December 2014
Pervert admits possession of child abuse images but trial for grooming & sexual abuse of child is abandoned
A LLANON man charged with child sex offences will not now stand trial.
Ifan Evans, 28, of Brynawel, Cross Inn, had been due to go before a jury at Swansea Crown Court accused of meeting a child aged under 16 following sexual grooming, engaging in sexual activity with a child and causing a child aged under 16 to watch a sexual act, which he had denied.
James Jenkins, prosecuting, said Evans had already admitted 14 offences of possessing indecent photographs, some of a child, between October 1, 2011, and August 31, 2012.
Mr Jenkins said the prosecution had reflected further and, after consultation with the girl’s mother, had decided there was little point in continuing to press the outstanding charges.
He said the mother had “sensibly” agreed that Evans was in need of help and the girl herself was reluctant for the trial to go ahead.
The photographs in question, he added, had been of Evans and the girl, which they had then sent to each other. Mr Jenkins said another man “material to the case” had been dealt with by way of a police caution.
Geraint Walters, representing Evans, asked for a sentencing hearing to be put back until the New Year so that the court could have a pre sentence report from the probation service and an assessment by a psychologist.
Judge Paul Thomas said he had in mind, bef ore seeing the reports, a lengthy community order “but that is not fixed.” Evans was granted bail until the next hearing.
