A paedophile who was found hiding in a cupboard after sending a naked picture of himself to an undercover police officer tried to shift the blame onto his innocent partner who was in hospital at the time.
Violent domestic abuser and convicted robber Wayne Jones, 34, of Arden Drive, Speke, appeared for sentence via videolink at Liverpool Crown Court on Monday after pleading guilty to one count of attempted sexual communication with a child and one of assault occasioning actual bodily harm (ABH). Kate Morley, prosecuting, told how Jones flew into a rage in Runcorn on March 25 last year when his then-partner, who the ECHO has chosen not to name, “confronted” him and "questioned his sexuality" over content she found on his phone.
In his then-partner's words Jones “flipped” and attacked her. Ms Morley said Jones “jumped on (his victim), kneeling on her legs, and shouted in her face - she couldn’t move”. In the ensuing struggle she grabbed his T-shirt and said she might have scratched him while “trying to escape”, and he elbowed her in the face, knocking her glasses off.
