This is the face of a Pembrokeshire man with an ‘unhealthy interest in and a compulsion to view’ images of child sexual abuse.
Paedophile Euwyn Draper, 21, of Goat Street, Haverfordwest, appeared at Swansea Crown Court last week to be sentenced for three charges of breaching a sexual harm prevention order (SHPO) and four offences of making indecent images of children.
Draper had previously been convicted for making and distributing indecent images of children last April.
He had been ordered to register as a sex offender for 10 years and was made subject to a 10-year SHPO which banned him from having any internet enabled devices not registered with the police, from deleting any internet history or applications, and from holding any social media accounts under other names.
The defendant told the police that he only had an Xbox and a mobile phone that were capable of accessing the internet.
At an earlier hearing the court was told that between May 5 and July 10, the e-safe software on Draper’s phone flagged up multiple screenshots where the Snapchat logo was visible on the device bar.
Police had told Draper to delete his Snapchat account due to the app deleting messages, as well as his second Instagram account – which was under an anonymous name.
Draper admitted to police that he had had Snapchat on his phone and then deleted it.
On a visit to Draper’s home, officers spotted a phone charger lead going under his pillow. They found a second secret phone with accounts that matched those on Draper’s registered phone.
Draper told the police that this was an old phone which he had ‘forgotten’ about and he didn’t think it worked.
Across his devices, officers found eleven indecent images of children. Seven of these were the most serious Category A images. There were also three Category B images, and one Category C image.
At the previous hearing, Prosecutor Emily Bennett said that these images had all been created in November and December 2023– before the imposition of the sexual harm prevention order.
It was said by Draper’s defence that he had acknowledged he had ‘an unhealthy interest and a compulsion to view the material’.
The court heard that there had not been time between April and the second offence for Draper to do the necessary rehabilitation work.
On Thursday, September 26, Draper was sentenced to 16 months in prison for breaching the order and for making indecent images of children.
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