The discovery was made just five months after he was released from prison for near identical offences which saw him target a 15-year-old girl, something for which he was jailed for three years in 2020.
A paedophile was caught ordering a teenage girl to perform vile sex acts in a video call just months after being release from prison for almost identical offences.
Locking him behind bars again last week at Swansea Crown Court, Judge Paul Thomas KC said it was clear Rich had 'learned nothing - or at least nothing positive' from his time in prison. READ MORE Childhood friends of 12-year-old boy who was stabbed to death by homeless man say child killer sentences should be longer as 76-year-old faces parole Advertisement Swansea Crown Court was told that Rich was originally sentenced to three years in prison for child sexual offences involving a 15-year-old girl in August 2020, WalesOnline reports.
The prosecutor said Rich was released again in May 2023 but when police went to his home in August to carry out a routine visit they found he had an unregistered phone in the caravan he was living in behind his mother's house. The defendant's phone was seized and while officers were arresting him they heard another mobile vibrating.
He has 12 previous convictions for 18 offences including arson, causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child, and making indecent images of a child.Rich's lawyer told the court his client intended to join the French Foreign Legion on his release from prison.
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