- A cricket membership veteran has averted jail
- Leigh Howes, 33, despatched intimate photographs to a teenage woman
- He was positioned on the intercourse offender register for 15 years
A cricket membership veteran from Melbourne has escaped jail after preying on a younger woman.
Leigh Howes, 33, final week pleaded responsible to a number of fees together with encouraging a woman underneath 16 for sexual exercise and confronted the Melbourne Magistrates’ Courtroom for sentencing on Monday.
The member of Epping Cricket Membership used social media app Snapchat to encourage the teenage woman to ship him sexual footage.
The court docket heard proof of messages which included the fiend saying: ‘F*** I forgot how lovely your boobs are’.
The sufferer despatched him a photograph which he subsequently screenshotted. He then requested her to ‘go decrease’.
Leigh Howes was convicted after sending intimate photographs to a teenage woman
Howes met the kid whereas volunteering on the cricket membership and requested her if she was ‘shaved or bushy’.
The woman refused to ship Howes any extra photographs after telling him to ‘cease saving my snaps’ as a result of ‘you may go to jail’.
He additionally despatched her pictures of his penis.
Howes escaped jail and was positioned on a two-year group correction order. Justice of the Peace Kay Robertson additionally made him a registered intercourse offender for 15 years and informed Howes to report any alleged legal behaviour by former associates to the police.
He made a late submission to the court docket highlighting a media article which to him receiving ‘nasty’ and ‘distressing’ telephone calls from ‘former associates and associates’.
Nonetheless the Justice of the Peace insisted ‘folks needed to belief the justice system’.
‘She has performed nothing flawed … she has completely performed nothing flawed … it is extremely damaging for her future … ,’ she mentioned of his ‘horribly flawed’ behaviour.
‘There is no such thing as a excuse to interrupt the regulation as you will have performed … you can be punished … volunteering, working at faculties, that’s the place folks have to have a clear report …
‘And naturally the fame of that cricket membership can even endure because of what you will have performed.’
The cricket membership volunteer mentioned he despatched the photographs as a result of he was ‘unhappy’
Howes’s dwelling was raided by police earlier this 12 months the place they found the lewd photographs. He admitted the penis photographs have been his and mentioned he dedicated the behaviour as a result of he was ‘unhappy’.
‘I’ve struggles in my life,’ Howes informed police.
He assisted the membership on sport day in addition to within the canteen. He additionally joined a neighborhood faculty’s upkeep division.
A psychological report discovered that Howes was an ‘common threat’ of committing an offence once more.
‘This a (then) 32-year-old man and … woman. … That’s not a ‘friendship’ that’s inappropriate …,’ the prosecution submitted as they fought for a jail sentence.
‘It’s offensive to the group and requires denunciation …’
