A judge today spared a paedophile further jail time despite telling him he ‘expects to see him again’.
Gary Dyer, 37, was put behind bars in 2019 for sending ‘obscene’ messages to a 14-year-old girl and her school friend.
He walked away from Liverpool Crown Court today with a one month curfew after breaching the terms of a past three-month curfew.
Judge Stuart Driver, QC, told him: ‘There’s a really good chance you’re going to step out of line’.
In 2019, Dyer was handed a 17-month prison sentence and ordered to adhere to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) as part of which he has to declare any mobile phones he owns to police.
Gary Dyer (pictured outside court today), 37, was put behind bars in 2019 for sending ‘obscene’ messages to a 14-year-old girl and her school friend
Just four weeks after he was released from prison in November 2020, Dyer was back in court for keeping two secret phones.
He served the rest of his prison sentence and was handed a suspended sentence and a three month curfew – but today was back at Liverpool Crown Court for breaching the curfew.
Martyn Walsh, prosecuting on behalf of the Probation Service, explained that between February 11 and 12 and February 12 and 15 Dyer was in breach of the curfew, which runs from 8pm to 6am.
Dyer claimed on the first occasion he argued with a housemate over an alleged theft and left his home to go to his mother’s house.
On the second occasion Dyer said he was looking for his daughter in Halifax as there was concern for her welfare.
Dyer, from St Helens, Merseyside, also has a previous conviction from 2004 after admitting ‘intercourse with a girl under 13’, today classed as rape, for which he received three-and-a-half years in prison.
When he appeared in court last November Tom Challinor, prosecuting, said: ‘Mr Dyer was made subject of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order on August 16, 2019, following a conviction for engaging in sexual communication with a child.’
Mr Challinor explained that he received the sentence after he contacted a 14-year-old and her schoolfriend and would send ‘messages of an obscene sexual nature’.
He said: ‘He made several requests to send indecent images of herself and also requested they met up.’
Mr Challinor said: ‘On November 8 last year he was released from his sentence on licence was made subject of various conditions including being managed by a probation officer.’
Dyer walked away from Liverpool Crown Court today with a one month curfew after breaching the terms of a past three-month curfew
He explained it came to the probation officer’s attention Dyer had been on social media ‘posting messages about a new relationship he was involved in’.
The court heard ‘the lady concerned had an eight-year-old daughter’ and the probation officer was concerned Dyer may be breaching the terms of his SHPO.
Police went to Dyer’s home where they found two phones, one of which was concealed in the bed covers.
Dyer was in a relationship but the court heard the woman’s daughter was in care and had no access to her.
In November Dyer was handed an eight-month prison sentence suspended for 18 months along with 20 Rehabilitation Activity Requirement days and the curfew.
He was also ordered to take part in the Horizon sex offenders’ programme and Judge Andrew said: ‘It seems your rehabilitation and the safety of the public would be better served by you being given intensive support by the probation service in the community.’
Brendan Carville, defending, told the judge Dyer is a ‘man with a lot of problems’.
Judge Stuart Driver, QC, replied: ‘He’s also a sex offender who repeatedly violated orders.’
Sentencing, the judge said: ‘You’re getting a last chance from me, but it really is a last chance because I am as close as I can be from sending you to prison now.’
The judge said: ‘I think there’s a really good chance you’re going to step out of line and we’ll be seeing you again and I’m sending you to prison.’
Dyer was handed a one month curfew for breaching the terms of the Sexual Harm Prevention Order.
