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Convicted sex offender charged and remanded after paedophile hunter sting

byDaniel Jae Webb
23 March 2021 | 2.17pm
Convicted sex offender charged and remanded after paedophile hunter sting
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A convicted sex offender has appeared in court charged with breaching a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) imposed last month.

Kevin Curran, 32, is accused of trying to engage in sexual communication with two girls aged under the age of 16 at the weekend.

Wiltshire Police were called to reports of a disturbance at the defendant’s home in Beechcroft Road, Swindon, at around 8.15pm on Sunday.

At the scene, officers found a group of paedophile hunters detaining Curran. He was subsequently arrested and taken into custody at Gablecross Police Station.

It’s the Crown Prosecution Service’s case that the defendant has used messaging applications to speak to the two girls between 20-21 March. However, the girls were actually fake accounts set up by a child abuse activist group.

It’s alleged he spoke to the ‘girls’ in a sexual nature and requested naked photographs from them, in turn breaching his two-year SHPO imposed on 5 February for similar offences.

Curran entered no pleas and no bail application was made. He was remanded in custody ahead of a case management hearing at Swindon Crown Court in April.

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