A convicted male sex offender posed online as a "56-year-old lesbian named Carol" to search the internet for "disturbing" content. In 2017 Geraint ap Dewi Rowlands was handed a two-year suspended sentence and banned for 10-years from using any social networking websites or apps without first making the police aware.
But the 64-year-old from Cleveland Avenue in Tywyn, Gwynedd, who'd been found guilty of possessing extreme and prohibited pornographic images, was caught using a fake identity in order to look for indecent images of young girls.
He appeared at Caernarfon Crown Court yesterday (Wednesday, April 13) for breaching his existing sexual harm prevention order. The court heard how Rowlands had completed the requirements of his suspended sentence - including unpaid work - without issue until the Covid-19 pandemic struck in 2020.
