A 21-year-old convicted paedophile from Ramsey has admitted breaching a Sexual Offences Prevention Order.

Matthew John George Williams, of May Hill, had previously admitted one count of breaching the order, but denied two other counts.

However, on Thursday, August 22, he changed those pleas to guilty.

Williams was jailed for three years and three months in September 2021 after admitting an indecent assault on a 12 year-old girl as well as being involved in importing more than £60,000 worth of cannabis to the island.

He was also put on the Sex Offenders Register for 10 years and made the subject of a 10-year Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO).

During a previous hearing, prosecuting advocate Hazel Carroon told the court that the defendant’s SOPO runs until September 2031.

It prohibited him from using social media unless he informed his supervising probation officer and gave them access.

Williams had sought permission to use social media and this was granted.

However, on September 26 last year, a complaint was received which led to his mobile phone being examined.

This showed that he had deleted Snapchat from the device, so there was no longer any evidence of any messages.

It means meant that police did not have access to all his data and therefore constituted a breach of the his order.

During the previous hearing, defence advocate Stephen Wood said that Snapchat had banned his client, which meant that he didn’t have access to his conversations anymore, so he had deleted it.

Mr Wood said that there had been no deliberate hiding of conversations, but in deleting Snapchat, his client had prevented the police from having all the data they might have access to. Williams will now be sentenced on October 24 after a probation report has been prepared.