A paedophile sent "vile" messages to a 12-year-old girl and asked if she wanted to meet up while using a computer at a public library. When asked why he sent the message and breached a court order he said he was "bored".
Lee Mills, 40, was visited at his Cardiff home on July 14 after they received information he had been contacting a young girl. The defendant had attended Cardiff Central Library and used a computer to access a "team chat".
A sentencing hearing at Newport Crown Court on Friday heard one of the messages sent by Mills to the girl read: "I know I'd touch you all over and I'd like to lick your young p****." He was arrested and taken to Cardiff Bay police station and interviewed. Mobile phones belonging to the defendant were also seized.
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Mills admitted he had communicated with someone he believed to be a child. The defendant, of Brithdir Street, Cathays, later pleaded guilty to attempting to communicate with a child and breaching a sexual harm prevention order (SHPO).
Prosecutor Martha Smith-Higgins told the court that Mills was first made subject to a SHPO in 2013 for possessing and making indecent images of children. In 2015 he was further convicted of possessing indecent images and in 2018 he was convicted for possessing and distributing indecent images.
His latest conviction in March 2020 was for attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child, distribution of indecent images, and breach of a SHPO. He received a three-year jail term and was released from prison in January last year.
Defence barrister Tim Lewis said his client suffered from learning difficulties and lacked in thinking and decision-making skills. Mr Lewis added: "He said simply there's no excuse but he's bored. I said: 'You can't really commit offences because you are bored'." Upon being released from prison the barrister said Mills wished to obtain work through Remploy.
Sentencing, Judge Daniel Williams said: "You engaged in vile communications with a 12-year-old girl and asked her if she wanted to meet up." Mills was sentenced to 28 months imprisonment and was made subject to another SHPO indefinitely.
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