A registered sex offender caught flouting a court order when a notification flashed up on his phone as he spoke with Carlisle police has been jailed.
Mohammed Sherifi, aged 26, was found to have committed a number of new offences when he attended a police station in the city on May 23 this year.
Sherifi was required to comply with sex offender notification requirements for 10 years having been sentenced at Woolwich Crown Court in early 2020.
“Officers (at Carlisle) spoke to him,” prosecutor Peter Bardsley told the city’s magistrates’ court.
“They noted that on a device a notification flashed up through (social media application) TikTok. He had been using an online user name he had notified police of.”
It emerged Sherifi had also failed to notify police of another online alias on the Snapchat app and, in addition, had not told them about a bank debit card in his possession.
In court today Sherifi admitted three breaches of sex offender notification requirements. Magistrates were told the defendant had committed these in breach of three separate, previously imposed prison sentences.
Defence solicitor Duncan Campbell, mitigating, said Sherifi, of no fixed address, accepted he had failed to comply and knew the onus was on him to keep police up to date.
Magistrates imposed an immediate custodial sentence totalling 60 weeks, concluding the breaches had been deliberate.
