: You were made subject to a sexual harm prevention order. When you formed a relationship with the grandmother of the child, you were minded to keep secret that which you well knew you should disclose.

“So in her house was a man who had two sets of previous convictions for grave offences against young children. Finding out about this, she was utterly horrified, as you can imagine.

“I am absolutely clear in my mind this was a persistent breach. This was a breach that risked very serious harm. You were in a house where there was a child of the same age as those you had assaulted. Only a custodial sentence can be justified.”