Man, 42, caught by girl's mum after requesting naked pictures via social media - The Coventry Observer

Man, 42, caught by girl's mum after requesting naked pictures via social media

Coventry Editorial 9th Oct, 2017   0

A DIVORCED man who posed as a teenager to try to persuade two 14-year-old girls to send him naked pictures of themselves has been given a suspended prison sentence.

Jaspal Hir pleaded guilty at Warwick Crown Court to two charges of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and two of possessing images of extreme pornography.

Hir (42) of Bedford Road, Longford, Coventry, was sentenced to six months in prison suspended for two years and ordered to take part in a sex offender’s treatment programme.

The judge, Recorder Anthony Lowe, also ordered him to register as a sex offender for five years and to pay £535 costs.




Prosecutor Robert Underwood said that in July last year the police were contacted by the mother of a 14-year-old Leicester girl who had found social media conversations of a sexual nature on her daughter’s phone.

On the phone, officers found evidence of conversations between the girl and someone who appeared to be a 17-year-old youth encouraging her to perform sex acts and to send him naked pictures of herself.


Fortunately she was sensible enough not to send any, said Mr Underwood.

The police traced the messages and calls she had received to Hir, who was arrested at his home in November, and his phone, computer and some DVDs were seized.

When he was interviewed, he said he was divorced and did meet women online, but denied knowing or communicating with the girl, or having any sexual interest in children.

But when his phone and computer were examined, officers found he had also been involved in similar conversations with a second 14-year-old girl, with requests for her to send him images and videos of a sexual nature – although she did not do so.

And among the DVDs the police found images of extreme pornography depicting acts of bestiality, added Mr Underwood.

Zaheer Afzal, defending, said: “There is a considerable degree of remorse expressed by Mr Hir for his conduct on these occasions, and he has taken steps to demonstrate a change.”

He said Hir’s last relationship had ended badly when he was badly beaten by another man who was interested in the same woman, with ‘lumps of flesh being bitten from him.’

He was working nights and spending his days at home with ‘far too much time on his hands apart from sitting at home on his computer and drinking heavily.’

Mr Afzal said Hir felt ‘a deep-rooted shame’ for what he has done, ‘and were it not for the Samaritans, he might not even have been here today.’

But he believed he had to attend court so that the victims could see justice, which Mr Afzal said was ‘testimony to his very real and genuine desire to turn the page.’

Sentencing Hir, Recorder Anthony Lowe told him: “The offences you committed are serious.

“You portrayed yourself as someone who was 17 in order to try to persuade young girls to provide you with sexual images for your gratification.

I accept you were suffering considerable trauma from an assault, but what that does not do is lead to a sexual attraction to children. Hopefully the order I’m passing will help you address that.”

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